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    Civ5 Confirmed Features and Versions

    The info center link still points to the old version of this post. I guess it needs updating?
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    The Mongols eat China

    You can't voluntarily raze one of your own cities. Can you? I'm fast becoming of the opinion that the only way to do it is not to build close to the Mongol spawn zone.
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    The Mongols eat China

    I agree with you, except that handing over a city to the Mongols auto-fails my UHV.
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    The Mongols eat China

    So, I let them build their capital, declared war the next turn, refused them my cities and then hit the capital, killing or capturing all their units. There is now a gigantic stack of Mongol units (possibly units who previously fought for me) on my north border. *sigh*
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    The Mongols eat China

    So, I'm new to RFC and just dipping my toe in the water, really. I've played a few games with different civs, managed an Egypt UHV and Germany UHV. I'm having trouble with China, though. I've mastered the expansion strategy, spreading Taoism and Confucianism, building the temples and...
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    Food exploit

    It enables you to circumvent the restrictions on storage space, and in the case of the food storage it enables you to circumvent the need to produce liberty bells in proportion to the population. Whether you consider it an exploit or not, it fairly clearly isn't the way the game was intended to...
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    Food exploit

    So, I'm guessing that other people have already spotted this, but just in case. It seems to be a well-known bug that you can fast-track to independence by stockpiling weapons and then reducing pop in all cities at the last minute. But you can also stockpile food in caravans - then once...
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    Multiplayer diplomacy

    Hey all I just tried my first multiplayer game over our house's LAN. Apart from a little disagreement between Norton Antivirus and Civ, it went pretty well. But my one gripe was that I was unable to engage in diplomacy (trade, open borders, etc) with my human opponent, even though these...
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    I want my money back!

    @Ranos - I guess this is pretty off-topic, but I'm not aware of piracy being more of a problem in Europe than the USA. Are you? In any case, if it's that easy to copy Civ IV, refusing a refund won't help much, because I and my friends can buy one copy between us and then copy it. I assume from...
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    Which level can You beat under "Die Hard" conditions?

    This is true - though also of marathon vs. quick (on the scale of how long it takes to build things and reach new techs, movement is quicker on marathon). Does that mean that marathon is easier? Also, why wouldn't this benefit the AI equally? This I agree with, but would tend to factor it...
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    I want my money back!

    I'm glad to hear you sorted it out, but shocked that you couldn't get a refund. In the UK (Europe generally, I think) you are entitled to return anything not 'fit for purpose' for a full refund, under law - and in particular if you buy online you can return within 7 days for a refund even if the...
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    Which level can You beat under "Die Hard" conditions?

    PS why standard size? I've mainly played tiny because otherwise I'd never get round to finishing (one epic marathon game, but only to see what it was like -- no harder than before).
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    Which level can You beat under "Die Hard" conditions?

    Haven't played enough games to assess against your criteria! I've been working my way up a level at a time and am currently on Prince without being seriously challenged. I'll probably move onto monarch in a game or two's time.
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    I'm quite nasty

    Nothing evil about it. I make it a point of principle to place my cities to prevent others from exploring/settling as much of the world as possible. If they then violate my sovereign territory with their filthy foreign-ness, they know what to expect!
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    Bombers of doom

    Can someone quickly clarify whether bombers can take damage when attacking a ground unit. With their Strength of 16 they seem a bit lame against most units of the modern era, *unless* they are immune to attack. Is this right? Also, I assume SAM infantry are the exception, since they are capable...
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