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I thought I'd bring this one back since I am in the middle of a game and waiting to get done work to go home and play some more

How's everyone doing with it? I am playing at Prince level currently. I'm the French this time and have Montezuma on one side and one of the Chinese guys on the other. They take turns attacking me, but fortunately my army has been better so far. However, I do have one problem that seems to reoccur quite often for me. Whether it is from being attacked and taking over cities, or just overexpansion early, my maintenence costs get way high and my tech development has to go down to 30% or so to keep from running out of money. I'd really be stuck without the bonuses from taking over cities. I did just get the courthouse tech and am starting to build them everywhere, which should help, but I usually seem to him this early-mid game lull where I can't keep my tech spending high because of a lack of gold. Anyone else find this and a good solution for it. In this case, all I can think of is to raze cities instead of occupy them, but I hate to waste a good city like that, unless it is just in a bad spot.

Huge armies are REALLY expensive. I typically play like the peacenik I am. I'm very nice to everyone and just build cities early on as fast as possible. Then I let my culture take over neighboring cities. If I win, it's usually a diplomatic victory through the U.N.

I played the heck out of that game when it first came out... talking, get home from work, play Civ4, go to bed, repeat.

I had several friends that played it too so we starting playing it in multiplayer and let me just say how awesome that was. Vs each other was fun but actually had more fun when we did a human vs AI setup. Total blast.

Basically I canceled my EQ2 subscription for Civ4 and burned myself out on that so I'm trying WoW now.

Roger has dragged me into WoW as well.

Welcome to the addiction.

MMO's have a bad tendancy to do that... I played lil over 4 years in EQlive (EverQuest) then moved on to EQ2 for a year. Mix in other "MMO's" like Planetside, EVE Online, SWG.

Now I'm a lil excited for Vanguard.

I've stayed away from the MMO's. As much as I would love to play WoW, I know I would get so hooked that it would comsume my every free moment, and even some free moments that I didn't really have would get stolen by it.