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The awkward wording may be a legacy of the most important Diplo bonus from Civ 4, "Our trade relations have been fair and forthright," a bonus you got from trades that were decidedly UNFAIR... in the other civilization's favor.

I think they want you to buy XCom. The "Enemy Within" expansion included a couple of references to Civilization as well.

Workshops are usually worthwhile, but Windmills are too expensive. I'd only build it after a factory in a city that is intended to generate great engineers to rush spaceship parts with the Order tennent, and that is an uncommon strategy b/c going freedom and buying them with gold is generally...

Make sure you have 4-6 archers early and be ready to upgrade them to composites early, in case one of them goes after you in the classical era. Prepare for full scale war slowly and efficiently, planning to strike with xbows and pikes, maybe knights, too. Bribe one warmonger to attack another a...

Lately I've been doing Shuffle for added difficulty. Not knowing what kind of map you are on forces you to be more flexible. In my current game I saw coastline to the north and southeast of my starting position and thought I might be on an archipelago, so I ran my settler to the coast, just...

That's not so bad. I thought they also stopped giving you rewards when you meet them, too. Or was that Vanilla? Helsinki has another fish and sheep to the west that are not pictured, and there is no approach from the West of Helsinki, due to mountains. The only way onto this peninsula by...

I wish. They are militaristic. I just checked and India currently has a solid lock on their loyalty for now. 77 influence and they are currently "worried" about a barb camp on the far side of India, so that's another 40 for them. They also want truffles, which I haven't seen on this continent...

I decided to try Random Civ Shuffle map on Deity to see if I could cope. I got Sweden and what looked like an archipelago on turn 1 (so I ran my settler to the shore) but it turned out it was a narrow peninsula on a much larger continent. I rushed to settle the entire peninsula myself, because...

You can sometimes narrow it down to 2, if you have a firm handle on what victory strategy they have chosen. I don't think I have ever seen an AI choose an ideology that does not match their victory condition. If they went patronage and bought a bunch of city states, they are probably going...

Thanks. Wow, I wonder why they decided it should be a tile yield.

What is the source of the 5 gold on the tile of my capital in this screenshot?

It doesn't have to be greater. If the total tourism they have applied to you is even 10% of the total culture you have accumulated, they will apply one point of ideology pressure, with more points being applied as they reach certain thresholds. However, the reverse also applies, so if they have...

If your scout encounters an AI road outside it's borders, connecting two cities that don't have contiguous borders, pillage it. It is not considered an act of war. Their trade route will be disrupted until it is repaired, but they still have to pay maintenance on the roads. It's a fun little...

So, the pressure to change ideologies policies actually comes from the other industrial civilization's influence on your culture versus your influence on theirs. There is a screen on the culture tab that breaks it down. The way it works is, if one civ has a higher level of cultural influence on...

They go for that? I thought the AI never traded thier last lux except for at 3:1, regardless of diplomatic relations! I'm going to have to try that. If it works, you don't even have to be desperate for happiness for this to be worth it if it triggers a few "we love the king" celebrations.

This is less precise, though, because you can't know which resources are being traded with whom, just that they are being traded and not with you, so you can't be sure a war will free up a particular resource. I suppose you can do elaborate deductive reasoning to figure out who is trading what...

If an AI has sold every copy of a luxury resource but one, they will charge triple for access to it. This seems like a bad deal, but if you have severe happiness problems (say, an old trading partner backstabed you right after flipping a Mercantile CS ally off of you) it can seem worth it in...

The game has progressed. I have artillery and cav, he has muskets and knights (though the second i attacked a bunch of gattling guns showed up out of nowhere). I can find out if River Warlord and Tombs stack, but I didn't go for land knights and they'd be painfully obsolete in this war anyway...

First game in the new patch I selected random leader and got Songhai. My closest neighbor is Egypt. Ramesses is being a douchnozzle and denounced me during a DoF Apparently I am expanding too fast and building wonders he wants (I only built 2). He is begging to be conquered, but I actually have...

I had a hankering to dust off Civ4 and play some FFH2. I'm looking at the dates around the forums... is this the only FFH2 modmod still in active development?