recommended speed, size and map type

[paperfire]

What do you guys play on and which do you recommend?

 

[Afforess]

It depends on your computer, but I recommend marathon large maps, usually custom continents or Smartmap.

 

[strategyonly]

If you dont have Duo Core, Win 7, 64 bit, DDR3, 4 GB Memory, then i wont try anything larger than standard map with less than 9 civs. But of course thats just me.

 

[Sporhund]

If you install A New Dawn modmod, you will get a significant speed boost in your game, making you able to play larger maps with more civs.

 

[ruskyandrei]

I used to play marathon in unmodded BtS but i find it to be too slow for RoM, in the sense that by the mid industrial era i tend to have conquered more than half the world (and thus rarely get to use the plethora of modern/future units )

Admitedly maybe i should try playing a higher dif level (currently at Prince).

 

[civ_king]

Probably Epic and Large, if you either have have a good computer or use AND

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Lately I have been enjoying snail on Huge with tectonics, but then I have days free to plat atm

 

[bertram]

If you dont have Duo Core, Win 7, 64 bit, DDR3, 4 GB Memory, then i wont try anything larger than standard map with less than 9 civs. But of course thats just me.

I totally agree with you!

On less you have a monster pc - I also would recommend to stick with the small map-types, and not above 10-15 civs.

The waiting between turns get so annoying - currently I'm waiting several minutes between the turns. And I recently doubled my Ram to 4gb with a hope of getting just a little more juice out of my civ experience! With those long waiting times you cant get anything done even with an hour or two of play-time, when you have to put up with the fact that is only your turn every five minutes...

RoM 2.8 is great, and a great add to the aging civ4 game. But the slowness is killing me...

 

[Erii]

Recommendations on what settings to use are really hard to say. It really depends on your play style and preferences. I would suggest starting on a Standard sized map, Custom Continents (and if you want, select 4 continents). Also try normal speed, and increase the difficulty off of chieftain (again, base it off of how difficult you want the game to be), but I would suggest that, if you're coming from vanilla BtS, go down a difficulty or two, since you have to relearn much of the game.
After this 'test game', decide if you would like the game to be more prolonged (which, among a few other things, allows for military to not go obsolete as fast), if you would like a bigger map (if you computer can handle it), and if the difficulty was decent, or if the game was too easy (I wouldn't suggest increasing difficulty by more than 2 steps).

As for me, I play on Giant, RoM_Custom_Continents, 5 continent, Marathon, with the default (large) number of civs. I turn off time, cultural, and space victory. Lately I've been trying a strategy as Huayna Capec of the French, although I tend to switch leaders and civs every game or two. I tend to switch the difficulty between emperor and immortal, depending on if I'm trying a new strategy or not.

I hope this helps you decide!

 

[SDFarsight]

If you install A New Dawn modmod, you will get a significant speed boost in your game, making you able to play larger maps with more civs.

I have that modmod and the game still CTDs. Infact I doubt it's even a performance issue as my FPS is normally fine.

 

[Bobisback]

I have that modmod and the game still CTDs. Infact I doubt it's even a performance issue as my FPS is normally fine.

The reason your FPS is fine is because civ 4 has very little to do with graphics cards, and more to do with processing power. You can have a sick card but if you only have a 1.5ghz processor you mine as well not try it.

 

[generalstaff]

Speed: Marathon; Snail with Modules
Type: Continents
Size: As large as your computer can handle
(Modules: A New Dawn)

 

[Xoatl_169]

Giant Earth map, start usually 3-5 early civs, position them in their real life places and enter world builder now and then to change names of cities, religions, where emerging civs go. I like to keep it close to history but a bit different every game.

Oh yeah and snail mode