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I've posted elsewhere about the rotten starts I get 90% of the time, but my latest game looked OK initially and then everything went horribly wrong. A reasonably-shaped pangaea, with my capital on the north-east coast and grassland. But no hills, no flood plains, and only a tiny little river...

There have been other posts about this panel not working as it should, to which I would add that on the "available routes" display it says that those shown include those already running. They do not.

On three separate occasions I have had AI colonies declare war on colonies which have ceased to exist, they having been assimilated into my expanding empire. Of those three, two have been interpreted as declaring war on me : how dare they ? The real-world equivalent would be declaring war today...

Or perhaps as a unit, tech, or whatever. Surely someone can identify with a Ranger or Soldier: one with a large appetite could be a Mass Digester; or one with a big family a Civil Creche ? Personally, as I'm sure anybody who recalls me from Civ4 would agree, I lay claim to being an Old Earth...

I have just achieved one of these, and do not intend ever to try for another. Firstly my victory score was only about one-third of that from a Domination victory at the same (Sputnik -I'm a new player) level although the latter took some 50 more turns, and secondly because the end of the game is...

I am new to BE, and gave up on CiV (with extreme prejudice) shortly after its release, so I expected to be slightly baffled by hexagonal tiles - but wasn't - and the one-unit-per-tile rule. The latter is to me a real peeve, but I'll master it eventually. My first BE game, at Sputnik level, took...

First log on to Steam, using the appropriate password and fourteen-digit personal code. This procedure must be completed within 15 minutes; failure at any stage causes loss of any saved games - not of Civ VI, which has no such facility, but of all other Steam-linked games. Clicking the "load"...

It shouldn't say "of" but "is". For example, the BUG foreign adviser tells me that Bismarck is the worst enemy of Ragnar and that Ragnar is the worst enemy of Bismarck: so far, so good, they hate each other. But I'm also told that Ragnar is the worst enemy of Churchill and that Churchill has no...

I've just finished a game (cheating horribly) in which my objectives were to get the highest population I could and to have as many Golden Ages as possible. I didn't get the GA from the "marathon" event (nobody invaded me, not surprisingly) but I did get the one from the Taj and those by using...

All demonstrated by my vassal Gandhi. I attacked a city but had the bad luck to lose a couple of high-odds battles, which left the defender with just one catapult that I couldn't attack. Gandhi took the opportunity of waltzing in with a Cavalry. He was utterly determined not to lose the city...

A few turns after finishing Metal Casting I was handed the quest to build 11 triremes: success would bring them Combat 1, with a further bonus if I had the Great Lighthouse. So ? Thank goodness there's no penalty for failing a quest, as I'm in the central south of a huge pangaea whose south...

No, not Civ4 itself but a game I've just finished, which was undoubtedly the slowest and most boring I've played, to the extent that I'm sorry that I had nothing better to do than plough through it. Why was it boring ? Because of the map. At my usual settings (pangaea, normal speed, Emperor...

In every game of mine where Tokugawa has been present he has never once been a threat, and only once a nuisance (by directing his entire espionage campaign against me). His traits are supposed to be Aggressive and Protective: I think they should be Isolationist and Paranoid. On a couple of...

I do wish that the game would not hand me quests which are manifestly unsuited to the situation. In the past I have twice been given the Holy Mountain quest, and in both cases the target was a peak on a single-tile island with no possibility of settling nearby. And in the game I have just...

I came across the following while re-reading my SF magazine collection. There may have been more: a couple of pages are missing. MATRIX GOOSE A GARDEN OF ROBOTIC VERSE FOR THE TINFANT FRESH FROM THE FOUNDRY BY JACK SHARKEY Clack and Brill went up the hill To test their...

I have just had the message "Egypt has completed the Corporate Expansion quest. Mining Inc. profits are expected to rocket". I find this odd. I founded this corp. and the HQ is in my capital; I spread the corp to Hatshepsut, who spread it to three more of her cities; she has no other...

1. I was quite pleased when Willem offered me Iron, Gold and 11 GPT for Gems. Then later I asked Gandhi (my vassal) what he would give for a Hit Single: he offered Coal, Copper, Iron, Corn, Cow, Pig, Rice, Sugar, Wine and 4gpt, which (after due consideration) I accepted. 2. Much of the time...

Can anybody tell me how some of the figures on the espionage screen are calculated ? In particular, what affects the EPs needed to be able to see into the AI's cities ? I ask because in my current game something strange has happened. Over a period of 5 turns, the EPs I need to see into Athens...

After getting two impossible Holy Mountain quests in earlier games, I've just been given the "Best Defence" one (strangely named, since it is well known that attack is the best form of defence). This asks me to build 11 Castles. Oh, har har har. Useless ! Why ? (a) I have only 13 cities, of...

I'm just starting a new game on Huge map size and have (for the first time) checked its size. This turns out to be 64 tiles high by 104 wide, which according to Anion's booklet is the size of a Large map. What should it be ? In "settings" under Victory Conditions, the size is indeed stated as...