1) hay que hacer un camino/durmientes para conectar edificio que creás con la ciudad? Fijate que a toda mina o molino que creaba, lo conectaba con la city...

2) cómo mierda hago para que algún puto me regale algo? Yo siempre ando regalando tecnología cuando me lo piden, para que no se enojen, pero a mi ni bola me dan..

3) Gandhi garca me ganó faltando 20 turnos, mi objetivo era llegar al 2050 arriba de federik (que me llevó la delantera durante toooooda la partida, siempre iba cuarto yo!)

Cuando te tiras a tratar de ganar una carrera tecnologica se torna muy complicado porque la maquina mueve las fichas bien... hace los upgrades SIEMPRE (la cantidad de veces que pase turno sin elevar algo en el arbol tecnologico, ni te cuento...). Entonces muchas veces se complica... si vez que queda poco tiempo y estan apunto de ganarte, guerra a pleno, es lo unico que te queda, te alias con otros que estan flojos, les pedis que vayan a la guerra con vos y les das un monton de tecnologia... aceptan al toque. Armas bardo bardo hasta que el flaco no tenga otra que negociar. Otra que podes hacer es que tus aliados vayan a la guerra mientras vos seguis en la "carrera tecnologica" esa es buena. O bombardearle su region con monjes de tu religion y empezar a convertir a la gente y que se arme un problema religioso. Cosas asi.

-> Build fewer, quality cities.
-> Build near resources
-> Chopping down forrests boosts production, helping early production of buildings and units
-> Build roads to move units across the map much faster
-> Build roads to resources like horses and elephants with roads to enable production of mounted units at all cities (if you have the right techs)
- Research mysticism first to be able to create Stonehenge and obelisks (this will give you culture to expand your borders)
- Move your scout or warrior around the land in order to discover good spots for a new city or to meet other civs (other civs means: go for defense and expand towards the enemy, fill the gaps at the poles and jungle later)
- If both a warrior and a worker cost 15 hammers, go for the worker in order to develop your city sooner. Choose the warrior if that takes 8 turns (so your city can grow to 2 in the meantime)
- After mysticism, research meditation or polytheism in order to get a religion. If meditation is researched while you are still researching it, change it to polytheism (use the tech-screen by pressing F6). If polytheism is researched also, go for iron working. A holy city gives you benefits.
- After iron working, go for alphabet. Once researched, you can trade your techs with other civs. Trade with distant enemies first, you don't want to give your neighbours the edge. Don't trade your alphabet-tech just yet, you don't want others to be able to trade as well, do you?
- Once you discover currency, sell your technology to the other civs. They're glad to hand over all their money to you for inferior techs. Spend this money on research. The first time is the most lucrative one.
- If you have weak defenses, always accept demands from your closest neighbours. Work on your defenses, especially with 'friends' nearby! Bribing won't stop an attack, when they smell blood, you're theirs.
- If there are horses around somewhere, claim that resource!! Iron and copper are around more often (especially near the poles). Research horse back riding only if you have horses. Don't accept it when you trade if you don't have horses, since it's not useful to you. Never trade it with Cyrus, since his unique unit is mounted!
- If you are at war, attack with mounted units and pillage iron, horses and copper resources first, so they can't build strong reinforcements. Try to sneak in a chariot or mounted archer to move and pillage at the same turn.
- Build barracks in every city for a free promotion.
- Choose promotions in accordance to your attacker's army. Choose +25% cover when your enemy attacks with archers for instance or hills/forest defense if you are near hills or forest
- After you researched a religion (or failed to do so), don't go for iron working just yet, but check your surroundings for resources. If there's corn, hover over the tile and see what you need to improve the tile and get that resource. In the case of corn, you'll need a farm, so you'll need to research agriculture. If you have sheep, get animal husbandry. Get the wheel to make roads (important!) and pottery to create cottages (perhaps somewhat advanced tactic this early in the game, there are a lot of threads with indepth tips).
- So, after religion, research a couple of basic worker actions (don't go for agriculture if you don't need it yet) and then go for bronze working (reveals copper) and iron working (reveals iron). If you can settle near these resources, it means your enemy can't! Never trade iron or copper, unless you absolutely have to! If you are demanded to give copper or iron or else, you know their units suck since they lack that resource! (Unless it's further on in the game, they might have horses)
- If you are playing at higher difficulty, dont research alphabete, research writing and make a beeline to the tech to build oracle, then have at least 2 worker chop wood to rush build oracle, use the free tech bonus to get alphabete. alphabete is just too expensive to research early.
- Catapults are absolutely essential.

