Strategy Guide anyone

[Joseph]

I went to Prima and Brady sites last night to see if I could pre order an Strategy Guide from either for Civ 4, and could not find anything listed. Has anyone heard if there will be a strategy guide for Civ 4?

[notyoueither]

I've heard through the grape-vine that there will be at least one strategy guide which has been/will be written by a more than competent person who actually has extensive knowledge of CIV.

I'm not sure who's publishing it, but if I find out I will let you know.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I've heard through the grape-vine that there will be at least one strategy guide which has been/will be written by a more than competent person who actually has extensive knowledge of CIV.

I'm not sure who's publishing it, but if I find out I will let you know.

Thank you.

[Petek]

Perhaps this is what you're looking for?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

[conmcb25]

I got a feeling the strategy guide is going to be pretty good, I know one of the people writing it.

Since he was working on it last week, it may be right to the wire to get it published along with the release of the game.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by conmcb25
I got a feeling the strategy guide is going to be pretty good, I know one of the people writing it.

Since he was working on it last week, it may be right to the wire to get it published along with the release of the game.

Who is this unnamed person?

[GeoModder]

"Anonymous" is his/her name.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by H Tower


Who is this unnamed person?

I'm not sure Im supposed to say so anonymous for now. Im sure it will be evident once the guide comes out and thats only a month or so away

[marcuspeddle]

My Civ4 guide will be Apolyton Civ 4 Forums.

[conmcb25]

Those work as well.

I think I got the guide for CIV III read it once and never picked it up again but based on at least one of the authors credentials this one might be pretty good.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Petek
Perhaps this is what you're looking for?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

Thank you.
I have order it.

[Sava]

I will download a pdf version from usenet BWHAHHAHAH

[Drakan]

Originally posted by Joseph
I went to Prima and Brady sites last night to see if I could pre order an Strategy Guide from either for Civ 4, and could not find anything listed. Has anyone heard if there will be a strategy guide for Civ 4?

What do you mean ? I've already pre-ordered mine at Amazon UK. It'll be coming out in December IIRC.

[Harovan]

I wait for Drakans thread how to beat Civ4 on Deity, builder style. Strategy is a dynamic thing, it's changing over time, and a forum will always be a better and more actual guide than a printed one could ever be.

[Philotas]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
I wait for Drakans thread how to beat Civ4 on Deity, builder style. Strategy is a dynamic thing, it's changing over time, and a forum will always be a better and more actual guide than a printed one could ever be.

Yea, a single patch can make a strategy guide worthless.

[Solver]

The Civ4 Strategy forum here will undoubtedly, over time, be a better source of strategy. However, I do have trust in this paperback guide, and it should certainly be good enough for starters. After all, before all the really advanced strategies are discovered, we'll have to learn the basics.

Argh, one beauty of Civ is that, after some time, people start coming up with all those advanced strategies. On the other hand, many of them rely on some obscure game feauture or something else that makes the AI incompetitive vs. these strategies.

[Kataphraktoi]

if it isnt a real civ player that knows how to play aka expert,its going to be no good.

been along time since paper back strategy guides were worth buying. nowadays some guide writer comes in,plays the game for a few weeks even as changes are made,and a guide is released with the game so they they can rake in cash from it. i have several prima guides and the advice they give is more of a joke book than anything

[alva]

Maybe they finally listened, got the message and changed the system.

[Solver]

Well, I hear that the strategy guide is going to be written by a real Civ player, and a skilled Civ player at that.

[Drakan]

Sir Ralph

It all boils down to Mrs Drakan allowing me enough time to play it. Newlyweds are just so time-demanding !

[Harovan]

Work on wife faction, Drakan. You still have 4 weeks left.

Back to the topic, I know at most a handful of real civ players, from which I would consider to buy a printed strategy guide. One of them is Aeson.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Just remember, not every expert hangs out at Apolyton all the time.

I have no doubt that any Civ expert reads these forums a good bit, though, and will probably be reading for reactions and feedback for future editions.

Sorry Alva, I edited to be a tad less obvious.

[alva]

You broke one??


EDIT: meh, me is being dansed.

[Harovan]

The number I mentioned includes not only Apolytoners, but players from all sites I post at (a few) or lurk (a few more). For a start, Sir Pleb of CFC is among them too.

[Fried-Psitalon]

You should drop by Civ3 Players (or, now, Civ4 Players) sometime.

[Harovan]

We'll see. However, a big part of the fun I expect to have from Civ4 is to figure out my favorite strategies by myself.

[Dominae]

I just hope the strat guide writer(s) can beat Deity more or less regularly...

[Harovan]

As it appears, he can even beat other players more or less regularly.

[Sirian]

I should hope that nobody can beat Deity regularly. Otherwise, they didn't turn it up high enough.

[sabrewolf]

where is this civ[3|4] players thing anyway?