Recent content by naturesbandit

All right, you're a little all over the place, but that's okay. This is a complex game that takes experience and know-how to master. I'll start with your numbered questions: 1. Science victories depend on a few things. Primarily, it's population. This doesn't necessarily favor a wide empire...

I think I remember reading if you have a defensive pact with an AI, and they recapture one of your cities they will liberate it. However, I find defensive pacts generally useless so I have never tested this. Maybe if you were on a permanent team with the AI they would liberate for you as well.

This happened to me yesterday for the first time as well. I was playing a game and at turn 129 it would crash. During the computer's turn the music would stutter, and the game outright freezes. I tried what you guys did with the other save and backed up a few autosaves to try to re-write...

For example, if you want it to specialize in production, what sort of landscape should you look for? Is there a hammer yield you shoot for? What size should you let it grow to? I got the hang of dot-mapping in CIV, but have yet to find a similar system for CiV.