How is your position within a Civ (King, Duke, etc.) determined? Is it random, or based upon recent activity, or what?
There are 4 ranks: King, Prince, Duke, Commoner.
When you first join a civ, you start at the bottom rank - Commoner.
When you get a
Medal, you get promoted to the top of the
next rank. For example, if there are 4 dukes, you will be the topmost of the 4 Duke from a Commoner. Everyone else gets pushed down by 1 position between the positions you jumped from to your new position. So in order to become King, you must earn a Medal while being a Prince.
You earn a medal by:
A) Being the first player in your civ to reach each population size
B) Contributing the most science beakers to a tech that gets completed
C) Having the biggest contributing army strength in a civ-vs-civ war that your civ wins.
D) Being the first player in your civ to reach certain Gold milestones.
E) When you build a Wonder of the World, you have a chance to be selected for a Medal among all players that contributed Great Persons to it.
F) Being the first in your civ to build a Ginormous anything.
G) When you win contests and certain auctions (on the Market screen).
Does anyone know if artillery units require metallurgy? Metallurgy isn't required for industrialization, so I just want to make sure our last-ditch effort of to survive of getting industrialization for the artillery before an upcoming battle starts isn't in vain.
Artillery requires the "Industrialization" tech. Metallurgy is not a prerequisite for Industrialization. Cannons (from Metallurgy) will upgrade to Artillery. If you don't have Metallurgy, then you can't have Cannon units to begin with. If you had any because you were in another civ or something, they would be hidden from view and be unusable until you unlock Metallurgy again.
How do you build wonders? (It explained it in the tutorial, but I can't find ANYTHING.)
First you have to be in a civ (join one on the World page).Then when you click on the Culture page, you can contribute Great Persons towards the building of one.