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If I make annotations on the map and then trade my map to someone else, can they see the notations I've made?

Sometimes when I drag a colonist from the settlement screen to the garrison, or from the garrison screen to a ship it will vanish into thin air. The Settlement population remains the same, but basically the unit is invisible and produces NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER to the colony. I've had it...

1) How quickly does the REF show up after you've declared independence? Do you need to be ready to go in the next few turns? 2) How highly promoted are the REF units, on average? Do they all start with Veteran 1 and Leadership? 3) Does declaring independence void defensive pacts with...

I've yet to make it to revolution, so I'm curious: can the natives tell your forces and the REF apart? I've wondered what would happen if the REF had a long march through unfriendly (to ME) indian territory to get to one of my cities, and those natives held a grudge against me. Could they...

Does the strength bonus given to Converted Natives still apply if you've taken the time to educate them into a different career, or does it apply --ONLY-- to the Converted Native unit itself? I'm just wondering if it's possible to create stronger soldiers by educating natives and then getting...

I'm trying to remember all of the interesting dishes that other Civs offer from time to time in diplomatic dialog, and I can only remember three. Huayna Capac (Smoked Hamster) Genghis Khan (Boiled Yak) Suryavarman II (Mango) Are there any others?

I don't get it. I can have a city with 40% rebel sentiment, then I send an Elder Statesman to the Town Hall to crank up the volume, and the sentiment gets LOWER! WHY?! Is citizen automation a necessary part of this game? Am I not letting them be free enough? Is my micro-managing was...

I'm just wondering if I sell guns or horses to a particular tribe at a distant location, on a different landmass than my cities, is there a chance that those same guns (or horses) could magically end up in the same leader's settlements on my landmass the next turn...

Wow. Colonization is my DREAM game. It's got a little "PIRATES!", a little "CivIV", and a few awesome things of its own. I don't think I'll ever need to purchase another computer game AGAIN... If I wasn't bored at work right now, I wouldn't even take the time to write this. I'd be home...

I really, really, REALLY love playing Marathon speed games, taking time to name my units, and watching the history of a game unfold. That said, I really, really, REALLY hate how doing so can devour several full days off. How do you guys manage to balance an engrossing game of Civ with...

Mine would have to be the Great Wall. It's a great way to say "@#$% YOU!!!" to the guy who made your early game life frustrating with barbs. It also makes them have to SERIOUSLY rework their military strategy. No more double GG points within your borders! Oops! As an added bonus, if you...

I'm just wondering what the record out there is for people who have completed the Great Wall in their games, of the number of tiles actually enclosed within the wall before its completion. It can be agonizing for me, sometimes. I'll delay completion by turns to allow city borders to pop just...

Just curious... At higher difficulty levels does the AI wait to promote its units, or is it forced to promote units once a promotion becomes available, regardless of difficulty level?

Is this a bigger part of the game than it looks, or is it just to add color and atmosphere to the game? There's a semantic difference between: "Your orders!" "What do you want me to do?" "Tell me what to do!" "What's the plan?" "You can count on us!" etc... It almost...

I used to never build this wonder, but now I have to say, I'm really digging it. 1) All priest specialists in your Civ get +1 hammers; nearly as good as an Engineer. 2) If you really want a priest GP, being able to build four in that city from that wonder alone makes it a virtual...

:cowboy:I haven't played many custom Civ games, where you can can assign any leader to any Civ, but today I was trying to think up some pretty mean combinations, and came up with an idea I'd like to try... Celebrity Custom Civ Game Challenge#1: MEXICAN STANDOFF (...assuming a Noble...

I'll admit, when I pop a goody hut and I get a big fat map of ocean squares pretty much where I expected them to be already, I hate it. But what about other times? -- When they show you part of a rival's territory, for example, and you haven't even MET them yet! You can being plotting...

I'm just wondering why this seems to be such a popular request for any new version of Civ that comes out. Why do people want this so much?

No, I'm not from Firaxis marketing. I'm just a curious gamer, who happens to enjoy both games. I actually enjoy PIRATES! quite a lot, and find it to have a lot in common with Civ IV. It's almost like a real-time version of the Civ IV, stuck in a single era, where instead of playing as a...

Will a stack of units take LESS collateral damage if it is on a forested / hill tile, in a fort, or fortified over a number of turns? Or is the collateral damage the same, regardless of whether or not the catapult attacking you is shooting upward into a forested hill, or level, into a wide...