Civ 4 Issues Persist
Posted 02 Dec, 2005 at 12:12 by brent in /Games | Permanent link
I'm in the midst of the 1800's and playing the Indians (Brenti for those of you at home). I just really like those fast workers. I've managed to found all religions, circumnavigate the globe, and every single other civ either hates me or loves me. I've decided that religion is critical to initial productivity in the game. Time to set personal biases aside for the sake of gameplay there. Call me a convert if you will. I typically go for Buddhism first and then Hinduism, then Judaism, pick up a couple of science to improve land yield or defenses, then back to getting religions (Confucianism, Christianity, Taoism, then Islam, in that order). The best part is the other civs take so much longer then to get a religion of their own, slowing them down.
Unfortunately the downside is the game is crashing every 10 to 15 turns again. Now it is indicating it is attempting to access address zero instead of silently dying.
I am going to waiting for the next patch (I'm running 1.09 now) before I continue playing again.
Some other notes: Combat is quite a bit more messy. It really looks like you have to totally destroy the other person's infrastructure/land improvements to be effective at taking them out. I happen to like retaining infrastructure so it is less work when I take over enemy cities, but I guess there is no helping for it. Otherwise I'm expending too many resources building units to throw against enemy walls.