JeffreyLXV
Chieftain
Is it possible to change the color of your cultural borders? The Holy Roman Empire's pee-yellow is a bit much this morning.
If you want to do that you will have to do some XML editing. It's easier if you save it (in the very beginning of the game) in WB, then edit that game. You'll find the color, which you can edit.
Or go here
Around 500 BC Hinduism and Judaism arrived, but again I asked myself "shouldn't I be the one who founds religion?"
And again, and again, over and over, feeling that I've failed somewhere never lets me go since first turns. I would like to do everything exactly as I planned and wanted to, but well, it's either impossible or I'm that bad. Eventually, seeing that more and more things are bugging me I'm losing grip and...yeah, I can't even finish the game.
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Every game and see more and more things, and - what's horryfying - more and more places where I can fail. This way...yeah, I am doomed.
No, you shouldn't. Unless maybe you start with Mysticism. Getting an early religion can actually decrease your odds of winning. This is becasue you may feel compelled to spread yuor religion, but all that production you are sinking into missionaries could be spent on other things that are more likely to help you win.
Bonjour there, Civpeople. First post and already questions...heheheh, never expect anything good from me. Not to mention that, well, I have quite odd problem speaking of Civilization 4. Finally tried it out last week and it's most excellent, especially multiplayer gaming. As I'm absolutely new, I've started at Noble level, currently started one Prince game. Obviously BTS 3.19. And now...well, let me tell you story, a story of me playing Civ 4...
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Would love to see some helpful responses from you Civ-Playes, although I realize how wrong (and after all fun - my MP-partners have good fun hearing me on TS desperately trying to keep everything in place from time to time) that problem is.
Anjin
I disagree with this. If you can't play Noble, then learn how to play Noble. Figure out what's wrong with your game and fix it (this forum has excellent resources for that). Don't move down to levels where you are given advantages over the AI.
And I must respectfully disagree with both of these posts. Civ is a game. Most of us play it for fun and leisure. If you're not having fun, you're likely to give it up, and that would be a shame, as it is a very fun game. Now, maybe some people like getting shellacked repeatedly until they figure out how to make progress, but I think they're in the minority. Most of use need to experience some measure of success in order to experience some enjoyment. In games, that means winning or at least coming close to winning. The lower levels exist for this very reason.I agree with the disagree above I think noble is a brilliant starting point, you and the AI are level pegging in terms of beakers generated and units at start, no bonuses. This was where I started and I lost like every game when I began playing lol (didn't even finish most games)
I think I used to play to build an empire too and see how i could grow, rather than really aim for a victory so I learned a lot of the mechanics that way. Eventually I stepped it up and noble is way easy now. I believe that playing too much on lower levels is a crutch and prevents you from really seeing the holes in your game. If you are comfortable at a level, go up a notch and challenge yourself. A victory is meaningless if you're gifted all the bonuses you need. Grasp the noble nettle!
This certainly is the bottom line. Do what you enjoy. I don't enjoy learning cheap tricks to exploit the AI and then having to unlearn them as I progress through the levels. But that's just me.It's your hard-earned leisure time, spend it in the most enjoyable manner possible. If that's struggling to stay alive when you barely know what you're doing, then fine; but if it's achieving some success while learning the mechanics of the game, that's fine too.
I think you missed my point by, oh, I dunno, a parsec or two. Just because someone starts playing Civ on a lower level doesn't mean that they "enjoy learning cheap tricks", let alone that they'll use them in the first place. Just because someone wants to have fun doesn't mean they don't want to learn the ins and outs of the game. They aren't mutually exclusive goals. Quite the opposite; having fun encourages further learning and progress.This certainly is the bottom line. Do what you enjoy. I don't enjoy learning cheap tricks to exploit the AI and then having to unlearn them as I progress through the levels. But that's just me.
If your objective is to have fun instead of to learn the game, then by all means play the lower levels. However, if that's all you want then I don't really understand what you are doing on this forum. Just play on settler, push units around and have fun. My son never progressed past this and never had any interest in doing so. But then he never came here either.