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Doesn't do anything. But maybe it should? Like, a +1 Dip bonus for every GP you hand over? On one hand, would be a neat solution to the problem of those low-value late-game GPs (Great Prophet in 1954... what am I going to do, found Scientology?) and would also make Diplomatic wins a tiny...

is there a way to get them to stop asking? Waldo

Monarch level, fractal map, most of the world's land is in a single long dumbbell-shaped continent. I'm Louis of France. Combination of REXing and early war has given me one "bell" of the dumbbell, maybe a quarter of the world's landmass. It's around 1000 AD, and I'm about to turn turtle, try...

This is my own term for when you willingly choose not to capture an AI city, although you can, because the AI keeps throwing units into it. Recent example: medieval war, I'm Ragnar, fighting Wang Kon. I reduced his city to a single damaged Horse Archer defending, but noticed he had several...

I see a lot of experienced players recommending this, but I haven't yet seen a detailed discussion of its benefits. (Probably there's been one, but if so I missed it.) Worker first has some obvious drawbacks: you slow your growth and, if there's a shortage of workable tiles and/or techs to...

I would like to post a game with screenshots, but I don't know how. I mean, I totally don't know how -- I don't know how to take screenshots, nor how to post them either. Is there a tutorial or walkthrough somewhere that shows how to do this? Waldo

I'm about to conquer a large island with two barbarian cities on it. It's far from my home continent, though, so upkeep costs will be high. Question: how many cities abroad are required to form a colony? Is it three? Or can I do it with just two? It makes a difference; if three are...

The Drill line of promotions gets better as you go up, yes? Drill 1 is pretty worthless, but Drill 2 is much better, and by the time you're at Drill 4 it's competitive with Combat 4, maybe. But Drill 1 sucks so much that you'd never waste a promotion on it. But on the other hand, if...

In the middle of a very odd game. Drew Qin (Protective, Industrious) and started next to Gandhi. Rushed him early and settled down to a nice Classical age of wonderspamming... ...only to find that the rest of my continent consisted of Ramses, Huayna Capac, DeGaulle, and Tokugawa. Three...

I've seen this mentioned a number of times, but I've never seen it explained in detail. Is it that you start to build a Wall, then whip just before it's done, and the game gives you double shields on the overflow? That seems handy, but hardly game-breaking. Am I missing something? Waldo

Justinian is unusual in that he has a very strong UU /and/ one of the better UBs. The Cataphract is a Knight with strength 12 instead of 10. That's almost as good as Rome's Praets. If you beeline Guilds, you're going to dominate medieval warfare for a long time. In a recent game, I was...

This is a very solid UB. Faster growth, or half a specialist in each city from Classical times onward: it's not flashy, but it's just all-around good. It almost makes up for the stupid UU. (Nearest Ivory in this game was on the other side of the world, owned by a civ I wouldn't meet until...

I'm playing Charlemagne. Classical era, I'm peacefully sharing a continent with Hammurabi. Currently researching Mathematics. I have horses but not Horseback Riding, and no metals at all. Just got the barbarian invasion random event. Four barb swords outside my third-best city. Damn...

God, I hate Saladin. Just quit a game with him, not because I was losing -- I was doing fine, three shrines and the largest empire -- but because it was just so damn boring. I could either slog my way to a domination win like fifty games before, but slower because I'd get no help from traits...

After playing Charlemagne, I have the strong impression that the Rathaus saves so much money that it's almost like being Organized. Has anyone checked this? Say you have a typical early medieval empire -- 8 or 10 cities on one continent -- running the most common civics (Hereditary Rule...

New game, just drew Joao. Weakish start location -- inland, on a river surrounded by forest, no resources but corn. Fractal map, but seems to have produced one of those fractal Pangaeas. Traits seem unimpressive -- Exp and Imp? Don't see much synergy there, though cheap granaries and...

Which are the civs that have great UUs /and/ wonderful UBs? 5) Romans -- The Forum is an above-average but not spectactular UB. However, the Romans make the list because of the whack awesomeness of Praets. 4) Mongols -- Keshik and Ger. Both are good and, unusually, they work together...

Finally had a game where I could see Charlie shine. (Got nowhere the first couple of times I played him.) Prot/Imp are two of my least favorite traits, but if you make it to the Medieval era things pick up quite a bit. The Rathaus is sort of quietly awesome. Not flashy, but after a while...

Argh! I'm Japan, in a lengthy medieval war against Peter of Russia. I've taken half his cities, including his capital. I'm comfortably ahead in score and in techs -- I have Samurai and Trebuchets and Knights, while he's still limping along with Swordsmen and Catapults. But he won't...

This has just become my favorite corporation. Yah, Sid's Sushi, bla bla bla. But Creative Con is IMO better for the sort of fast Domination win that most of us end up chasing. You can get it early, because it's unlocked by a tech that's almost always a priority. It gives a mix of...