Sorry for the double-post, but another cool thing about the religion aspect is that you can have multiple temples in a city if missionaries from the various faiths have brought that religion to the city. The nuance is nice, but the culture points are nicer. 
Oh, god. Another one.
You caught us. We don’t have nearly enough copies of this game left to fulfill all our orders, but if we change the ship date shown to people who haven’t yet ordered, our statistics show that they are much more likely to go spend their money elsewhere than people who have already placed their order are. More so, 23% of those who are upset will send us an email about it, allowing us to spout some nonsense about incorrect shipping calculations and slightly speed up their order.
Or, you know, whenever’s good for us.
We will all spit in your outgoing box.
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Er… maybe this is something I need to avoid, after all.
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Dare I ask who Adam Corolla is and why he’s named after a Toyota?
Woo. Called EB, they said my preorder was in.
Actually, its for mom. Nice daughter that I am. 
/S
Adam Corolla (left, with Jimmy Kimmel) is a radio personality, former co-host of The Man Show, and now host of the dreadfully unfunny Too Late with Adam Corolla. Which should be properly renamed Too Late for Adam Corolla, because this chimp’s fifteen minutes expired about a year ago. He is named after a Toyota to remind people that comedians named after cars simply aren’t funny. Sort of a protective coloration, if you will.
But that means that…
But I…
But…
Oh.
Ah. Saw it twice and decided “I’m With Stupid” would be a better title.
Ok. Been playing the last few hours.
Is is possible that there are too many tech advances and civics and unit upgrades and units and religions and buildings? Maybe it’s just because it’s new, but I’m wondering if it’s possible that things are a bit watered down.
I’ll probably change my mind in a week, but right now, it’s a bit overwhelming.
There was a subtle rule change in Civ 3 that threw me right off, because it screwed up the basis of many of the tactics I’d use in Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri. If you attack and destroy an enemy unit in Civ2 or AC, your attacking unit stays where it originally was. But in Civ3, if the defeated unit was the last unit in the square, the attacking unit automatically moves into the square where the defeated unit was (which is more often than not exactly where I don’t want my weakly-armoured offensive unit to be).
My question is, does that happen in Civ 4? If so, well, I suppose I could try getting used to new tactics. If not, hurrah!
Civilization: Call to Power is a bastard child not of Sid Meyer’s brain. There was a big legal battle resulting in Sid taking the Civilization name with him to Firaxis. You’ll notice that Call to Power II doesn’t carry the Civilization name.
Apparently my mom has the “black terrain” problem which is a display/video issue. I’m not so savvy about such things.
No question that there are a lot of advances, etc. and other changes. Figuring out whether switching any one of your five civics areas would screw you or not is time consuming. For now all the new stuff is bogging me down because I’m constantly reading the Civilopedia entries for stuff like, say, Mt. Rushmore. So, I feel your pain. But that’s part of the fun for me…finding out in new and exciting ways how these different advances work.
My husband has been playing the game non-stop since he picked it up. He loves it and keeps raving about how much he loves it. He hasn’t had any problems or issues with the game.
I’m impressed with the AI so far. It’s a lot more like playing multi player. You have to keep balanced. My old standby of token-defense/play the nice guy/build an Empire in peace just doesn’t work. When a player realizes he can take you, he will. Barbarians and wild life are much tougher per difficulty level than earlier civ games too.
My only problem is the incomplete refference stuff. I’m not a civlopedia guy, I want a hard copy, but they just didn’t give one.
Your Mom’s graphics card may lack the capabilities required to run the game. I tried an old graphics card and got the same thing. Didn’t have T&L.
Incidentally, they fixed the big bad bug.
be weary if you have intel 8xxxx, you’ll get the black terrain/chesire grin problems listed above. Two people have said intel 9 works…
Oh yeah, plus they took all the fun out of figuring out how to cheat. 
They have a World builder where you can just plop down a tank, or put the pyramids up, hehe.
Here’s what I got back after I complained about my lack of a copy of the game:
I fraken preordered the game a fraken month in advance! Shouldn’t your fancy computerized ordering system know how many fraken preorders you got so you can inform your fraken supplier how many fraken copies you need to ship in a timely fashion? Frak!
If the game doesn’t ship by the end of the business day, I’m canceling my order and heading to Best Buy.
Sad.