I dunno, if there's some water this kinda looks like a Vikings angle to me.




If this is the first spoiler thread you've clicked on and you're interested in spitballing leader/civ ideas before spoiling yourself, let me know. I have a few thoughts percolating.

1st post spoiler space. 

Y'all know the drill.

I googled "Civ4 medieval start strategy" and one of the top results was the thread for this game. So I'm winging it

Mmm, Donuts!

Naming theme. I need a good naming theme.  Can't win without a good naming theme!

I'm scared. I have no idea how any of this is supposed to work.

I do remember Great Artist push to Music bulb is suboptimal.

So I bought myself a new laptop and I cannot run civ iv. Can anyone help?
I have a nocd version of civilization which I just copied from a cd something like 15 years ago and since then moved manually to each new computer I had. This time, however, the game refused to run.
I have Windows 11 on my new computer. I did the following:
1) Installed DirectX 9c and enabled direct play in legacy components in windows features
2) Enabled in the properties of the exe file running in compatibility mode (tried win7 and all winXP options), enabled running as admin, disabled full-screen optimization.
The game loads up to "init engine" phase and then crushes.
Any advice?

There was some interest last fall amongst the PB71 players in setting up a Medieval start game.

So here we go:

Settings:

Medieval Start 
Sequential


Other settings and map to be determined.


Anyone interested?

(edit)
Thoth
Commodore
Pindicator
Yuris125
Scooter


https://civ.zulan.net/pbspy/game/157/

Heroes are a very complicated mechanic, often existing outside of the "intended" balance and warping gameplay in weird, unexpected ways. I personally dislike them, but I wonder how many here share my opinion. Feel free to voice your honest thoughts, even if you disagree with me.

Refer to the 2 images below

Colored Edited Magic Spirit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQlP8Ou...drive_link

Original Magic Spirit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LzKQopz...drive_link

As stated by the topic header, I am trying to get the black outline present on the Original Magic Spirit to appear on my Edited Magic Spirit, but was not successful. I even compared the outline black pixel values, they are the same values. What am I doing wrong? I am using Gimp for the Art Editing. I tried using an all black blackground too on the units, but it does not show on the combat scape. The total black background does appear on the Combat UI scape around the unit. Is there a specific format I should save it in ?

As you can tell, I am NOT an artist and as such suck at art, I am mostly a designer/scripter, so any advice on the art side would really help.

Edit: Nevermind, I found out why. Gimp freaking loses the information regarding the outline on the 1st save, despite indicating otherwise. I had to manually take out the outlines 1 image at a time, take the new image, and save the outlines manually back. This is going to take a long time.