Whenever I try to update or install a patch or something, nothing happens. Theres no progress bar or anything, but the game claims to be updating itself. I might let it rip for 3 hours and come back, and nothings happened. Am I doing something wrong?
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Roland Johansen
Deity
The ingame updating process used to work ok, but something is wrong with the latest updating process of Beyond the Sword. It just keeps on going without actually doing anything. The best thing to do is just end it and download the patch from this site and execute it. You can find it here.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Not always - and perhaps even not often. It's better to use your own judgment. If you think it'd be better to found a city in a different spot to pick up a different resource mix, or to fit in better with your existing or planned future cities, then go with your intuition.
CCRunner
Deity
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Generally, there are better spots than the blue circle. However, the blue circle is almost always at least a decent city. When you're learning the game though, the blue circle is fine. Just don't rely on it to much. Eventually, you'll be able to spot better city spots.
r_rolo1
King of myself
Blue circles follow a very peculiar logic.....
In fact, they show what would be the best arragement possible for settling if you had:
-infinite settlers
-infinite movement of the settlers ( or alternatively, instant settlers in the blue spots )
-no maintenance
-No trade routes or bonuses for being coastal or riverside
-If possible, maximize defense ( aka cities on hills )
As you can imagine this are not real conditions in most games, so you should always take the blue circles advice with a grain of salt or two.....
In fact, they show what would be the best arragement possible for settling if you had:
-infinite settlers
-infinite movement of the settlers ( or alternatively, instant settlers in the blue spots )
-no maintenance
-No trade routes or bonuses for being coastal or riverside
-If possible, maximize defense ( aka cities on hills )
As you can imagine this are not real conditions in most games, so you should always take the blue circles advice with a grain of salt or two.....
I usually try to find a spot with lots of food
In my domestic advisor, between the traingle/arrow thing (trade routes?) and the great person column, there is a column headed by a red circle. What is that? I can't even hazard a guess. And why aren't there tool tips for each column heading?
JujuLautre
Deity
You can build a ship in a city only if it has access to the sea. A lake is not enough.
Perhaps you can build a ship if a lake is sufficiently big, but I don't know that; in any case, at 10 tiles wide it becomes the sea.
Perhaps you can build a ship if a lake is sufficiently big, but I don't know that; in any case, at 10 tiles wide it becomes the sea.
r_rolo1
King of myself
10 tiles of water or 3 ocean tiles.
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Tman65
Warlord
Does Beyond the Sword include Warlords or do you need to buy them both?
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
BTS includes everything in Warlords except for a few (minor) scenarios. You're far better off just getting BTS rather than both.
lordmacroer
Warlord
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I have a quick question regarding modding;
were are the files that dictate the leaderheads? I go to civ 4 -> assets -> art -> leaderheads -> and then once I open up a certain leader's folder, all I see is a file that says "(leader's name)_eye_shadow". Were are the files that dictate the rest of the leader head?
I have the Civ 4 Gold version, so it's just vanilla civ 4 packed with the warlords expansion, if that helps clearify my question any.
were are the files that dictate the leaderheads? I go to civ 4 -> assets -> art -> leaderheads -> and then once I open up a certain leader's folder, all I see is a file that says "(leader's name)_eye_shadow". Were are the files that dictate the rest of the leader head?
I have the Civ 4 Gold version, so it's just vanilla civ 4 packed with the warlords expansion, if that helps clearify my question any.
Dresden
Emperor
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Most of the vanilla civ4 art is hidden away in the four large *.fpk files. You can extract them with the PakBuild utility.
lordmacroer
Warlord
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ah thank you that is very helpfull 
A newb question here... If you are using castles how do you figure the cost vs the potential for an extra trade route? I'm playing Rise of Mankind mod, if that makes any difference and I don't know how the game figures a 10% fee for the castle.
Thanks!
Ok, I figured it out. If you look closely at the city screen it actually tells you what your city maintenance is - a total of distance from capitol added to the amount for the number of cities. All the various modifiers are applied to this number as percents. For example, if your civic is -25% and you add a castle at +10% modification, it is applied to that total as -15%. Very simple - my friends thought the castle's 10% was going to modify something like the total of the trade routes and be very expensive. Glad to see that's no so.
Thanks!
Ok, I figured it out. If you look closely at the city screen it actually tells you what your city maintenance is - a total of distance from capitol added to the amount for the number of cities. All the various modifiers are applied to this number as percents. For example, if your civic is -25% and you add a castle at +10% modification, it is applied to that total as -15%. Very simple - my friends thought the castle's 10% was going to modify something like the total of the trade routes and be very expensive. Glad to see that's no so.
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