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It seems to happen more often with small cities < 3? Just throwing this in there, could be totally wrong. I do remember in Civ 4 there were certain different rules around small cities.

Thanks for posting Rox. With the patch, no need to use Kozlov, instead use the new spy agency to get the floatstone you need from the black market. I don't know what turn you got Fabrication - did you skip computers?

Sea based AIs are a joke. You can attack their cities from six different directions, and you can gank them really fast (4-5 move ships). Someone posted a T130 naval domination strat for Apollo - I'm not suprised, but I'd find it too boring to try. I think I won my first BE game I played building...

Another thing I think I noticed is that a *land locked* city trading with an ocean city (via planetary survey) is very profitable. This does not appear to apply to coastal to ocean as much. Can anyone confirm by testing, will try again maybe later to verify.

Thanks for posting this. Despite a few games, I've never really got to try these units. Most cities now seem to be coast based or sea based. It's so much easier and faster to build, Melee ships, ranged ships, and maybe carriers. Sea movement is not hindered by terrain. Since everyone gets...

A couple of tips. Set your first cities close to each other. Trade routes are more important than resources early on. If you settle your first city on land, settle the second one at sea. This gives you a ship (4 moves per turn) and will allow you to gain contact (diplo capital) and pop...

Ye, this just screwed my supremacy game, no quests at all and have to hard research everything. Pretty much boned my sub 200 game...

No wonder I got bored trying to find a level 3 or more city! Shame, espionage was really fun in Civ 5.

I just tried it, getting the PAEN is a detour as you say; however the production and science bonus you get is about 20% for all cities, can you still get 20% prod bonus from Biowell spam? The trouble is getting vertical farming as well - without it the empire wont grow. The other interesting...

Exactly, but people always want to couch the problem in binary or polarized terms. Stacks of doom in Civ 4 did suck. That's why for example in Civ 1 you had the option of stacking into an army - but it also came with downsides, unlike Civ 4 where bigger was always better. In Legendary Heroes...

Thanks for this detailed guide, I'm having a lot of fun trying it out now. Once thing I noticed is that you did not include the overpowered PAEN satellite. You can easily get 70+ health which nets something like an insane 20% boost to Science and Energy, and 30% (I think) to manufacturing...

The game is fun....as a role play game. They've put so much unbalanced stuff in it boggles the mind - I doubt it can really be fixed at this point. I think they went down the path of ' ah screw it lets just put a bunch of fun stuff in'. For example there are artefacts that you can find at...

I just feel dirty every time I play Civ:BE. I don't like wasting my time, and a good game for me, must have some sort of decent narrative, interesting game mechanics or Easter eggs. When I play Civ:BE it feels like I'm literally wasting my time twiddling dials for 2 hours for an inevitable...

Basically No. They also removed simple drag and drop to be replaced with 4 clicks. THey also took out the facility to cut and paste build queues from one city to the next. I beggars belief what game designers think these days, people are not that stupid, and drag and drop is even more prevalant...

I like the idea. However, as you say the balance is borked, but better to launch something than nothing. In any event, give how whacked out the balance is it might be fun, at least for the first few times, just to see what crazy thing people can come up with.