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When two of my cities' BFCs overlap, how does the game determine which city gets which tiles?
 
When two of my cities' BFCs overlap, how does the game determine which city gets which tiles?

You can choose yourself. Enter the city of your choice and click on the tile. If the tile was already part of that city but unused, then it is now being used. If the tile wasn't part of that city, then now it has become part of that city and removed from the set of tiles of the previous owning city.
 
Freaking sweet! :D Thanks!
 
It's a setting in your Civilization IV.ini file which will be under the "My Games" directory. You can change both the maximum number of saves to keep ("MaxAutoSaves") and how often the saves are made ("AutoSaveInterval".)

Maybe this sounds dumb, but I cannot find this file. How do I reach it? I don't see a "My Games" directory at all.

Keep in mind I've never messed around with the internal workings of the game.
 
the full path is:
\documents and settings\<username>\my documents\my games\<gamename>\
where <username> is you username ;) and <gamename> is Civ4 or Warlords or BtS depending on the game you want to set the settings.

Ah ha, got it. Thank you very much all who helped. :)
 
What happens when two things happen on the same turn -- for example, granary finished and city grows on same turn? Do you get the granary bonus always/only get it if the granary was closer to finishing than the city growth was/not get the granary bonus?

Another example might be a Wonder that gives experience to new units, if they finish on the same turn.
 
A granary needs food to actually be stored in it. ie, there needs to be at least half a population of growth food put into it before it works 100%. In your example, the city would gain one extra turn of food production.

I believe that a wonder starts working immediately so units built that turn would recieve the experience.
 
I'm sure I allready know the answer to this, but the correct way to install Civ IV is:

Civ IV --> last patch.
Warlords --> last patch.
BTS --> latest patch.

I just recently bought a new computer, I still haven't put CIV IV back on it yet......
 
No need for warlords and I think that the vanilla patch is unnecessary for BTS.

Therefore, my order would be:
Civ IV -> BTS -> Latest Patch
 
If you think you'll have any chance of wanting to play the Warlords scenarios though, a better order would be:

Civ IV -> Warlords -> BTS -> Latest (3.17) Patch
 
Yes, ice blocks trade over water. See the following two images (BTS 3.17). In the first, there is a path through the ice so Djenne is linked to the trade network but in the second, the island was completely blocked by ice before Djenne was founded and it is not connected (note the lack of :traderoute: symbols)

Spoiler images :
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Hi, I just installed the game for the first time. I bought Gold edition and BTS. For some reason, I can't play the content of all three of the games at once (Ex. , to play as a Warlords race, I have to specifically open Civ IV: WArlords, or If I want to play a scenario from BTS, I have to specifically open BTS)

Is that supposed to happen.
 
The scenario thing should happen, and vanilla should only have vanilla and Warlords should only have Warlords + Vanilla.

BTS should include all of the warlords civilizations though along with everything else minus scenarios. Are you completely sure you can't play Warlords civs in BTS?
 
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