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I have a friend who I'm trying to get into Civ V, but I'm having trouble getting her a demo. The base game's demo is apparently only for PC, while you need the base game installed to play the G&K and BNW demos (!). Are there any workarounds for this? Thanks :)

After breezing to numerous culture wins on Emperor (and winning a close one on Immortal, IIRC), I've decided to try my hand at an Immortal culture game as Brazil. Culture victories are definitely harder than the other victories (disregarding Domination), but I've beaten Deity numerous times, so...

It's been more than seven months since the last patch and Firaxis has been dead silent since then about patches for Civ V. I'm sure some of the CiV team is working on Beyond Earth and likely also on Civ VI, but if an expansion can be developed in a year, why not a balance patch in seven months...

I'm gonna try to get my first ever Cultural Victory on Deity and figured Poland would be a good civ to start with. I'm aware of Poland's hybrid Tradition/Liberty opening, but I'd really like to figure out how to do a Tradition/Piety opening, as I think it could/would be better for a Cultural...

I know this is Deity, but seriously? How is it even possible to found a religion on T26? This is standard speed, not quick. I'd understand if it were Desert Folklore, but the AI that founded on T26 chose Goddess of Protection (30% city strength)! The math just doesn't work out; even with a...

Ever have those games that completely upend everything you think you know about CiV? I recently had one of them as the new Germany. I was playing on Terra, Immortal, Standard, and I spawned next to Attila and Genghis, with Songhai, Ethiopia, Japan near me. I thought to myself, "Oh man, this is...

Just wondering, what do you do with regard to Tourism (and thus indirectly culture) when you're not going for a culture win? I tend to ignore it (probably more than I should); I'll fill the guilds fairly quickly, but I only create a few Great Works, usually using the culture GP's for their...

In almost all of my BNW games, CS's are embargoed very quickly, usually within the first 3 World Congress proposals. By the end of the game, I have 10 CS's asking for TR's, and the Freedom tenet is unusable. Is anyone else running into this? And why does the AI love this proposal so much?

I've been wondering, what's the best strategy with Tourism and Culture wonders? Should you spread them out among your cities (to get the 33% bonus from Aesthetics) or should you focus them all in your Hermitage/National Visitor Center city? Discuss! :D

Hey guys! Long story short is that I've really been struggling to win culturally on Immortal. I've heard many times that culture victories are now the easiest type, and I can thrash the AI scientifically on Immortal (I even beat post-Fall Patch Deity in G&K), so there's clearly a problem with my...

Despite the fact that I can absolutely destroy the AI in an Immortal science game (in my last game, the CLOSEST AI was 12 techs behind me when I won), I can't seem to win a culture game on Immortal. I came pretty close as Persia a few days ago (would've won in about 20 turns), but Morocco...

In my many BNW games I've noticed an interesting pattern with regard to policy acquisition. Regardless of what measures you take to counter it, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a huge lull in policies in the middle of the game (specifically around early Medieval to late Renaissance). The...

So I'm playing a cultural game as Persia (Immortal, Standard, Standard, Small Continents) and have run into something really weird. I have 483 base Tourism and +50% Tourism against Carthage (25% from a Trade Route and 25% from Open Borders), but for whatever reason the game says my adjusted...

Pretty sure the answer is "no," but if I capture the city where the World Congress convenes, will I become the host?

Just wanted to get some input on strategies for the two culture powers, as I've really been struggling with both of them. Here's the problem I've run into: if I build chateaus and Brazilwood camps, I don't have enough food and production. Then, if I try to reroute trade routes internally to...

Pretty simple question: why are my GW Bombers - which are projected to do around 40 damage on an Ottoman Caravel - doing 4 damage? It's not just 1 bomber either...it's all of them. My artillery does as much damage as it should, which means it's not a ranged unit bug or something. As well, I have...

Hope you guys are enjoying BNW as much as I am! I've run into a problem, though: I have 5 available trade routes and 4 trade routes in use, but the game won't let me setup my fifth one. I would ordinarily have 4 TR's by this time, but I built Petra...perhaps it's bugged? Regardless, I attached...

Just found this excellent interview with Sid Meier and thought I'd share it! http://kotaku.com/the-father-of-civilization-584568276

Now that the news has died down and we know most of the info about BNW, I thought I'd start up a little discussion. Among the many changes coming to BNW, what are you most looking forward to? Personally, I'd have to give a tiny edge to Trade Routes over Tourism. Being able to "pump up" a new...

FYI, Brave New World is now up for pre-purchase on Steam and carries a 10% discount! Along with that, there's a Civ V free weekend this weekend and all other Civ V products are 75% off, so get all your friends hooked and ready for BNW! Also, as far as I can tell, none of the screenshots seem...