Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[feldmarshall]

^ Agree, maybe you switched to Free religion

 

[phoenix_sprite]

nah...I'm still following the religion I created and besides I rarely switch to free religion (I tend to be one of those religious zealots (not in real life! )). It's a seriously anoying glitch! It's been happening since I bought Civ4, like 2 years ago... If I'm lucky I get build the building with a GP before the holy city stops becoming a holy city...

 

[Roland Johansen]

nah...I'm still following the religion I created and besides I rarely switch to free religion (I tend to be one of those religious zealots (not in real life! )). It's a seriously anoying glitch! It's been happening since I bought Civ4, like 2 years ago... If I'm lucky I get build the building with a GP before the holy city stops becoming a holy city...

Could you upload a savegame of the turn before it happens and tell us exactly what you did that resulted in the 'loss of the holy city'? Does it happen when you end your turn or is it triggered by something else?

You say that you aren't using mods, so I guess that means you also have no changed files in the customassets directory?

I know that in the Total Realism mod, a holy city can dissapear, but I've never heard about it in the normal game. It shouldn't happen.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

I use no mods to alter gameplay. And I might have to wait til tomorrow to upload a file. I start a turn and it's gone! I'll check my custom assets when I come back home. It's always random so I never know when to save...And I usually get so pissed off that I go to worldbuilder and make it back a holy city...(I know, shame on me...)

 

[rabidveggie]

I don't believe it has a spectater mode. Just make your friend said screen shots throughout the game or if your friend lives nearby play some hotseat with him and watch his turns.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

who are you talking to, rabidveggie?

 

[Roland Johansen]

are there any spectators mode available in warlords? my friend is a newbie and i would like to spectate his game and give him some advice (even on external comunicator) during his game.

I don't believe it has a spectater mode. Just make your friend said screen shots throughout the game or if your friend lives nearby play some hotseat with him and watch his turns.

who are you talking to, rabidveggie?

I guess rabidveggie is replying to post 5980. A bit weird as MusX is unlikely to read it without any quotation. Especially since he posted his question a long time ago.

I use no mods to alter gameplay. And I might have to wait til tomorrow to upload a file. I start a turn and it's gone! I'll check my custom assets when I come back home. It's always random so I never know when to save...And I usually get so pissed off that I go to worldbuilder and make it back a holy city...(I know, shame on me...)

Set the autosaves to 1 autosave per turn (in the config.ini file of vanilla Civ4 or Warlords depending on which version you play) and you can always go back to the autosave of the previous turn and replay that one turn upto the point where you only have to end the turn to get the weird occurence.

Don't expect miracles from me. I just want to take a look and see what's wrong, whether it is a normal part of the game (doesn't sound like it) or not.

If you don't want to run mods in the customassets, then you can safely completely delete it without harming the game. The game will recreate an empty customassets without modded files.

It might also be a good idea to delete the cache after removing the customassets. It's located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Yourname]\Application Data\My Games\Warlords

where Application Data is a hidden folder. The cache stores some stuff so that the game loads quicker but it can also result in conflicting game rules when you switch between mods without deleting the cache.

Ok, that's all. Good luck.

 

[vorlon_mi]

nah...I'm still following the religion I created and besides I rarely switch to free religion (I tend to be one of those religious zealots (not in real life! )). It's a seriously anoying glitch! It's been happening since I bought Civ4, like 2 years ago... If I'm lucky I get build the building with a GP before the holy city stops becoming a holy city...

Let's ask the question a different way ... what effects of the holy city
are disappearing? If you go to the Religion adviser screen, it will list
the religions across the top, and the holy cities for each. You should still see
your holy city listed.

Now, if one or more of the *AI* have switched to free religion, then you would
no longer get the line-of-sight into their cities that have adopted your religion.
The minimap might indeed grow dark(er). Could this be happening?

 

[phoenix_sprite]

thanks Roland_Johansen, I'll definitely look into that.

@vorlon_mi:
No, the city is definitely not a holy city anymore. And no, the AI did not switch to free religion because they didn't have liberalism. Either did I. I was still in the Middle Ages or Renaissance.

