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So I finally got GS. Hadn't read a thing about what any of the new Civs do, except for Kupe. Figured I'd be Canada, eh, and build some Hockey Rinks while winning that fancy new diplomatic victory. Wow. What a mistake. It took me 4 games before I even got a spawn with tundra inside my visible...

I've now played 2 games to completion on Immortal and I haven't seen a single emergency in either game. Are they that uncommon? What gives?

Well I got 266 turns, but I'm too lazy to submit anything. I basically did a standard tradition->rationalism, delaying oracle to rennaisance. Got Pyramids, Great Library, Hanging Gardens, etc early. I managed to be friendly with every Civilization so I had a ton of research agreements going all...

Well part of the other issue with getting NC later is that more of your happiness will be spent on number of cities vs. citizen count, so you are unlikely to have a larger city where the NC benefit may be larger.

This really depends on your strategy, doesn't it? I mean if you are going ICS with Maya or Ethiopia you'll probably have 14 cities or something before you even can think of building the NC. You won't be growing your capital for a while anyway so the science boost from it isn't as required, but...

Honestly I think a lot of this comes down to luck. You also need to be prepared, since it's almost inevitable you'll be attacked. I did have one game where I had enough room for 14 cities or so and a giant mountain wall locking off the rest of the continent from me except for a chokepoint on...

I've had success doing this with Ethiopia. Some of those games I've struggled to get my Science up if I get stuck in some lengthy wars; Mayans is probably better. It also sucks that you can't really leverage your UU and UA as Ethiopia, but the Stele is an absolutely amazing building. One...

Yea that seems to be the best way I guess. I've been messing around with some religious based strategies with Ethiopia using ceremonial burial and pagodas to stop happiness issues, but the UA and UU are mostly useless for this type of game so I'll probably try with something more relevant soon...

Does anyone else get annoyed and bored trying to do this challenge? It's just extremely tedious moving units to surround cities with one unit per tile, and you really need lots of units surrounding a city to have a chance at taking one when you're on relatively equal footing with the AI like...

Don't the new mercantile city states at least add a little incentive to conquer some of them? You get a luxury that you can only get through owning that city or conquering it. Of course, allying it gives you a much bigger bonus than conquering it ever would, so it's kind of silly. That's one...

I have the opposite effect sometimes - I settle a city and it's like way far away but they are all "stop expanding towards us" and I'm like "okay bro" and then I do it anyway after a few turns and they don't get angry and however many turns later it says I kept my promise. I'm also not sure how...

I had the one that gives you 10GP per turn two tiles away from my city and I could not build Macchu Picchu in that city until I bought an actual Mountain tile. Then when Macchu Picchu was finished, it appeared on top of the Natural Wonder! The game has a bit of schizophrenia concerning...

So in Civ4 you could place a little map marker on a tile by pressing I think it was Alt+S. Is there similar functionality in Civ 5? I've done a few google searches and have not found anything about it. I'm assuming no, which is really annoying since it was such a good way to plan out city...

Another game... 1650AD Turn 240 I had Cristo at turn 219 but apparently I just didn't have enough Culture saved up at the time. I did not get a Great Engineer for Cristo this game like I have in most of my other ones, either, since I was trying to get more Scientists. The problem is my...

800 points is only 2 turns at the end game, so you are adding 2 turns to get wonders faster throughout the whole game. That is most likely more than 2 turns of savings since you are teching up to the point where you get 400 culture a turn faster and you are getting other bonuses that allow you...