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Doesn't it remove only the "distance from capital" maintenance costs? You are still saddled with the other maintenance costs of having cities on the other landmass.

Late and mid-game artillery Your attacking force should have a few components: 1. A way to lower the defenses of the city. Bombardment is the typical way to do this. Any piece of artillery doing the bombardment function or aircraft bombarding. 1A. In BTS, sending in spies to start a...

Simple tips... 1. Cut back on the wonders. You aren't finishing them anyway; therefore, spend the time doing #2. 2. Increase the size of your standing army. 3. Every city doesn't need every improvement. 4. See #2. 5. Manage your expansion. The AI will get more cities than...

I love small, pangaea, crowded maps. Bascially, there is no early expansion. If you have enough civs, each one will start out as OOC, but through war, the kingdoms will expand. Since the AI likes to play nice with other AI when there is still room to expand, this will promote some early...

I thought one of the patches fixed that. Anyway... Spies, Mechants, and Prophets normally become super specialists in a city with the exception of building shrines if I snagged any religions. Generals depend on the traits that I have as a leader. I will typically settle the first one...

Also, the AI isn't that interested in war as long as there is space to expand. Increase the number of civs on the given map size, and you'll see more AI vs. AI war.

I would like to see Zone of Control become an enhanced sentry feature. To make a Zone of Control, you have to build a fort in your territory. That fort will give you a "visibilty" of four tiles around the fort for your territory. Any enemy unit that enters the zone of control, it will...

1. Take a screenshot of the game. 2. Exit game. 3. Open photoshop. 4. Load the screenshot. 5. Make random edit to screenshot. 6. Save the modifications. 7. Upload the modified screenshot to some site. 8. Talk about how strange your screenshot is.

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For me... When the game is hopelessly lost, I will sometimes give a highly promoted mechanical infantry and wreck havoc on my enemies. The key is to not win the game for a score, but just to be petty against an inanimate object. ;) For the AI... There have been a few 34-civ world games...

Stack medic plus my defense against mounted. They are usually one of the last to defend in a fully healed stack too.

Just in case people missed what happened: Krille's galleon was in a Celtic city. So he obviously had an open borders agreement with the Celts. Ragnar declared war on Krille. Ragnar also had an open border agreement with the Celts. Ragnar either moved a unit into that Celtic city or...

When the Permanent Alliance is signed, cultural domination of a tile is thrown out the window. Since this is now your teammate, the game will maximize the tiles available to each city. When the cities are far enough apart, the border may be pushed back to allow full usage of the BFC. When...

By nature of the conquest and domination victory conditions, you will have to eventually back-stab if you are going after this type of win. I eliminate my enemies first. Typically, they will be wiped off the face of the planet. My friends are left for last, and capitulation is usually the...

Inflation is a function of time. End the game sooner to avoid high inflation.

I don't think human player devote enough of the proper military units to city defense. Most of the time, the human player will have an archer or two in the city plus a ton of attack units. Of course your city will be taken over since you have very poor defenders. If you want to use passive...

Yes. A fun one is diplomatic only with 18 civs on the smallest panagea you can tolerate. Talk about kissing a little here and there, and waging war when you don't want to only to hopefully get someone's votes later on.

Read the introduction paragraphs for the difference. http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/info/wonders/ And yes, only one Internet can exist.

These two settings are my typical game play. Since civs that capitulate count as "conquered", it makes for interesting games.

If you use the blues circles, you can't go horribly wrong. The blue circles are great placements if you plan to develop your cities the way the computer does. In reading these boards, you'll find that the human does a better job at city development than the computer. For that reason...