Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Marek Antoniusz]

When playing on max AI (40) do I have to choose (by selecting each tribe and European power) every AI manually or will they all be in game and no duplicates?

 

[Thrasybulos]

Are you in the right forum? ("tribe"? "European power"? Those are not Civ4 notions...).
Or are you talking about a mod?
Because, by default, the max number of AIs is 17, not 40.

In the default game, there would be no duplicates, but since you're apparently not talking of the default game, or even of the same game...

 

[mohamed II]

What is life expectancy in demography

 

[Samson]

What is life expectancy in demography

From the war academy:

Life Expectancy– Works on the same principle as the approval rate except it deals with health and sickness. The formula is health / health + sickness. At the beginning of the game the default is 30 years. You can see the total for health and sickness of each city in the F1 screen.

As it is referenced:

Approval Rate– Is the percentage of happy faces your cities generate divided by the total number of happy and unhappy faces produced. The formula is happy / happy + unhappy. At the beginning of the game when there are no happy or unhappy faces the game defaults to a rating is 50%. You can see the total of unhappy and happy faces for each city in the f1 screen.

 

[mohamed II]

From the war academy:

Life Expectancy– Works on the same principle as the approval rate except it deals with health and sickness. The formula is health / health + sickness. At the beginning of the game the default is 30 years. You can see the total for health and sickness of each city in the F1 screen.

As it is referenced:

Approval Rate– Is the percentage of happy faces your cities generate divided by the total number of happy and unhappy faces produced. The formula is happy / happy + unhappy. At the beginning of the game when there are no happy or unhappy faces the game defaults to a rating is 50%. You can see the total of unhappy and happy faces for each city in the f1 screen.

Thanks

 

[Konietzko]

Hello,

when I am building a shipyard, the tooltip says that it's giving +9 production net effect (!!!). That's crazy lot in my opinion.

I built it but the base production for my city stayed the same I think.

Does anyone know if this is known visual bug or something - why would it give +9 production? I tried to look for if something is buffing the shipyard but couldn't find anything. I am using Realism Invictus mod if that matters. Here is the screenshot.

 

[Samson]

Hello,

when I am building a shipyard, the tooltip says that it's giving +9 production net effect (!!!). That's crazy lot in my opinion.

I built it but the base production for my city stayed the same I think.

Does anyone know if this is known visual bug or something - why would it give +9 production? I tried to look for if something is buffing the shipyard but couldn't find anything. I am using Realism Invictus mod if that matters. Here is the screenshot.

What it means is the production boost while building a ship is worth 9 production.

 

[mohamed II]

Which is better for economy
Financial or organized in vanilla

 

[mycophobia]

if you're on Vanilla, why not play Washington and get both?
but to actually answer your question, probably financial

 

[mohamed II]

Is deity beatable in vanilla cause the ai start with 2 settlers and expand so rapidly and outdates you in technology

 

[mycophobia]

i'm sure it's beatable by somebody but it's unreasonably difficult for sure

 

[mohamed II]

if I build a obelisk in a city and then I build Stonehenge will the obelisk gives 2 culture in this city or just 1

 

[AcaMetis]

An Obelisk you build should give 2 if it is 1000+ ingame years old. Stonehenge doesn't affect Obelisks you build before completing it as far as I know, including any Obelisks build before Stonehenge staying around after Stonehenge is obsolete, whereas Obelisks effectively build by Stonehenge going poof once the wonder itself is obsolete.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I wanta mod that can increase the size of the UI, but the two or three I looked up are no longer available for download?

 

[Samson]

I wanta mod that can increase the size of the UI, but the two or three I looked up are no longer available for download?

I may be missing the point,but when I want to change the size of the UI I change the resolution of the game.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I can do that, but when I switch the game window for any reason I can't go back to it ever again. That's why I can never play the game for long

edit: when I switch the video resolution that's what happens

 

[Samson]

I can do that, but when I switch the game window for any reason I can't go back to it ever again. That's why I can never play the game for long

edit: when I switch the video resolution that's what happens

When I do that the monitor has to resize and it goes blank for a second or two when I alt-tab in and out of the game but it comes back. I think you may have something broken.

 

[RavenousX]

Is deity beatable in vanilla cause the ai start with 2 settlers and expand so rapidly and outdates you in technology

Check Lain Civ4 on youtube and you can watch some different diety games. AbsoluteZero and Henrik also post diety games

 

[RavenousX]

Which is better for economy
Financial or organized in vanilla

Financial early and organized late so most diety players would say financial as the early game is most important.

 

[Ill2k]

I'm planning to establish a colony. I know it will start with all of my known technologies, but will these count as self-researched technologies for the colony?

So, can the colony pass these technologies on to other AIs while using no tech brokering game option?