Recent content by cfgenesis

So I was slow getting faith points and now there are no more religions available to be founded. I am off to a pretty good start otherwise so I would hate to bail on this game, but are faith buildings and policies completely useless now without having a religion?

Well at least the game is realistic, because the Native American society was known for it's overwhelming dominance - just look at them today.

Thanks, I guess the only way to prevent the diplomatic victory is to eliminate city states in advance so no one gets a majority.

I am playing an epic game, large map trying for a domination victory. Japan completes the UN and initiates the voting. At this point in the game there are only 19 CS left. With one turn to go before the vote, I pay off CSs so that 9 are for me, 8 are for JApan, and 2 are neutral. I then...

Just tried running it in DirectX9 and the same thing happened. Also tried restarting from an earlier autosave, same result.

I have been playing Civ 5 for about three months with no issues. Today, at about turn 545 I get a message that the game has stopped responding and windows is searching for a solution, none is found and the game shuts down. I restart from my last auto-save four turns earlier, play to the same...

That relies on having enough gold to out-bribe the AI on a least 6 or 7 CS, meaning unless you already have strong relationships with them, you need 4,000 - 5,000 gold in reserve to do that. I rarely have that much.

Aside from just turning it off as an option when you start a game, are there any successful strategies for preventing this? I am trying for a science victory on medium (Prince or King) difficulty and keep running in to the same scenario. An AI civ on the opposite side of the world conquers all...