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I've been trying other victory conditions other than the relatively straightforward SV (on deity). I've found that the way I play my SV and DV games are pretty similar. I pretty much follow the same tech path of a SV to research labs, then go to globalization instead of satellites. Curious if...

I'm an immortal player. I've always been amazed by how early people are getting SV wins on deity. I recently got my first deity win and my SV was actually faster than my immortal. I assume this is because on Immortal my RAs return less (slower ai tech rate) as well as espionage is near...

There are several threads about specific victory conditions since the fall patch. I wanted to focus specifically on standard paced, deity victory conditions in this thread because I feel that at least with my experience of going from Immortal to Deity, there are certain victory conditions that...

In a thread about bananas, someone brought up the banana academy. I had never thought of this. I have seen MadDjinn settle great prophets on deer which makes sense. What are some other resources people like to settle on?

Artists/Musicians/Writers don't receive the hammer bonus from the Statue of Liberty. They do receive the beaker bonus from secularism.

There's a good chance that this thread exists somewhere and I just missed it trying to search for it... But the social policy Consulates seems insanely powerful in BNW. If you "pledge to protect" along with using consulates, you will remain "Friends" with all the City states without having to...

I'm curious what determines how much military city states build. I have no idea if units just "appear" or there is actually a correlation to the production output (hammers) of a city. I know in general, militaristic city states build up more. But are there any other factors? Does the...

I don't have the Babylon goodies. I always hear about people saying how you can tech crazy and get 3 GSs before any other civ can get 1. I've never understood explicitly what their unique stuff was. Could someone link me to where I can see their UA/UB/UU etc. Thanks!

Has anyone done the math/looked this up in the backend? I'm hearing good things about patronage but haven't used it incredibly much. I searched the forums and couldn't find out how often educated elite spawns a great person, or if there's any non-randomness of which one they pop. If this has...

I've played through about 5 Civ5 games and an an Immortal player. For every game I've won, I've done it via domination or spaceship. This recent game I cleared my continent (only 1 player) and set to teching/ics etc, standard stuff. So I meet my neighbors across the sea and I notice that Harun...

What's your favorite era to wage war in?

I now the deity advantage increases as the era increases, but I found out in a tight space race something a little strange. I launched my spaceship the exact same year as Pacal. Knowing the that human turn comes first I believe I have won. I sit back and get ready to relish in the pleasure of...

If you're working a mined hill, do you need to have roads connecting that hill to your civilization? I know you have to be working the tile, but I never figured out if you need the roads or not. This normally torments me very early in the game where I'm torn between roading to my mined hills...

So I know this advice is probably obvious to most players, but seeing as I've gotten to emperor/immortal level and only RECENTLY learned this, I figure it might be helpful for others too. I used to always trade resources with the AI by selecting one of their resources and then asking them "What...

So I was trying out some variations on my SE/WSE game and I ran into someone beating me to the mids in 950BC! I think this is the earliest I've ever seen them built. This was on Immortal difficulty. It turns out Shaka was the one who completed them. Anyone seen them built earlier?

A little preface, I'm no expert Civ player but I'm enjoying it immensely and playing at the Monarch level. With my lack of experience, I'm sure there are some random events that I haven't received before. But the other day, I was playing a continents game and leading a massive...

So I play on normal time mode, prince difficulty. I thought it would be fun to play Montezuma and wage some early war. I was planning to take out 1-2 civilizations in the ancient era. So I met the Chinese and opened borders who lived very close to me and said hi. I already had writing...

Hi fellow Civ4ers, I'm relatively new Civ4 (was a huge Civ2 fanatic) and I'm just getting into Civ4. Right now I play in the Noble/Prince skill level. One thing that bothers me right now is spaceship victories. I remember in Civ2 I always turned them off. It just bothers me that a...