Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[doriengard]

New question maybe.

First I'll admit I shoud have figured this out, but I can't.

Two of the victory conditions are Domination and Conquest. Conquest means you have eliminated all other opponents. Domination means you have 2/3 of the land and at least 25% more population than any of your rivals. These definitions are quotes from the users manual.

My question is how you avoid a Domination victory if you have to have a Conquest victory like in the Civ 4 Beta gauntlet 2? Assume all victory conditions are turned on.

 

[oagersnap]

New question maybe.

First I'll admit I shoud have figured this out, but I can't.

Two of the victory conditions are Domination and Conquest. Conquest means you have eliminated all other opponents. Domination means you have 2/3 of the land and at least 25% more population than any of your rivals. These definitions are quotes from the users manual.

My question is how you avoid a Domination victory if you have to have a Conquest victory like in the Civ 4 Beta gauntlet 2? Assume all victory conditions are turned on.

You can raze cities so they won't be part of your civ, and you'll still eliminate the enemy that way.

 

[steviejay]

hey, does anyone in here know how to have Civ4 run in a desktop window like in Sullia's walkthrough HERE

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Change the "FullScreen = 1" line to "FullScreen = 0" (for windowed mode) or "FullScreen = ask" (for a popup that asks you each time if you want windowed or fullscreen) in your .ini file (in your My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 4/ folder).

 

[DaviddesJ]

My question is how you avoid a Domination victory if you have to have a Conquest victory like in the Civ 4 Beta gauntlet 2? Assume all victory conditions are turned on.

If you avoid generating culture in cities that you capture, you'll never reach the map percentage condition even after taking all of the cities on the map.

Of course, that will also limit the productivity of those cities. Another choice would be to expand some of them culturally, but raze others.

 

[Yooka]

My question is how you avoid a Domination victory if you have to have a Conquest victory like in the Civ 4 Beta gauntlet 2? Assume all victory conditions are turned on.

Wow, I totally understand the problem. Never dawned on me that many will accidently win via domination when going for conquest. I would guess that you raze everything AND never found a new city after you've found away to make a godlike roaming army that will roll everyone over. I guess this would be a good thing to shoot for in games where sustaining cities in a new location or those taken from an enemy might be difficult.

 

[scloopy]

Being color blind is presenting me with a problem in IV. Is there anyway to rearrange colors for civs. I know they all have flags, but when I get China and the Japanese next to each other, it is really a problem. If not change colors, is there a way to eliminate maybe one or the other from a game before it starts to keep the headaches down????

 

[Alphawolf]

Why nobody answers me? Probably this thread is too crowded.

And yes, I said it before, I am the first who discovered it, but this doesn't matter.

I've ran into a glitch before with the founding of Holy Cities. You got the Clip of Buddhism being founded yes? Which one of your cities is the Holy City and does it actually have Buddhism in it?

-the Wolf

 

[Alphawolf]

Being color blind is presenting me with a problem in IV. Is there anyway to rearrange colors for civs. I know they all have flags, but when I get China and the Japanese next to each other, it is really a problem. If not change colors, is there a way to eliminate maybe one or the other from a game before it starts to keep the headaches down????

If you go to custom game instead of Play Now you can choose your opponents.

-the Wolf

 

[scloopy]

If you go to custom game instead of Play Now you can choose your opponents.

-the Wolf

Thank you, it sure will make my life easier.

 

[banshee8]

Help Please!!!!!!!

I am new to this game and I know that this sounds like a stupid question but here goes. Is the screen suposed to be fog of war all the time. Even when I explore new areas I still can't see anything but some selected resources. The only way that I can see the terrian is to zoom out. But, when I zoom out I can't see my units, the view is too high.

 

[Alphawolf]

Can you still see the terrain? (can you see hills/plains/rivers or is it all black?)

-the Wolf

 

[banshee8]

I can see a vauge outline of a river at times but the rest is all black.

 

[banshee8]

I can also see the terrian fine in the mini map and when I zoom out but not on the regular map when I zoom in.

 

[Alphawolf]

Have you installed the patches? Also are the teeth and eyes of leader all you can see?

-the Wolf

 

[banshee8]

I haven't tried the patch yet but, it's not supposed to be that way right. I can see the leaders fine.

 

[Alphawolf]

I had black terrain on my laptop, and the patch fixed it. The shipped version of the game has problems with some graphics cards, hence the black terrain the patches fix many of these problems.

-the Wolf

 

[banshee8]

Thank you I will give it a try.

 

[Mirc]

Actually I'm afraid I don't have a holy city, even if I found it.
I will check this.

All my opponents have a religion but I can't convert.

 

[Alphawolf]

Actually I'm afraid I don't have a holy city, even if I found it.
I will check this.

The Civ that first discovers the applicable tech, founds the religion and gets a Holy City.

All my opponents have a religion but I can't convert.

To convert to any religion one of you cities must have that religion.

-the Wolf