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The map art for Civ V is gorgeous. I love the way sunlight glints off the surface of marshes or ocean waves. Sometimes I will just stop playing for a minute and watch the "Fur" resource foxes chase each other, or the "Whales" breach and spout water. The only thing that looks wrong is the sea...

I have not seen this much until my last two games. In my last game I was playing as Poland and going for a Science win, but I decided to fight wars to cut my neighbors down to size. I devastated Austria, Denmark, and Russia, keeping their capitals (full of Wonders and artwork) and a few...

If you found a new city it permanently increases your science and social policy costs, or so I am told. That is just not worth it. What can be worth it is sowing dissension among the AIs by giving them cities you get in other ways. If I get a crummy city by conquest, peace treaty, or...

I see them do this even on King. Here's every AI (except India): "One hex desert island with one fish, between two other cities that are just four hexes away? Perfect spot for a new Modern era city! I'm sure it will pay off in the long run!" Tundra with no special resources is another...

I have been considering doing this with America and Brazil, mostly for role-playing reasons. Who else has tried later era starts? How does it change the flow of the game? Are Ancient and Classical Wonders unavailable? What about founding religions? I will have to try it just to see what it...

Goku = Kamehameha I just got it, LOL. Dragonball Z reference. :D On topic: I really enjoy water maps and the civs that do well on them, but raising the difficulty or using Smart AI mod (if you don't care about Steam achievements) may be necessary.

1) Balance the social policy trees. 2) Balance the social policy trees. 3) Balance the social policy trees. Oh, I almost forgot ... seriously, balance those social policy trees! And budweiser's idea to switch Oracle and Great Library sounds perfect.

It was fall 1992, and I was in my first year of college. My best friend had a Macintosh laptop (a dark gray plastic thing with the old rainbow Apple logo - it was the John Sculley era) and he was raving about this new game he had - the original Civilization. His laptop could only display black...

Considering some aspects of Japan's actions in WWII, and subsequent reluctance by politicians to fully examine or atone for those actions, the wording seems a bit ... unfortunate. Considering how much people can get worked up over anything involving nationalism or WWII, I'm surprised Firaxis...

If it were up to me Civilization VI would ship with all core game mechanics included. I don't really like the fact that Vanilla, G&K, and BNW are so drastically different as to be essentially different games. For that matter, so were "vanilla" Civ IV, Play The World, and Beyond The Sword...

Another way to kickstart late cities is to send a production caravan or cargo ship to them. It also helps if you immediately spread a religion which includes a faith building, for an immediate boost to happiness and culture. The culture from those buildings obviously helps expand borders to...

I like to use advanced setup to customize the map settings (climate, terrain, etc) to suit the civilization I will play; for instance, Sandstorm map for Arabia or cool wet climate for Denmark or the Netherlands. I will then hand pick the AI opponents, including either civilizations who faced my...

Has anyone ever seen a situation where city states keep fighting each other forever even though their allies have made peace? Or they don't even have an ally, they are just fighting for no apparent reason? I played the Into The Renaissance scenario and watched Florence and Venice fight on and...

What's really crazy is watching the AI send prophets at me, sometimes two at a time, and when I check the Religion screen I see that they haven't even enhanced their religion to get a full complement of beliefs! If you have enough extra units (obsolete troops, Great Generals, etc) you can...

Epic and Marathon let you get more use out of the Ancient and Classical era units. It's fun to use Advanced Setup to pick the AI opponents and play with just ancient civs.

Most Favorite Washington: He's usually pretty friendly. Harun al-Rashid: I can usually trade excess luxuries with him all game. Oda Nobunaga: I usually have good luxury trading with him, until he gets embargoed after he attacks a city state or picks fights with the wrong people. Genghis...

Arabia, France, and Russia in my games. Sometimes India or China if they can get a science lead.

Do people often automate scouts? I have found the automated actions to be worse than useless for scouts, workers, etc. Besides exploration is a big part of the fun of the early game for me.

I just won a game as Indonesia by Diplomatic Victory. I had been going for Culture Victory but runaway Arabia was spamming Wonders and had ridiculous Culture-based resistance. I contemplated attacking him, but he was far away and ahead in technology. He got the first ideology and took Order...

When placing cities remember the ability to build special terrain-dependent buildings. Obviously rivers allow Gardens and Water Mills, coast allows Lighthouses and Harbors and Seaports, and mountains allow Observatories. But don't forget about Horses and Ivory allowing the Circus. Late in the...