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Why not require two of a resource in order to upgrade?

Capture all the non-core cities, pillage the improvements (not districts) of the core cities, kill all units that leave the core cities into range of your archers, and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Yeah, the declare war button in the negotiation about troops near the border is always a "surprise war", regardless of your available diplomatic excuses.

I've been tending to capture city-states that are closer to me than the nearest AI civilization. I need to kill someone with my army before the ancient era closes or I feel that I missed out. Whenever I try to go more peaceful and build things other than so many units, I end up getting...

But you told them you were their friend. They just want to be nice to their friend. What is the nicest thing they can do? Why, telling them about the One True God, and saving them from Eternal Punishment is, of course!

They now say I should get mine on the 26th, and that they have two of them available for purchase at $114.80+ $5.18 shipping.

"We'll notify you via e-mail when we have an estimated delivery date." I chatted on the Amazon help line. I was offered a $5 promotional certificate for my inconvenience. Better than a sharp stick in the eye!

A manual was for reading while your mom drove you home from the store, and for while it is installing off the CD. Except for civ 1, that is. Those copyright checks took a while to memorize.

Rome. Always Rome.

I am looking forward to 6 a lot! So many nice looking changes, and they kept the good things 5 added. I started with Civ 1.

Not necessarily poor, but very specialized. You will be able to build the harbor district, which I would assume would have trade improvements. Small island cities could be good for your economy.

Was this in a late era start, or ancient era?

Over in another thread i posted this: Or put another way, [current total beaker rate]/([number of cities]+20) This is always LESS than 5% of your current beaker rate. num cities % of current science %of average city 1 4.76 0.05 2 4.55 0.09 3 4.35 0.13 4 4.17 0.17 5 4 0.2 20 2.5 0.5...

Unit costs for one. They inflate as time goes on, exponentially. The function stays reasonable during the regular timeframe, but after 2050 it keeps going up, and up, and up! So your costs will keep going up faster and faster, no mater what you do about it. Eventually you will run out of money.

What year/turn number is it? The game is not balanced past 2050 AD.

It is not guaranteed. The first person to select each ideology gets 2 free. The second person for each ideology gets 1 free. Everyone else gets ZERO free.

NO, it does not! This is a frequent misconception. Taking their capital does NOT destroy their spaceship. The spaceship moves, by magic, to the new capital. What you need to do is nuke the capital into uselessness, pillage the surrounding tiles, and surround the city with an army. But...

Yes. Venice should not be able to annex any cities. Are you using the strategic view?

Wonder spaw works pretty well on Emperor if you play as Venice. Make Venice a megacity with incoming trade routes of food and production, and you can build new wonders in very few turns. Trying for the wonders doesn't even hurt much if you fail, since you've already bought any buildings that...

Yes, but where in space is Carmen Sandiego? (I had that one too)