 

[ggganz]

So, the small star next to the religion icon has disappeared and you only get one happiness instead of 5, and can't build the shrines? Totally a bug. That is not possible.

 

[mrwhite89]

I see a lot of SG where the participants use dotmaps to show where to build the next group of cities. Does anybody know how to create them?

 

[Roland Johansen]

I see a lot of SG where the participants use dotmaps to show where to build the next group of cities. Does anybody know how to create them?

Ingame, you can zoom out until you get the curved earth map with the clouds and then the left most button above the map is called the strategic layer. Enabling this allows you to draw on the map (and place signs, but that can also be done with alt-s).

You can also make a screenshot of the map.
(Press the Prt Scr button on your keyboard and the game places a screenshot in C:\Documents and Settings\[myname]\My Documents\My Games\Warlords\ScreenShots )

Open this screenshot with a graphics program like paint and you'll be able to draw lines on this screenshot and make a dotmap outside of the game.

 

[mrwhite89]

You can also make a screenshot of the map.
(Press the Prt Scr button on your keyboard and the game places a screenshot in C:\Documents and Settings\[myname]\My Documents\My Games\Warlords\ScreenShots )

Open this screenshot with a graphics program like paint and you'll be able to draw lines on this screenshot and make a dotmap outside of the game.

Thank you! That makes sense.

 

[Rancid Sushi]

I think my problem with the SE has also been the very early game research. If I spam cottages, I can keep up easily enough and get ahead with blood money after I have some units. Spamming farms just gets me more population and not much . Should I just make a hard bee-line for Writing after Agriculture?

 

[Roland Johansen]

I think my problem with the SE has also been the very early game research. If I spam cottages, I can keep up easily enough and get ahead with blood money after I have some units. Spamming farms just gets me more population and not much . Should I just make a hard bee-line for Writing after Agriculture?

As said before, I'm not an expert on the specialist economy, but since it is based on specialists and especially scientists, a beeline towards every technology that allows them seems logical.

That said, if you have pigs or something like that around your capital, then you would like to develop animal husbandry early too. Nothing is absolute in civ, there are no real fixed paths to take.

 

[Idejder]

So I have been lurking these forums for a while, not a posting person really. But I finally broke down and am getting Warlords in a day or so. My friend isn't yet tho, so my question is this: Can I still play normal vanilla Civ4 even if I have Warlords installed?

Might be a silly question, but a lot of games don't let you play non-expansion'd versions if you upgrade.

 

[Sparta]

So I have been lurking these forums for a while, not a posting person really. But I finally broke down and am getting Warlords in a day or so. My friend isn't yet tho, so my question is this: Can I still play normal vanilla Civ4 even if I have Warlords installed?

Might be a silly question, but a lot of games don't let you play non-expansion'd versions if you upgrade.

You definitely can, thankfully. The installs will be separate and you can launch either after installing Warlords. Enjoy, and welcome to the forums!

@phoenix_sprite: You didn't by chance spawn a Great Scientist named Richard Dawkins, did you? (Sorry; couldn't resist.)

 

[Idejder]

You definitely can, thankfully. The installs will be separate and you can launch either after installing Warlords. Enjoy, and welcome to the forums!

@phoenix_sprite: You didn't by chance spawn a Great Scientist named Richard Dawkins, did you? (Sorry; couldn't resist.)

TY

and this forums wins in terms of the crazy smilies. I have been impressed by some of their more original uses for about 3 months.

 

[mice]

In the strategy layer we can draw lines on the map. With Alt S we can make signs on the map up close, not at strategy map level.

My question .... is there a hotkey so that we can draw on the map up close as with the signs with Alt S ?

 

[Roland Johansen]

In the strategy layer we can draw lines on the map. With Alt S we can make signs on the map up close, not at strategy map level.

My question .... is there a hotkey so that we can draw on the map up close as with the signs with Alt S ?

That would have been nice, but I don't think so. The real problem with drawing on the map is that the grid lines become less visible when you zoom out (at least that is my opinion).