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I can't remember which icon I voted for, all I can remember is thinking at the time "oh God please don't let it be that unfunny pointless and totally unclear one", and look which one won As Chalks said, the icon isn't meant to be funny or witty or a particularly good design or artistic or...

Well, historically most puppet states have usually had a new leader installed who is friendly to the ideology of the conquering state. Generally, this leader was not the existing defeated leader, thus the victorious power deposed the old leader and installed a new one, which is what we're...

I think this sounds like a good feature, but this may already be adressed in the "puppet states" feature that will be coming in in CIV5. ALso perhaps the civ with the new leader has a chance of going into some sort of uprising and reinstalling the old leader, this would mean that sometimes it...

Hi, welcome to the forums I would reccomend you read the guide for new players in the war academy section. It is clearly worded and provides excellent information about basic game mechanics, some strategies to try etc. It also explains about resources, production and commerce. If you are still...

only problem with tropical is the huge swathes of jungle which encircles the world. Also there will still be ice/tundra at the extremes whic some civs may start in

sorrry, started an elizabeth game since then, i found the autosaves but it didn't go back that far

Ouch, this start reminds me a little of the recent LHC with Charlgy - too much desert and hardly any resources. I can definately see locations for 4 decent and 2 pretty bad cities, but for me, there are simply too few resources. A lack of happiness also means you'll need to tech monarchy early...

Agreed with Gocho, you're not going to get the GLH on a 1 tile island, you should probably build 1 or 2 cities first (the plains hill east of the sheep wuld be ok if you get grassland in the east) The 1 tile island would be good but It can wait a little later IMO

Ok thanks for the tips, didn't get round to playing it today but I will implement some advice tomorrow. Siran, I havn't saved the start, however it may stil be in the autosave files (I don't know how far back it saves, bear in mind I will have played over 100+ turns sice then) If it is in...

Thank you for your responces @Siran I see now that I underused the whip too much. I was teching calender to hook up sugar and insence and also for a trade for alphabet. I traded mathematics with Brennus and got preisthood and poly - under par trade but I think he had put some turns into math...

Hi I''ve not posted in a while, but I've been having a few economy problems on prince recently. In a previous game as Montezuma, I kept myself afloat using shrine income, but otherwise i probably would have found myself in tech hell. Anyway In this current Japanese game my dconomy is in...

Although officially neutral until the dying days of WW2, Franco heavily favoured the Germans/Italians for obvious reasons and sent somewhere in the reigon of 20,000 troops to assisst in operation barbarossa OT: Personally I wouls like to see another leader for Spain, perhaps Charles III as...

Not always, a city with any culture can be kept, so a pop 1 with 1 culture could be kept, but a pop 1 with no culture is autoraised

One thing that i'm not sure was fixed with 3.19 was the way the AI's pumped out caravels even when their top coastal city was under siege and could have been saved by getting out one or two more units. I once saw 17 caravels in an enemy city, all of which had been built whilst I was at war with them

true, colonies can be really annoying, especially if an obscure religion that no one else is runing as state gets spread to the new world and they adopt it (seems to happen quite a lot unless you bring along missionaries), and don't forget the -1 modifier for all other A.I's, IIRC this...