Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Manco Capac]

It was a question to cry out loud my frustration I can't find any place in the code why a vassal stronger than the master...and bigger in land/pop doesn't break the vassal treaty. C'mon, how a vassal of >10 cities can exist when you're 2 cities. That makes no sense.

EDIT: In fact, I have found the code strip the conditions for freeing a vassal like the vassal has at least > 50% pop & land. But the AI seems to never call that function and actually break the vassality. That makes peacevassals even more broken that I thought.

And yet, I have felt many times in many games some vassal treaty broken and reformed. Why then?

 

[gsmart04]

I'm a very newbie to Civ 4. Have played 1 and 2 for a long time. Question: is it no longer possible to spend gold to finish production early? I think this used to be called 'crash projects'.

Any help is really appreciated!

 

[God-Emperor]

In order to rush things with money you need to be using the one civic that lets you do it:
Universal Suffrage.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, you can rush things by sacrificing population if you are using the Slavery civic, which is generally available much earlier.

 

[Manco Capac]

And at a much better rate of conversion than commerce into hammers.

 

[gsmart04]

In order to rush things with money you need to be using the one civic that lets you do it:
Universal Suffrage.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, you can rush things by sacrificing population if you are using the Slavery civic, which is generally available much earlier.

Thank a bunch!

 

[Manco Capac]

I want to say "Thanks a bunch!" to God-Emperor too.
Any slightest idea?

 

[Ballacraine]

Just bought Civ 5 along with G & K expansion.

Loving it, despite the anachronisms, but I would really like a real world map with accurate faction start positions.

I tried searching, but did not come up with anything obvious.

Which is the best mod for this, please?

TIA

Balla.

 

[SamSniped]

This is the Civ4 forum

...right?

 

[damerell]

Which is the best mod for this, please?

Rhye's and Fall of Civilisation. You may need a better game to play it with.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Rhye's and Fall of Civilisation. You may need a better game to play it with.

awesome

 

[calibur]

How do you play civ in a window?

 

[Pangaea]

You bring the laptop over?

 

[Manco Capac]

How do you play civ in a window?

Your document>Civ folder>Civilization.ini file for BTS

Open it and make a search of the word "screen".

There it explains which option you take for windowed mode.


I also think inside the game, you can check window mode, but you need to restart the game to see its effects.

 

[Mec AntiKythera]

And yet, I have felt many times in many games some vassal treaty broken and reformed. Why then?

I have come to assume that one party or the other said something inappropriate over tea. It is strange and slightly unnerving.

 

[fmmsf]

Hey guys!
I've looked around for an answer to an important question but so far I've failed to find an answer.. So here's the question:

What's the meaning of life?

kidding: I just want to know how to make a shortcut to a mod (rise of mankind) on linux.. Sorry if it's not the right place to post the question.. Thanks!

 

[sakhavi]

Many thanks to those who answered my earlier question about markets and grocers!

I've tried to search this forum for the answer to this one, but it's difficult seeing as everything newbie is in one thousands-long thread, so pls forgive if it's been answered many times:

Why oh why, when I start out with a city in which the city tile has the default 2food and the other worked tile has, say, 3food, does the growth bar read 0 food? Not stagnant, not starvation, not 5-5, just 0. AND (even more mysterious to me) what happens to change that?

I have had this happen many times only to look again at a later turn and see it humming along nicely with the expected surplus listed. But I don't know what made the difference. It's gotta be something simple... Thanks for your help!

 

[Abegweit]

It doesn't just happen at the beginning. It happens every time that you train a worker or settler since the food is converted into hammers. So if, as normal, you start by building a worker, the line will show zero.

To see this, check the hammers line, which will say that some food is being used. Also change the build to, say, a warrior and you will see the food.

 

[sakhavi]

It doesn't just happen at the beginning. It happens every time that you train a worker or settler since the food is converted into hammers. So if, as normal, you start by building a worker, the line will show zero.

To see this, check the hammers line, which will say that some food is being used. Also change the build to, say, a warrior and you will see the food.

Ahhhhhhhh! Thank you, thank you.

 

[arkguy]

What mods have the desert promotion? When I search for it under the down load center all that comes up is a list of discussion threads but no mod down loads with it. Or does the promotion exist in idea only?

 

[Yudishtira]

What mods have the desert promotion? When I search for it under the down load center all that comes up is a list of discussion threads but no mod down loads with it. Or does the promotion exist in idea only?

You mean a promo for combat bonuses in desert?