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I use roads less and less. I'm even at the point where I build roads when I absolutely have to save a city from getting sacked by sending over troops right this turn. The downside from having roads is that enemies will use these roads as well and they can surprise you very easily, since roads...

Get to industrialization, corporation and communism, switch government to communism, build factories in your cities and build the military complex wonder if you can to reduce the amount of hammers needed for a unit. In stead of mass producing tanks or other units, mass produce caravan trains...

Yesterday I had a game without any artifacts. If the AI finds one, you get a message saying they found one. I got navigation and steam power before 1200AD while I was way ahead in tech and systematically roamed the ocean for artifacts. Has anyone had this before?

How nice is this artifact?! It puts a temple in your cities or if you already have one, puts a cathedral in your cities. It's awesome to discover it when you have like 7 or 8 cities and you're pumping out defensive units to hold off those enemies. You don't have the time to invest in a nice...

Sometimes you get a spy when you defeat a barbarian village. Do this if you play against: - France: find Paris and destroy the cathedral which will end their culture onslaught - America: find Washington and steal their great person - Greece: find Athens and destroy the courthouse -...

My goal is to settle my cities as far and wide as possible in the beginning and later on fill up the space with cities when it's easier to build settlers (republic). When you have 2 cities very far apart, you can build roads relatively cheap. Here's the good part. A city acts as 1 movement...

- Use of armies next to single units. - Overrunning weaker enemies without the loss of a turn - Artifacts - Economic victory and the various rewards for getting to a new level - Nearly every tech has a 'first to research'-bonus I never had the time for the epic scale of previous civs...

I got this using the Arabs on King difficulty. Arabs start out with Religion and Fundamentalism government, which means you get +1 attack. For warriors, this is huge, because it practically doubles the attack rate! Another good thing is the free mathematics tech you get when you enter the...

You start out with a great person. If you start out with a great scientist, then do this: Found Washington, open the city screen. Adjust one of your worker to at least one trade. Close the city screen. Open the tech screen and start researching bronze working. Select your great scientist and...

I just built Leonardo's Workshop and none of my units were upgraded :( I built the wonder in one of my island cities and even those units haven't been upgraded. Has this happened to anyone else before? I had a save a few turns before it happened. Rushing it had the same effect, none. Is...

I was wondering how people manage to get such an early space race win. I guess you need someone industrious to snatch wonders. Rameses is a good one, since he has no anarchy. I can get a good head start by getting some engineering wonders (great wall, pyramids) and rush Oracle with an...

When v1.09 and v1.52 just got out, there was a good chance Civ would crash when I popped a goodie hut. After a few weeks of luck without crashing, I crashed 10 times yesterday. I started on a terra map which looked interesting, so I tried to pop the hut 3 times, so I had to reboot again. I...

The next hot thing in my games is slavery. Nothing better to whip otherwise unhealthy or angry citizens into buildings or units every 10 turns. I rarely notice a happiness penalty. Rightclick city and whip 2 pop for a knight and a bit of production overflow into the next unit or building...

It would be a great improvement if we'd have an option to choose the quality of the starting position. On Deity, you might want to start out on the best spot in order to be able to catch up and on noble, you might want to have the extra challenge in the beginning of the game without all the...

I had crashing problems with this card, until I tried this: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1500237&enterthread=y I have been playing for a few hours straight! I hope it works out for you guys as well!

The Civilization killer for me is called Mario Kart DS. I have been playing the game ever since it got out (nov 25th) and even more when I got wifi access so I can race online. I haven't played Civ for 2 or 3 weeks now and I don't even miss it. I couldn't have expected this to happen. Does...

Civilization Difficulty Guide Mastering a complex game like civilization is a great task that has to be achieved in steps. Since I would like to have a step-by-step guide in order to beat the game on the hardest level, I can imagine other people would like to know how to master the basic...

Tiny little bug: When I select multiple bombers and I want to bomb a square, they fly out together. When I select airstrike, only one will fly out. When I want to airstrike again, I can't, because one of the selected bombers has already had its airstrike. Bottomline: I can't do multiple...

I'm a civ2/civ3 veteran, but absolutely no genius in this field, I just love the game. I'm a little concerned of newcomers though: With the addition of religion and great people and the new strategies attached to these concepts, will this game be a bit too complex for newcomers to understand...