Hurray The Miltary Advisor Works!

[digger760]

While checking how many artillery i had to fight of a chinese attack, i discovered red flashing lights on the mini map...then relisd i could select Qui Sie Huang and see what units he had...

unfortunatly i only had 1 artillery.

As you can see in the pic China has six cannons lined up on my border.

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[ProPain]

Nice, maybe I should install Civ4 on my desktop and give it another spin.....

[digger760]

Something else to temp you back. You can now use the F1 screen to zoom into cities, change build etc..and when you exit it comes back to the F1 screen[king]

[Shabbaman]

You worry about his cannons when he has a tank?

[digger760]

quote:Originally posted by Shabbaman

You worry about his cannons when he has a tank?


Well i was'nt looking nor expecting to see chinese units listed, cannons just happened to be the first thing i clicked on,as it was close to artillery in the list.

[col]

But it only shows you units you can see, not units in cities or in fow that you cant see.

[digger760]

quote:Originally posted by col

But it only shows you units you can see, not units in cities or in fow that you cant see.


That sounds reasonable....I guess that spy unit could come in handy after all

[Tubby Rower]

quote:Originally posted by digger760

quote:Originally posted by col

But it only shows you units you can see, not units in cities or in fow that you cant see.


That sounds reasonable....I guess that spy unit could come in handy after all
and a holy city with its religion spread around

[Matrix]

Or religion!!

Spread your state religion in his territory and you're like Sauron's eye! [evil]

[Tubby Rower]

you have to have the holy city to have Sauron's eye. Other wise the holy city of your state religion has insight on all of your cities :(

[grahamiam]

If you capture the holy city instead of building the wonder yourself and you have free religon, does this "Sauron's eye" work as well?

[Tubby Rower]

Don't think so.... In one game I had captured 3 holy cities and IIRC only the state religion's holy city was active. It would be easy to test and I might later if no one has a definitive answer

[romeothemonk]

You actually have to have a state religion to see other cities. If you are in free religion, you don't get to peek.

The Dang universal civics option in the U.N can really freaking suck.

[Matrix]

Yea, you're right, Tubby. You need to have the Holy City and have that state religion...

[digger760]

quote:Originally posted by Shabbaman

You worry about his cannons when he has a tank?


I got rid of that Chinese tank, it caused me a bit of grief.

My fighters turned out really effective in softening infantry that were out in the open. The chinese dont seem to have any unit other than a destroyer that can defend against my fighers (and more recently bombers)

10 turns later 3 chinese tanks appeared, they seem to be able to attack 2-3 times per turn[eek], did me alota a damage, just when i got over confident.

I had just churned out a few helicopters but they were outta range to get the tanks. For now the tanks have dissappeared, not sure if they committed suicide or they have hideen in the fog to heal, sometimes i dont pay that much attention inter-turn. But the helicopters are ready and waiting for them if they come back and my fighters will also help to soften them up first[devil2]

Only 30 something turns left in this game. Mansu Musa, or what ever the hell his name is, has built 5 SS thingy me bobs and 3 SS widgets, but i doubt he has the techs yet to build the others. With 30 turns left it does'nt seem like he'll finish teh Space ship. I dont think i'll get a domination win in 30 turns, I might get 35-40% of the land mass if i can take out the chinsese. Looks like my first game could be a histogram victory.... yes thats right.... I am still playing my first game!!! (not including two missed starts back in November), and my Mrs is starting to give me grief that I am playing to much arrgghh will i ever finsh a second game[cry]


I seem to be a bit shy on Manufacturing grunt in this game, my best city was outputting 81 hammers in its prime, until the chinese pillaged a few squares[sad].

The rest of my cities are 20-30 hammers and seem to take 10-15 turns to pump out an infantry unit. I am 3rd in MFG on the demographics. How are other people going with getting good productivity?

[col]

Windmills+sawmills+forge+factory+coal plant. Can knock out a tank in a couple of turns.

[digger760]

i guess one of the problems with Hamburg (my 81 hammer city) is that it is not on the coast, so to get to the size it is, i needed to irrgate grassland...hmm but there might 1 or 2 towns, i guess i could scrap them.

I normally mine hills, never really thought about windmills, will have to check that out.

Forget if i build a sawmill, definately have the forge, Factory and Coal plant thoug.

[Kemal]

A sawmill (lumbermill?) would be a terrain improvement that can be cuild on forests for +1 hpt (+2 with rr), if you have any of them left.

You could also add some workshops at the expense of farms and/or cottages if you really want the extra production, with state property the workshop becomes quite a potent enhancement to the terrain (and before state property too, if hammers is what you need most).

[Socrates]

(might as well use this thread...)

Your PC has a very low configuration ? You're playing with 1.52 ? You're frustrated by the unbearable lag ? I have found one good cause : MILITARY ADVISOR !!! :( This one is surprisingly very low to open (ALWAYS), and once you have opened it during your session, the game suddenly lags twice as much (if not more) for a very long time. There surely are other factors (alt-tabbing comes to mind), but this one is definitely prohibited for me until the next patch. I could eat a part of pizza between every single unit move at this pace. [lol]

[digger760]

Hmm i did'nt notice a slight slow down. I can't go back and check it now, I am playing a Huge Earth Map with 18 civs[:p]

[akots]

@Krys: you have something else going on in your system. Update Windows and drivers and delete all porn from hard drive and all trojans and spyware. My specs are also on the lower/mid end, may be graphics card is the only stuff which is more or less OK. Game is somewhat slowing down in the warmonger mode but overall it is satisfactory. No huge lags like you described and no lockups. But every 2-3 hours of playing Civ (sometimes sooner or later), my PC just randomly reboots. It does so also at very intensive tasks, I suspect might be my cpu is overheating because of old age or something wrong with power supply after these hurricanes and lightning storms. If I don't play Civ IV, PC is working for weeks without reboot.

[Socrates]

I think my PC, though very low on specs, is quite clean of shit. I defragmented both drives right before installing Civ4, and I should be quite OK with the space (both partitions are half free). As for spywares and all that stuff created by geeks who have nothing to do but doing that between 2 sessions of masturbation all day, I don't know, but I haven't encountered any problem since my HD crash (almost one year !). Pff, I'm using "low" in every gfx category all the time ; when I get to an advanced stage in a game, I shut off all kinds of animations and combat scenes. The only thing I do is running my image program at the same time and alt-tabbing when I have an image to save (which happens less than for my first games now).

But I'm telling you : opening all the advisors make my PC fall apart, especially the military advisor. Might be because of the need to scan the whole map... and at the moment I'm playing a large map. I hope Firaxis fixes much of that in future patches. Nevertheless, I wanted to know if some people had the same symptoms as me. And remember that I have an Athlon 1800+, 256 MB RAM and a GeForce2 card.