- Persia + Horses = (super cheap!) Immortals = Ancient Era Nightmare
- Go for Hinduism or Buddhism first (on Noble). Try hard to spread one of these religions. Make shrines such that you can collect the income.
- If you want to use the chop-rush strategy for your start game, you need bronze working as your first tech.
- If you want to negotiate a permanent alliance via diplomacy, you need to tick permanent alliances before you start the game, and you need to research fascism.
- Make your path towards enemy through forests, jungle and hills. That'll provide you with def bonus from +25%(hills) to +75%(hills+forest).
- For religion, go straight towards Hinduism, as the AI always goes for Buddhism first. If you still miss Hinduism, try for Judaism (monotheism) next, after getting a military unit tech (archery or bronze working). The value of having a native religion is quite important, especially if you can convert one of your neighbors.
- If you have Cows, Horses, or Pigs, research Animal Husbandry to build pastures.
- If you have Rice, Wheat, or Corn, research Agriculture to build farms (or even if you have plenty of fresh water, particularly with a plains start).
- If you have Gems, Silver, or Gold, research Mining.
- If you have Fish, Clams, or Crabs, research Fishing. Added advantage: your city still grows when building a work boat!
- If you have Game, Ivory, or Furs, research Hunting.
- For everything except sea-borne resources, you need to be able to hook them up - so unless you're going for a religion, research The Wheel before anything else (because believe me, it's frustrating when you get that Gold Mine completed, then realise you can't build a road back to your city! )
- If you're Aggressive, build barracks and units, and go for Mining->Bronze Working. Early Axeman rushes can be very effective. A Cover promotion is better than a City Raider II promotion, as well (+25% vs. Archers opposed to a general +20% city attack; given most early defenders are Archers, it makes sense).
- If you're Philosophical or Spiritual, you usually start with Mysticism: go for commerce (thanx Sirian & Sullla!) over food, and you should get Polytheism first. AIs tend to beeline for Meditation before Poly.
- If you're Industrious, head for BW and IW - for the same reasons as being Aggressive. (Napoleon is probably the best for ultra-early rushes in this respect.)
- If you're Organised or Expansive or Financial... er... bear with me. I've not really played with them Seriously, though, these are traits (much like the Commercial trait in Civ3) with subtler, longer-term benefits. Though Organised does seem to be a bit of an all-round Edsel so far.
- Always, always, always, escort Settlers, unless you already have the route to the new city patrolled.
- Give in to demands early on. Just keep a note, and come back with the payback later
- If you have an early UU - research towards it, and make use of it. More so than in Civ3, the UU is tuned to the era it belongs in. Use it or lose it.
- Feel free to sell copper later on in the game (renaisance). It's useless by then (except to double production of Statue of Liberty (very important wonder), and Internet (not so useful)), but the AI still pays good for it.
- Sailing allows your religion to spread across all coastal cities on your own and nearby islands.
- To know how many of each resource you have, just open any city's window; the simplest way to do this is by clicking on your flag next to the minimap, that will open your capital's city window. Then, just look at the info on the top right corner.
- When the AI comes to you offering a resource deal, click 'renegotiate', in order for you to know how many of each of those resources you have. Take any resource out of the bargaining table and it will go back to the upper part, where its proper amount will be displayed; if you see that you do indeed have extra of that resource (or if you don't but you see that you can spare that kind of resource) go ahead and put it back on the table and close the deal.
- After you have alphabet, every time you finish researching something, press F4 to check the foreign advisor and click 'technology' (or 'science', I don't remember). There you will see who is willing to trade you which techs, and since you have just discovered something, maybe they won't have that. It's impossible to trade techs for resources, and it's usually better not to trade it for money, so the best thing to do is trade one tech for another.
- If you hover your cursor over the techs on the bargaining table, it will show you how many beakers each one costs, and it will even tell you how many you have already invested in a particular tech, if that is the case.
- If you open the file 'Civ4Config', you can easily edit it, since it's a text one. Two things worth modifying are: The number of turns between autosaves. The default is 4, but you may prefer to adjust it so that it saves your game every turn, so substitute 4 for 1. And the other thing is to enable the cheatmode, which is really the way to get the worldbuilder to work properly. The password to the cheatmode is "chipotle". So, if it says something like "CheatCode=0", substitute 0 for 'chipotle'.
- You may want to reload because barbarians take out your unescorted settlers, but you should have learned by now that unescorted settlers just don't work.
- http://www.garath.net/Sullla/ this will take you thru one complete game
- i found there is two way of playing your own traits (with some exception): A)maximise their effect or B) let them fill the gap...

