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I recently started playing Civ V for the first time since 2011 or so. Main reason was the existence of the DLL mod Artificial Unintelligence because weak AI is a killer reason for me to not play a game. Unfortunately the creator of the mod seems to have gone inactive and the thread about the...

I played Civ 4 for thousands of hours, mostly with the BetterAI mod and later the k-mod which replaced the awful vanilla AI with a completely new one that is astonishingly good, better than the average human player. When Civ 5 came out, I immediately bought it but hated it, incomplete game and...

In the game as well as in other guides such as Civ Wiki, I find only very vague information about this, so... 1. What exactly is the unhappiness penalty of puppet cities and does it change over time? The in-game help and other sources just say "they generate a lot less unhappiness than...

I bought Civ V right after release but didn't like it, now last week I tried it again with the expansion installed and finally got a little hooked up by it. In fact it would be great if it had an AI. Anyway, in my second serious game, on King level, I went for diplomatic victory because that...

I bought Civ V at release and desperately tried to like it for some weeks, but eventually had to admit that it is (or was) a horrible game. The reasons are its tedious, crawling pace and lack of interaction and, most importantly, the outrageously terrible AI. I went back to occasionally playing...

I want to provide different start saves of a game so I can play it at a certain level while others can play the exact same map at lower or higher levels. What is the best way to do it? I guess it requires using the Worldbuilder...? (I've never used it so far)

I've been wondering how exactly the AI "decides" if, when and against whom to prepare and declare a war. 1. When will an AI civ decide to go to war? (possible reasons: no peaceful expansion possible, own territory too small, own troop size over a certain threshold, being Monty, ...) 2...

I often read posts stating that people had to go down a level with BtS because the game has become harder. I, however, found the game to be easier on the same level. I agree that the BtS AI IS smarter, but it also has fewer bonuses... it plays more humanlike than Vanilla, but the overall...

:D A pic from one of my recent games. I was on a continent with Pericles, Justinian and De Gaulle. After conquering Justinian I wanted to attack De Gaulle but he had a huge stack (64 units, though very outdated) so I thought I had to build some more units first. But then I saw this...

I always get way more negative events than positive ones. At first I thought is was only in my mind (forgetting the good and only remembering the bad) but in my current game I kept an eye on them and I got 12 negative events in a row and only a single one positive and that was a useless quest...

In every mp game everybody shows up as *mod* and we have frequent 'out of sync' errors. Are those known problems? How are your experiences with mp performance? We have the latest patch 3.03 and use Solver's unofficial patch. Before 3.03 it was even worse.

As many may know, in Vanilla/Warlords there was an exploit with Great Artists: If you made the city produce culture, assigned artist specialists and cranked the culture slider up to 100%, then set off the c-bomb, the effect was multiplied because it depended on the culture points the city...

I've played quite a lot of MP games, but so far only with friends via Direct IP connection. Today I tried connecting to Gamespy for the first time. I was dumbfounded when I saw the lobby. The only useful options are game name, number of players, map type and ping. Is that a joke or what? At...

I reinstalled Windows (and BtS) yesterday because I've upgraded my computer. Now my HoF is broken. I just completed a game (space race win) and not only are my old games gone from the HoF, also the new game doesn't show up. The HoF is completely empty! I had backupped the entire 'My Games'...

I specifically set up a game to get crushed by the AI. The game is on Monarch level with Aggressive AI option on. Duel size lakes map, with me as Alexander and two warlike AIs, Montezuma and Genghis Khan. I had copper near my capital and built a mine on it. Apart from that, I was very...

I eventually managed to lose my first game in BtS :mischief: Interesting situation was when one AI that I had a defensive pact with, attacked another AI with which I also had a defensive pact. So I automatically declared on the attacker. Nothing wrong with that, but that made me wonder...

...and doing quite well with that :D I'v only played two games in BtS, so this is in no way a complaint about the game. But so far I didn't feel the need to spend my valuable commerce on espionage. Never raised the slider above 0%. Sure, the AI civs get a huge espionage advantage against...

This problem is not new in BtS, but as it's still there, I'll describe it here. Every time I quit the game, it deletes the CivilizationIV.ini file in the MyGames folder. When I start the game the next time, all settings are reset to default. This means: -The player name I always use is gone...

Next try on bug reporting... I think this time it's a real one ;) As already noted by others in the general forum, the AI makes some odd choices when it comes to improving tiles. In the screenshot below you see that Victoria has Horses and Pigs in close proximity, but instead of building...

The new national wonder Moai Statues is supposed to add +1 hammer to every water tile of its city. I built it and it behaved as expected. Some time later though, the city's water tiles had +2 hammers. I couldn't find an explanation. I looked into the tech tree, but couldn't find anything that...