What's your first/earliest Civ IV memory?

[bloodfin]

Just been thinking about when I got Civ IV, christmas day 2004; or 2005 when it came out lol! Americans, Roosevelt, Setteler difficulty. I really just built all that i could and spread far out, spamming with my "Knights of Philadelphia." Diplomatic victor, sucha nice game.

So what's yours?

 

[naterator]

My first CIV IV memory was: "Don't neglect your navy! Especially in the late game. Controlling the seas can provide a decisive advantage" stuck on my screen for hours as i ran two towns over to buy more RAM.

 

[King Flevance]

My first memory of CIv 4 was when I saw it in Gamestop for pre-order and was like "Holy crap I didn't even know they were making a 4!"

My first memory of owning the game was having to look up and install direct X 9.0c Because the game would not install it on my PC for some reason.
The first memory of actually playing the game was seeing the black terrain/cheshire cat bug.

My first memories of this game were not good unfortunatley with the exception of seeing it in the stores. Which is contemplatable. BTS 3.13 + Bhruic is where my mermories start to really get good with the game.

 

[Countmonte8242]

What I remember of my early games, "Damn, these new axemen guys are pretty sweet." Spam spam spam axemen, kill kill kill expand! Then getting to a point where every turn I'd have to put the tax slider up another 10% because I didn't know that more cities upped upkeep, and didn't understand the power of cottages. Eventually I'd get to a point where it was at 100% and I was still losing money, "Bye bye axemen =(."

 

[bloodfin]

lol these are great! Money was always a problem with me, I remember in Civ III my treasury was constantly at 0 because I was too busy spending. Civ IV was actually the first time i earned money, and because of that wanted to keep it!

 

[domi]

Ha! I’m celebrating 4months from my first civ game!

I played as Elizabeth, because I found her the prettiest.

I travelled many years with my first settler, just to explore the map and find the *ideal* place for my capital. I was pretty confused, when I didn’t have any more room to expand – so unfear! I had no idea, what to do with my workers, it was always „build improvements“, because it sounded like a good thing.

I had both Montezuma and Isabella as my neighbours. Of course my people would never give up their beliefs! And naturally, giving them tributes would be just humiliating, my new fresh first civilization would never grovel! You can just imagine, what happened! : P

Ok, but as to my celebration, I just had the most beautiful game, a noble win! Pretty much thanks to you people! : )

 

[Desert-Fox]

I don't remember with civ I played, it was settler level... and when AI founded hinduism and buddism before me I thought that the game is too hard... but then I got the other five and clearly won the game. First loss I got in noble level.

 

[Gorey]

i remember my first culture "bomb" (original version).

it was very impressive, and cheesy at the same time.

 

[Ignorant Teacher]

I've just build all those roads, where the hell is my commerce?!?

 

[6K Man]

I remember playing the trial version of the game as Gandhi and seeing how many wonders I could build in 100 turns.

 

[Fluroscent]

I remember my first attempt at an actual game was playing a monarch GOTM, with Vikings on islands, thinking I was doing well, and trying to learn all the new stuff. Then I met the other civs, and saw just how far behind I was. I replayed that map a bunch of times until I could consistently wipe out the closest neighbour before playing any other maps

 

[Snotty]

My earliest civ 4 memory was Provost Harrison coming round my house to read the civilopedia when the game was released

 

[katipunero]

i remember just watching game reviews of civ4 on youtube over and over for months, and pining badly for a good rig to play the damned game. after my vaio purchase, i played civ4 alongside the 3rd. started out as chieftain, employing same tactics and strategies as with its predecessor. i think i was able to force a cultural victory after several maybe hundreds of reloads.

EDIT: now that it's all coming back to me, in my first game i didn't know how to attack cities, had no sound diplomacy skills and had no idea which tech to researchfirst. all i ever did was turtle up and build and build infra. i sort of just stumbled upon the cultural victory. truth is i was surprised that i won even without ever intending to.

 

[Ignorant Teacher]

The first time I tried to capture a city, I had the same problem. I had something like 20 swordsmen (and no siege, of course) and they all fell before 4 or 5 Chinese longbowmen. I felt like throwing the computer out the window!

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

My first game was in Warlords as Stalin. I remember going to the Worldbuilder and then nuking Hannibal.

 

[Junuxx]

Now that's a long time ago. I'm certain it was a Noble, Standard sized Continents map, but I can't for the life of me remember what civ it was or how/whether I won. Probably Egypt or India.

 

[Munch]

Vanilla civ4 as Peter on a huge terra map. Roosevelt started next to me on a short strip of land jutting into the sea. I blocked him with my first city and kept him backwards for the rest of the game. Good times.

In the same game I fondly remember declaring my first war against my Arab neighbours. Also not taking the threats of my far away rivals seriously and being crusaded against by Spain. Oh, and being afraid of attacking the Japanese with my aircraft carrier because they had so many riflemen in each city that you couldn't count them.

 

[Monsterzuma]

Scouting around with the Settler unit in Civ1...

not knowing it was meant to build a city with.


Slightly later: spamming militia units because it's only thing I knew how it worked.


Another strong memory: my brother, about 6 years old at the time, bragging about the fact he had teched to the Sail ship in Civ2 before I ever had (I was a cronic reroller back then too). The fact he had teched it at a ridiculously late game date was beside the point when I pointed that out to him.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Played as lincoln on setter and won culture w/o even trying. Virtually everything I did was automated other than building choices .

 

[kossin]

Earliest memory:

I played Cyrus on Earth18 and kept expanding in the Desert, admiring my Empire. Building cottages everywhere on hills and wondering why they didn't grow.