I want to go back to playing this game, but I like long games on epic maps and whenever I start having the late game wars with modern tech I was looking forward to, inflation because such an issue that I can't finish the game before it cripples me (and that's with owning like 40% of a very large map in territory). I really hate this mechanic, or at least how strong it is. Anyone have a mod that fixes this? Or advice on how to edit the game files to change the value that governs inflation?...

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If you were playing this game for the first time in 2024, would you start with BtS? End there? Are the other expansions included in BtS? Should I play vanilla instead first?

In Civ IV BTS all units have become invisible. It makes no digfference whether I load the game where the problem suddenly occurred, or amy other game under BTS. Also a newly created game exhibits this strange behavior. An older warlords game doesn't have this problem. So I beleve that something got corrupted in the steam version of Civ IV BTS...

So in short, I launched a Civ IV, and DLC's but its not doing anything, for like 2 seconds it looks like its going to launch, but then its nothing. Play button on steam goes back to blue and thats it. Im on win 11, I tried to run it as administrator, in 640/480 resolution, literally anything I could change in properties. But nothing works, someones knows what might be a problem?...