I just got Civilization 4 in the mail yesterday.
Amazon sure shipped it quick. I am thoroughly enjoying this game. It plays reasonably well on my laptop, and I haven’t run in to any bugs so far. It’s very similar to the past Civilization games, but now breaks up the monolithic “government” entity into multiple groups, including state religion, which makes for far more interesting development. I’m spreading Islam throughout Germany and Egypt, and I’m loving it!
If you liked the past Civ games, I strongly believe you’ll love Civ4. As far as I can tell, it only added to the fun, without taking anything away.
It was refreshing to be able to install a game, click “update”, and have it find no patches. It’s almost as though the game company tested the software before releasing it, to reduce the launch bugs. This seemingly novel concept, if spread throughout the industry, could lead to a Golden Age of gaming!
10/10. I think I’ll be playing this one for quite a long time.
October 30th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
I heard complaints about Civ3 that the easy setting was too easy and the second easiest setting was brutally hard. I hope this one’s better. *sigh* I guess i better pony up. I did love Civ2…
October 31st, 2005 at 10:30 am
In Civ3, you could *easily* overtake another city with culture. I haven’t been able to do it in Civ4 yet. Also, when you take over a city by force, you don’t automatically get a large border. You’re stuck with just the one tile the city is on until the revolt is over. Taking over cities is just plain harder in this game, which is nice, I think.
November 1st, 2005 at 9:40 pm
Tell me, won’t you, how the hell I destroy a city of my own.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:29 pm
It looks like the only place you can do that is within World Builder. Choose Enter World Builder from the main menu while in a game and then use the erase option. Then exit out of that and you’re done.
I have no idea what sort of reprecussions this has on gameplay.
November 4th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
Dear dpk,
You are a marked genius. However, doing stuff within World Builder is like being hungry in a candy store, and I’ve got diabetes. It kills me!
Do you know how to set rally points? Because, I need your genius to rub me off… err, rub off on me.
November 4th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
Yeah, World Builder is a bit crazy for it.
I’m afraid I’m going to be rubbing myself on this one. I have no idea how to set rally points. I guess it was supposed to be possible, but I haven’t seen it in the manual or on the web.
November 5th, 2005 at 12:21 am
Actually, figured it out. Grandma, what you do is select the city (click on the city name) and then shift-right-click something on the map. You’ll see a yellow circle. They’ll rally to that.
You can select more than one city, I bet you can set rally points for them all that way.
November 5th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
Thanks sonny. Have you actually tried it out? I saw it in the tips, but I still never figured it out. Turned right click in options both on and off, and either way, Shift-RightClick doesn’t seem to rally anything for me.
November 5th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, I couldn’t find anything online or in the manual, so I went in the game and clicked around. I got a yellow circle, and I ordered a Knight. He arrived and moved to the circle.
I tried it again in another game.
I haven’t done anything in the options, though.
November 13th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
I’m done playing.