Hi, I have had this problem where I'm not able to play CIV IV because the frames are so ♥♥♥♥. And this is a recent problem as I have been playing CIV IV on this same computer for years with no issues until now. I for sure know my specs are good enough but could you bros please help?...

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Seems the AI always chooses the unit in the stack they have the best advantage against but when you choose to attack theirs you get the worst. You choose to attack their stack of 9 axemen and 1 spear men with a cavalry unit it will always attack their spear unit. But they attack your attack of multi mace-men, multi spear-men, and a few catapults. They completely ignore the melee units and spear units and attack catapults directly....

If you were playing this game for the first time in 2024, would you start with BtS? End there? Are the other expansions included in BtS? Should I play vanilla instead first?

Ooh please don't tell me it's not possible, we all know that all it takes is one line of code in the right place, after all the city develops culture for itself, so why can't it keep it, that's by the way. On tight maps after thousands of turns cities have a huge amount of culture points, so because of that conquest doesn't make sense because in a moment the city is absorbed by its neighbors or former owner, who has no real military power to hold it, I remember that this problem didn't exist in Civilizatio...