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    How do you stop Prophets from spawning?

    Byzantine Bomb had the right idea. Use one of your own religion's Inquisitors to purge the holy city of the conquered civ and it should remove the holy city status. Without holy city status, there will be no more internal pressure of that religion within that city so you can convert it to your...
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    How Much is the Diplomacy Hit for the Use of Nukes?

    I love how you said "first nuke". I agree with dragonxxx, however if they do have nukes then you should find out where they are and nuke them first. If you are seriously considering using a nuke then why bother with public opinion? Just nuke all your problems away if they do declare war on you.
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    Getting caught in espionage

    Listen to your heart.
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    Ideology rethought

    What if I capture a Great Politician from another civ who's ideology is different from mine? Could I use him to introduce bi-partisanship into my government? It might be difficult to get anything done then. I also wouldn't like having to allocate some of my income toward political campaigning. I...
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    Which map types do you play and why?

    That sounds interesting. I'll give that a try since it sounds like what I've been looking for. Thank you for sharing your idea.
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    Poland, my new favourite

    Incense spawns only on Plains and Desert tiles, and Poland has a bias to spawn in Plains. Plains are also often adjacent Desert tiles. It seems that Poland's spawn bias has a side effect of increasing the odds you will find Incense nearby.
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    Never mind my soldiers…just moving through

    This is funny because many games where Alex is on a different continent I will see lots of lost capital and civ annihilation notifications pop up throughout the early eras. Then when I finally meet Alex and see his empire indicates that he had been warmongering all game long, he calls me a...
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    Can we do the following?

    Even with 'Auto Cycle Units' disabled, the camera still jumps to the last activated unit at the beginning of every turn. This is annoying and requires me to take extra caution to be certain which unit I'm moving. I wish the camera would just stay put where I move it in between turns.
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    Civ5 War Academy: Now Open!

    Wow, what amazing work! I just finished reading through the ranged combat guide after seeing the link to it in the England guide. The information in the articles is very well put together. I know I'll be continually improving my enjoyment of Civ 5 armed with all this knowledge. I loved reading...
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    Civ5 War Academy Competition: Winners

    Congratulations to all the winners! Also, thanks for taking the time to write those articles. I'm excited about reading them when they're released to the public.
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    Why I hate enemy caravels

    Triremes and other Galley style ships were in use until the 18th century, although by then they were relegated to minor roles after being replaced by larger broadside sailing ships. By the 15th century, war galleys were heavily armed with cannons and had advanced rigging. Galleys were used to...
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    How well do you play when severely intoxicated?

    You mean to say that people play this game sober? That's news to me. Sobriety is boring.
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    Selling buildings in occupied cities

    That's how it worked before patch 1.0.1.135, released 12/15/2010. In patch 1.0.1.135 they made this change: Have culture cost for policies never go down (trading away cities to reduce culture cost exploit). Razing cities will not raise your policy cost ceiling. If you immediately raze a...
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    What is causing my 2 move units to only get 1 move in enemy territory?

    This is why I fear England with the Great Wall and Longbowmen before they have Artillery. Just wait until England researches Dynamite and then you will have normal movement. With your tech lead you should have aircraft to deal with the longbowmen by then.
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    Lag? Help!

    I play 'semi-friendly' MP a lot with my friends online and we like to build up to at least the late Renaissance or Industrial era before we wage our epic battles. We play Continents, Standard size map, on Epic speed with default AIs to fill in the other slots. As a result our games tend to drag...
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    music in civ 5

    I love most of the music in Civ 5, but sometimes I will open the Steam web browser and load up http://grooveshark.com/ to listen to something else. The Steam browser can be opened without alt-tabbing, and grooveshark is a free music streaming site with music uploaded by various users...
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    The DLC restrictions are dumb!

    The Warhammer 40k Dawn of War franchise handles this extremely well. Players who bought the expansions can play all their expansion races in games with players who only have the basic game. The code restricts players to controlling races they purchased, but they have all the software to fight...
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    Research Agreements in 2011

    1. I don't know how that situation is handled. 2. It overflows to the next tech in your queue just like wcbarney said, and if you don't have another tech in the queue then it overflows to another random tech. 3. If the median is two techs then it takes the mean of those two techs to calculate...
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    Experience Cap?

    There is an experience cap, but it only applies to combat with Barbarians. If you enter combat with a City State or one of your neighboring major Civs, then they will gain experience from those battles.
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    Dealing with the "runaways"

    In one of my games I did what basta suggested with the City States and then picked a city on one end of the runaway civ's empire that looked defensible. After I took that one city I went pure defense at that location and let the AI send its waves to me. On the other end of his empire, I had...
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