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    After being backstabbed...

    There's a lot of factors that come to play. Loyalty is one , AI with high loyalty display less aggression to civs they like, but it does depend on how aggressive they are to start with. DoF willingness is another factor that ties directly in with Loyalty. A leader with fairly low loyalty...
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    Dear Firaxis; fix ideologies they are broken.

    I think you have to be careful accepting Open Borders early game. Its hard i know because the AI tends to nag and i usually end up saying yes just to stop the spam. The thing is, you can afford to let one AI become influential over you, provided you switch to their ideology when you get...
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    After being backstabbed...

    what should you do? It often happens that your neighbour DoWs you with a DoF active. After beating back this assault and securing a peace deal, how do you proceed towards them? 1) befriend them again. They are now quite likely desperate for trade partners, and no-one trusts them...
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    Worst Civ in the Game??

    For the challenge I had a go with the Iroquois, and ended up near the south pole in a tundra/forest region. But the game tries to balance start locations, and maybe for this reason such starts often give 3 or more deer tiles in workable range. They are awesome with the longhouse and a...
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    Great Library Immortal-Diety Level Possible?

    I managed it a couple of times on Immortal, but I soon realised it's not worth building a strategy around it at immortal + deity. The thing is, to reliably get it, you'd have to build the thing so fast, you wouldn't have time to research Pottery + Writing + Calendar. Why is it important to...
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    Settling away from other civilizations

    I think the value of your city site has a bearing too, i've been trying out as Spain recently and AI seems to covet more when i found my second city with a natural wonder within its borders. The AI must be running calculations where to drop its second city, and when one of your sites is...
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    Settling away from other civilizations

    The problem is, they might be cool with your extra city at first. But then they settle another one and suddenly your borders are in conflict. Or the two of you both settled cities towards each other, the closest pair now 5 tiles apart. When just founded, with culture borders only going out to...
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    King Attempt: Need advice

    I don't normally raze cities unless they're in a bad location, for example if he'd settled Makkasar a few tiles North or South you wouldn't be able to get all 3 luxes with it, so i'd raze and start over. In this case he's sited it perfectly, to nick the Cotton, Cocoa and Silver from under...
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    Settling away from other civilizations

    90% of the time, the "stop settling cities near us" request is triggered by settling a city that is closer to their capitol than yours. Assuming the map is standard sized and that the two of you are neighbours of course. So i usually count tiles before settling a city, in a largely futile...
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    WTF Maria? AI votes for my Ideology

    Can't say i've ever seen this happen before. Myself and Portugal are the only two with an Ideology, I went Freedom, Maria went Autocracy. She's already got dissidents, WC comes around, and she proposes "World Ideology - Freedom". Er, thanks ! It passes, next turn she thanks me for...
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    Habits that make your game(s) non-optimum

    I'd say my biggest failing is inability to say "No", at least to repeat requests. If some blatant warmonger attacks me and starts to regret it, i find it hard to keep going after the first or second time he pops up grovelling. Usually take the deal and then pay his neighbours to finish him...
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    Which civ has the best music?

    I'm rather partial to the Native American theme, eg. when playing Shoshone. Don't think the music is Civ specific - rather, there are several playlists - Asian, European, Native American, Middle Eastern, African - and something in the config files flags which civ gets which playlist.
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    AI and Banning Luxuries at World Congress

    I seldom vote against anything unless the proposer is a sworn enemy who is never going to like me anyway. I just abstain. I also frequently commit a single yes vote to proposals i don't really want to pass, but would quite like a boost with the AI. The luxury bans are usually targeted at...
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    Hottest Female Leader

    Maybe it's my graphics settings, but i can't see any lines on her face, her complexion looks fine. I'd put her at about 28 or 29. To me, that's "young" :)
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    Hottest Female Leader

    Agree exactly on Dido. Would rather have Maria of Portugal. Boudicca does have curves and nice legs too, but a total absence up top... i mean A cup women are fine by me, but she doesn't even have that, or has bound them/done something very wierd with her clothes. The main problem is...
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