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Venetian internal trade routes and iron curtain, ftw. Settings are emperor, archipelago, standard, epic. The shot was taken long after I won ("one more turn"). You could probably squeeze in at least 200 more hammers with more land in the capital (desert hills would be best). 1K might be...

I don't know if this is already common knowledge, but Incan melee units can travel 4 hill tiles (with or without forests) if they get the Altitude Training promotion. Horsemen travel 8 hill tiles without any mobility upgrades. I just started a Highlands game with the Incans and found...

Does anyone have a chart or a formula for the excess happiness cost of golden ages? I've searched everyhere, but no luck.

It could just be my imagination, but it seems like cultural goody huts that are popped pre-first-settlement are multiple times more likely than post-settlement cultural goody huts. I initially assumed this was because population and tech huts became cultural huts, but now I'm wondering whether...

I've read various opinions about the merits of holy warriors as a belief, so I thought I'd add some thoughts re the Mayans. After playing my first Mayan game, I can confirm that holy warriors is an extremely powerful belief for this civ. Indeed, I would rank Mayans as the #2 use of holy...

I haven't been able to change puppets' focus from gold to anything else? I assume this is part of the design. Am I right, or is there a way to change their focus (to production, for instance)?

WeaselSnapper's post in the Strategy forum made me wonder if anyone has documented the amount of XP required to get successive GGs and GAs. Also, I've always assumed that the extra XP from military tradition does not apply to GG generation but that the XP from buildings and barbs does not apply...

Salt is a powerful resource. It also seems to occur in bunches like wine and incense often do (but neither wine nor incense are as good). The bunches of salt are so powerful, that I find that I'm able to predict who has salt simply by looking at the leader boards. If some random civilization...

Are the tiles underneath natural wonders always desert? This question would have been meaningless in vanilla, but now that Petra is here, it's suddently relevant. If the tiles are deserts, my suspicion is that the Petra yield for the natural wonder tile would be doubled with Spain (Spain seems...

I understand that the Warmonger penalty now expires or lessens with time, but has anyone figured out how long this takes. Does the clock start ticking when you make peace or after your last warmongerry action (i.e., the DoW, seizing cities, etc.)? I ask because I'd like to understand the...

The changes to iron working in G&K have had a radical effect on the use of iron. Specifically, swordsmen have gone from ubiquitous to relatively rare, while cats no longer require any iron. Iron has become so unnecessary that many players find that they don't need any metal whatsoever until...

Is something wrong with the Honor opener and/or raging barbs? I almost never go honor, so I decided to tilt the scales in Honor's favor by choosing the Aztecs and raging barbs. I got a great start with tons of open space that was blocked off from other civs, so I thought I'd be swimming in...

Does anyone else get this message even when they have 15+ happiness? Any idea what is going on?

Has the AI become less effective with gifted units in G&K, or is it just my imagination? The reason I ask is that I'm currently in a game where Arabia is my #1 enemy and the Vikings are my only friend, and I've tried and tried to help Harald but he's literally sending my gifted units out to sea...

I've heard the legends, but this is insane. In an ongoing game as Pacachuti (phenominal start, btw), Sweden DOWs Yerevan in around 2500 bc. He pulls off the win and puppets the city. Shortly after that stunt, he DOWs Singapore. Again, he wins and puppets the city. A few turns later, he DOWs...

Has G&K changed the warmonger modifier? I always thought that you had to DOW twice to get it, but in a recent game as Ethiopa (Emporer, standard, standard, fractal), I got the modifier after DOW'ing only one time. Some background: I conquered all but one of Russia's cities and Greece's...

Is there any way to change the defaults in the advanced setup menus? There are certain settings I want for every game (always quick combat, and usually large, epic, and fractal). I hate learning 10 turns in that I'm stuck in slow combat.

Hi all, I'm playing a new game as Catherine (emperor, large, epic, fractal). A few AI civs declared war on me at around 300AD. It's now 1100 AD and we haven't made peace. The civs in question (Songhai and Japan) hate me and are never likely to be my ally or to enter into reasonable deals...