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Austria-Hungary Immortal, science victory turn 588 (1918 AD). It was a smooth game - it didn't show anything in the mod that needed to be fixed or changed. RP scores were: Portugal 955 Russia 836 India 617 Brazil 544 China 535 England 532 France 494 Austria 462 USA 306 Japan 302 Inca 260...

I'm new to Civ 5 and started with some short test games to learn the game. Then I played China, then Babylon, hoping for science victories, and both collapsed around 1000 AD. Babylon looked like it would be very strong, China too but less so. The one other thing I noticed was that in some...

Is there a way to check the difficulty level of an existing game? An example would be if I let autoplay run set up my civ, and then before I start to play, I want to double-check that I selected the difficulty level I intended. I don't see it in the UI.

BTS question, although I imagine the answer is the same for Vanilla and Warlords. There seem to be some preferences that are stored somewhere other than _Civ4Config AKA CivilizationIV.ini. Examples: screen resolution, the volume sliders, whether the clock is enabled. I don't see settings...

I had my signature wrapped in size=1 bbcode tags for the purpose of displaying it in a small font size, smaller than post text. At some point - this was a while ago now, several months ago - the appearance of my signature changed in my browsers, so that the size=1 text made my sig text...

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Has anyone here gotten one of these? I'm wondering if you have to get all 10 in the same game for the achievement to take. On the OF, somebody said he had accumulated 1000 fame points without getting the Mona Lisa achievement, which could be due to the same mechanic, if that is how it works.

I always see that one of the era victory options is "win a battle versus a size X% civ." It stinks that the only time you see the size percentage for each civ is when you have the option of proposing an invasion. But anyway, it can take two days from the moment an invasion is proposed to...

My civ was going to be invaded by barbs in a few hours while I was asleep. Nobody else in my civ was awake or had put up any units for defense, so I threw some units down and started playing with their orders. I fortified some, which appeared to eliminate an attack bonus the barbs had, but...

Game Developer magazine has a feature where a member of a game team reports on a completed development project. The postmortems often have really interesting software engineering insights. Here are the section headings and a synopsis. "What Went Right / What Went Wrong" is the standard...

If you're attacking with Cuirassiers and aren't facing a lot of Riflemen yet, what promotions do you like? For city attackers, my intuition is to start with Flanking II, since their withdrawal is already pretty high.

I'm looking for a way to start a new, random game with the Mercurians as one of the civs. I want to play the Mercurians from the beginning of the game. It's OK if the game starts with the Mercurian city already settled. I tried editing the Worldbuilder save from the second turn (after...

Settings: 0.41h, Tectonics 30% water, Small, Normal, Emperor + Increasing Difficulty, No Tech Brokering. All victories enabled. 10 AIs: 2 random good, 1 random neutral, 2 random evil, 5 random random. Mandatory variant: the human must win by Domination or Conquest. Optional variant: on...

If you're allied with Basium and you vassalize an AV civ, and the vassal stays in AV, can Basium autodeclare on the vassal? Granted, it would be better to convert the vassal to Order/Kilmorph/Empyrean anyway so that Basium gets more angels, but that takes some hammers, and you might not be...

I got pwned by a giant AI stack out of nowhere again. :\ I think I could have prepared for it, but I had gotten careless about flying all my hawks out every turn. I play on land-based maps (Tectonics Lakes) where you have to watch for attacks from many directions. The novelty of hawk recon...

I think we need another article on national wonders but I'm not sure exactly what, so this thread is for brainstorming/discussion. It seems like every couple months there's a new discussion thread about what national wonders should be paired together. That's not really harmful, but to me it...

Hemispheres / Standard / Normal / Immortal. Two-part Axe war, got IW + Math for peace in the interlude, captured Great Lighthouse, level 4 unit, settled GG. Traded Alpha to Hatty for Fishing + Masonry + Archery and then researched Poly -> Mono for OR, her favorite. Looking more closely at the...

If you see an AI found multiple early religions, how useful an indicator do you think it is that he will be a soft early target for you? I wonder because I saw it happen twice recently. I had decided to attack them with catapults anyway (almost before the game had started), but Mansa's and...

Do you: * explore the tundra first, for huts guaranteed not to be contested by AIs and to get that part of your exploration out of the way way first * explore the non-tundra first, to find better city sites before your explorer gets eaten Discuss. Use this example for the poll...