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I probably could have saved myself making this thread entirely if I had noticed before that there is a game setup option to completely disable espionage. Oops. Problem solved!

I had the declaration of friendship first. After the got their spy, they started spying on me while the declaration was still in effect. I denounced them for it and I'm the one that pays the diplomatic penalty. That's messed up!

I put my spy in the capital the minute I got him, and he is a superagent having killed a few spies already, but stuff still gets stolen. The problem is that I am the only country that other countries are trying to steal from (fairly sure of this because I've seen almost every country named in...

I just recently got the expansion, and it's pretty cool for the most part. But I really don't like how stealing technology works. The problem is not that stealing technology is too easy (even though it is). The problem is also not that your reaching Renaissance era gives every country a...

In Civ 3 there was a really handy editor that was similar to the Civ 4 Worldbuilder, but it also let you set unit abilities and building effects. The Worldbuilder in Civ 4 seems to only do map stuff and setting up for scenarios, which isn't what I'm looking for. I just want to change the water...

I understand the basics of how XML works, but what I really need is a complete reference list of what all the various tags in the files do. For example, I could easily change a line like "<iConquestProb>100</iConquestProb>" to "<iConquestProb>50</iConquestProb>" but I would have no idea how this...