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30 Oct 2005, 12:25
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Got it yesterday. Utterly brilliant.
Normal timescale seemed a bit too fast for me (though it would be ace for multiplayer). Thankfully they have included the traditional epic timescale for slower longer games.
The globe view is very useful and aesthetically pleasing - screenshots do not do the engine justice.
It feels like Civilization.
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30 Oct 2005, 16:26
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Next goal wins!
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Is it just me or did they abolish advisors and replaced them with tables and statistics instead?
I remember going to the council and watching the movies of the advisors on a certain issue.
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that sounds like a good thing to me, having the ambiguity of the advisors when it could instead give you the actual numbers always seemed a bit of a waste of time.
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30 Oct 2005, 20:06
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Born Sinful
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I imagine it gets more processor/ram intensive as the game progresses.
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31 Oct 2005, 10:31
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Bored
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I may wait until i've upgraded my computer before playing it then...
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31 Oct 2005, 10:36
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Guy next door
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
So I am busy downloading for already 2 days to find out my pentium 3 800mhz suck?
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31 Oct 2005, 10:47
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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I even resorted to moving the movies out of their folder so they won't play.
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NoMovies=0 to NoMovies=1 in the .ini.
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1 Nov 2005, 19:59
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Guy next door
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
guys, I've finally bought the game but changing the cd all the time annoy me to no end, does anyone have a no cd crack for me please?
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1 Nov 2005, 20:00
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
guys, I've finally bought the game but changing the cd all the time annoy me to no end, does anyone have a no cd crack for me please?
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Sorry, no.
With the (warezed) DVD version you have to use Daemon Tools and then SafeDisc Hider - there's no crack included. I'm not sure about the CD version.
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1 Nov 2005, 20:19
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Guy next door
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Ah thanks, works now with Safedisc Hider
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2 Nov 2005, 00:29
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by Flavius
I like the fact I signed free passage treaties with the Spanish, and then (while in Peace) they took over one of my cities. Then they asked me for technology and I declared war.
Wasn't war declared automatically once you attack/take over a city in Civ II/III ?
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How did they take it over?
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2 Nov 2005, 01:02
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I am.
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
never trust dagos
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3 Nov 2005, 15:15
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a review (of sorts)
I started playing this last night (thanks to you lot), having never played the prequels. Seems it's a cross between Settlers and mega-lo-mania
The most annoying thing was struggling to sleep afterwards because of a scrolling landscape ingrained in my mind.
After about 4 hours play, I'm at 1700AD on the tutorial map living in peace next to that fag Ghandi but despite our peaceful co-existence and my enlightened pacifist outlook, I'm really ****ing annoyed at the way the border has turned out and how he has cities in what should have been my land if I'd known what I was doing a millenia or two earlier. Tonight I think I'm going to have to try and kick his smug specky head in.
So yeah, on the whole, I'd say I was enjoying it
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3 Nov 2005, 16:14
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
excellent
Multiplayer is kinda cool too, though games take hours and hours and hours :/
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7 Nov 2005, 03:07
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Born Sinful
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Just bumping to accuse Sid Meirs of stealing my weekend
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7 Nov 2005, 04:46
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Just bumping to accuse Sid Meirs of stealing my weekend
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I was playing last night, and thought to myself that I should stop as it must be 3am by now. I quit to desktop, and it was 0520 :eek:
(I've since found the clock and alarm options)
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7 Nov 2005, 09:02
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Guy next door
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Damn game keep on crashing on me, most of the times already before I did the first turn
(p3 800, 928mb ram)
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7 Nov 2005, 09:13
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by meglamaniac
Just bumping to accuse Sid Meirs of stealing my weekend
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Sid Meier :eng101:
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7 Nov 2005, 12:36
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Registered User
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by Flavius
Had 2 cities next to eachother a bit far away from the capital. One warrior on each, was at the beginning of the game. Stupid barbarians were destroying the lands around, so I took the warrior from City1 to kill it. Instead it died Then I took warrior from City2, went up and killed it. I put the warrior on City1 and started building another one in City2. Before it was completed I got a message on top left saying "Spanish took over the city of City2"
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aren't there multiple ways of taking over a city? like being so damn cool that they just flock to you, or through insurgency?
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7 Nov 2005, 15:33
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Born Sinful
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Silvresmoke: so far I've been lucky, but it is widely acknowledged the game wasn't tested enough before it was released.
So much so that apparently Fireaxis are releasing a patch next week - that has to be some kind of record!
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7 Nov 2005, 15:39
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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- that has to be some kind of record!
