After playing Civ IV half a dozen times, I've gone back to Civ III.
I just don't like Civ IV.
From the graphics, the game play, accessing information, everything is much
more difficult with CIV IV than on CIV III.

Not being very good at computers, I have a question to ask. I'd like to be
able to change city names I don't like, that is to say, the names of cities
in other civilizations. I'd also like to escape getting the same name
suggestions when founding cities myself, once I have nixed ...

If you see you arent going to win basically because you are sharing a
continent and theres two other powers with continents of their own, do
you attack a power that has been a great great friend through the
millenia JUST so that you can  have a chance to win, or do you say "I'd

After several months of playing Civ 4, I just had a minor revelation.
Maybe it's obvious to many, but just in case...
When you get to Assembly Line, and if you build the Pentagon*, your
troops in barracks towns are built with 6 XP, i.e. 2 free promotions. If

I got put on some piece of sh.t island where by the time I even had
galley the huge continent right next to me which only had one empire
had already developed to the point where I thought I had no chance. He
had everything I had nothing. At this point do you quit or is there

I have Civ Complete (Mac), but the dvd is scratched. Is there a no-dvd patch
or a way to ceate an image file for it? I'd sure appreciate the help!
Thanks.

I haven't played Civ4 yet, but after reading through the manual it's
apparent that all the various government/civic/etc systems are not
equal.  The game seems to favor certain systems over others.