Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy game encompassing all of human history. Players attempt to take a fledging civilization from 4000BC to modern times and lead their civilization to victory through domination, science, culture or diplomacy.
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What happens to a resource when I build a city on its tile?
What happens to a resource when I build a city on its tile? For example if I build a city on top of sheep is the sheep lost?
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What tile types does vitalize upgrade, and to what tiles?
In Fall From Heaven 2 there is a spell called Vitalize that upgrades terrain. However I've noticed it's not always available, and it doesn't tell you what you're upgrading the tile too.
What tile ...
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How much culture is required for a city to switch?
How much culture is required for a city to switch?
For example, in my current game, a neighboring city shows 53% my culture, 46% it's original owners. At what % will the city join my empire?
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Lumber Mills in Ancient Forests, Desecration or Good Resource Management?
In Fall From Heave 2 you have ancient forests as well as normal forests. Ancient forests are better, providing an extra food. In both Civ 4 and Fall From Heaven there are lumber mill that can be ...
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Religion specific units in Fall from Heaven 2?
In Fall from Heaven 2, there are religion specific units such as the "Fawn". To build these units do you need the religion in the city you're building them, or that religion as your state religion, ...
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Is it ever worth moving your first Settler?
Every time I've played Civ 4 my first Settler starts on what looks like a pretty good square for a city, and I build it turn 1. Has anyone ever found it to be a worthwhile strategy to scout around a ...
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How to understand if an opponent is going to reach Cultural Victory?
I usually play at Civilization IV with difficulty set to Prince, length set to Marathon and size of the map to Huge.
The problem is that happens quite often, in the 20 century, that an opponent win ...
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What changes have been made from Civilization 4 to 5?
I've read the surprisingly light Wikipedia article on Civ 5 and it seems to be lacking coherent comparison of features between it and its predecessor. I'm also reluctant to bring down the 4Gb demo on ...
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Which unit to build first?
Which first unit to build in Civilization IV immediately at the beginning?
Go for Settler always, or it depends? If there are resources around is better to build a worker or boat and wait to reach ...
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Which first two promotions to assign for siege weapons during massive attack?
In Civilization IV to attack and conquest a city a stack of catapult (or other siege weapons) seems to me one of the most effective way.
But which first two promotions should I assign to siege ...
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How can I conquer or destroy a city on a single tile island in Civilization IV?
It is all written in the title but an image could help.
How can conquer or destroy this city?
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What strategy to use in Civilization IV when you start in an inaccessible area?
I have played yesterday the Africa scenario, and I started the game in the area of Egypt.
There were some good resources but the desert block me to build more than 4 cities and later in the game I ...
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How can I stop a worker destroying my town?
Playing Civ IV yesterday I got fed up with micromanaging my workers and turned one to automatic. I quite frequently do this in the middle game, but this time I happened to notice that it made a ...
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How many military units per city/population is recommended in Civilization IV?
I'm looking for guidance in Civilization IV on how best to build a military that allows for the optimum mix of defensive capabilities with offensive ability (when needed) without having to sacrifice ...
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When and how to start independence in Colonization?
I didn't understood when and eventually how can I start independence in Colonization. Can you explain?
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Which strategy to follow at the beginning of Colonization?
Coming from Civilization IV I should say that Colonization is a bit different, and I have some difficulties to understand which approach should I follow at the beginning (first 200 hundred years).
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How can I load to the ship only a part in Colonization?
In Civiliazion IV: Colonization how can I load to a ship in a settlement only a part of a certain product?
For example only 100 on 147 cotton units available?
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Where can I find a good Civilization 4 Strategy guide?
I love this game but have a tough time winning past the 3rd level of difficulty... Any suggestions?
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How many workers do I need for my cities?
How many workers do I need for a given number of cities in the early stages of Civ 4, say when I have around 5 cities and the biggest is around size 5?
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Which civilizations are able to successfully unique-unit rush in Civilization 4?
For example, the Praetorian rush is a common strategy for the Romans. What other civilizations in vanilla, Warlords, or BtS have viable rush strategies?
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How does trading work between your own cities?
I've played this game a few times with the tutorials helping me along the way. How do I get my cities to manage their resources properly? Some need a given resource and others are full with a given ...
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Is it better to build a worker/settler or to let a city grow a bit first?
Since the city doesn't grow when I build a worker or settler I find myself wondering whether I should build a barracks (and granary if I can) first before building a unit.
What's more efficient?
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In Civilization IV what are the differences between the Difficulty Levels?
Can anyone explain what are the differences (like attacking style, culture development, etc) of the enemies in Civilization IV between the various difficulty levels?
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How long does it take to play civilization to the end?
If there is a defined end. Otherwise until space technology is mastered or something like that.
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Why are there duplicate game entries in my Steam library?
I purchased Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, a package that includes four items. Three of the included items are displayed twice in my games library, with the message [game] is not ...
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Is it faster to build a worker, followed by a settler, or the other way around?
In Civilization IV, both workers and settlers prevent your city's food store from increasing for as long as they are being built. Surplus food is funneled into the production of both units, speeding ...
