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What influences a person score on the scoreboard? Is it the advancement of techs?

 

Techs and several other things: population, land, and wonders are also factors. Mouse over your score and a breakdown will be displayed.

An extra bit of advice: don't get obsessed with your score. It is not unusual to be low on the scoreboard for a substantial portion of the game. You may also rise and fall as you execute your strategy--for example, warring will usually require you to slow your research and avoid building wonders, so your score will usually drop in relative terms, but eventually the land and population you claim will allow you to catch up and even surpass your rivals. It's also possible to win without being at the top of the scoreboard (it's especially typical to do this in an cultural victory, for example).

 

I know, this isn't the right place but i can't go advanced without the entire text box breaking - This includes threads, meaning i can't post a thread about this.

Basically, i can't type anything into the Advanced Text Box, even to make a thread about the problem.

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Administrator who is watching me, if you delete this post i'm screwed, ok?


... Please, just explain what the heck is going on

 

Whatever happened to the drop down selection menu located at the bottom of this screen just above "Similar Threads" ?

 

Is this a new situation? Since when have you experienced this problem? What OS and browser are you using? What plug-ins and security options are you using?

I'm not an administrator but it seems to me that they will need more information in order to help you.

I guess it dropped off.


Sorry, couldn't resist. It is a good question, was it removed for a reason or did it just disappear? I found it to be rather inconvenient to use since the forums I'm interested in were too far down the list, after some forums that I imagine got very little traffic.

 

I found out that it was eleminated after the March crash. Aparently the selection menu generated too much HTML and was deemed expendable. I did frequently use it though.

 

I have my civ iv on a netbook now. There is no numpad, but I want to use the directional shortcuts that would be available on a notebook. Any suggestions?

 

Your notebook does not have a some kind of Fn function that enables a secondary numpad ?

if don't you can :

- get a macro program and program some keys/key combs to mimic the numpad

- get a USB numpad

 

It has fn function, but no fn numpad (it's a Lenovo s205)

 

Hi, i built a scout unit but get 4 unit instead. my asumption is it's because hammer overflow ( my city produce about 80 and scout cost 15 ) is this normal? i only want to make one scout so military maintenance doesn't get too high, are there any way to only make 1 scout and overflow goes to next unit? ( i try to queue spearmen after scout but it's still create 4 scout instead ).
thanks for any answer.

Edit:
I'm really sorry. looks like this multiple built unit comes from mod that i use, not from vanilla gameplay. and the only way to overcome this is to delete unwanted unit. e.g: if i get 4 scout then i must delete the another three to get one scout, there is no workaround.

 

What are the 3 techs that give you a free tech each? I know of The Oracle and Liberalism. (though The Oracle is a wonder.)

 

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*Liberalism
*Oracle
*Diplomatic Event: Being a backward human player makes the AI pities you and sometimes randomly give some techs.
*Goody huts

 

You've got the only routine freebies. There is only Liberalism, not three techs. Sometimes a hut or a random event will do it also. There are techs that give you a free Great Person of one sort or another, if you are the first to get the tech. Perhaps that is what you are thinking of.

 

Most people care more about free techs, but I know that getting Music first gives you a free Great Artist, which is always nice

 

You forgot one: kicking an AI leader's butt until he/she coughs up a free tech (sometimes more than one) to be left alone for 10 turns. Works far better than hoping the AI will feel sorry for you, in my experience. I'll take fear over pity any day.

 

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You sure liked that Joao II you beat down and got all his techs... (prowess CIV moments thread by Sisiutil)

I can add relatively beggings: beg a low cost tech like Fishing, PH, Mysticism, etc. after waiting a decent amount of turns (PLEASED leader as condition) is sometimes possible.

 

Yeah, but I usually have those techs by the time I get Alphabet--I can often get Meditation and Priesthood that way. Hunting too.

 

Not related to Leatherface ( ) 's question but can be useful, but a small warning over getting low cost techs from an AI, even if it free!

WFYABTA ("We fear you are becoming to avanced!") response from different AI's implemented to avoid abuses like in CivIII, depends on how many techs you receive from an AI from a trade or freely. It simply block further trades with the AI's unless you get lucky and the anti-trade wall is down thanks to RNG for a short period.

For instance, you have an island of two AI's and other AI's are still unknown to this trio island. After getting a certain number of techs, depending of the leader (can be a limit of 5, 10, 15 or 20 (the last is Manse the techwhore) techs) one may see that answer.
But the unknown AI's won't ever know your trades. In continents type maps, maybe abusing tech trading is okay, but on a pangaea-like map where everyone knows everyone very early, better be careful with what we receive.

The big issue I didn't mention and main point of the whole warning stuff, Leatherface, would you prefer tech yourself Hunting (cheap tech) or Nationalism (expensive one)? I choose Hunting as getting in trade Nationalism is far more appealing. The big issue with WFYABTA is its blindness to recognize cheap techs to costly ones. All techs worth one point in the balance. Sometimes, it is better teching yourself cheap techs over getting them freely if those are not almighty important.

All in all, be careful when tech trading or getting them free from non-friendly AI's. Friendly civs and vassals always trade in BTS.

People tend to laugh at Obsolete's game not even knowing Hunting yet in modern times, but the reason is purely game inner mechanics used wisely.

 

Thanks for the information. Well, RiP little drop-down, RiP.

 

Does the Sacrificial Altar also decrease the length of the unhappiness caused by drafting?