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I voted Eh, sometimes. I would suggest that you try terra. I think you may like it. All the civs start on a single pangea, but there is another undiscovered continent. by the time you get there it will be infested with barbarians - musketmen, riflemen and the like depending on difficulty...

I'm trying to get an idea if other players use build research (available with alphabet), build wealth (available with currency) or build culture (available with music). I almost never use these, but I've been having second thoughts. Build research could be useful for space race. Build...

I was wondering if other players pillage Town / Village / Hamlet / Cottages in enemy territory. I'm not talking about military resources this is specificly TVHC.

There is a good chance I will go for culture here. Does anyone know how much culture you need for a victory in on a marathon map? My guess is 80,000 in each of three cities. I could not find this info in the civilopedia. If it is there I missed it.

I'm wondering if other people try to put a forge in every city they build or not. I do and I try to do it early in the city's life. I find the extra hammers to be quite helpful even if it is a city surrounded by cottages. In terms of this discussion, you do already have knowledge of metal...

Shaka is great fun. I like the uu and ub, but he does play differently. He's the best pillaging civ in the game with chariot / impi combo. Maybe this is more valuable in multiplayer. Oh only if impis could beat axemen. No doubt his ub is good.

As other posters have said. I do like to go work boat first if available. Also, if a three food and one coin tile is available. I like to go warrior first and complete the warrior the same turn the city grows to size 3. Then build a worker. As a side note I research religion in the...

Does anyone know or have seen a chart regarding culture victory conditions. I think the reference I have seen shows you must have three cities with 50,000 culture. I don't think this holds true with all maps. I think map size and / or game speed changes this. For example you need more...

I'm a spacious builder as well. Fewer cities mean less maintenance costs. The problem arises when capturing enemy cities. The AI uses excessive overlap and poor city placement. I don't like overlap, but sometimes I do it for the same reasons as previous posters.

Mansa is best for my style for space race victory and Elizabeth is very good too. The problem I run into with Elizabeth is the mid game tech tree. Banking - UB, Rifling - UU and Education --> Liberalism for space race really splits her tech tree at a bad time and they are all important.

I generally attempt 2-3 from Stonehenge Great Library Great Lighthouse Oracle depending on the map and availability of coastal, stone and marble. I might try Great Wall, Pyramids or Hanging Gardens if I'm industrial for engineer points. From there I usually do not try another until...

Certainly none of these are "wrong". I don't go for culture victories and the National Epic does generate great artist points. Artists are the one I try to avoid. I haven't decided myself the best solution. Terrain and space permitting I try to have one GP farm and I do mix scientists...

I don't think this has been mentioned yet. Forgive me if it has. You must have an open borders agreement with a foreign civ to have trade routes with that specific civ.

I think it means the city has the Forbidden Palace National Wonder.

Yes, the city with marble and copper would be my choice as well. I would turn that city into a military production city initially and later into a great person farm.

I use them all. I like the variety. That is why I think the Civilization series is such a great game. I mix it up with different leaders and try to leverage a play style with individual leaders based on the map as well. I use spiritual the most and I use financial a lot too.

I think next time I will try your suggestion and also croak the nearest second and third city. I sure hope aluminum is worth it. :) In my experience that is the best warlike solution. I would make sure your enemy does not have any city within about 5 spaces of the aluminum. Any captured...

My thinking was explained well in post #11. With this isolated start you will not be trading much soon anyway. Also, cottages (pottery) should be available before wineries (monarchy). Hey, you can change your mind later if you want and bulldoze the cottage for a winery. But, looking at...

Yeah I'm going to get my tail kicked on this one. My only faint hope is if there are the nice early military resources nearby AND there are some nice choke points nearby. Rocky climate is prone to those even if they are low on food. Scouting may be high priority. Even so I think I'll get...

You have four wines in your capital. My guess is you are isolated. Therefore you won't be trading wine anytime soon. I would cottage three of the four wines. They make such good cottage locations and put one winery on the other location. I would put my second city two NW of the ivory...