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Research Agreements (RAs) are getting whacked pretty hard. I'd estimate you'll get about a third as many beakers as pre-patch, or less: 50% of the median tech, rather than 100% of the most expensive (assuming a dedicated RA-blocking strategy). That's still a good beaker return on the gold...

So I started a new game yesterday. Turn 14, Napolean DoW'ed me. By turn 18 there were 5 warriors surrounding my capital (I had killed the sixth), which fell on turn 20. I started again. Oda DoW'ed me around turn 40, before the NC was finished. He wasn't an immediate neighbor, maybe 15...

Inspired by the recent thread on overlapping BFCs, I grabbed a few screenshots from my current game to give a concrete example: The map is fractal, large, rocky, low seas. I don't have near neighbors, so fast blocking isn't an issue -- it allows me to dotmap the land as I please...

I always thought that when you chopped a forest, the hammers go to the closest city, with ties broken by ... size? founding date? Anyway, I found out last night that if the forest is in the fat cross of two cities, you can control which city gets the hammers: whichever city has access to...

Being on the wrong end of a holy dogpile is just about the worst thing that can happen in a game of civ. So I need to know, who can and who can't be the target of a "declare war on the infidel" resolution. In particular: A civ with a different state religion, but the AP religion present in...

I've finished two space races so far, both using approximately the same order in a mid-sized CE. I thought I'd toss out some observations and thoughts, and solicit those of others. After Liberalism, Democracy, Astronomy, I beelined Assembly Line. Factories now give much more unhealthiness...

I used to always research Alphabet, and trade it to fill out my tech tree. Math and IW, probably some of the Poly/Masonry/Sailing level techs. But then I'd hit a wall: Calendar, Construction, Currency, Code of Laws, Monarchy (4C+M). They all cost about the same and take a long time to...

A Semi-Immortal Walkthrough, #2 by lilnev Well the first one was fun, let's do it again. I'm playing immortal, small pangaea. This time I've left the sea level random, as well as climate, shoreline, leader, and AIs. No options checked, all victory conditions enabled. And let's roll the...

A Semi-Immortal Walkthrough by lilnev Howdy folks. Like many others, I've enjoyed acidsatyr's demonstration of an immortal game, and I hope to see it finished. Myself, I've been struggling to make the step up from emperor with limited success, and the Warlords patch has set me back a...

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." -- Samuel Butler "War is the business of Barbarians." -- Napoleon Bonaparte Howdy folks. The challenge this time is...

The other day Julius Caesar came to me and said, "We demand that you stop trading with our worst enemies, the Indians!" Before answering him, I opened the diplomacy->active screen to see what deals I currently had. And I noticed that I was still sending Caesar tribute, which I'd forgotten to...