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    Switching CIV twice and get space race victory in 1700s

    1. Start as Babylonian, found Gordion(turn 4) on marble or Ephesus(turn 5) on horse. 2. Found Byzantion and another city in Greece before turn 50. 3. Switch to Greeks, destroy Babylonians and capture workers. 4. Get 2/3 UHV as Greek republic and spam great people, settle to Jerusalem. Found...
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    Expolit on sacking

    1. Found cities in foreign area. 2. Grant indepedence. 3. Send a troop to sack it after it grows to 2. (If you are Harappa, your cities starts at 2) 4. Grant indepedence. 5. Repeat 3 & 4 until there's no gold left. Max Chinese cheating strategy: 1. Start as Harappa. Found capital on rice 1 SE...
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    My article about RFC and DoC

    Well, it's here, in Chinese: http://www.chuapp.com/article/285329.html And I'm looking forward to Leoreth's respond with my interview question.
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    Optimal Russian spawning placement

    Turn 1: move settlers and units to see if you can meet other civs Turn 2: Found Caricyn on hill as capital, found Moskva at spot and Tver' NNWW, gift those 2 cities right away. we need these gifted cities in flip area. 2 crossbowmen go defend Caricyn, you need them on hill to beat barb horse...
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    Polish Golden Age Forever

    Once I started my first 2 GA with Mauseleum of Mausollos, nothing could stop my republic.
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    Chinese 3000 BC strategy

    Long time no see , it is me again. In recent version, China couldn't be OP like before anymore, but we still can get some advantage. 1. Send your 4th settler to Mandalay, that rainforest-jungle-hill tile, along with a militia. 2. Found it and gift to India. 3. Declare war and raze the city...
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    Beeline education: 600 AD Europe civ general strategy now

    Now, upon reaching renaissance era, we get huge expansion stability boost and city-founding bonus, so beeline education seems an optimal strategy. Method: research paper, get a GS and partly bulb education. Use cottage economy, steal or trade for guilds and engineering from Portugal after...
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    How to capture and keep Constantinople after 1280 AD

    1. Capture Constantinople. 2. Refuse Turkish flip 3. Gift Constantinople to another AI. 4. Make peace with Turks. 5. Attack that AI and take Constantinople back.
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    Russian optimal city placement

    1. Caricyn (good capital, grows faster than Moscow) 2. Moscow (gift to Arabs on turn 2 then get your flip army.) 3. Kherson (can move 1w to iron hill, better in early game) 4. Minsk (no indy Kiev this game, cottage powerhouse) 5. Branjsk (fur) 6. St. Peterburg(cottage powerhouse!) 7...
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    OP Game: From Harappans to Indians

    Regent epic fun game. Start as Harappan, found capital on grassland flood plains, spam city builders, found on rainforest tile to clean them, research only pottery and mining, refuse Indian flip, then switch to Indian. Once you capture Harappan core, all their remaining cities turn to ruins...
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    Animation: Rise and Fall of Civilization

    This is a good animation that makes you want to play RFC or DOC again and again. Eurasia 2500 BC-2015 AD (in Chinese): http://www.bilibili.com/video/av2462082/index_2.html Europe 500 BC - 2015 AD (in English/Chinese): http://www.bilibili.com/video/av1990421/
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    Paragon Spanish Secular victory in 1624

    It started before recent SVN (AI tech speed nerf), so Persians got absurd tech, and I spammed great spies, stole astronomy in 960s.
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    How bad can your relation achieve

    1. Play as French. 2. Declare war on Spain. 3. Make cease fire on the same turn. 4. Repeat 2-3.
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    European gets civil service from Japan

    This is possible in epic/marathon and by Arabs/Moors/Europeans who can reach Korea before 1000. Simple: switch to no state religion and Koreans will trade aesthetics/drama with you, Japanese will trade civil service; later Chinese will trade music. You cost 2 turns of anarchy (switch back...
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    About maintenance cost

    In recent version, once you have many cities, each city more adds maintenance cost significantly, like -400 -> -450. But even if you raze or give out that city, the cost doesn't fully go back, it may goes from -450 to -430. So what's rule here?
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    Paragon Strategy

    OK, now there's new difficulty, and we abusers(I'd rather call myself this type) got new challenges, let's start a new thread. Overall: Since tech penalty is very high in paragon difficulty, it's better to use spy. Grab lands in early game, stay 100% gold, get many commerce and then steal...
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    Italian spawning question

    If you play 3000 BC scenario Italian, you'd very likely to flip Milan as capital upon spawning. Many players don't like this inland city, although it is actually a fine city. So, can we choose auto-raze or flip as it is? By the way, I just found out a max strategy for Italians: rush...
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    ISIL flipping

    ISIL is now declaring independence against foreign domination, flipping the area. Any thoughts or comment?
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    Polish golden age forever

    Well, this is a test for new Polish UP: start as Greeks, build an empire, move capital faraway, gift all cities and 25000+ gold and 1 great people to Polish in 1020 AD, then switch. Polish gets 1 great people in Corinth in one turn, then the perpetual golden age begins. I got 2000+ research...
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    Egyptian conquest strategy

    3000 BC, M/N. 1. Found Niwt-Rst 1N. Research mining - masonry - mysticism - AH - writing - math (before turn 75). 2. Build worker - warriors, build settler when you grow to 2. 3. Worker farm the wheat first, then build a road on horse tile (not revealed yet), you'll finish the road 2...
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