Warlock,Jan 12 2006, 04:05 PM Wrote:I'll probably get Civ 4. Thanks for the link. Sounds like the micromanagement hell of the late game has at least been mitigated a bit.
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Practically nil compared to Civ3. No more micromanaging every tile, or worrying about production loss. Food, Industry, and Research overflow into the next item on your desired queue. Industry production tracked per item on your build queue, so no more saving up production for wonders cheese, and also decays if you partially build and neglect it for too long. Want to maximize industry production? Your governer automatically works the the highest producing mines. Food? That too.
The combat system isn't random (it actually makes bloody sense, and you can see estimated combat odds), and your units come out wounded depending on how tough the battle was and how strong they were initially (and some other interesting factors).
The game is solidly built, and has only gotten more stable and balanced with patches, not less. I am not terribly fond of the interface graphics, but the interface is extremely powerful. I can select as many or as few cities from the domestic advisors, and tell them all to build bombers within two clicks, sometimes three. It is a selectable spreadsheet of information (commerce, industry, research, happiness), etc.
The documentation for this advanced knowledge is somewhat lacking =/ , but we at the RB are discovering what we can.