Civilization IV

[stoutfellow]

Just a few quick notes gleaned from my latest round of Civ IV playing:

• The new Great People system is excellent. I haven't really found much use for Great Merchants as yet, but Great Prophets, Great Scientists, and Great Artists are all extremely useful, and Great Engineers are absolutely wonderful - in more senses than one.
• When you're playing one of the Mongol leaders - either Genghis or Kublai - and you can't find horses anywhere, it kind of cramps your style.
• I love the Philosophical, Spiritual, and Industrious traits; I can make use of Organized, Creative, or Aggressive leaders; but the proper use of the Expansive and Financial traits still eludes me.

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that's not what Engineers are for. Workers build the roads and such. Health is a big problem; you need to build things like granaries and aqueducts to deal with it, but again, that's part of the normal pattern of construction.

Great Engineers do Great Things, like building Notre Dame. (You can use them to speed up the construction of ordinary buildings, but that's kind of a waste.)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

But. But. But the engineers *design* the things. Can you use Great Engineers to, say, build the Great Wall of China? I would think more apt would be a Great Architect built Notre Dame...or?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Frame it this way: whatever you're trying to build, it'll go a lot more quickly if you've got an Engineer available. (The Wonders of the World that you can build range from actual buildings like the Hanging Gardens, to hypothetical future constructs like the Space Elevator, to metaphorical "wonders" like Rock and Roll. No, I don't understand that one either.)

The Great Wall was one of the Wonders in earlier versions of the game, but has been dropped from version IV.