Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Trapper439]

I'd really like to start (or at least participate in) a succession game, but I have absolutely no skills whatsoever with photoshop or whatever it is that people use to post screenshots.

(As an example of just how inept I am at this, I have pressed PrintScreen a few times, but I've never worked out how to view those screenshots, let alone post them to a thread)

AFAIK I have none of the necessary software (?).

Are there any guides on civfanatics for this?

Any help would be much appreciated, as I'm having real difficulties moving up from Monarch to Emperor (vanilla), and playing with others would be fun.

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/I've read a few succession game threads (spent an hour one time reading about a Deity-level game where it was 1P v 2AI v 2AI v 2AI and they were starting to look like winning, forgot to bookmark it though) and I love the sometimes heated debates that go on... Sometimes it feels like you're actually sitting around a campfire with Genghis Khan drinking fermented mares milk as his advisors respectfully tell him he's a moron for not razing a city to the ground.

 

[Sisiutil]

I'd really like to start (or at least participate in) a succession game, but I have absolutely no skills whatsoever with photoshop or whatever it is that people use to post screenshots.

(As an example of just how inept I am at this, I have pressed PrintScreen a few times, but I've never worked out how to view those screenshots, let alone post them to a thread)

AFAIK I have none of the necessary software (?).

Are there any guides on civfanatics for this?

Any help would be much appreciated, as I'm having real difficulties moving up from Monarch to Emperor (vanilla), and playing with others would be fun.

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/I've read a few succession game threads (spent an hour one time reading about a Deity-level game where it was 1P v 2AI v 2AI v 2AI and they were starting to look like winning, forgot to bookmark it though) and I love the sometimes heated debates that go on... Sometimes it feels like you're actually sitting around a campfire with Genghis Khan drinking fermented mares milk as his advisors respectfully tell him he's a moron for not razing a city to the ground.

First off, screenshots are located in C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\ScreenShots (that's in Vista--the path in XP or Win7 should be similar).

Second, you don't need Photoshop or anything like that. I use a utility called VSO Image Resizer that can be launched, after install, from the context (right-click) menu in Windows Explorer. I play on a 1440x900 screen and usually need to reduce the size of the screenshots slightly to 1024x768 so they'd fit most people's screens better. You only need a graphics program if you want to crop the pictures and/or change them in some other way.

As for posting them, I think this site will allow you to host a few pictures, but the number is limited--I don't know for sure, I haven't checked recently. I used Photobucket to host my pictures for my ALC games; you may want to use something similar if you find yourself using up the CFC limit, whatever it may be.

 

[Silu]

At least on Imageshack you can automatically resize the pictures upon uploading, no need to do that yourself locally. So you don't need ANY programs, just use some upload site and select the pictures from the folder described above.

 

[dalamb]

You can also use the free Irfanview program to crop and resize. Places like Photobucket let you upload lots of images.

As regard to your gaming skills: One of the benefits of a succession game is you get lots of advice/ comments/ criticism from the other 5 members, and they do 5/6 or so of the playing, so it's supposed to be a good way to learn. I'm in my first at the moment, so can't comment a lot, but it's certainly an interesting way to play.

 

[Arakhor]

The Microsoft Image Resizer is also a good free tool.

 

[shadowdrummer46]

Can I run more than one mod at once? For example: Revolution Mod Pack and Civ Gold?

 

[Fimbulvetr]

No, you can only run one mod at a time. You'd need to merge the mods, and that can be rather tedious, sometimes even difficult.

 

[shadowdrummer46]

Its not the answer I was hoping for , but thanks alot for the quick reply

 

[kintoo]

My question

Can you destory resorces on the map EG if there is a coal resorce can you use any ingame unit to destory it?

 

[IAM]

My question

Can you destory resorces on the map EG if there is a coal resorce can you use any ingame unit to destory it?

Military units can pillage tiles and spys can use espionage to destroy a tile.

Edit: Thank you dalamb. My post was misleading. The resource is not destroyed just the improvement/road.

 

[dalamb]

Though you don't exactly "destroy" the resource -- you destroy the improvement, e.g. mine. Your opponent can re-establish the resource quickly with a stack of workers.

 

[kintoo]

thanks for the replies, shame you could not destroy the resource itself http://forums.civfanatics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

 

[Lorteungen]

I know this must have been asked before, but I can't seem to find it in the forums:

I was trying out randomized leaders, but found it very confusing because the "civ roster" (the list of civs in the lower right corner?) lists leaders and not civs. Is there a way that I can change this, so that the roster displays the name of the civ and not the leader?

 

[Sisiutil]

I know this must have been asked before, but I can't seem to find it in the forums:

I was trying out randomized leaders, but found it very confusing because the "civ roster" (the list of civs in the lower right corner?) lists leaders and not civs. Is there a way that I can change this, so that the roster displays the name of the civ and not the leader?

The BUG mod allows you to customize the score display, among other things. It's a very popular and highly-recommended mod.

 

[Cripple X]

These are really newbie questions, but I just want to make sure I'm doing it right. I've just installed Civilization IV: The Complete Edition. If I want to play with the content from both Civilization IV Expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword, as well as the base game (obviously ;p) should I run Civilization IV or should I run Beyond the Sword?

With regards to patching, do you patch each individually or would patching Beyond the Sword patch base Civ IV, Warlords, and Beyond the Sword?

Also, there only seems to be a tutorial in the base version of Civilization IV. Is that correct? I didn't know if the expansions had tutorials to introduce you to the new features.

 

[henrebotha]

Re game features: BtS includes everything from Vanilla and Warlords save a scenario or two, so you should play that for the most "complete" game. In that sense, you don't need to patch Vanilla or Warlords, since you're not playing either of them. Can't help you on the tutorial question, but the Vanilla tutorial sucks anyway so you should just jump straight into the deep end. Plenty of good guides are to be found on this site.

 

[s.bernbaum]

These are really newbie questions, but I just want to make sure I'm doing it right. I've just installed Civilization IV: The Complete Edition. If I want to play with the content from both Civilization IV Expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword, as well as the base game (obviously ;p) should I run Civilization IV or should I run Beyond the Sword?

With regards to patching, do you patch each individually or would patching Beyond the Sword patch base Civ IV, Warlords, and Beyond the Sword?

Also, there only seems to be a tutorial in the base version of Civilization IV. Is that correct? I didn't know if the expansions had tutorials to introduce you to the new features.

Espionage and certain aspects of religion are different in the basic version (called vanilla around here) and Beyond the Sword (called BTS in the forum). Unless you prefer the way those are handled in vanilla very strongly, play BTS since it includes many improvements and everything that is in Warlords, except some scenarios.

I think the tutorial is worth playing once to show you the basics. There are no tutorials other than the vanilla one. However, the BTS civilopedia contains a section summarizing the changes from the earlier versions. Then, as mentioned above, I would suggest some of the War College play walk throughs.

Installing BTS should result in the installer patching the earlier versions, which should be installed first, to the latest patch. After that, check to see if the version that you have is BTS 3.19. If so, you are all set. If not, install the 3.19 BTS patch.

 

[Trapper439]

Thanks for all the answers to my question.
Happy gaming.

 

[Cripple X]

One more quick question.

When I was running through the Tutorial, whenever you selected a unit a little display appeared that showed the surrounding tiles it could move to as grey circles along w/ numbers corresponding to the keypad. Now it doesn't seem to be displaying when I click on a unit, does this only appear in the tutorial or did I somehow accidentally toggle it off?

 

[manehi]

Hi, if I have a city directly located on my only coal source, and build a national park in that city, will that remove coal access from my other cities?