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Rush EARLY because once the ai gets axes your rush is over...pillaging his copper/iron/horses can prolong your rush for a while if you can find all his resources and pillage them in time. The beauty of quechas is that they are much cheaper than the units they take out (archers) so you...

Thanks and thanks.

Does the wealth/beakers/culture a city builds with hammers get multiplied the the corresponding city improvements (market/library/cathedral, etc)? Bonus question: Does the unit XP bonus from barracks, stables, settled GGs, and West Point all stack? Thanks to anyone who has the time to answer.

Not sure if anyone pointed this out yet but if you found another city other than your capital then your religion will be founded there. So if you want your shrine in your initial capital you must found a religion before you build your second city, which can be pretty difficult on higher levels...

Yeah sorry, bad example I used. Obviously I already had CoL if I expected CS from the oracle. I wound up taking MC instead, not a huge deal. The problem is I seem to have already had all the prereq's for CS but it wasn't a choice offered. From some searching, it seems the reason is there...

Other than a OCC (GE GPP's & culture), I'd never build HS nor prioritize the tech that enables it.

Just wondering if there's a list or chart avail to help figure out which tech you can bulb/oracle/lib. I just thought I was all set to oracle CS but found out is wasn't an option (good old CoL again i guess). This has happened a few times for me with bulbing/libing a tech as well. I know...

Only if I have no access to copper or horses. Or if playing a civ w/ a swordsman uu...maybe.

Thanks again. I was getting close to a domination win and if was able to just take a few large cities from my main opponent just across a narrow sea then I'll be there. However, his vassal looks like he has a stronger military than his master. I just wanted to try and isolate the war to the...

Very helpful, thanks!

I've noticed in some of my recent test games that if they go long enough the world gets divided into 2 - 4 main blocs with a power civ in each bloc having 1 - 3 vassals. Question is when attacking another bloc should I go for the leader civ first or try to dislodge his vassals first? If I beat...

I've played some NTT games & it seems like settling your GS in the superscience city works very well. Not only do you get the multiplied beakers (and some hammers) but you additional GPP's as well, which helps generate the next GS faster and so on and so on. Works very well with a leader of...

What if you play with tech trading disabled? Seems like you'd loose some of the advantage of bulbing, especially after you reach liberalism.

Thanks for all the info! This whole time I thought Bureaucracy only increased gold, not commerce itself (duh!). I've been using my capital as a super science city (Oxford) and great person farm (National Epic). Yeah I've been cranking out the research & GS's but maybe I should have built...

Just wondering if anyone knows for sure how the cities gold multipliers work in cIV. Will the financial city with market, grocer, bank, and wall st only multiply the original gold output or will they also multiply the gold gained from each other as well? Same question for beakers in the...