Questions from a rookie

[slnz]

Oh, it's not all about punishment. The first time you're using Police State and get an event that gives all current and future Gunpowder units March, you'll start liking random events a bit better.

Or the events where you get a free golden age, the marathon event and colosseum quest with SoZ for example.

[Ming]

Yes, there are MANY great events... ones that are really helpful. I personally love the one that gives all your axeman "shock"

[Alex]

I recently had a random event that greatly helped me in the game. I was next to Monty and we all know Monty, so I started to prepare for the inevitable, because I knew that no amount of butt-licking would make me his good pal. Then I got a random event about a marriage between an English and an Aztec family, and this improved my relations with him to the point where, with careful diplomacy I at least managed to avoid the inevitable long enough so that I could get my forces ready and crush him as he deserves.

Ok, so this was on a lower difficulty level - Noble, IIRC, so I guess that on higher diff levels this random event wouldn't have helped much.

[Boracks]

Yes, there are MANY great events... ones that are really helpful. I personally love the one that gives all your axeman "shock"

One of my games that was a lot of fun, but short (for some reason ) was when my axeman got 'shock' and all melee units got 'cover'.

I like the quests, Holy mountain excepted. Its yet another choice you have to make in this game of making choices.

[rah]

Or all my Orama's getting pinch

[hunad10]

I am also a rookie and my question is that during::towards the end of my Civ4 game, letters came up in the right upper corner saying 100 turns!

Somebody help!

[Ming]

There are a limited number of turns in Civ games. The number is a warning telling you how many turns are left in the game. If you have not completed any of the victory conditions by the time the turns runs out, which ever civ has the most points win.

[hunad10]

ok...thank you...i have another question...my computer is very slow and I have all the graphic setting on low...and it still takes a long time to switch turns...is there anything I can do to make my computer run the game faster?

[Ming]

The best you can do is play on smaller worlds with less civs. The larger the world, and the more civs, the slower it can be between turns. It's just the nature of the beast with older/less capable computers.

[hunad10]

Thanks! I'll try that.

[slnz]

There's also something called CAR mod which supposedly makes the game run faster (it requires the BtS expansion). Never tried it myself though.

[Ming]

Ive never heard of that mod... And just how does it make the game run faster?

[slnz]

Ive never heard of that mod... And just how does it make the game run faster?

It's explained somewhat in its description. Basically it's a computing/memory usage tradeoff - it caches more stuff instead of recalculating the same calculations each turn if they haven't changed. But as I said I haven't tried it.

[Ming]

I gues that makes sense... I ws wondering if it dumbed down the game or eliminated certain things to make the game go faster.

[Alex]

From the description of the mod:

CAR Mod keeps game rules intact, keeps AI ability intact, in fact, keeps everything intact. You may wonder how we did it. In a word, we exchange high CPU time with tiny piece of extra memory usage. Technically, we cached those values that AI keeps recalculating, and invalidate that cache value whenever it's supposed to have changed.

The author claims that there is a 15% increase in BTS speed.

Never used it myself, but apparently it works as promised.