- Specializing your cities for specific great people is a good tip. Great Merchants and Great Artists are my two favorites. With a great Merchant, get an open borders agreement with somebody and move them to the furthest city from your capital. You can then make a heap of money with the push of a button. Great Artists can create a great work, which will add an instant 4000 culture to the city it is place in. If you're going for legendary culture status on some cities, or just trying to push your borders out over an area of land that you haven't built a city on, this is an easy way to do it.
- I also like to make settlers and build cities around the globe (usually on the same area as my rivals). This is tough to do early, as none of the early ships will carry settlers (I cannot remember which ship it is that can carry settlers). Having a city near all of your rivals makes war easier (especially when you build airports).
- To gain the +1 movement bonus for rounding the globe with one of your units, you DO NOT have to connect the "trenches" in the fog of war with each other- you can accomplish it by moving on a tile on the same vertical line on the map, regardless of how much fog of war is in between vertically.
- Consider who you want to trade with. If you're friendly with one civ, don't trade with civs that they don't like unless you absolutely need to. There's a diplomatic penalty for trading with their enemies and trade and strategy bonuses for civs that are happy with you.
- If you can focus your trade with a group of civs that get along with each other, then you can improve your diplomatic relations and create a bloc that can be useful later in the game.
- Actually, the general rule is to take advantage of your Civ's traits as best you can, and try all of them to see what suits your style of play. For example, many here feel that Organized trait is 'useless', but if used properly, it can be very useful to have. I enjoy playing as the Romans, and using the Praetorians (UU) to ravage the neighbourhood.
- I always put missionaries in my original scouting vessels. That way I can drop them off at any Civ I run across, HOPEFULLY one that has no religeon.
- I had missed religionship at my first game. I took the best of this situation. Here is the strat:

- Aggro whomp strat go romas get iron and 4-5 cities pump out preatorians whomp your neighbours if you are slow get catapults. (qué carajo habla este tipo xD?)
- Peaceful tech strat.
- I like quinof china a lot industrious and financial on prince and below u get wounders and a superb endgame.
- Go for 4 cities early on, one or two more on hughe one less on tiny, stop there and get up defence and workers. get up cottages on many squares and one or two irrigation per city. connect your resuorces, watch what you need in terms of happiness and health. Get more if you need to.
- Tech, get mysticism and then get polyteism, then get masonry and monotheism, and bronze working. Revolt in slavery and organized religion. Get state religion of the one that is most important.
- Go for the resource techs escpecially pottery -> cottages.
- Go for currency and when you are halfway through teching currency go for more settlers if you got terrain to cover and aim for music in tech. Then go for printing press and after that democracy after that it doesnt matter much get what u need. Just keep in mind the maintanance after 9 cities it gets though without courthouses which takes time to build map dependent.
- Pull in a bunch of great peeps and go for the victoy u want.
- Don't neglect military, ever.
- It helps to learn to use the F4 button and the resource and technology tab. The info there gives you a good pic of where you stand in a tech race, and helps you map out what techs the AIs have (so you can trade for them later) and what you should research on your own. also makes it easier to figure out how to get the most techs from everyone with the few you have for trade.
- Explicación del chopping: Basically when you build something in a city (this includes people as well, like Archers, Settlers etc) it takes a certain amount of 'hammers' to create them. You get a certain number of these each turn, which I think is down to things which produce 'hammers'. Sorry this is a really bad explanation. Anyway, after chopping down a forest (you need Iron Working) it will say something like "30 [hammer symbol] created in [your town] for chopping down a forest. This is then instantly used in that city for whatever it is making, which boosts the production of whatever that city is making.
- Naval forces:

