I just bought the collection since I used to play a lot of Civ IV when I was younger and wanted to try it out again now that I'm older. What's the deal with the DLCs seemingly being split across four different launch options? Is there a "complete" version, or are these all seperate for a reason?...

Hello everyone, it's good to see that people are still active on this forum. I just purchased Civ 4 for the first time for the PC a week ago and I have the complete edition. I am new to Civ 4, but have over a 1000 hours in Civ5 (well offline added, more like 2000+). I wanted to go in blind with no mods, but decided to come here and humbly seek your wisdom. I see there are not many guides *edit:in English* for how to properly play, or how mods for QoL or enhancements that improve graphics/...

Guys, new player in an old game looking to clarify a couple of points. 1. Are combat odds recalculated between individual rounds of combat based on current health? I've read both that they do and that they don't update but I think I may have misunderstood and the odds are recalculated for each round but the damage is fixed throughout. I would expect both or neither to alter unless damage remains fixed to prevent a diminishing damage output curve leading to eternal combat with one unit hitting the oth...

I want to give a unit experience despite the fact that there are no barbarians or enemy civs out there, what can I do?

Is there a way a tactic to remove this in game short of destroying the civ entirely? I know there are ways to counter the effect - happiness buildings, trading resources, the cultural slider, civics plus garrison - but I'm looking to remove it. Background is I took the Aztec capital late game and there is -7 unhappiness from this. The pop is 19 so I have lots of unhappy workers unless I put a large garrison in. As far as I can tell the cultural values on the tiles (is it only the city centre tile that ...