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I went back and played Civ V a little, and I realized why Civ V was fun even during the sort of bland vanilla period: You had so many uniques to try out. Which is where Civ:BE stumbles most for me. I could wrap my head around the sort of lackluster affinities and what not if we had maybe...

I've been on this site for a few years, and it's one of my regular non-work-related sites to be on, on-line. I get a lot out of it, and it's well-maintained. All that said: Could a change to the main-page be made? Right now, it sort of is a hodge-podge news-feed of things that are rather...

I really, really hope they make at least one expansion for Civ:BE... I mean, I think it would be both profitable on their end as well as worth it on our end: - For one, doing an expansion for Civ:BE should be much easier than for Civ V. If you think about it, each sponsor is easier to make...

I'll start off by saying I like the game and how it clearly tweaked things that Civ V always suffered from (like letting us remove city-states by killing them off, and by letting us actually have room to expand, and so on). But I have some major suggestions, too. In order of priority: #1 -...

I actually really like this game, aside from the sort of bigger issue of having only 8 rather undetailed factions. Seriously, the ability to kill city states, the ability to build what are essentially great person improvements with workers, and so on, all add up to more interesting choices. But...

There is actually an economics screen and notification archive. I thought they'd removed the stuff, as many others seemed to also think, but it is still there. Find the little plus sign to the left of where you click to see the orbital layer. There's some informative stuff hidden in that...

I didn't screen-shot this, as I don't think the achievement notifications are captured in a screen-shot anyways since they are part of the Steam overlay, and I don't have any other method of in-game vid-cap or screen-cap. The issue is that I am playing the American Civil War scenario on...

There must have been a patch with the Scrambled Nations pack. Best patch ever. Now the warmongering hit isn't so severe for just taking one city, and there are various levels of concern at your warmongering. Best of all, liberating a CS reduces your warmongering diplo hit (perhaps a bit...

Anyone find the Great Generals to be particularly funny when it comes to who spawns who? To clarify: As Montezuma, my war-mongering ways cause me to spawn Montgomery (Bernard). So, I'm Monty... commanding Monty... Or, as Germany, I end up with Zhukov... Any others you guys can...

If there's any more DLC coming, I hope we get at least one civ that has uniques that deal with Archaeology. Archaeology is the one mechanic that BNW added that wasn't accompanied by any civs that directly interact with it via uniques. Yes, France was changed to get better theming bonuses, which...

Since BNW, Austria has become hands-down my pick for most useful civ in the game: The UA is now even more powerful, as trade-routes and the right SPs and/or religious beliefs allow one to amass more gold than ever. In the past, I might get into triple digits of GPT only during a golden age or...

What is your favorite BNW addition? (apologies if this thread was already started; I looked, and didn't see it if it was).

I've noticed comments about this in a number of threads, usually threads primarily focused on another topic, so I wanted to start a proper thread for this: How many of us have recently played BNW and had starting locations consistently not as good as before? In the ~8 games of BNW (many...

King Solomon's Mines seems like the best natural wonder, now. The only thing that comes close is the GBR, which is actually two tiles worth of bonus yield. Why I feel this way: 1) +6 :c5production: is incredibly powerful, even beyond the early game. Prior to planting a GE or getting the...

There are some big differences between the Merchant of Venice and the Austrian UA, true, but the end result is roughly the same: you gain CSes without going to war. It's the differences that are interesting: Venice can purchase in puppets, while Austria can annex CSes outright. Venice...

So, I fired up a Pangea, Small, Standard, Emperor game as France for old time's sake to soak in the ol' glory days. Nothing too frustrating: I can beat Immortal, and on rare occasion can beat Deity if I'm focused and have a day or two just to play games and not work or whatever. Just having fun...

This is an odd one. Playing as Korea, on a Duel/Emperor vs the Byzantines. I am leading in tech. I am not in the Industrial Era. And I have 2 spies? Here's the 2 spies: Yes, I am leading in tech: No, I am not in the Industrial Era: I haven't seen this before in the bugs...

This is one of the funnier DLC's I've ever seen. Just go to Steam and check it out: Key Features: Brian Blessed voices all multiplayer voice overs Even if a player doesn’t have the BRIAN BLESSED VO DLC they will still hear you shout commands with the voice of Brian Blessed It’s...

Insanity Game #1: Basic Settings: Rainforest Small Emperor Standard Speed Special settings: Hot environment Wet rainfall level Increase number of civs from 6 to 8 Make every civ Monty Make yourself Monty (or, if you like frustration, Spain... good luck finding natural wonders!)...

I looked through the confirmed bugs and didn't see this, so it's possible this isn't even a bug (since I imagine this one would have been found way before now), but: In a recent game, I had my empire want Silver in nearly every city because all other luxes were already present in my empire (I...