R82
Chieftain
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2019
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Hi Everyone,
being the kinda strange person that I am, I decided to start playing Civ4 about 14 years after it came out. I had originally started playing Civ3 around 2004, but when Civ4 came out, first I wasn't sure if it would run on my computer at the time (I've basically always used computers that were a bit behind the curve throughout my life), and second, I heard that in Civ4, getting more cities costs money instead of bringing in money, and I didn't like that idea at first. So I stuck with Civ3.
I wasn't really tempted by the post-Civ4 games, either - I don't like the Civ5 rule of one unit per tile, and Civ6 is so new that I'm not sure it would run on my current computer. So I just played Civ3 over the years, and occasionally some Alpha Centauri.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I finally decided to give Civ4 a try, and decided that I had been wrong all the time. I actually like not having to worry so much about REXing anymore, and I like almost all the things they changed since Civ3. Especially, of course, not having to send workers after pollution anymore. The only change that bugs me a bit is how you can't see new cities founded in areas you have already explored without revisiting the areas anymore. And, it's a bit annoying that it's near impossible to get AIs to give me maps for tech.
I should note that I'm not actually all that good at any version of Civ - I can beat Noble if I start in a perfect place, and the same was true for the fair fight level in Civ3 (I've forgotten what that was called). And, I've stuck to Vanilla so far.
I always play on the huge map - I know that the advice to new players is to stick to the smaller map sizes for a while, but for purely aesthetic reasons, I prefer to have some distance between the tropics and the polar regions. Partly because of that, so far I've usually tried for science victories - waging war on a truly global scale on the huge map is a bit too much for me for now.
At the moment, I prefer to play as Asoka - organized might be the most useful trait in the game, allowing for a larger empire that is still economically efficient, and when I start out with Mysticism, I can usually found Hinduism. How is he usually regared?
Since, as I said, I'm not that good at Civ in general, I've only won two games on Noble so far, and in the first one of these, I had started out on a relatively small continent with just one other Civ, so I felt a bit like a cheat.
That's all, I think. Two questions: 1) Is there anything in the saved game files that I might not want other people to see? That is, are there any security or privacy issues with posting them online?
2) Is there any way of extracting event logs as text files?
being the kinda strange person that I am, I decided to start playing Civ4 about 14 years after it came out. I had originally started playing Civ3 around 2004, but when Civ4 came out, first I wasn't sure if it would run on my computer at the time (I've basically always used computers that were a bit behind the curve throughout my life), and second, I heard that in Civ4, getting more cities costs money instead of bringing in money, and I didn't like that idea at first. So I stuck with Civ3.
I wasn't really tempted by the post-Civ4 games, either - I don't like the Civ5 rule of one unit per tile, and Civ6 is so new that I'm not sure it would run on my current computer. So I just played Civ3 over the years, and occasionally some Alpha Centauri.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I finally decided to give Civ4 a try, and decided that I had been wrong all the time. I actually like not having to worry so much about REXing anymore, and I like almost all the things they changed since Civ3. Especially, of course, not having to send workers after pollution anymore. The only change that bugs me a bit is how you can't see new cities founded in areas you have already explored without revisiting the areas anymore. And, it's a bit annoying that it's near impossible to get AIs to give me maps for tech.
I should note that I'm not actually all that good at any version of Civ - I can beat Noble if I start in a perfect place, and the same was true for the fair fight level in Civ3 (I've forgotten what that was called). And, I've stuck to Vanilla so far.
I always play on the huge map - I know that the advice to new players is to stick to the smaller map sizes for a while, but for purely aesthetic reasons, I prefer to have some distance between the tropics and the polar regions. Partly because of that, so far I've usually tried for science victories - waging war on a truly global scale on the huge map is a bit too much for me for now.
At the moment, I prefer to play as Asoka - organized might be the most useful trait in the game, allowing for a larger empire that is still economically efficient, and when I start out with Mysticism, I can usually found Hinduism. How is he usually regared?
Since, as I said, I'm not that good at Civ in general, I've only won two games on Noble so far, and in the first one of these, I had started out on a relatively small continent with just one other Civ, so I felt a bit like a cheat.
That's all, I think. Two questions: 1) Is there anything in the saved game files that I might not want other people to see? That is, are there any security or privacy issues with posting them online?
2) Is there any way of extracting event logs as text files?