{"id":798,"date":"2005-10-30T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=798"},"modified":"2005-10-30T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T00:11:34","slug":"civilization-4-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Civilization 4 (III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">P<\/span>laying the second rounds of CivIV, this time trying to stick to a religion and spread it, I ended up founding not 1, not 2, but 3 (three) religions, meaning I was generally ahead of my competitors in Warlord level [That&#8217;s medium]. Close to achieving the Diplomatic Victory, ended up (another Time victory):\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Besides the &#8216;Fog of War&#8217; bug, game play is good: my laptop is a 512 MB, Intel 82852\/82855 GME card (64 MB) with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. Problematic is generally the endgame between 20 turns and 5 turns: I expect 1 GB will make a great difference. Turn off virus scanners for sure: I had problems installing the game with McAfee on.\n<\/li>\n<li>CivIII is a <em>joke<\/em>. On warlord level, the AI is about the same strength as Civ III. However, the Diplomacy AI is stronger than I initially expected. A couple of times I was caught with my pants down when Opening borders to &#8216;allies&#8217;.\n<\/li>\n<li>The UN features are <em>limited<\/em>. Handy to make it to Secretary-General (ban nuclear missiles is definitely the first thing you should do)\n<\/li>\n<li>The music is actually great. Firaxis opted to go for <em>recorded<\/em> music from major record companies: from classical [Brahms, Bach] to modern [John Adams&#8217; &#8216;The People are Heroes Now&#8217;]. 440 Meg of MP3 goodness. Hey, was that &#8216;Edelweiss&#8217; I heard there? <strong>Har-Har!<\/strong><br \/> The titel song is actually great for a change. It be nice to see a credit list for the music.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the second rounds of CivIV, this time trying to stick to a religion and spread it, I ended up founding not 1, not 2, but 3 (three) religions, meaning I was generally ahead of my competitors in Warlord level &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}