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Curious what everyones standards on this is. I'm a builder, i space my cities 6 tiles apart resources and geography permitting and i like wonders and city states. I also have RA off to make something other than trading posts and gold multipliers matter, and because it gets ridiculous later on...

New resource icons were included with the Revolution mod. Is there any way to turn them off? I saw nothing about them in the readmes and they are quite jarring when i'm so used to the old ones, and frankly i don't like them. Secondly, is there a way to automate just the military units? I'm a...

Monarch bores me and the few (hastily abandoned) emperor starts i have done felt pretty similar, so i decided to jump 2 steps to immortal. I went with Hatty because i felt like pushing some borders around and i always miss the flexibility of spiritual even when i have something better, and also...

One of my biggest problems with civ is that the more successful my game is, the more time i spend managing my cities instead of looking at the big picture in my empire. I know it is commonly accepted around here that automating almost anything is bad, and for the most part i agree, but when...

So my catapults are hammering away at Montys walls at 2% a pop (and i like it that way!). Trouble is, his defense on the most recent city started at something like 120%. I have never seen this before the new patch, always thought it was either max cultural or max wall/castle defense, not both...

Every once in a while there is a game that has something special about it, something that fundamentally changes how you approach the game. I played one such game today. I have 2 problems: One is that the game bores me just enough that i will start a game, but never finish it. The second is...

I made it to round 200 before getting bored and quitting my last game. New record since i got a civ-able comp again. What keeps everyone interested enough to actually finish games?

So im playing Brennus because the gallic warriors are too cool. Shaka is nearby to the east, Toku just as close to the north, water to the south and west. I research BW, no copper anywhere. I expand to 3 cities before i run out of room, research IW and figure i will start building axes and...

Some of you followed my Zara game in the latest PYL where i used cultural border pressure to flip my opponents cities, ending in an unintended culture win. Since im terrible at war, i have been pondering how to improve on this particular playstyle. What i did in the PYL game was to run...

I always find myself struggling with having a big enough military at any given point in the game. It gets better when i can draft rifles, but until that point i just never seem to be able to have enough hammers. I attribute this to my wonder spam. So in an attempt to get rid of this addiction...

I think it is. Even for a peaceful game, i need a power rating worthy of invasion to be left alone. This doesnt match well with having a meaningful tech rate, so its either focus on teching and risk being attacked, or build an army and have it sit around uselessly. Going middle of the road on...

I had the most ridiculous start today. I managed to build stonehenge, the great wall, the oracle and the pyramids, my quartet of top early wonders. Usually i miss one of them. I started with several AH resources, researched AH and horses popped. Which is cool cause im egyptian. Spam some...

In most economic threads someone is going to remind everyone that "there is no such thing as a pure economy". Sometimes that someone is me. But that got me thinking. Why cant there be? As some of you know i am not a fan of US. But i took a second look at it and crunched the numbers again...

Just wondering if anyone know the rationale behind giving Monty such a unique UB. All other UB give some sort of bonus - extra gold, extra hammers, extra health or food or happiness, but for the most part they are fairly mild effects. Monty on the other hand gets to use slavery at twice...

I have tried many different kinds of economies by now. The result i have arrived at is that cottages are not optional, as annoying as that is. However, i have run into a problem which doesnt really exist for something like SE. Happy faces. How does everyone deal with WW when running a CE? I...

Something that i feel is missing in this game is the ability to really manipulate the other civs. In galactic civilizations II, i usually won without going to war a single time. I made the other civs go to war against eachother, forged alliances and had my buddies wipe out the civs that...

I dont hear a lot about gold. The general consensus seems to be "enough to keep science maxed and no more". Is that the best way to go about it? Gold has a lot of uses in diplomacy. Consider the following scenario: Standard game, except one city is devoted to churning out and settling GM...

How do you do it? Its not really realistic to go through the game with only a few cities due to the nature of resources and healthiness, but managing a whole bunch of cities is just annoying. So annoying that i usually abort the game halfway through.

As the title says, i hate cottages. Really. As in jump up and down and stomp on them kind of hate. They are annoying to grow and i dont even like how they look. With that in mind, does anyone have a decent way to avoid using them and/or a link to a guide? I have my own ideas, but they are...