Let's Play Civilization IV 03 Louis XIV

[Repo342TrueBlood1]

omg, I love this game!!! Dap you play all the awesome games!! :D

[catalog343]

Louis, where are your pills?

[Pastshelfdate]

Rome tempted you with what offer? We can’t read the writing on the screen. You’re fun to listen to, but during this part of the game you very accurately describe as slow, you don’t take the opportunity to explain nearly as much as you could. What isn’t happening with the Malinese? It is great to hear Nimoy.

[NoXAdmiral]

this kid is a NOOG

[formerutuber]

you suck at civ IV

[tishihara1994]

How do you only have 1 pop from like 20 minutes of playing...

[raifthemad]

@tishihara1994 Because building workers and settlers stops growth, they use up extra food as well as hammers, it's funny as hell to look at him wondering why his city doesn't grow.

[chrstilen5]

When is the damn civ 5 coming! And why cant i play the old games on windows 7 damit!

[Darakon]

Someone been playing fallout 2 :D

[Dr2g0nFly]

whats the point of building ur countryside up with an army of workers if u dont have city big eungh to use all those farms and stuff

[2InsertCoolNameHere2]

I like this game. But the DS game (which I do have) is TERRIBLE. BAD. NOT GOOD.

[PurepOis0n123]

@2InsertCoolNameHere2 Thanks for the advice.

[2InsertCoolNameHere2]

@PurepOis0n123 Seriously, don't get it.

[Anbercrombie]

you keep commenting on it taking so long for the city to grow. it's because you keep building workers and settlers - they eat the food

[johntylerkerlin]

another good tip for the start is to buld along your river they count as roads and connect your cities so they can share stuff

[NoobSnoopy]

that map looks small O_o

[lifehole1]

It's because he hasnt discovered compass/made stonehenge, the map is only what his civ knows it as.

[66jesko]

personally i would have built a monument first next to the "gem city" to expand the culture and build mines on those mountains covered by the rainforest.

[operations1000]

This is really painful to watch..seriously.

[jrchandonait]

you need to let your capital grow

[chasse90]

you did not relize the bronze next to your capital XD

[piemaster3425]

"I'd go to war with you but I can't beat you."

As if.

Dap642 rules all.

[coessen]

@piemaster3425 Except Louis XIV apparently.

[HaloNinja955]

hey homie do a russian campaign as historically as possible PLEASE!

[NotJames1]

You should put on "advanced city screen". Then you can see how long your stuff will take to build in your cities without going into it. It makes life so much easier

[bomerman104]

what do you use to record this vid

[jonah232]

I'm sorry but you are one of the worst players I've ever seen. I don't say this to be rude or to make fun, I say it to help you. 1, instead of building so many workers, you should have built 1 worker, 1 settler, some growth then another settler. And if you had built a granary in Klamath instead of that 30-turn worker, everything would go by so fast.

[TheZPCI]

Who cares? His specialty is Fallout and Fps, not this game. He DOES end up beating the game though.

[2pacbiggie4334]

@TheZPCI

on the easiest difficulty setting

[Hyardacil]

@TheZPCI It's settler difficulty dude. :P Essentially impossible to lose.

[TtheWriter]

@Jonah232: If you'd been paying attention at the beginning of this Let's Play, you would have seen that he put everything on the easiest setting, and selected a map with large continents and such. He's a new player, don't bash him.

[jonah232]

I'm not bashing him, I'm giving him advice...I did not see where he set it on easy because I just assumed that anyone doing a let's play would have some kind of high skill. I apologize if it seems I was bashing him, I was just trying to give advice but stated it poorly.

[coessen]

@jonah232 Yes, Yes you did. But its ok.

[swupstik]

@jonah232 Agreed.

[chasse90]

@Jonah232 Give the man a break dude

[Dario1108]

Please tell me this is your first time playing, because if you played on any other difficulty than settler, you would have been attacked for lack of troops.

At 1600 Bc, and your Captial only at *2, that is patetic.

If you played online with this stragey, you would be gone already.

Peace.

[xIXDonovanXIx]

lol gems gems! o boy

me to lol

[sebadita92]

why do u hate the incas so much??

[BrutusAlbion]

lol he didnt prioritize kyoto so he sucked with that city...what a great leader

[RYANJ0195]

You need some "mon-ey" for Klamath to see Vic the trader. Nice fallout referrence there.

[Tharthan]

There is no L in japanese.

[goron352]

LIsten, I don't know how old you are but that's the longest post(s) i've ever seen someone put on the youtube comments.... It's almost sad.

