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    Quo's Combined Tweaks

    Just got the expansion and dlc, downloaded your mod and started playing again. Loving it so far! But I've noticed my workers can build several improvements unique to other civs. Is this because I've befriended said civ? Also when building wonders it lets me place them in areas I shouldn't be...
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    Quick Questions and Answers

    So i haven't played or kept up with BE since shortly after launch. Back then the general consensus was that it wasn't very good. I know firaxis usually does a good job improving their games with patches and updates, has BE gotten significantly better since vanilla?
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    Emperor Tutorial Series II - The Fundamental CE (Monarch/Prince players welcome)

    I ended up scoring a diplomatic victory in 1872, 5 turns from winning via spaceship. Elizabeth built it, and shaka was huge with 2 vassals. Shaka voted for me bc we were friendly, and we were both so huge population wise that was all it took.
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    Emperor Tutorial Series II - The Fundamental CE (Monarch/Prince players welcome)

    I'll give a brief recap of my experience, up to 430 AD. (Got a bit carried away) First off, I had to reload a couple of times, as the barbs were brutal. BTW they will definitely enter your borders once it hits 1700 BC.
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    Emperor Tutorial Series I - The Pyramids based SE (Monarch/Prince players welcome)

    I have been playing monarch for a while, but just won a game on emperor with the SE. Thanks to Feralminded for this thread and the conquering emperor thread. I do have a couple of questions, as I have always used the CE in the past. (and almost always went oracle for code of laws, which I am...
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    Cause of BTS All-forest One-resource Starts

    They need to fix the forest thing. All too often the game starts up and I have almost all of my tiles covered with forest, and usually one resource. Or the also annoying 3 or more seafood bonus start.
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    BTS – A guide for higher difficulties for standard speed and maps (emperor+)

    Do you do anything different if you find out your continent has only 2 AI's? I waited on the cpu to get alphabet, and I suppose boudica and ragnar are more interested in war, since they still didn't have it in 500 ad! I suppose I need to know more about how the different leaders play under AI...
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    BTS – A guide for higher difficulties for standard speed and maps (emperor+)

    How much do they have to like you? Caesar was +1 with me and declared. So I loaded up the auto from 4 earlier turns, and sure enough he had too much on his hands. Just out of curiousity, I gifted him 2 techs, raising him to +2 and gave myself enough units to raise my soldier number in the...
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    Cultural Victory Challenge #3: Huayna Capac

    A little off topic, but I just have a quick question. I tried cultural in civ 4 vanilla. But the predominant way to win via culture involved turning off your science slider and turning up culture. I really did not like that, as it could take you from a powerhouse to a scrub. Are there some...
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    please help sound issues BTS

    Okay, I have an extremely annoying problem. When I launch civ, my speakers start to make these awful noises. It happens right after it says init audio. I still can hear the music and effects, but these kind of static, crackling, popping noises are really loud. What is really annoying...
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    Whipping cycles

    So whipping is most powerful when used in a cycle, but that requires you to be building the same thing over and over right? I am curious about the really early game, whipping libraries, granaries, settlers, courthouses, monastaries and such. I'm starting to think I hurt myself more than I help...
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    Whipping cycles

    I'm a pretty smart guy, but all these numbers and whipping theories are giving me a headache. I would like to know more about if I should whip in the early game. Usually when I have a city with 2 or 3 food bonuses and a 5 or 6 happy cap, I think about using all the extra food for production...
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    I'm winning by 500+ points. Why aren't I happy?

    this happens every time I play against the cpu. Sooner or later, it gets to where its obvious I am going to win, but I still have to play for another 4 hours or so. It's actually quite annoying.
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    Apostolic Palace votes not occuring

    well i went and played some more, after several reloads, I got it to work a little bit. I think the problem was that I was guaranteed to win the leader seat, b/c I was the only person to vote for. I sent a couple more missionaries out to china, and convinced them to switch to my religion...
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    Apostolic Palace votes not occuring

    okay I am bringing this back from the dead. This thing is very confusing to me. I have played several games trying to understand it, then i cam to the forums and read up on it. Armed with information, I started a new game planning on winning via the AP. So I found confuscianism (sp?), it...
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