Play all Civ 4 in one game

[:({ZimmeR}):]

Eveyone know how to play all Civ 4 (Base, Beyond the sword, Colonization, and Warlords) in one game like expansion pack? or cannot it?

[CMDR Herne]

Colonization is a seperate game. Best to just play Beyond the Sword as that improves on from CIv 4 and Warlords.

[:({ZimmeR}):]

So, only open game Civ 4 Beyond the Sword that with include base and Warlords?

[:({ZimmeR}):]

Owh, I see it and its work. Thanks...

[littlenymph]

I was a little confused with this as well. Normally when I get a "complete" edition it comes as a bundled pack that requires just one download, as Civ3 did. I am aware though that some Civ titles are intended as stand alone games. Looking through the descriptions in the store still leaves me a little confused, and I'm not certain I fully understand the response to the OP of this thread either. Sorry if I'm coming across as dense, but before I download anything, could someone please give me some clarification on two questions.

This is what came in my bundle:

Civilization 4
Beyond the Sword
Colonization
Warlords

1. Which of these represents the most complete edition of Civ-4?

2. Which of these (aside from Civ-4 itself) is a stand alone game?

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses.
~LL




A little clarification of my own...
All 3 of the expansions sound like stand alone games to me, based on the descriptions from the store page for each of them. However, the last in the series, Colonization, is the only one that specificly states you do not need to own Civ-4 in order to play it.

[Clover]

Originally posted by littlenymph:

1. Which of these represents the most complete edition of Civ-4?

I haven't played the steam version of Civ 4 so I can't answer this for sure but Beyond the Sword was the last expansion so it >should< include the warlords content.

Originally posted by littlenymph:

2. Which of these (aside from Civ-4 itself) is a stand alone game?

Colonization is a remake of an older game by Sid Meier built in the Civ 4 engine. So it actually has nothing to do with Civ 4 beyond it using the same gameplay and engine.

[Armchair Civilian]

BTS is, in my opinion, the Best Civ Ever :)

[littlenymph]

Ohhhkay... I think.
I'll just... ummm... yeah.

Thanks for the responses. I'm sure it will click eventually.

[lozacenz]

ok, looked it up a bit.
In Theory, it goes like this:
Colonization is a seperate thing. it's not relevant to working out Civ IV.

Beyond the Sword is the last expansion for Civ IV. if you install that version, it contains everything.
there's some weirdness about Buying them (can't buy the expansions without first buying the base game), but if you got it all in a bundle that doesn't matter.

But, for those people who want to play warlords Without beyond the sword, you can install the Warlords version instead. and if you want to just play the base game, you can just install the vanilla Civ IV version. (you can't play beyond the sword without warlords. this was never a thing.)

of course, i discovered this After telling steam to install them all... and then realising i'd got the expansions out of order so if it had mattered it would have screwed it all up anyway *laughs*

so, yeah, install beyond the sword (and maybe colonization) and let the others just float in your account, sadly uninstalled and useless, unless you particularly liked those versions.

Disclaimer: the above is based pretty much entirely on a quick google which spat out a bunch of forum posts. it's also what makes the most sense, as if it worked otherwise the expansions would be treated as proper DLC and installed accordingly. because that's how steam works, to my understanding.

[littlenymph]

Thank you very much, lozacenz.

I was begining to feel a little stoopid, but I do think it could have been explained a little better.

That sounds pretty much in line with what I was able to get out of it, except Colonization was throwing me off a little. Thanks for taking the time to better explain that.

[yto24505]

This thread was useful to me. If anyone is trying to figure out what you have to actually buy to get all the games, this version has all of them:

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition

If you try to just buy "Beyond the Sword", it will let you get to check out but tell you you have to first install the original.

As described above, just installing "Beyond the Sword" will give you the original and the two expansion packs.

"Colonization" is a seperate game.

[Medavelvan]

The main problem is how this might affect mods, like Fall From Heaven 2. The directory structure is different, and seems to require creating additional folders like /Beyond The Sword /Beyond the Sword/mods, because in the original releases, the expansion directories were all placed inside the base Civ 4 directory. There may be other odd problems, but this is the first one I found.

[democles_pl]

This should probably be a pinned post.