Holy crap mate you're playing too fast, you're giving people here very little time to check out your game and send you advice. You're breezing by the most important part of the game, the part that will shape your empire, which is also the part that newbies screw up the most. You can't rush past this stuff and expect us to be able to help you.
It's nice that you have a strategy that allows you to win on noble, but if you want to go up the difficulties, you have to stop doing what you usually do and learn how to play in a different, more efficient way. At this point you're already at turn 86, even though the first 100 turns are the most crucial. Any info we could've given you to improve your game has gone right out the window for those first 86 turns.
Look, you'll have to play this game MUCH slower, as in, go 10 turns, post save + info, and then WAIT. Wait for at least a couple people to give you specific advice, read the advice, soak it in, ask questions if you have to, and go another 10 turns. If that means you have to wait an hour or so between plays, then you wait.
If that sounds boring to you, I would suggest you designate this particular play through, though honestly at this point you should start another so we can help you properly, as a "learning only" game. Don't think of this play-through as for fun. Instead, if you want, play a separate round of Civ IV however fast you want while you slowly go through your "learning only" game.
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It's nice that you have a strategy that allows you to win on noble, but if you want to go up the difficulties, you have to stop doing what you usually do and learn how to play in a different, more efficient way. At this point you're already at turn 86, even though the first 100 turns are the most crucial. Any info we could've given you to improve your game has gone right out the window for those first 86 turns.
Look, you'll have to play this game MUCH slower, as in, go 10 turns, post save + info, and then WAIT. Wait for at least a couple people to give you specific advice, read the advice, soak it in, ask questions if you have to, and go another 10 turns. If that means you have to wait an hour or so between plays, then you wait.
If that sounds boring to you, I would suggest you designate this particular play through, though honestly at this point you should start another so we can help you properly, as a "learning only" game. Don't think of this play-through as for fun. Instead, if you want, play a separate round of Civ IV however fast you want while you slowly go through your "learning only" game.
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