Hi all,

My website is up, with 4 brief reports from some of my single player games, with a few more on the way soon.

Kylearean, Speaker, you guys mind if I like to your pages? You can link to mine if you like!

http://www.geocities.com/pacerdart/

Greetings to the Realms Beyond community. You may not know me by name, but I'm probably known around here as "that mentally-deranged person that hosts Sirian's website".

The re-issued patch (version 1.09) was released earlier tonight. As you can imagine, 2K's update servers are getting hammered. I couldn't even get the auto-updater to go, I had to find a RapidShare link off CivFanatics and grab it there. Anyway, to spare you all the horror of that, and since I have a ton of bandwidth at my disposal now -- 1500 GB a month, which will probably need an upgrade once Sirian deploys his Civ4 site -- I've gone and mirrored the patch (and given it a slightly more descriptive filename). You can grab it here:

http://www.warpcore.org/patches/Civ4-1.09-patch.exe
24,834,449 bytes
MD5: 49a982ee75b9460ebdc538fde9ba4e96
SHA1: 8c2a39dd1944c1631c9f3be9ce61950a08244deb

Enjoy!

Ah, Civilization. No, not indoor plumbing and electricity, I mean the series. ^_^

I was SO excited when my friend told me it was out, that I went and started to drool over it on Game Spot. I begged my parents for it, and was able to procure jobs from them to get it. When I FINALLY got it, I installed and tried a peaceful game as Russia (on Cheiftain). I loved it. I won a Diplomatic victory as well. ^_^

On some of my other games, I seem not to do as well. For example, on Civ Fanatics, I made an SG where we have to win via culture. Now, we are being invaded by Mansa Musa who has elephants and the like, and we are being owned quite frankly. We are on Noble. @_@

Apparently, the biggest problems I make are these:

1 ) Not a big enough military.

2 ) My tendency to decide to switch to Christianity from Hinduism when I have 3 Hindu allies. >_> Damn you IRL religion bias, DAMN YOU!

3 ) My total failure to succeed at war. At all. My skills at war in this game are a sin against Sid.

4 ) My ineptitude at diplomacy. You see, I am not a bad diplomat in negotiations, I just *accidently* trade with an ally's worst enemy who proceeds to PMS all over me.

>_>
<_<

Tips? Advice? Training games? I would appreciate any help, any educational comments, and any advice whatsoever. Thanks in advance.

P.S What really sucks is when I was Eygpt and I was doing awesome, I was always top in score, but barbarians kept attacking me until I got horse archers and slaughtered them. Then Alexander declared war on me and he had swordsman. *sobs*

The patch is out!

Details are on the civfanatics main page

In the RB3 thread, Kylearan asked for a solo game report, so I have obliged.

Unfortunately, it is a pretty weak report because I didn't keep notes while I played.

But at the end, I figured it was worth putting together some pictures and explaining how I got there. I promise my Epic reports will be better, but I hope you guys like it anywise.

(yes, I just said "anywise")
(yes, it is a word)

[size=2]Also, if you have a minute, please check out the rest of my site and let me know what you think. In September, I taught myself CSS to create it, but since I'm new to hand-coding html, it's not quite as nice as yours, Kylearan.

http://cassiopeiathedog.net/firstemperorwin.htm

Apologies for the (un)clarity of several of the pictures. It's a long story, but I promise they will be better next time.
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After looking around/reading here and CivFanatics, I noticed that there were far fewer opportunites to give positive feedback for Civ 4 than negative. While complaints/bug reports/rants can serve a purpose, I think that praise for what the game does well is equally valuable. I know that several members here contributed a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to this effort, and that Firaxis designers also frequent these message boards. And in light of the firestorm from some corners decrying and nitpicking every little detail, I thought some encouragement might be a welcome sight. So here it is folks, your chance to give a big to whatever you really like about the game.

Now, I've only been playing for a week or so now, but one thing that has really stuck out for me so far is the EXCELLENT musical score of the game . In most games, I end up tuning out the music as it gets grating very quickly. But in CIV, I've actually caught myself pausing to listen at times. The title screen piece is particularly well-done. Not sure if that was composed or borrowed, but either way it sets the stage for the game very well. It is both upbeat and grandiose, and reminds me watching the sun rise from the point of a high cliff. Kudos!!

-dathon

Did I mention how much I hate Catherine the Great? In two straight games she has beaten me a few turns before I achieved victory myself. I'm so close to beating Emperor, if not for that [female non-human companion]!

Also, her music reminds me of Boris "the Bullet Dodger."

Why do they call him the bullet dodger?
.....Because he dodges bullets, Avi.

But she doesn't know one thing. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow! Savvy?


NEXT GAME SHE IS SO DEAD.

So who gets your goat?

Details are HERE. We have about one month to deadline.

Ideas, anyone?

KoP

A friend just sent me this link, and I just had to share.

I have never seen these clouds myself, but I would be snapping away and cursing my low-budget camera if I ever saw them.

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june20...matus.html

ok, so i found this site recently cos i just got the new CIV and it seems to be the only one i can get on at work! but it looks like a pretty cool place and I am impressed with all the epics you have run in the past. I've been lurking for a week or so now so thought I would just say hi to everyone...so, er, hi!
Anyways, i will try and give the epics a go when they come out, although i fear i may be a bit behind some of you guys, i'm playing on Noble at the moment and only just edging ahead of the AI, and i used to play on Prince on Civ 3, but hopefully i can improve my game over the next few months....

one question - do you guys struggle to keep games going once you start? i mean, i often find that after the initial set up, laying out your territory and stuff, once it gets to the later stages it can get kinda dull - i spose the epics and stuff that you do combats this, just wondered how you coped when you were playing your own games....

anyway, enough for now, i've rambled on far too long.

take care everyone! and roll on the patch!