Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread

I've always played on the lowest difficulty, whatever it may be for the mod. Mostly because I like to win and I suck anyways.

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I've always played on the lowest difficulty, whatever it may be for the mod. Mostly because I like to win and I suck anyways.

I once used cheats on the lowest difficulty.
Okay, maybe more than once.
Okay, maybe every time...
 
Ha losers!

Flashes back to first game in which he did not even know how to build improvements. Flashes back to surprise barb stacks he has deleted in WB and tendency to use WB map view to locate best city spots and add resources not in vicinity.

Shh, no one needs to know that.
 
I used to do that... then I realized that I was being unfair, so I started adding resources and generally improving geography for the AI as well.
THEN I realized that I was ruining for myself the exploration part of the game... so I stopped.
In the meantime, I guess I also became somewhat better at the game, so I didn't really need to do that anymore.

Still, that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy making elaborate scenarios in WB from time to time.
 
We are horrible people. :lol:
 
To be somewhat more honest, now instead of simply using WB to edit some terrain here and there, I just mod whatever mod I use to my liking, including (but not limited to) resource placement and distribution parameters during map generation.
At least this way I tell myself that it's fair, as it affects all players and not just me.
 
With a really long history of Civilization on my shoulders, I think I understand all of this. I started on CivIII, and back then there was no worldbuilder. I remember there were some apps available on the internet for download that could edit some of your game values. Many times they ended crashing your game, so it wasn't reliable. I suffered a lot back then :p

And I'm sure I only started playing on a harder setting when I was already on College, so by my calcs I probably spent around 8 years playing Civilization (at least 4 years playing CIV) without bothering to try any difficulty harder then the normal level (Noble for CIV, I don't remember which for CivIII).

Then came the Multiplayer Era, and this was the reason why I decided to learn a lot more about the game and try it on harder levels. Prince was simply ignored, and we went directly to Monarch. Then 2 years later I was already trying Emperor, and from Emperor to Deity it didn't take a year.

I do remember using worldbuilder sometimes, but nothing compared to the time spent waiting to see every move done by the AI in CivIII when I used the reveal world map cheat. Back then you had to wait and see every move done by the AI if you were able to see the entire map. That was really frustrating, but many times I needed that to win :p
 
Hey, you guys wanna see me on national TV?
 
Yes!!
 
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That's me right in his armpit.
 
Beautiful! How did you get that image??
 
That's incredible! If he were to ever come to the South (ha, as if), I would go to one of his rallies. I won't actually be able to vote, which sucks, because my girlfriend will be able to in the main election.
 
Ironic that I'm supporting a socialist now, isn't it? It's a little Eugene V. Debs'ey
 
Hm... Well hopefully this America doesn't go down the same path after voting in its first socialist president.
 
#BringontheBrowder2016
 
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