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Is there a way to make it so I can A)ensure that I get marble and stone, and B)ensure no-one else does?
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Do you mean besides using the World Builder?And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?". t s eliot -
Worldbuilder will do it.Originally posted by Supr49er
Do you mean besides using the World Builder?
Can I ask - why would you want to do this?
Are you having difficulties with the game, that maybe we can offer some advice on, rather than going for the WB option?I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.Comment
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Why anyone would even consider cheating with a computer game is beyond me.
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A lot of people play Civ as "time to build my own awesome empire and look at the pretty thing which is huge and awesome"; I don't really see a problem with that. That's how I play Sim City half the time, and that's how I always played SMAC.Comment
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One of the map options ensures that you get all strategic resources within a certain number of squares from your starting position. "Balanced" I believe.
It will mean everyon else does as well though. On further thought I'm not sure that it includes stone/marble but maybe just the war focused ones and so the option may be doubly useless for your purpose....
WB is your only option. I'm guessing you want to play a game where you get all the wonders?Comment
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ALL the wonders?? Real challenge that.
No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, authorComment
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It seems as if the difficulty jump between "Cheiftain" and ""Warlord" is greater than "1". I can get all the wonders and kick all the ass I want, but if I want something big and pretty to look at then I have to play at Cheif, which isn't challenging, and if I move it up a notch, I just get reamed. I don't understand this game at the Warlord level. If I spend all my time building and growing and being a peaceful neighbor, then it's too difficult to play with my tanks and airplanes later on. If I build units and act aggressively, then neighbors kick my ass. If I play on a map other than archipelago, barbarians kick my ass. I'd really like to play at an increased diff. level, without checking "No barbarians" and with more than 4 other civs, but this game is making a monkey out of me. Oh yeah, and playing with specialist numbers slows me way down, and sometimes leads to strikes when barbarians are raging.. What the hell helps? So yeah, I wouldn't mind making sure I got the oracle and pyramids right off the bat. Nobody said "ALL the wonders," Blau. wrong guess, CP. I can play Chief for that, but that's boring. I'm not a stupid man, just a stupid despot, I guess. I want some challenge without utter hairpulling tantrum-inducing frustration.Comment
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Oh yeah. I have the download version so I don't have WB (at least, I think I don't).Comment
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Well, I have both... The download (Steam) version, AND the WB...
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cyprian - the worldbuilder is in the ingame options - effectively you can change any thing on the map with it - take a look - it is quite cool.I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.Comment
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The one thing in World Builder I wasn't quite able to do is figure out how to change the health bar of units.1st C3DG Term 7 Science Advisor 1st C3DG Term 8 Domestic Minister
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AI: I sure wish Jon would hurry up and complete his turn, he's been at it for over 1,200,000 milliseconds now.
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You can't. The worldbuilder is horribly gimped.Comment
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The level scaling is crazy on all levels. When you start out you dominate chieftan, move up to Warlord and it's like a whole new game, same thing Warlord->Noble.
It actually gets worse from there. The jump from Warlord to Noble is about half as painful as the jump from Noble to Prince.
It's ridiculous. You'd think they'd scale more evenly so that if you dominated the previous level you'd be in the middle of the pack of the next level, not at the bottom. . .
Darn you Blake and your demonic AI!!!!
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cyprian,
if you are having problems with the game you should not go down a difficulty level but down the map size. If you have only one or two AIs to worry about it helps on every level. Try playing with three AIs. You should aim at eliminating one of them early on and not fall behind in tech so that you can hold and eventually crush the second AI. That is how I advanced from Noble to Prince.
It is hard to give general advice since any strategy should be flexible to accommodate different starting positions. Here is an attempt.
Don't build any early wonders, if you build your strategy around the Pyramids or Oracle, there is a big chance that in a more difficult game you will fail to build them and thus fail. Try to win with or without the wonders.
Don't rely on founding early religion, adopt someone else's. (except when you start with Mysticism)
Aim at building armies and crushing the enemy early on, if you let them develop, then you will have trouble at any difficulty level.
War is the weakness of the AI. A human can always outsmart an AI in war planning and strategy, use that.
I cannot help with any more "generic" advice, the rest of the game is map specific planning and experience.Comment
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