Will I regret installing steam and buying civ IV complete through it?

[Barnabas]

I have already done that

It is getting downloaded

Is it true I can't play it if my internet connection dies?

[giblets]

The tyranny of the Steam empire knows no limits.

[notyoueither]

Is it true I can't play it if my internet connection dies?

No. If you have no connection when you start the game it will give you the option of playing in off-line mode.

I think they may require a connection to their servers after some period of time (months) but I have not run into this.

[SlowwHand]

After Civ II, things went to Hell.

[Barnabas]

Any of you know any Punic War or Spanish Armada scenario or mod for civ IV?

[Jon Miller]

I usually do not have internet connection.

All my games on steam run fine.

I have Civ4 on steam (as well as a disk somewhere)

JM

[Alexander's Horse]

After Civ II, things went to Hell.

Amen brother - God I HATE steam.

[Lorizael]

Civ 4 is an excellent game. Civ 3 has its flaws, but it introduced important concepts to the game. Civ: The Final Frontier, on the other hand...

[Al B. Sure!]

Civ 4 is an excellent game. Civ 3 has its flaws, but it introduced important concepts to the game. Civ: The Final Frontier, on the other hand...

All this Civ talk made me play Civ 4 and I was playing Final Frontier Plus. I got bored of it (too many planets per star system to micro-manage) but now started a game of Rise of Mankind: A New Dawn.

I saw something like Caveman 2 Cosmos but that looks like a full game will take 100 hours... even has paleolithic hunting and gathering in it


I am curious what multiplayer Civ is like. Do people still play it? How do you get around someone deciding to take all day on his turn?

[notyoueither]

Turn timer.

[SlowwHand]

When I say Civ II, I mean Civ II MP by default.

[Lorizael]

All this Civ talk made me play Civ 4 and I was playing Final Frontier Plus.

Hmm. That wasn't the reference I was intending to make.

[C0ckney]

All this Civ talk made me play Civ 4 and I was playing Final Frontier Plus. I got bored of it (too many planets per star system to micro-manage) but now started a game of Rise of Mankind: A New Dawn.

I saw something like Caveman 2 Cosmos but that looks like a full game will take 100 hours... even has paleolithic hunting and gathering in it

caveman 2 cosmos is great (you need a pretty powerful machine to play it though), but it does eat up a lot of time. the other problem is after you've played c2c, you will never want to play ROM:AND again. it just feels empty.

[Al B. Sure!]

caveman 2 cosmos is great (you need a pretty powerful machine to play it though), but it does eat up a lot of time. the other problem is after you've played c2c, you will never want to play ROM:AND again. it just feels empty.

The ~8 seconds between turns in the Renaissance in my 11 civ, Large map game is already bothering me.

And that's with 8GB RAM

To be honest, though, I don't need this many civs. 5-6 is probably enough. I'm starting to realize that. With 11 (I don't even know what I started out with since I don't know who was wiped out and who formed from revolutions), you just get a lot of vassal states and backwards, isolated civs.


Scratch that. Now they're offering me contact with Abu Bakr and Ragnar so there's still undiscovered civs.

[Al B. Sure!]

Okay now it's like 15 seconds per turn. I can't stand it and I can't imagine the late game. I'm going to have to make a new game. Will the speed improve a lot if I play with 6 civs?