- Economy:

- Build enough cities, but not too much: (muy buenos tips^^)

- Protect your cities well against Barbarians. If you lose one city to them, they will gain much more power than they already had, causing more problems.
- Injuries affect a unit's combat readiness quadratically: a 50% strength unit is fighting at both half health and deals half damage per turn. The displayed combat odds in game do NOT take health into account, only comparing strength ratings, so be wary of injured units! A 5/10 strength Knight attacking a 5/5 strength Axeman has less than a 25% chance of success.
- You can set city rally points by selecting the cities and Shift + Right-clicking on the tile you want troops to go to. To select multiple cities, hold down Shift and left-click the city names.
- An enemy ship prevents the city from working any tiles on, or in the 8 tiles adjacent to, the ship. Currently it doesn't block trade routes or negate the bonuses from a Harbor in the city though, which will hopefully be added.
- Ships can also destroy the improvement required to access a sea-based resource, cutting off access to that resource until a work boat can rebuild the improvement.
- Do not neglect your military early on in the game, especially when you're expanding.
- Try and be the first to circumvate the globe.
- ALWAYS NEGOTIATE TRADE OFFERS. When a civ comes to you offering a trade ALWAYS click the negotiate option. Clear the table and then select what he was asking for. Then click on the "what will you offer for this" option. The requesting civ will often offer more than what they had originally offered. This is often worthless with open borders offers however.
- Also, don't be afraid to switch up potential offers. If you want another tech, the civs can sometimes be persuaded to give it to you.
- Maintain good relations with your neighbors.
- This next point is obvious to those that have played the game but for newcomers it may save a headache or two. If a civ cancels it's open borders with you it is very likely (though not always) a prelude to war. When a civ cancels it's open borders with you, immediately begin transferring military assets to your border with that civ. Also, the civs are a bit more sneaky this time around. Don't be surprised to see an enemy ship dropping off some units somewhere away from the border. Keep a group of units handy to respond to such excursions.
- Don't freak out if you don't found a religion.
- Don't be afraid to trade the one tech you have that no one else does.
- Siege Units.
- Also, one tip that is heavily used by war mongering specialists is to check the odds of battle before attacking.
- Chop rush.
- When chop rushing your first settler, build a warrior for the few turns it takes to clear the forest, then right when the forest is about to be cleared, change the production back to settler. Once settler gets the hammers, switch back to warrior. Repeat. This will allow your city to grow while you chop your settler.
- Always micromanage your workers to start the game. Start with hooking up your civ to the important resources (like stone) and then build cottages.
- Gift garbage cities (like ones in the middle of a desert: can be ones captured or ones created) to powerful civs far away to destroy their econmy with maintanence costs. You can also try gifting new cities in the middle of your empire that will be overcome by your culture and revert to your control. The bonus of the actual gifting is still there. =] jajajajajajajaja
- Know which techs give benefits to the ones that find them first (ie: Music? gives free artist and Code of Laws founds Confucianism)
- Keep important wonders away from edge cities.
- Know your starting civ and how to best play their strengths/weaknesses.
- Find and spread your religion. If you miss out on the finding of a religion, take over a founding city and spread your religion. This has both huge economic and huge diplomatic benefits.
- When invading an enemy country, have some fast units (horses), to pillage enemys special resources. Denying the enemy access to cobber, iron and horses can be a huge advantage early in the game. Works don't seem to come out and rebuild mines while your mounted archers are roaming nearby ;-) Un tip para tener en cuenta!

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You have to be careful, though. If you remove a citizen from a tile with a town, for example, to make him into a scientist, you may find that the amount of research points produced by the city goes down, not up. This is because commerce gets converted into research, and a town provides a lot of commerce. Watch the results in the city screen carefully.