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Sometimes I want to grow a city to a massive size, for increased Science for instance. I occasionally am able to reach a food surplus of +28 per turn on one city. However, when I want to, say, change a citizen working on a Mine to a Farm, then it works (the Farm is locked down), BUT, another...

I usually rush the Globalization technology so that I can win a World Leader proposal ASAP. But sometimes when I reach it, the next World Leader proposal is in 25 turns, while other times it is in 15 turns. How can I time it so that I reach Globalization with as few turns remaining to the...

Does a garrisoned unit's health matter when it is defending a city from attacks? For instance, when I take an enemy's city, I'll usually try to wipe out as many enemy units nearby as possible, so that they cannot re-take the city immediately. When I do this, does it make sense to swap the...

When the Civ that builds the Great Wall researches Dynamite, the Great Wall becomes obsolete. How can I tell when this occurs? I'm often the tech leader, but attacking a Civ with the Great Wall is a hassle, so I want to wait until they research Dynamite. But how can I tell when this is? Or...

I use the keyboard frequently in Civ V, especially to use the Escape key to get out of menus quickly. Sometimes, I notice that when I hit a keyboard key, nothing happens in the game for a few seconds. And then after about 10 seconds, the game will recognize the key I pressed, and act on it...

If I capture the last city of a Civ, then from what I understand, I will receive an EXTREME warmongering penalty among ALL Civs. So it's often recommended to just leave the Civ with one city, preferably a bad one, such as one located in tundra. However, sometimes it seems preferable to take...

Since BNW, getting Culture seems to be a bit more difficult. I play on Immortal difficulty, so getting Wonders for their Culture is mostly out of the question. What is the best way to acquire Culture? Has anyone done the math on what is most cost-efficient? For now, I usually try and become...

Can more than one Civ pledge to protect a City State? If so, what's the point of pledging to protect a City State, besides the slight increase in resting point influence? In the few times I have used it, it has always risked me going to war with another Civ when they demanded tribute from one of...

I'm playing as Greece, who's UA is "City-State Influence Influence degrades at half and recovers at twice the normal rate". For Friendly CS, I think influence degradation is at 0.5? So half of that is 0.25. And on top of that, I've got the Patronage SP opener, which is "Influence with...

If a Civ is eliminated, then I liberate one of their non-Capital cities, then will they still vote for me for World Leader? Or do I have to liberate their Capital for this to work? And will they ALWAYS vote for me for World Leader from then on, or can our relationship deteriorate to the point...

Can someone suggest a rule of thumb for when to use Great Artists for Golden Ages (which provide +50% for producing Great Artists/Musicians/Writers) or "settling" them to produce a Great Work? Should I start by filling up all my Great Work of Art slots first before using Golden Ages? For...

I've read that giving Gold as tribute to the AI will prevent them from going to war with me, especially if I'm playing on Immortal or higher and want a peaceful game. When should I give the tribute, and how much should I give? I want to avoid large wars with powerful militaries if possible...

Is it true that units heal faster in your own territory, or is that not the case in Civ V? Does healing anywhere have the same rate now, or does a unit heal faster if placed in a city, for instance?

I play on Emperor difficulty. I used to go for Domination victories because that's what I did in Civ IV, but moving so many troops through the entire map because so tedious that I decided to go for Science victories. But on the way, I realized that I accidentally won Diplomacy victories, so I...

How do I connect two cities that are not coastal cities and are separated by a City-State? The City-State is surrounded by two other Civs on two sides, and I have two cities on the remaining two sides of the City-State. I'd like to connect my cities together but I can't seem to do so. I...

Lately I've had tremendous success on Emperor difficulty. I used to play by using Liberty, but I've heard that Tradition is "better", and considering that even on Liberty I usually build four to five quality cities before I run out of space, I decided to try it out. My biggest problem in the...

When I'm going for a Diplomatic Victory, I'll often have a lot of votes to use (at least 30). So every time the vote screen comes up, I don't want to have to hit the vote arrow 30 times if I don't have to. I've seen some YouTube videos where the person increases the vote count by 5 rather than...

I usually play on a Continents map on the Standard map size. My goal is to usually be near the average in terms of military size, so that I don't get bullied. But, there's often one strong and one weak Civ on the same island, and the strong one eventually goes to war with the weak one. What's...

In about half my games I start my own religion, while the other half I usually don't have time to devote the resources to it because of other things, like building Archers to defend against Barbarians. How important is it to start your own religion in Civ V? Do you guys usually do it, or do...

For a lot of actions, you can either tell the AI that you promise not to do a certain action, or you can basically just tell them that you don't care what they think and that they should go away. For instance, this happens if you settle a city early in the game too close to the enemy AI...