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I think this would have to work both ways though, otherwise it would be too easy to exploit. If you can kiss up to a neighbour in the early game to the point where they become your best buddy who would never turn against you, then you should also be prevented from turning on them as well...

The culture required to achieve legendary status changes depending on the game speed. I know that at normal speed it's 50,000 and at epic it's 75,000, so I'm guessing that at quick speed it's down at 25,000 which is what you are seeing. I've never played a game at quick speed (or whatever...

Like CCrunner7 said, try playing at a slower game speed, that way each "age" lasts longer with the units remaining effective for a reasonable amount of time. Tech rates and build rates slow down at slower speeds but movement rates stay the same, consequently the mace man that takes ten turns...

I believe it does, as the map generator is designed to place each starting city in a good spot. I almost always settle in place unless I can see a very good reason to change.

Which is pretty much what the AI does when settling cities: add up the number of bonus tiles in the city radius and settle in the spot that gives the highest number. I would imagine that it's a weighted addition, ie giving more points for a gold that can be worked immediately than to a dye...

I just don't like them and so I tend to play custom games without them. It's nice to get the odd bonus here and there, but I just don't like the fact that a (potentially) significant random event can cause problems like wiping out half my buildings or causing a diplo hit to a rival I'm trying...

I've read on similar threads that it's the map size that really affects performance rather than the number of civs; whether one civ has enough space for 10 cities and 100 units or two civs occupy the same space with 5 cities and 50 units or you pack in five civs with 2 cities and 20 units each...

Interesting. :) I always heard it as a little girl claiming that it's her turn now: "my go!" rather than "Michael" or "Hi Mom". I've heard the dogs barking but I've not heard "you see" and "yes sir". I'll have to have a better listen next time.

If you start a custom game you can chose to disable any of the victory options, which I assume includes the "time victory" which gets the game to end after a set number of turns. At least I think that's one of the options but I usually play with the all the victory conditions enabled so can't...

It seems that sometimes the messages can appear out of sequence, for example I've had friendly civs declare on me for no apparent reason whilst I am at war with a mutual enemy. Upon looking back through the messages I see <friendly civ> has declared war on you! a great scientist is born! a...

Thanks for confirming this. At least I now know that it's not a problem with my local installation. :) I did come across another report about this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=266365) whilst searching for an existing solution, but that was all I could find. It's interesting...

The same just happened to me, and almost exactly as you described. I had a stack of archers in a city ready to fend off a stack of barbarian horse archers and my defenders just teleported away to leave the city undefended. Fortunately I have a save available and so I've put the details in the...

Defenders abandon city to barbarians. How to reproduce: load the save game and press "enter" to end the current turn. Observation: I have a small stack of defenders in the city of York who, on the previous turn, have beaten back an attacking stack of barbarian horse archers. There is only...

If I see a blue circle one square over from where I was intending to settle then I'll stop and have another good look at the situation, but more often than not I'll go with my original plan as I'll be thinking more long term rather than just what is best "right now". As others have...

IIRC you also need to make sure to avoid friendly fire, ie you can't nuke your target if it's near to a neutral civ's boarder or some neutral civ's units are in the surrounding squares. I *think* the same is true if it would mean killing off some of your own units, but it's been quite a while...

Bah !!! Ziggy was too quick for me ..... unless he possess spooky mind powers and could see all this coming ....

Might it have been Evasons instead? Note: I've just found the link but not really looked into it in any detail yet, but it does mention Baltimore and psychic powers. :) EDIT: I've done some looking on google, both web and news-group searches, and it does look as though this is the act that...

There was nothing for sale at all anywhere on the campus on the day of the show? I find that harder to believe than the woman having genuine psychic powers. How do you know? The information gathering could have taken place days, or in some cases weeks, before the show. The psychic and...

Lets assume that I work for the psychic. Outside the hall I set up a stall selling hotdogs, drinks, t-shirts or whatever else comes to mind. You approach me to buy some refreshments and say "Sorry, I've only got a twenty, do you have change?". I then give you as part of your change a ten...

They may have come from the pockets of the students, but how did they get there? Are you suggesting that every student who was asked to produce a dollar bill managed to pull out a brand new note that had just taken out of a cash machine? The critical, and central part, of my possible...