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As soon as the capital can build a settler without that building process greatly inhibiting its growth. The land around the capital will strongly influence the city size at which it's optimal [to build a Settler], but a baseline recommendation may be growing to size 5. Likely want to start...

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It depends on the context of the map and your strategy (and technically, expansion pack—Legalism will grant you your culture building once available, while in vanilla, you lost the culture building if it wasn't immediately available). If you build the monument first (and then take...

The cache files are created so that Civilization can load faster, without having to call variables and other data (assumed to be the same as before). If you're having troubles loading the game, Civ crashes arbitrarily, or you see visual artifacts, the cache files may be related. I'm just taking...

I do. Do you? I know the game isn't out yet, but I would love to play Gods & Kings now. It will be a breath of fresh air—espionage, new Civilizations, and faith? Sign me up. Let's band together and think of ways to play G&K today. Where is Firaxis' office? Do you think we could... just go...

I wouldn't worry about perception. Think about this though. How good is the opponent AI? Civilization V isn't too complex; it's a fairly balanced game where there are very few non-choices. Each decision is a trade-off between gold, production, science, culture, military, and a few other...

It's funny, the fluctuations I feel. I like many of the design changes they made to Civ 5, complain about a lack of one more turn feeling, and I rate myself high. Color me addicted.

The only time your passive espionage will allow you to see the research or innards of a city is if you are directly focusing on that one civilization. Otherwise, spies serve the purpose of spying without necessarily having to devote large amounts of EPs.

Hardly. It's humor. I'm Native American and I certainly don't feel this inferiority that you're feeling. As to the topic, Sitting Bull is a strong civilization-- why aren't we thinking about nerfing the Romans? The Incans? The game was made with the intention of challenging you, not telling...

I was at a seminar recently where an ex-CIA agent was giving a speech and it opened my eyes to the amount of espionage that truly goes on. Nearly every major power country [United States, Frances, England, Germany, Russia, China] has spies in all the other countries. Now as to whether they...

I'm not what one would call an expert at Civilization, but the problem it seems is that you lack spamming. Build corn and cow, mine the hills to be replaced with windmills later (opt.), and everything else cottaged. From the sounds of it, you have surplus food to accomplish this, so might as...

Thank God, I thought I was just hearing voices in my head every time I researched Aesthetics.

No, I love to do it too. Usually whenever I'm choosing a leader, one of the first things to roll through my head is if I want to try and act as their personality and nationality would call for.

One of the first things I noticed too. Annoys the hell out of me.

I usually lurk-- I registered just to say that this was one of the most informative posts I've read on growth and warfare in Civ IV. Thanks a lot; it's already improved my game immensely. EDIT: Also, as an aside, I'd say that the majority of what made this article informative I already...