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If you're planning to win by domination then you're going to piss everyone off pretty quickly by multiple DoWs and taking a lot of enemy cities, but importantly you're still going to be able to maintain some trading partners, especially if you get early DoFs with civs that have low warmonger...

This is based on only a handful of games so far, so I'm inerested to hear if others have experienced the same thing. Pre-patch the liklihood of a DoF partner dowing you was very small. Post patch I've seen it happen 3 times already. That leads me to believe that it's a change in coded AI...

After taking some months off civ 5 I've recently started playing again and I've been thinking about the new tech tree and the implications for domination victories. The thread I want to start is about ideas to use saved GS+Oxford+SR to get a tech lead mid game and then sweep the map. As...

Research Agreements in G&K are not working the way I thought they did. After playing a game today I realised that I was getting a lot more :c5science: from a late game RA than I expected. So I went back and did some tests. What I thought happened with RAs is that you receive the sum of the...

This is conventional wisdom now, but after noticing a few things in recent games I'm not sure it's correct. Actually I think it's wrong. Have we arrived at this conclusion by simple play-testing or has someone actually taken a look at code to prove that this is what occurs? If it's the...

I want to put a challenge out to all the Civ 5 deity domination players, and anyone up for it, for a fun contest to see who can play the most dominant game the fastest. But not in a regular game, this challenge has a few twists. I want to make this pretty difficult, more so than just a race to...

I haven't done this before but the possibility occurred to me during a game I played yesterday and today. Imagine this scenario. I have access to 4 uranium. I also have a lot of gold. In four of my cities I begin building nukes but I switch production in each city to something else with...

Map generator hates me. Can anyone spot a half decent city location here? ;)

settings are pangaea, deity, standard everything, Persia. I'm in a game as Darius where I built up a nice defensive army of immortal/pikes and beelined Rifling for upgrades, before launching my invasion. I spawned in a quite difficult map position - landlocked right in the dead center of...

It's on my mind for a while to try to play a game fully using the autocracy tree. It usually comes too late and previously I'd only ever taken 2 or 3 policies at most before the game ends, and even then they made little difference to the outcome. So I've been messing around with trying to play...

Deity War Challenge Arabia Deity Standard Continents Objective: Conquer Greece! - you succeed when Alexander has only one city. You must control Athens. There hasn't been a challenge thread in a while and I thought this would be cool for a change. It's not an entire game, more...

I have played many hours of civ 5, somewhere north of 1500, and I thought I knew how the AI behaves in all situations and then tonight out of the blue it completely surprises me by doing something I have never seen it do before. Settings are deity standard everything continents as Arabia...

Domination Victory in civ 5 is a strange beast. The way it works lends itself to some odd endings where a player wins a DV while hardly being in any kind of dominating position. This is, of course, due to the single victory condition of being the last civ in control of your initial capital...

I'm in the middle of a deity game that looks like I will win by domination victory and I've used a strategy that is a first for me. The idea I had was to set up a game in a similar way as when going for a science victory, HS PT ND, RA spam, GS spam but then I channeled the RA's to open up...

What would happen if on the same turn you won the United Nations vote, completed the Utopia Project and launched the spaceship from your capital? I dare someone who has the time to make this happen on a lower level and report back what does actually occur.

In my search to break the grind of repetitive games I gave some thought to opening with this wonder on a start with 1 marble and at least 2 stone resources. It adds 2:c5gold: to the quarry tiles and gives you 100:c5gold: every time you burn a GP. Works out to be a lot of gold over the course...

I've been tinkering with an opening strategy that can be used by the Babs and Korea to get a large army of rifles by about turn 100 and go on a conquering spree which can be well used for a domination, science or diplomacy win. I've formulated this with deity level in mind but it should also...

For your own personal games and also for competitive play in Civ 5 what should be most valued between winning the earliest and winning most often? I've noticed that so far competitive Civ 5 playing is based around the goal of providing certain starting conditions and then competing to see who...

I've noticed recently that a few players who claim to be deity beaters have been saying that they rate Greece as among the top few civs, even challenging for top overall. I am at a loss to understand why. I can't put them anywhere near the top of the bunch, there are at least 6 - 8 civs that I...

When you're about to DoW your next victim don't forget to shop around to see if someone will pay you to do it. Civs that are close to your target, dislike them, or especially are at war with them will often pay you to DoW. Seeing as that's your plan anyway it's a no-brainer to take some free...