PATCH 1.09 is out!

[solo]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
Changes:
- increased cost of Apollo Program...
- increased SS parts cost...
- Animal Husbandry reveals Horses
- tweaked Rifling, Chemistry, Steel, and Railroad tech costs...
- increased late-game tech costs...
- can now add two specialists in size 1 city with Mercantilism...
- final score is now modified by difficulty level...
- Speed up load times
- Global performance enhancements

I have been checking the changes to the base tech costs and have found that:

Rifling has gone from 1400 beakers to 2000
Chemistry, 1400 to 2000

No changes for Steel and Railroad.

Electricity, 2800 to 3000
Flight, 3000 to 3500

For later techs, I've noticed:

Satellites, 3500 to 4000
Composites, 5000 to 5500
Fiber Optics, 5500 to 6000
Fusion, 6000 to 8000
Industrialism, 3000 to 3500
Plastics, 4000 to 4500
Fission, 3500 to 4000
Ecology, 3500 to 4000
Computers, 4500 to 5000
Genetics, 5500 to 7000
Future Technology, 6000 to 8000
Robotics, 5000 to 6000

No changes for Rocketry, Refrigeration, Radio or Mass Media

[player1]

Originally posted by LaRusso
i guess i am really lucky. those serbian IT guys must be really good in assembling machines. zero ctds, zero problems, both 1.00 and 1.09.

Agreed...

[SpencerH]

It may be my imagination but the "memory leak" (or whatever it is) seems worse after the patch. I now have to re-start in order to have a usable PC after playing.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

Password encryption was added, so it seems that would make passworded saves unable to be backward compatible. There was a similar situation with Conquests v1.21, except there were alot more PBEM games a lot further along going on by that time...

You can change your password in-game though can't you. If you play the turn and put your password to blank could you then upgrade and then add back a password?

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Dauphin


You can change your password in-game though can't you. If you play the turn and put your password to blank could you then upgrade and then add back a password?

Is there a system like with civ3 PBEM where the game administrator could bypass a password?

[Xuenay]

Originally posted by seg
Agree - It's not like a buggy Civ4 could kills us (or what?)

Well, I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of people who don't have a life thanks to Civ.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Dauphin
You can change your password in-game though can't you. If you play the turn and put your password to blank could you then upgrade and then add back a password?

Might be worth a try for anyone with v100 still installed...

[edit: come to think of it, if you don't put a password in the first turn, it doesn't let you add one later, so maybe those saves are unique. Won't know without trying...]

[powerturks]

i have a direct drive 2 version for civ4.i install patch 1.09.it doesnt work.what can i do.please help.

[GeoModder]

It was said that the patch isn't for D2D.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Is there a system like with civ3 PBEM where the game administrator could bypass a password?

There is if they pressed ctrl-alt-d at setup and entered one. However, this is still a password and presumably subject to the same encryption upgrade issue...

[powerturks]

i have so many friend play civ4 illegal version.with patch 1.09.i pay 49 U.S dollars.i must be stupid.))))

[djpsychonaut]

edit: I see what is happening here... my cities with Refined culture on islands are not having their borders expand into ocean squares which is normal.

[Wittlich]

If anyone is interested to know if more RAM would help keep the game from crashing/freezing....My partner and I upgraded our RAM from 1 GB to 3 GB and after playing a LAN game for almost 6 hours straight, the game did not crash or freeze at all. Just food for thought. (This is, of course, with the 1.09 patch)

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

There is if they pressed ctrl-alt-d at setup and entered one. However, this is still a password and presumably subject to the same encryption upgrade issue...

If that was done then perhaps the issue can be bypassed by 'erasing' the old password (as we did with CIV3 PBEM on occasion.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Wittlich
If anyone is interested to know if more RAM would help keep the game from crashing/freezing....My partner and I upgraded our RAM from 1 GB to 3 GB and after playing a LAN game for almost 6 hours straight, the game did not crash or freeze at all. Just food for thought. (This is, of course, with the 1.09 patch)

Well that seems reasonable