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Don't buy Civ Rev 2. The AI is pretty much completely broken in the current version on both Android and iOS, even on Deity. Early AI units get stuck when they encounter a goody hut or a barbarian - they stop moving and they don't attack. Because of this the AI gets way behind early in the game...

Great writeup. I don't play anywhere near Deity, but I can't wait to try it out!

How did you do it?!?!?

I hadn't played Civ for many months, then for some reason picked it up again in August, and thought I'd come back and try some TSG games. To my amazement, I won the TSG17 Immortal game, but I won it with a Science victory, not domination. Oops. Still, that's the first time I've beat Immortal. As...

Seaports work differently than lighthouses. A lighthouse gives +1 food on any water tile. Seaports give +2 production on sea resources--fish, pearls, whales, oil.

VERY cool. I did a bunch of my replays, they all worked great. Here are a few: My first ever tutorial game A time victory on an interesting looking Standard map A space victory on a small map (domination would have been faster on that one!) A (relatively) quick domination victory

I haven't seen an icon list for the unit upgrades, that'd be a nice item to have. I bet the strategy guide book has a list. Wins for each leader is the only stat I'm aware of also. Game of the Week isn't really a competitive thing like it is on Xbox and PS3, but the DS version does get the...

Heh, I was barely able to crack this achievement, but I wasn't playing a scenario or anything. I imagine in Beta Centauri you could get some massive production after several Future Tech production upgrades.

You can only play other DS players with the DS version of Civ Rev. I haven't tried DS online play, but I would imagine prime time is the same as for Xbox Live, early evenings during Eastern and Pacific time.

Monarchy, Magna Carta and a courthouse in every city, whatever wonders you can afford, steal every GP you can find from the AI, and take over a few cities with wonders. I have found the easiest way to a cultural victory is to take it from the AI. Typically an AI will choose the cultural path...

Should be in the Civilopedia. Of course, that's not much help to you if you're playing the DS version. EDIT: Or either of the other versions... I just checked the Civilopedia and it doesn't have exact numbers, it only says "bonus" or "significant bonus". :(

Some civs do have access to resources that others don't, but there's no concept of trade in Civ Rev. The resources pretty much just give different bonus amounts of growth, production, trade or culture.

Theoretically you should be able to play a game over Nintendo WiFi with anyone anywhere, if you have their friend code. The mode that requires you to be within 40 feet is "Local Wireless" (under the DS Wireless Communications main menu option). Either option uses a lot of battery power and would...

Well, on the xbox, you click the right stick to do it. I think I remember seeing somewhere it's R3 on the PS3? In any case, there should be a "view controller map" option in the load/save menu while playing the game. You should be able to find it somewhere in there.

On the Xbox & PS3 versions you can sell outdated units and get back a small amount of gold. The DS version lacks that feature.