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the last few CM/FM games have had patches out on release day.
on topic : I played a SIX HOUR team multiplayer game (3v3 on Noble) vs the computer on sat night, and we kicked it's arse.
The other 4 team games we played it's declared war early and owned us lots
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7 Nov 2005, 16:18
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Next goal wins!
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
the last few CM/FM games have had patches out on release day.
on topic : I played a SIX HOUR team multiplayer game (3v3 on Noble) vs the computer on sat night, and we kicked it's arse.
The other 4 team games we played it's declared war early and owned us lots
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I wouldn't know about 4, but in pretty much all other games of this type, early wars are the way to go if you are going for the best score/win. I don't see any particular reason why this would be different.
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7 Nov 2005, 19:44
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I was pretty shocked there wasn't a patch out in the first few days, pretty rare for a game these days especially one as unstable as Civ 4. Still despite the crashs it's incredible
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7 Nov 2005, 21:06
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by meglamaniac
So much so that apparently Fireaxis are releasing a patch next week - that has to be some kind of record!
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That's not uncommon. The process of "going gold" and getting shipped to shops takes so damn long that, by and large, any bugs, no matter how minor, that are found towards the end of the QA process CAN'T be fixed before released, because in doing so they have to go through the game again from scratch. The time between going gold and release is often more than sufficient to do more testing, and fix some errors - the only limit on this appears to be the publisher.
In fact, Firaxis (are you on some kind of bad-spelling drive in this thread?) are being positively tardy, especially given the godawful number of bugs to affect the game.
On the plus side, at least it WAS tested before release - the main problem with Civ III was that it wasn't playtested. At all.
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7 Nov 2005, 21:31
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Registered User
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
and you people really like it? i dont get along with the graphics at all.
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7 Nov 2005, 21:31
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Clerk
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by wu_trax
and you people really like it? i dont get along with the graphics at all.
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I don't like the slowness which the graphics seems to bring, but I put that down to my PC being pants.
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3 Dec 2005, 06:58
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Caveat Lector
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
Yeah I just played this for the last 3 hours (got it today) and beat it on chieftan by winning the space race. I went totally pacificst and only constructed military when a city asked me to. I like the menu music *a lot.*
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3 Dec 2005, 13:27
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Godfather
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
im getting this for christmas from my brother and i cannot understand how you could possibly be pacifists?
After making pacts and alliances on civ3 that catered to my needs at the time, as soon as those needs were met and there was no reason for the alliance to hold id break it off usually by invading en masse and annhilating their cities and towns.
War is the way to go gentleman. You will be hated by all but who cares when they all fear you?
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3 Dec 2005, 14:09
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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Originally Posted by JammyJim
im getting this for christmas from my brother and i cannot understand how you could possibly be pacifists?
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Because it's a different, valid play style?
Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyJim
After making pacts and alliances on civ3 that catered to my needs at the time, as soon as those needs were met and there was no reason for the alliance to hold id break it off usually by invading en masse and annhilating their cities and towns.
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On the other hand, this requires you to have an enormous standing militiary, especially in Civ IV, which is hideously inefficient.
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War is the way to go gentleman. You will be hated by all but who cares when they all fear you?
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What difficulty level did you play at?
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3 Dec 2005, 14:26
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Godfather
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I can nay remember but know it wasnt 'settler' or whatever. It was somewhere between medium and hard i think.
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3 Dec 2005, 18:34
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I really love the menu music song so I found some stuff out by searching on Google.
It's called "Baba Yetu"and is an African rendition of the Lord's prayer.
This is a sample version on the creator's website:
http://www.christophertin.com/samples/BabaYetu.mp3
I really like it, it's so upbeat. I'm glad I don't understand the words though, I'd probably like it a lot less.
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3 Dec 2005, 18:46
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
I have the game, and have no idea how to play, i always get completely murdered at the start. Any decent starting strat tips anyone
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3 Dec 2005, 19:52
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
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I have the game, and have no idea how to play, i always get completely murdered at the start. Any decent starting strat tips anyone
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Build up troops, make peace with everyone, then move all your troops at once to the nearest place and take half their cities, then go to the next place and do it there too. Don't worry about settling as you'll just conquer cities. Yeah! (Haven't tried this yet tbh).
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4 Dec 2005, 13:44
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Born Sinful
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
It is also still hopelessly unstable on some computers even after the patch.
Take2 really need to learn the idea of QC before they go releasing games so important as this.
Other than that it is fairly cool.
Also, for anyone wanting to know what the menu music is, it is apparently the Lord's Prayer in Swahili.
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4 Dec 2005, 13:52
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Re: The big ole Civ 4 thread
yes, i was wrong, they've made a nice game
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