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I've built Oxford twice in the past 5 games, and it hasn't granted any technologies at all Is there a criterion that I'm missing? Version 1.0.0.262 (362541)

If I ask an AI to jointly declare on a third party, what sort of Casus Belli is it? Formal War? Surprise War? The option with the lowest warmongering score? Is it different for me and the AI? Similarly, if I ask an AI to Join Ongoing War, which type of war declaration is triggered...

This is pretty cool - Civ V running on a Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet (Windows 8.1, 2GB RAM, Intel's recent 'Bay Trail' Atom processor) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KtQ98JQNe5w#t=590 It would be great to be able to play Civ V on the go. It doesn't even seem much slower...

I've had a weird situation in a recent Archipelago game where my triremes don't seem to want to attack enemy triremes. I think this only happens when the trireme is inside my city, and it's attacking an adjacent (enemy) trireme. I get the odds of victory at the bottom left, but clicking on...

I found my capital and got a pantheon. It grew to size 2. Then I accidentally starved it down to size 1, and my pantheon disappeared. (edit: in retrospect, I think I must have starved it down to 1 the same turn the pantheon was founded) What happened? Now I'm at size 3, with 1...

See attached savegame. My caravel has enough XP to be promoted, and the End Turn button has been replaced with PROMOTE A UNIT, but I don't actually have to. If I bombard Nanjing (using up the Caravel's turn), then I'm allowed to end-turn. So I can save up that healing promotion indefinitely...

How do I see what wonders have been built so far, and what cities they have been built in? Am I supposed to scan the entire map and look for the little graphic of the wonder? I've played a few games but I have no idea how to visually differentiate Himeji from Porcelain Tower - and it's not...

In Civ 5, do all battles for one player resolve simultaneously? It was really confusing when Persia attacked me (er, actually, I started the war, but they were unkind enough to fight back), and five different battles spread across the map occured simultaneously. It's not until I checked the...

In the list of play testers I spotted Gyathaar, ainwood and TMIT. I'm sure there are a lot of others whose names I don't know. So that's why you guys have been so quiet lately! :D

I was at the British Museum a few weeks ago and saw this marble bust of our favourite Philosophical and Creative Greek. Apparently there's quite a series of these Pericles busts done by sculptor Kresilas. Not a bad reproduction in Civ 4:

I thought CFC might be interested in this ... The U.S. Green Building Council announced a new classification of energy-efficient buildings in its LEED program ("a suite of standards for the environmentally sustainable design, construction and operation of buildings and neighborhoods"). The...

Had an interesting experience in a game last month - the game told me the nationality of a Privateer! I'm not sure how this happened - the Privateer may have emerged from an Arabian city, so the game thought I should be able to figure out whose Privateer it was? But it was still interesting to...

I can do okay on Immortal but I've never really tried Deity. So in preparation for BOTM28, I thought I'd play my first Deity game ever (okay, second - I got killed early in a BOTM a long time ago, but I like to think I'm better now :rolleyes:). My goal was to win a Space Race because I feel...

Two questions ... 1. When do AIs spontaneously exit WHEOOHRN without declaring war? I know it happens sometimes, and I know that if I embroil the AI in a war they will be too busy with the actual war to launch their planned war. But can I make an AI drop out of WHEOOHRN by other means, e.g...

As the title says - how much gold is earned when a city is captured / razed? I've observed anywhere from 10s to 100s of gold, and it seems to be a function of how developed the city is. But does "developed" mean population, or buildings, or culture, or something else? My intuition is that...

EDIT: This thread should probably die. I looked into some of the claims (and other posters in this thread have verified) that most of this stuff is either already documented, or simply doesn't happen. How embarrassing! I apologize for transmitting baseless rumors ... I thought I read the...

I'm curious, do the GOTM designers ever discuss the maps they make for each game? For example, was there a specific rationale behind the choice of opposing civs, where to place them, how were resources tweaked to help players (or hinder them)? I would be very interested to know what kind of...

As I understand it, patch 1.52 changed the rules so that you must rule land for 20 turns for it to count in your score. Is this also true for Domination purposes? In other words, do you need to maintain land for 20 turns before it can count toward your ~65% requirement?

In a recent game I got a -4 penalty for "you have traded with our worst enemies!". Does anyone know the mechanics of how this works? I searched the forums but haven't found an explanation yet. - It seems to cap out at no worse than -4 - I waited dozens of turns without trading with the civ...

In a recent game I traded with Cyrus of Persia for horses. He had just cancelled the previous deal, his horses + 2 gpt for my gems. I renegotiated, cleared the table except for his horses, and asked what he wanted in exchange. Nothing happened. Hmm, must have not clicked properly. I tried...