Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

A couple BtS questions:

1. What is the criterion for a forest preserve counting towards happiness and National Park free specialists for a city? If it's in the fat cross of that city? Or perhaps if it's in the fat cross AND "assigned" to the city by being highlighted in the city screen (as opposed to being used by a neighbor)? (I realize that you don't actually have to have a citizen working the preserve to get the benefit). Or something else?

2. What does it mean for a corporation to "consume" a resource? Is it like the above #1, where the resources have to be near a city? Or is it drawn from the number of total resource instances you have for trading purposes? And when it's "consumed" does it hamper any other purpose (e.g., unavailable for trading, losing tile bonus, etc.)?

Oh, and one more I guess:

3. Does a Corporation HQ also act as a corporation? I.e., are you prevented from placing competing corporation HQ's in the same city? And do you get the penalties/benefits of the corporation in the city where you place the Corporation HQ?

Many thanks in advance for answers.
 
jray said:
A couple BtS questions:

1. What is the criterion for a forest preserve counting towards happiness and National Park free specialists for a city? If it's in the fat cross of that city? Or perhaps if it's in the fat cross AND "assigned" to the city by being highlighted in the city screen (as opposed to being used by a neighbor)? (I realize that you don't actually have to have a citizen working the preserve to get the benefit). Or something else?

2. What does it mean for a corporation to "consume" a resource? Is it like the above #1, where the resources have to be near a city? Or is it drawn from the number of total resource instances you have for trading purposes? And when it's "consumed" does it hamper any other purpose (e.g., unavailable for trading, losing tile bonus, etc.)?

Oh, and one more I guess:

3. Does a Corporation HQ also act as a corporation? I.e., are you prevented from placing competing corporation HQ's in the same city? And do you get the penalties/benefits of the corporation in the city where you place the Corporation HQ?

Many thanks in advance for answers.
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1) AFAIK it has to be in the fat cross
2) this means that every instance of this resource that the city is connected to counts both for the upkeep costs and the benefit
3) yes ;)
 
Wow this is a really handy thread. Some questions of mine, if anyone wants to field them. I'm playing BtS if that matters.

1. Is there any unit other than the Privateer that can attack anonymously?
2. Is there any way to build "obsolete" units after they are obsoleted? e.g. Privateers!
3. Any basic suggestions/tips on how to change my gameplay style from that of a "builder" to something that actually wins the game before 1900AD? I always end up building lots of cities, improvements and sending tons of workers out to make everything nice for my citizens but ultimately I want to be better at the game. Do you need to pick a type of victory as a goal right at the start?
4. How does the Apostolic Palace work? I have built it and passed some resolutions but there doesn't seem to be an option for diplomatic victory coming up!
5. Is there ANY way to speed up the game. It runs so slow compared to anything else on my computer. I have a -fast- laptop (I mean CPU and GPU) with plenty of RAM. I don't care too much for the 3D graphics etc... I would've preferred sprites + bitmaps if it were faster.

Thanks in advance!
 
1. Is there any unit other than the Privateer that can attack anonymously?
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The spy in a certain way; it's not attack, and it's not anonymous but invisible (almost), so kinda the same :)

2. Is there any way to build "obsolete" units after they are obsoleted? e.g. Privateers!
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No

3. Any basic suggestions/tips on how to change my gameplay style from that of a "builder" to something that actually wins the game before 1900AD? I always end up building lots of cities, improvements and sending tons of workers out to make everything nice for my citizens but ultimately I want to be better at the game. Do you need to pick a type of victory as a goal right at the start?
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You can be a builder and win before 1900AD, this is not uncompatible.
As for strategy, I can recommend the work from SIsiutil, on the strategy forum and for his articles: first his guide for beginners, then the ALC and also his others articles.
You don't need to pick a victory type right at the start. In my opinion, it's worthless deciding for this when you don't know anything about your surroundings. Wanna conquest? Ha, you're isolated. But it's actually good to have an idea quickly. Especially for things like cultural and, in a way, diplo.

4. How does the Apostolic Palace work? I have built it and passed some resolutions but there doesn't seem to be an option for diplomatic victory coming up!
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To get the resolution for religious victory, every civ must posess at least one civ with the AP's religion. As for the rest, I don't have BTS so I don't know.

5. Is there ANY way to speed up the game. It runs so slow compared to anything else on my computer. I have a -fast- laptop (I mean CPU and GPU) with plenty of RAM. I don't care too much for the 3D graphics etc... I would've preferred sprites + bitmaps if it were faster.
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Look in the graphic options: low graphics, single unit graphics, no effects... All these things can speed up the game.
 
JujuLautre said:
To get the resolution for religious victory, every civ must posess at least one civ with the AP's religion.
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I think it's as soon as at least one other civ carries the same state religion as the AP owner. Not sure though. But in my current Continents game, we had several Religious Victory votes well before the two continents met each other. And they seemed to start as soon as I converted to the same religion as the AP owner.
 
vvill said:
3. Any basic suggestions/tips on how to change my gameplay style from that of a "builder" to something that actually wins the game before 1900AD? I always end up building lots of cities, improvements and sending tons of workers out to make everything nice for my citizens but ultimately I want to be better at the game. Do you need to pick a type of victory as a goal right at the start?
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As a former dedicated builder and wonder-whore (OCC is my favourite type of game), the warmongering side of me was repressed.

Do you have Warlords? Is so, try playing the Barbarian scenario where you purchase units and have no civilization to worry about. It's a very unCiv-like way to play, but it's a neat little tool to learn various tactics.

I learned how to better prepare my stacks of doom for offense and defense, and now recognize when a lot of cheap, relatively weak units can be helpful, or whether it is better to invest in fewer, expensive, but ultimately more versatile strong units.
Other things that this scenario helped with include planning attack routes, effective pillaging, and recognizing when backing away to regroup is necessary.