[fenrir23456]

at least he didn't put those "post this to twelve other videos or I'll rape you in the night," bullshit on this, I thought it was rather interesting and coherent (which is a change from the Youtube norm) what he put.

[goron352]

Yeah your right about the interesting and coherent part. At least youtube has some population that's not mentally impaired.

[TheKodeman85]

Sorry that he likes history and enjoys talking about it rather than sit there and make some short idiotic comment with a smiley I mean seriously don't belittle the guy just because he made a long comment post

[junichiroe]

@TheKodeman85

dam straigh my freind XD

[dektronic07]

No, that was not spam. That was jsut me professing me obsessive love for histroy, and trying to get others to read a good book....

[goingcrasy202]

i never get a large empire, it is usually small, but technologically advanced, only once did i have a huge empire, and that was with america

[dektronic07]

North-South axis slowed technological diffusion, as most techonologies are easily adapted for different longitudes (as have similair climates in say, the temperate zone of China and of Europe) but NOT for different lattitutdes (for example, agricultural techniques developed in China need extensive adjustment in order to work in the Siberian Tundra, even though these two locations are MUCH closer than Europe and China.)

Read Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" for more on this phenomena.

[dektronic07]

The europeans ended up more technologically advanced than the Native Americans, and ended up conquering them. Aside from obvious geographical effects like the lack of many cereal crops in the Americas slowing the development of agriculture and the lack of draft animals slowing the evolution of diseases and reducing productivity, there was also a powerful effect of the fact that Eurasia's large size and East-West axis facilitated technological diffusion (trading), whereas the Americas'

[dektronic07]

Literally reinvent the wheel six or seven different times (assumnig six or seven tech trading nations). This will ensure that you all make technological progress much faster, encourage good diplomatic relations, and help diffuse tensions fro mattempting to make "tech races" where each of you tries to get ahead of all the others but really jsut end up shooting your own foot by not trading techs.

The effects of tech trading drstically affected real-world history, and are a main reason that...

[dektronic07]

So, you will often get a bunch of essentially free technologies by making a beeline for alphabet and initiating tech trading, and can often get most of the technologies that you would have discovered if you had researched other things instead by doing this. You will also build strong diplomatic relations with your neighbours, reducing the chance that they will decide to attack you.

Tech trading really makes sense, as essentially you are pooling your research points rather than having to...

[dektronic07]

discover Alphabet though, as most civs will have a bunch of technologies that their neighbours don't have as they all have focused on different research goals. The profits of just this first round of tech trading (assuming you are one of the first to discover Alphabet) will more than pay for the research in terms not only of all the new techs you will be able to accquire essentially for free (by trading technologies for technologies, you are merely sharing knowledge, and don't give anything up)

[dektronic07]

sell newly accquired technologies to other nations you have contact with before the nation you originally accquired the tech form does. You have to be open to accepting not-so-great trade terms though, but the trading will improve diplomatic relations (and thus trade offers) in the long run. Nations will even get a "shared your technology with us" diplomatic bonus if you keep tech trading up lnog enough and are proactive with it. The most lucrative tech trading will be right after you...

[dektronic07]

However a strategy utilizing this approach requires that you actually engage heavily in diplomacy and exploration (for instance, with your first Warrior after you have built another defensive unit to take his place) so that by the time you discover Alphabet (could take a while on Marathon) you already have contact and good relations (Open Borders help) with many other civs, and can trade technologies with the msot receptive ones. Works best if you are very proactive in trading, so that you can

[dektronic07]

He alsoe kind of floundered around with his tech choices... For instance, why choose Polytheism after Hinduism has already been founded? And he might have been better off choosing Animal Husbandry at an earlier point (last vid I think) if he was going to wait such a long time on his first Scout. I prefer to make a beeline for Alphabet (via writing) myself since this allows technology-trading, which is perhaps THE most significant way of securing technological advancement (research is slow).

[dektronic07]

He also probably should have accepted the open borders agreements. At such an early point in the game, his territory's borders really didn't include a significant enough area to provide any real defensive buffer anyways, and the open borders agreements would have led to better diplomatic relations (and thus less chance of war) with his neighbours in the lnog run anyways, as well as trade (helping provide income for science, gorwth, and his military) and the spread of religion.

[dektronic07]

On a different note, Dap churned out way too many workers at the start. This prevented Kyoto from growing, and they were actually building terrain improvements at a much faster rate than the growth of his population, menaing that most of them weren't actually even being used. He might have been better at least building a settler instead of a couple of those workers, or a scout, which would have allwoed growth and for him to better plan where to build new cities...

