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Currently playing a game for the "Buying your deels..." achievement. At war with France and I took Paris and Marseille, later losing the latter to loyalty. After capturing Paris, France's capital shifts to Amboise. If I capture Amboise, La Rochelle becomes France's new capital. However...

Also, there's this thread about it in the bugs section.

I've been experiencing the same bug. It appears to happen whenever a city is captured by a player. I've had games where the screen does become functional again but do not remember the conditions under which that occurred. But capturing cities/having cities be captured replicates this bug in...

On quick the contact beacon is a 20 turn wait. Upon building the Mind Flower I had 19 turns to wait and had not built any mind stems/xenosanctuaries. I would think Mind Flower would also be around a 90 turn wait on Marathon. Seems Purity/Supremacy victory conditions are much quicker than...

So I just tried this going for a contact victory and transcendence victory on the same turn. In order to get the timing correct I activated the contact beacon when the Mind Flower had one turn left to be built. After waiting the requisite number of turns I get the first win popup telling me...

What about a Contact victory and winning domination via Coup d'état?

You can only launch it on the tile the Rocktopus is currently on. so to launch it you first have to move the unit so that it's orbit effect area doesn't overlap with any currently existing satellites.

No. Once you have a dominant affinity (which iirc is the first affinity you get to 6) the other two level at a slower speed. In a game where I researched the entire tech web I had dominant affinity at 18, another at 16, and the third at 14. edit: I might have had both of the other two at 16...

Or do the tiles where resources are placed have to be empty? e.g. if I place a one of these orbitals above a set of 7 tiles each improved with a generator will no resources be placed over the orbital's lifetime?

Not necessarily. Finishing a game in general is definitely a satisfying feeling, but it is the in-between where all of the fun happens. For Civ5 in particular, once you've really gotten the hang of achieving a certain victory at a good pace on higher difficulties your games can become just...

Considering they've already played the game to 2727 AD I think the 'long and painful' aspect doesn't really factor in here. A complete elimination victory is certainly doable still (although it will take a while, if anything just due to the sheer number of cities). The general strategy would...

I'm the same way as well. I would say only 20% of games I play I leave all the victory conditions on, play immortal/deity, and go for the earliest win possible. The other 80% of games I usually just have some goal in mind that seems fun. These games I usually just play around with until I get...

I'm assuming you have the non-domination victory conditions disabled? In any case a few well placed nukes will wipe out those units. From there just swing in and grab his capital. Rinse and repeat for Deutschland.

There is, but it is only available when your unit is inside of a friendly civ's territory. In reply to topic creator, as far as I know there is no way to gift air units to other civs. However, I want to say I remember reading a long time ago about some method to gift air units (specifically...

I would really love to see an expansion which gave a second leader to every civ which would confer a different UA to that civ when playing that leader. Maybe some small gameplay changes/a new gameplay mechanic added in there as well. In the meantime I also wouldn't mind a new DLC civ or two.