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And if you have 1000 gold you get 20 gold. If you have 10,000 gold you get 200 every turn, which is like having an extra city producing gold. Not great, but can be useful to quicken an economic victory.

Better than losing the unit entirely (usually). I just used Egypt for the first time, was going for the achievement for winning with only one city. Because of this, I moved my settler (took 3 turns) to get as good a starting place as I could get, lots of desert tiles near rivers. Forests...

Thanks for the read, I love this game. Your story brought up a question for me, though. After a civ has launched his shuttle to AC, you can attack his capitol to prevent a tech win, correct? Well, you had already taken Washington before the Americans launch their ship... is there any way to...

I tried some of these tips for my first game on Diety. I think I played the start pretty well with my first three cities. I was caught between the culture-emphasizing Indians and War-mongering Brits. Elizabeth drew me into a costly war where I captured one of her cities, but it was soon...

Great read, thanks for typing it up! I really enjoyed the only game I played with the Japanese, love getting food and trade from sea squares.

When you guys figure this out, please post it here. I've been wondering...

For the scenarios, read the description before choosing. Every one I've read has the required win criteria listed.

I have won my last couple of games on Emperor, but I do stuggle in the early goings, and I'm not sure why that is. I think I may try to build a galley too soon for exploration, and possibly too many buildings compared to units. I don't know how people are able to be aggressive early in the...

Is this scenario broken? I'm playing on Emperor level, and none of the AI have even built a second city yet (I'm well into the AD).

I'm playing the scenario Beta Centauri (where you start with all technologies already researched). I have all my cities producing gold instead of science instead of researching future technology. The funny thing is I've researched future tech about 7 times (2 or 3 great scientists, and I...

If I play a single player game my normal style with no specific goal in mind, I usually end up with cultural victories. I love those wonders and flipping cities!

How do you name mountain ranges if you can't go over them, do you have to wait until air units? I've never seen a named mountain range.

So, winning a scenario game wiped out all the previous great leaders/people/etc. that you had unlocked in the great hall previously? That stinks.

Most people -- or atleast I do and it was mentioned in reviews -- get some frame skips during the nuke animation, but it's never locked up my system. I have noticed that some animation take an abnormally long time to load for me, especially naval battles. The screen will spin slowly around...

It must be just you. At the emperor difficulty level three of the AI civs were constantly at war with me.