r/CivIV

I've been getting into civ 4 recently, but having trouble getting past the early game. I've been trying to balance my cities production, science, and military, however, all of my games have resulted in a conquest focused civ, like genghis khan, or ragnar, declaring a surprise war around turn 130 (standard pace) and sending in more troops than I could ever handle. I even had like 5-6 axemen in each of my cities before the war, but they sill conquer my cities, resulting in a defeat. Is there something I'm missing? am I really just not building a strong enough military. I feel like if I focused production any more on my military, I might as well just be going for a conquest victory. I even tried to strengthen our relationship as much as possible, but it was so early that all I could offer was open borders. Any help would really be appreciated. btw im also on noble difficulty because I heard that was the most even difficulty between the ai and player.

I'm thinking of adding a light calvary and/or heavy horse archer to the medieval unit roster. It would probably have 8 strength to the Knight's 10.

There are no other land units with more than 2 movement except for the gunship with 4 movement. So is 3 too much for this stage of the game? A potential alternative could be ignore terrain movement cost.

Bonus question: Instead of speed this alternative cavalry unit could be a medieval evolution of the role the chariot played in classical warfare. The exact analogy would be 100% attack on Macemen, but do Macemen really need a mounted counter?

I feel like I used to know this but I can’t find it anywhere now.

I’m the Sec-Gen but my opponent built the UN. Diplomatic victory doesn’t come up as a resolution option for me.

Is it because I haven’t discovered Mass Media yet? I’m behind on most tech.

It seems this game distinguishes between Technologies that the AI prioritizes highly and those it prioritizes less. They have no interest in Aesthetics or Literature; on the contrary, they focus heavily on researching Iron Working and Machinery.

Personally, I think the Technologies you should research yourself and those you should acquire through trade can be categorized as follows:

1. Research: Masonry, Bronze Working, Writing, Aesthetics, Literature, Theater, Music, Philosophy, Code of Law
2. Trade: Mathematics, Architecture, Engineering, Monarchy, Feudalism, Theology, Metal working

What do you all think? Please share your opinions.

I got really excited when I saw Churchill (who has been a b!tch to me the entire game) guard his city that has 50 guided middles and 25 jets with one mech infantry, one marine and one infantry. However, after taking it over, it seems like his missles and jets just get destroyed or go away.

Any way to claim an every’s missles or planes?

I think it’s the consensus of everyone here that we should spread our state religion to cities within our territory before adopting Pacifism. Even before that, adopting Organized Religion will allow us to build structures and heritage sites more quickly.

Until then, we’ll need to either found our own religion and spread it throughout the country or adopt a religion from another civilization, but I feel that Missionaries are unlikely to come, especially at low difficulty levels like Settler or Chieftain. That said, it’s difficult for our civilization to monopolize Buddhism/Hinduism/Judaism, and the mighty Aztecs and Spain make no secret of their anger.

1. Found our own religion, prepared for religious conflict
2. Open our borders and wait for Missionaries from other civilizations

Which is the better option? If I choose option 1, I’d also like some advice on which religion to choose (Polytheism/Monotheism or Code of Law/Philosophy).

I want to play a game of conquest against the five toughest leaders. Who would you pick to face?

Over the weekend I played some Civ 5 Vox populi. My impression was that it improved Civ 5, but there are still so many things to dislike about the game, even with a mod that changes almost everything. And its pathetic that we need to download a mod that changes almost everything about the game. Just goes to show how bad Civ 5 was unmodded

Its unreal to me that so many redditors could spend 15 years on the civ subreddit kissing eachothers asses and loving everything about 5, whereas its perfectly acceptable to trash 4 and 6. Its like, what planet are these people living on? Besides the graphics, everything in 5 is literally worse than 4. Literally every single part of the game was a downgrade. I admit theres ONE THING I like about 5, but thats more of a "5 steps backwards, 1 step forward" situation

Makes me wonder what Civ 8 is going to be like. I will probably never touch Civ 7, even if its free. Looking at the screenshots theyve been posting, the game looks like a disaster. Dont care how many "updates" they release to fix the game. If they dont look in the mirror and admit that Civ 4 is better than 5 and 6, nothing they do will ever actually fix the series

Ive mentioned before what specifically it is about 4 that I like, but I guess now is a good time to make a list

1. Ability to zoom out and see the earth as a globe

2. ability to zoom in and hear the civs theme music as well as war music when zoomed in to cities

3. the trees and jungles look the best in 4 out of any other civ

4. diplomacy screen, being able to see all diplomatic relationships easily and quickly by clicking on a leader

5. having a scorelist on the right side of the screen, being able to see who has the most points, why they have the score they have, what religion they are, whether you are at war or have a defensive pact with them

6. being able to see an itemized point list of why a civ dislikes or likes you

7. civic system that isnt idiotic

8. doom stacks are much preferable to one unit per tile. While the AI is less moronic in Civ 5 with vox populi mod, one unit per tile is still an inferior system to 4. 1UPT is slow and tedious. The worse you can say about 4's doomstacks is that late game there are dozens or hundreds of units on one tile, but 4 is clearly a better system

9. Religion system is terrible in 5 and 6. 4 had great religion, and "culture" and "faith" were NOT separate systems, they were one in the same. Ive always hated religion in 5 and 6

10. map generation is best in 4. I play terra, and jungles appear around the equator, deserts appear only in certain latitudes, and snow and hardwood forests appear only in colder climates.

11. Not only is the map generation better in 4, so is resources. Bananas only spawn in jungles. Whereas in 5 and 6, resources are totally random and bananas appear right next to tundra. Embarassingly bad map design

12. To be continued? Add your own reasons!

13. The music in 4 is best, but still pretty good in 5 and 6.

Played Civ4 plenty of times on this system without any issues but after coming back after a few months whenever I load into a world I'm stuck at 5-8fps peaking around 16. Steam issue? Driver issue? Tried reinstalling. Verifying files. Nothing works still stuck at unplayable FPS.