[dektronic07]

cap out at a population of about 6, meaning that oyu should take this account when building your first cities, so as not to be unable to utilize all your best resources). You may wast to build your cities closer together if an area is particularly resource-rich, if you want a compact empire for defensive purposes, etc., or further apart to claim more terriotry early on if you are of an expansionist bend (which can be rather rewarding if done right).

[dektronic07]

You don't necessarily want to always build your cities so as to have the maximum amount of land in their city radiuses (the area they can work for resources)- that's a common mistake. You need to look at other factors as well, such as defensibility (rivers provide a 50%penalty when attacking across, making them excellent defensive positions, and hills provide a 25% defense bonus and an even bigger one to archers), resources (some areas richer than others), and growth (early on, cities seem to

[goingcrasy202]

... would this be spam, cause i hate learning in the summer (yay i now 14 today)

[Parakirby]

Hahah, another mistake.

The cities initially use a 3x3 grid of resources around the city, and then each side of that gets taken, but no further.

In order to get the most usable land, each city should NOT overlap! This causes PROBLEMS.

[TorsoManza]

why dint you just do a LP then, i wish to see the "correct" way of playing

[Parakirby]

I don't do LPs. I'm just telling him so he knows in the future. :p It sounds like you're taking offense to something that can be interpreted as sarcasm - It isn't, trust me.

[TorsoManza]

no no no i just want to see how to do it correctly because im going to get the game soon

[Parakirby]

Aah. I just finished watching videos done by TheMeInTeam - Although he's a bit better than me, I go for cultural victories, he goes for military/diplomatic.

[YoTittoz]

u are so noob in this game

[adendaman]

I want this game now

[Zlatchi]

"To many Fallout referances" lol

[themanwiththepan]

now i wish i hadnt wrote stuff on my civIV discks the side it reads

[andrewscheel]

The green button is to move on to the next turn

[farfilet]

whats that green button he's pressing?

[OnlyKurial]

- Sees a bunch of gems

"Ooh Boy I'm Excited!"

[TsaristRussian180]

I LOVE THIS GAME!

[ummhmmlies]

i chose eygyptions when i was 9 at a store. i just couldent figure out how to move the units and crap, lol i was pitiful

[kruns11]

this definetly reminds me of deceasedcrab's videos

[educassiano]

I'm currently playing civ 3, just for curiosity? What's the fucking difference between civ 3 and civ 4? Besides graphics, of course.

[Sufidude15]

gameplay is rewired. i have both. civ4 has better gameplay overall. c3 is good, but theres a better selection of ur game in terms of climate, land type, etc. civs are better AI, and i have a better and easier time playing than c3. thats just my opinion.

[educassiano]

Great, thanks.

[Dap642]

Damn you LOUIS!

[BoomlalaMetrotab]

How do you upload videos longer than 10 minutes?

[Dap642]

the max limit is just under 11 minutes don't be fooled by what they say.

[BoomlalaMetrotab]

That's a useful piece of information.

[Dap642]

Indeed it is

[IPlayDaBasss]

you can actually upload vids longer than 11 mins if your a special type of account

[Sufidude15]

if ur director u can upload huge files

[Dinuyasha19]

no i am a diractor and still no

[JonSchaffer57]

It USED to be that if you were a "director" you could upload files without the normal limit. I went to upload my first video a few months back and it asked what kind ov uploader I was going to be.

I read their FAQ on it and they said they took the director's stuff back down to the 11 minutes 100 mb or whatever it is.

[stormshadow227]

@Dap642 HAY! i remaber Louis hay i didn't know he extised around BC times? ok can you explain that

[keelwar]

It wasnt growing because you were training settlers and workers. How do i know this? I read the hints during the intro. xD

[paperboy1995]

open borders = invade him before he can invade you :D

[Dap642]

When im ready all open borders with my enemy's.

[BabakMagic1]

hey i got this game on steam but i dunno how to play multiplayer... i got a gamespy account but when im entering my ID adn password , i click ok but that didnt continu can u help me PLOX?

[vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv9]

I was thinking maybe in your future new settlements you can name them after some fallout towns or cities. Like Junktown! :D

[Dap642]

I can rename a city anytime i wish so in theory i could do it now but im gonna wait till later.

[TheFMC]

Name one after me? :P

[Haxer216]

YES!!!!!!!!!

[sphingxx]

yay new part