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I'm wondering about something. Mass Media obsoletes the AP. So what happens if the person who built the AP discovers mass media and obsoletes the AP, but then someone who doesn't have mass media conquers the AP city. Does the AP come back from the dead and back into play?

So I decided to try the global highlands map script. I'm getting tired of the standard pangaea/continents/archipelago games. To make it even rougher i chose an arid climate. Here's my capital. Besides the couple of coast and ocean, every single tile is a hill. Almost every single city is also...

Is anybody disappointed in the American AIs? It seems like all too often they're wusses. Roosevelt always gets slaughtered by Montezuma in the Earth 18 civ scenario, for example. Lincoln expands as slowly as Liz. It's rare to see any American civ be dominant, though Washington seems to do better...

So what's the best techs you guys have ever gotten from liberalism? So far this is my best tech. You could probably get fusion on settler, but for monarch this is pretty damn good. The other two islands had been fighting nonstop and hadn't teched anything. As you'll notice Alex and...

So I just finished my first space race game in a while, and i'm reminded why it sucks so much and domination is so much better. After my spaceship launches Brennus decides to attack me. I slaughter the troops he lands on my island. But he wastes thousands of hammers worth of missles destroying...

So I started playing a Marathon game, and I finished teching Civil Service in the BCs. Now I normally play Epic, and no matter how good my start is, I never finish CS in the BCs. 200ad is probably more like it. I didn't even beeline it, i got currency and calendar first, and I think i might...

So the abbreviation everybody's sick of hearing, settled specialist economy. The only time I play this kind of game is when I'm isolated or semi isolated. It's pretty effective when you don't have to worry about getting boxed in with 4 cities because you were too busy building wonders to build...

So recently i've been enjoying going for late game domination wins fueled by cold hard cash. Just turn off research, and buy yourself an army. Go from last in power to first in a few turns. So let's discuss this method of victory. There's 3 civs that this works best with because of their UBs...

This screen shot is from my most recent game. As i was spreading some missionaries around I noticed that Frederick had a size 4 capital. I went into the world builder because i just had to see what could have possibly caused that. Apparently the moron built all the unhealthiness producing...

Have you guys ever had a start where you're on your own island, yet you can make contact with the other civs through coasts? I love this kind of start so so much. You get the benefits of isolation, tons of room to expand, no rush to expand, plenty of time to build the early wonders, less...

Does anybody know if the AI is programmed to research techs in a certain order? In most of my games most civs seem to research stuff in the same order. Mansa will always go down the physics/electricity/radio/mass media line, usually trading for rifles and assembly later, if ever...

So this is probably the single most common victory method for the AI. How do they do it? Are they smart enough to run a ton of artist specialists? Or do they just turn up the culture slider and get culture through mature towns? I'm guessing they build as many cathedrals as they can. I'm...

Is there a requirement for this mission to be available? Right now everybody is buddhist, and I don't want the negative modifiers for stopping a war against someone. So i want to use espionage to switch them to something else before I attack. BUt I don't see that mission available against them...

So the inca start in this scenario is awful. About half of your starting city's BFC will be in mountains no matter where you settle. I guess this is to counter the beautiful massive continent they have available right behind those mountains, and their start is probably better than a lot of other...

Ok, so I'm having trouble now that i've moved up to emperor. I could get domination wins in monarch without a problem, but so far the only ones i've gotten on emperor were with permanent alliances, which is pretty much just cheating. Once you get a PA in about 1400, the game's over. You won...

So i'm playing Wang Kon of Mali. I get access to stone, so decide to put walls and castles in all my cities. It's only about 3 turns each, so why not? Then I get this quest, build 7 castles. I immediately complete it as all the castles were built and the rewards were pretty sweet. Protective...

So Montezuma's favorite civic is police state. Has anyone ever seen him actually research facism? The guy's a threat up until you get rifles, but i've never seen him tech past that, and even rifles is pretty rare, grenadiers is the highest I've seen him get. Same with Tokugawa, Genghis...

So I just had my best opening game ever. Epic, pangaea, monarch. First of all, my start was incredible. 2 Gems, gold, rice and a horse all in my fat cross. Too bad that cow wasn't in there too. But who can complain at that start? Almost every single tile is also a river tile, this is going...