Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[ronanp]

thanks guys

Am about to get navagation will go off sailing afterwards (have started some builds whih I can saftly switch to ships once I get the tech.

Have traded maps with all know civs to get me an idea of where to go. From the victory screen I know there are still 13 cvs in the game. It's 1550 and an uncontacted civ has just completed the sisteen chapel.

Have built up an army that could probably take out a few cities of other civs and could maybe deal with a bit of a dog pile. There are no real prise cities nearby that make obvious targets to take (regarding resources)

May end up going for Hisographic or diplomatic victory, at least thats what I am thinking now.

 

[EMan]

...A fast way of checking what is going on in the game with civilizations that you do not know about is check the Victory Conditions Screen. This will show you how many rivals are still out there to be located...

Hit the F10 Key and View Space Race. This will tell you exactly which Civs remain in the game.

 

[anaxagoras]

Will setting it to the highest level just cause me a lot of trouble or will it get them to wage intra-AI war? There are almost never any AI-only wars in my games.

At low difficulty, the AI seldom has units to spare for war. They won't attack, even on high agression settings, if they don't have much military. And the corollary to that is that if they do have a lot of units, even pacifist settings won't prevent them from attacking if they have an overwhelming unit advantage.

So it is the difficulty setting, far more than the aggression setting, that determines how often the AI goes to war, whether with other AI or with the player.

 

[Blanchflower]

Hi! I have a question to ask. When one has researched a tech (eg education) and makes a wonder obsolete, can a player still build the wonder IF no one has built it already? For example, education makes the Great Library obsolete but IF o Civilization had built the Great Library and I research education first, can I still build the Great Library even if it is a waste of shields and time? Thanks! Please note that I don't suffer from the syndrome called "wonder addiction!" LOL!!

 

[EMan]

I don't believe you will have the option of building, say the GL, if you have already researched the tech that makes it obsolete (viz. Education).

 

[Blanchflower]

I don't believe you will have the option of building, say the GL, if you have already researched the tech that makes it obsolete (viz. Education).

Have you tried this before? can anyone else confirm this?

 

[Northen Wolf]

If you star building a GL, before you get education, you should be able to finish wonder.

 

[Blanchflower]

If you star building a GL, before you get education, you should be able to finish wonder.

So you can't build a GL AFTER getting Education??? Does this apply to the rest of the wonders when they have the possibility of being obsolete because of research??? Thanks for the comment!

 

[Bartleby]

I can confirm that you can finish building a wonder if you started to build it before you discover the tech that makes it obsolete, and that you can't start to build it after you've discovered that tech.

 

[Blanchflower]

I can confirm that you can finish building a wonder if you started to build it before you discover the tech that makes it obsolete, and that you can't start to build it after you've discovered that tech.

Thanks for clearing this up, mate!!

 

[darski]

I have had the experience on not being allowed to build a defunct Wonder. There are some wonders I never bother with and if the AI doesn't get them finished they are still in the list but they are crossed out in CAii.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

In Vanilla and PTW you can build obsolete wonders. In Conquests you can't.

 

[Sweetchuck]

I will NEVER get windows vista. remind me not to waste my money.

Amen!

I still have XP discs from old computers and my next laptop that will have to come with Vista because they aren't loading XP on them anymore will get nuked and have XP loaded on it before I do a thing.

While it will take a little time to get it set up, good thing is that all the spam and crapware that they load onto computers these days will be wiped away.

 

[ronanp]

still playing warlord on huge world. The improvments to the palace screen hadn't popped up in this game until around 1600 when all of a sudden I got about 14 improvments do to it at one time.

Is this a glitch or is it becuase I wasn't getting WLTK days due to very poor luxuries till I traded for them?

Not very important but was just wondering.

thanks

 

[Bartleby]

There are certain events in the game that trigger the palace expansions. Near the start you should get one when you found your second city, one when you first beat some barbarians, probably the first time you go to war and stuff like that.

I'm not sure what triggers later ones (some are probably random) but what happened to you sounds like a glitch of some sort.

 

[Blanchflower]

I have got a question that is bugging me for some time. If one was to built his city ON a jungle or floodplain terrain, will that city suffer from diseases for the rest of the game (I understand that researching sanitation removes the likelihood of diseases appearing if one was to build his city on a floodplain). But what about a jungle terrain? Will the jungle terrain disappear automatically (like how a forest terrain disappears if a city is built on it), or is it necessary to clear the jungle first before placing your city n that tile? Please help! Thanks!

 

[Bartleby]

Building the city clears the jungle. Any disease you get in that city is due to a citizen working a jungle tile around the city.

 

[sercer88]

hmmm, I have vista on my newest computer, and both civIII and IV work just fine so far...

 

[Blanchflower]

Building the city clears the jungle. Any disease you get in that city is due to a citizen working a jungle tile around the city.

Thanks for the reply, mate! I thought that this only applies to forest terrain as the manual has no mention about this on jungle terrain.

 

[rysingsun]

How does it happen that an AI civ will contact you with an offer for GPT for a resource, but if you counter offer, they will refuse to consider it and will even refuse their original offer? ...

This happens when a 20 turn gpt for luxury deal expires and they don't have enough gpt available to renew it. If you accept it immediately they will do it even though they are running negative gpt, but if you go into the diplomacy screen the current deal cancels and has to be negotiated from scratch. Then since they don't have a positive cash flow they simply won't do it.

If they have gpt available then you may be better off renegotiating since they may offer more than they did 20 turns ago. It's the chance you take. How good is your memory of their cash/gpt situation from the previous turn? How much do you think they would offer this time around assuming they do have the gpt? Make your best decision (or guess) accordingly.