I'm still not a warmonger, but I am better at fighting when needed. This allows me to strategically attack and consume rival civs without seriously damaging my own tech and economic advances. The fighting I do has led to faster resolutions to games.
 
I'm trying to find the pdf instruction manual for Bts. There isn't one on the dvd anywhere. Is there a manual avaliable, and where could i getit ?
 
Got few questions..

1. How does the multiplayer different from singleplayer, and does there have a ladder?

2. How many online players are there? (For Civ 4, Warlords and Beyond the sword)

3. Are there a good ¨newbie¨ civ, or do I have to try every (or many) civs to find ¨my civ¨

4. When was the newest (beyond the sword) expansion published?

5. Should i play some games (I played 1vs1 game against comp with 4th difficult level (noble), but just one.) against computer before entering multiplayer?

6. Can i play fantasy mods online? (warhammer mod perhaps.)

7. Can you answer all the questions?

..and heya to all, I'm a new person here, bought this game about 3months ago and the Warlords expansion few weeks ago. I hope you can read my english, there might be some mistakes. :)
 
Ishkinae said:
I'm trying to find the pdf instruction manual for Bts. There isn't one on the dvd anywhere. Is there a manual avaliable, and where could i getit ?
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There's a normal one: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6570
And one for printing out into a booklet: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6571

When you print the booklet one you have to enable "Double Sided Printing" and "Flip Pages Up".
Eikka said:
Got few questions..

1. How does the multiplayer different from singleplayer, and does there have a ladder?

2. How many online players are there? (For Civ 4, Warlords and Beyond the sword)

3. Are there a good ¨newbie¨ civ, or do I have to try every (or many) civs to find ¨my civ¨

4. When was the newest (beyond the sword) expansion published?

5. Should i play some games (I played 1vs1 game against comp with 4th difficult level (noble), but just one.) against computer before entering multiplayer?

6. Can i play fantasy mods online? (warhammer mod perhaps.)

7. Can you answer all the questions?

..and heya to all, I'm a new person here, bought this game about 3months ago and the Warlords expansion few weeks ago. I hope you can read my english, there might be some mistakes. :)
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Welcome to the forums!!! [party] :band: :dance: :woohoo: :bounce: :banana:
1. Multiplayer doesn't differ that much from Singleplayer, except that many people play on Quick speed. There is a ladder, but I have no idea how to get on it.
2. There are plenty of online players, but they're all jerks.
3. By newbie civ do you mean a online game? There may be some newbie games, but they will usually be identified by the word newbie in them. Or you can start your own game for newbies.
4. It was released in late July. You should get it, it's really worth it.
5. Yes, you should become able to beat the computer on Prince before being able to beat Humans on Noble. (Because the AI is stupid. ;))
6. You can if the mod is configured to multiplayer (you can tell because if it is not, the multiplayer button will be greyed out.)
7. Yes! ;)
 
If you're new to Civ 4, you may want to try a leader who has the 'Financial' trait, or if you want to kill people and get used to the combat system, you can try playing as the Romans.
 
Hi!
I would like to know how to make a colonie... they say to do it in the domestic advisor, but I can't find the right thing to do...
Plz
Evernight
 
to make a colony:
- you need to have at least two cities on a different landmass than your palace
- you need to not have too many civs on the map (18 civs is the maximum if you did not modify the game)

with this, you will have the chance to create a colony
 
Augh! I can't figure out how to play multiplayer... Where in the world do you make your "account"?
 
evernight said:
Hi!
I would like to know how to make a colonie... they say to do it in the domestic advisor, but I can't find the right thing to do...
Plz
Evernight
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JujuLautre said:
to make a colony:
- you need to have at least two cities on a different landmass than your palace
- you need to not have too many civs on the map (18 civs is the maximum if you did not modify the game)

with this, you will have the chance to create a colony
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And the button to do it is on the bottom right of the screen.
 
ggganz said:
There's a normal one: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6570
And one for printing out into a booklet: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6571

When you print the booklet one you have to enable "Double Sided Printing" and "Flip Pages Up".
Welcome to the forums!!! [party] :band: :dance: :woohoo: :bounce: :banana:
1. Multiplayer doesn't differ that much from Singleplayer, except that many people play on Quick speed. There is a ladder, but I have no idea how to get on it.
2. There are plenty of online players, but they're all jerks.
3. By newbie civ do you mean a online game? There may be some newbie games, but they will usually be identified by the word newbie in them. Or you can start your own game for newbies.
4. It was released in late July. You should get it, it's really worth it.
5. Yes, you should become able to beat the computer on Prince before being able to beat Humans on Noble. (Because the AI is stupid. ;))
6. You can if the mod is configured to multiplayer (you can tell because if it is not, the multiplayer button will be greyed out.)
7. Yes! ;)
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Thanks, but I got (again. :D) a few questions.

1. What's the new in the BtS (Beyond the Sword)?
2. Should i buy it, or should i play and train some warlords first (i dont understand the diplomacy, :sad:)
3. How can I see when the city would need a specialist?
4. I got an problem, becouse I almost allways try to crush the AI with power (warmonger?), but usually it does'nt work well. Any tips? (Few games with Ragnar.)
5. How I can use the most effective way those ¨advisors¨, becouse i think I miss part of a game becouse not using them. (expect for the civic advisor)
6. I'm bit of a lazy, where to find some good mods.?
7. Is the Civilopedia good thing and how does it help me? o_o
8. Were these questions annoying?

There might be some mistakes, my home languange is'nt english. :blush:
(2 posts on the questons topic, ehh.. that's a start too.. :F)
 
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