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The main problem is trust. Firaxis has been burned in the past by play-testers breaking their NDA. You can decrease the risk by getting other playtesters to vouch for you. Either become friends with Civ playtesters, or get your name in the credits of another game as a playtester. Or increase...

They publish the game and wait for CivFanatics to identify the overpowered stuff. Then patch it.

It's a nice game, but I missed not having a Civ-style tech tree. So I made my own. Factorio Tech Tree

If you're so scared about playing a buggy unfinished game, you probably should wait at least until the first patch before buying CIV:BE.

Policy costs never go down, but you can replace the city without taking another hit.

Olmec and Maya did an impressive job improving their jungle, but they still fell an age behind the tech leaders and got wiped out.

Yes it did. :)

Yes, RA is useless in a duel map. But with 3+ players, someone is going to fall behind in tech every time an RA is signed. You want to be the one getting ahead.

You would be even more frustrated if you tried to do Domination in an OCC. :p

Building archers would protect you from barbarians and Romans...

Hammers vs Gold: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=393892 Gold vs Time: I found the 1% turnly interest rate (45 lump sum for 2gpt*30) friendly AIs charged pre-BNW to be quite fair. The new 0% rate is a total steal, and you should borrow at every opportunity. Value of Food: Food...

I routinely gift away capitals when going for domination. Sometimes I even manage to make 2 civs swap capitals. :D

Updated for the BNW SDK.

Sell resources/embassies/open borders to neutral civs for GPT. Sell GPT to friendly civs for lump sum. Problem solved!

The amount of effort and luck required to beat the map generator is enormous. Always settle in place, and find some more useful strategies.

Giving up early tech advantage to build stuff is not a snowball. It's more like the snow fort at the base of the hill. Babylon is the true snowball science civ, and even Korea can't beat them.

Why are you trying to attack the mongols through a chokepoint during the age of Keshiks?

Reddit also has a civ politics feed. http://www.reddit.com/r/CivPolitics

Does that make the AI more vulnerable to worker stealing?

Download link is fixed.