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I am a long time player of Civ IV and played this game better many years ago, I took a long break from it before I picked it up again, and now it's driving me crazy that I can't beat the Emperor difficulty level like I used to do. I am stuck on Monarch, which is getting easier and easier to win...

Back when I used to come on the forums a few years back, all the advice I seemed to get was don't let your science slider run below 60%. Since I have come back on here recently I have noticed that people are saying that's not a good rule. Am I to believe that you can run your science all the...

I have been playing some games on Monarch difficulty, and I notice there to be a tendancy for the stronger AIs to start vassaling the weaker ones rather than just completely conquer them like I do. It has gotten very frustrating to me, because sometimes I will be in the middle of wiping out a...

I keep finding myself having heavy debates about which national wonders to build in my capital. I normally run Bueracracy as soon as I get Civil Service so my capital becomes a really important city. My usual thing is to thow oxford university in there because my capital is almost always my #1...

I've learned lots about the early moves of this game on this forum. People say found a few highly productive cities like 2 or 3, and then rush your nearest neighbor and take them over early on. This part of the game is becoming automatic for me on maps where I'm not very isolated and I don't...

Does tech trading count as "Trading with my Worst Enemy" on diplomatic points or does it only apply to opening borders and swapping resources?

Like the title implies, which of the AIs are notorious for trying to win culturally? I was playing last night and Ghandi slipped up and got a cultural victory on me. I didn't have much warning as it said one of his cities went legendary, and I noted that, but I usually don't start getting...

I was curious about trading techologies later in the game, around the middle ages, renaissance, and industrial age. I know trading most techs is a bad idea in the modern era if you're going for a space race (especially) or diplomatic (want to build UN first) win. I have also seen numerous...

I've been playing with the Byantines because I thought it would be pretty cool to have cataphracts and hippodromes. I have also enjoyed having a spirital civ where there is no anarchy between civics or religious changes. What I really dislike about them is this imperialistic trait. It seems...

In my last two games I've played both times as the Byzantines and I have had protective opponents as my closest neighbors (Sitting Bull and Charlemagne). My usual strategy is just take out who ever is closest to me and expand my empire using captured cities from them, but when I'm facing a...

I forgot how you can completely get rid of colonial expenses the easiest way. Does switching to State Property fix that problem or do you have to let the colony go? I forget too how to give a colony its independece. If I do give the colony its independence does it count fully towards my...

I was playing my most recent game, and I have a couple of different civs where there are some serious chokepoints. One Civ had some mountains cutting off most of the access, and the lone tile that could get you through was some hills. I had another civ that had two City-States above a...

I was playing my game last night when my computer had a ******ed moment right when I was going to purchase a building, and instead of purchasing a circus, I bought a stable. I was so mad (especially since I was about 15 turns away from tanks). I never build stables. Does anyone else? It made...

My latest game I chose Continents map, King Difficulty, but much to my surprise I was all by myself. I had one city state on my island, but everyone else was elsewhere. I later found the Aztecs had a really big island to themself too, but all the other Civs were in what resembled a Pangea...

I'm currently playing a game on Prince level that's making me really rethink my strategy here. I managed to have two cities, my capital and one city that secured iron be my only "settled" cities. From that tiny start and only two cities, I've managed to make an army that's big enough to...

I was recently playing my 4th game on Prince difficulty level. I learned about the National College Start on here and it propelled my game quite a bit. I was able to win a cultural victory and a diplomatic victory for my 2nd and 3rd games. I kept my empire small for both of those and built a...

I was trying my 3rd game on Civ 5 and finding it pretty entertaining. I listened to a lot of the advice on these forums and decided to just leave my capital city as my lone city and start conquering cities here and there and make them all puppets. After winning a domination game on my first...

I was looking for a few pointers on Archipeligo (or any water heavy map). How many Galleys do you have to build to carry out a successful early invasion? How worried do you have to be about the AI coming in a dropping a stack of doom from another coast in the early game? What changes about...

I have been playing several games in a row and I've noticed I have a habit of building the same wonders in most of my games. The Statue of Liberty and Broadway are two I get every time. The University of Sankore and the Eiffel Tower are two I usually get. I've had a strategy of not building...

I have been playing this game and absolutely dominating it. However trying to win has been problematic. I had built the AP and had spread my religion to every nation except Montezuma, who I was wiping out. When I finish up with him an election gets triggered for me to potentially win the...