I've had a somewhat similar problem in that the tile grid being on crashes the game, although the issue didn't start with this version. I mentioned it in the 2.62 thread, and asked what steps to go through to make sure everything's installed properly and how to get the scenarios to work, but maybe no one was reading it anymore. Should I start a new thread asking for help?
The "RESOLUTIONS" screen (under Victory Conditions) now shows "OVERCOUNCIL" and "UNDERCOUNCIL" but doesn't list the possible resolutions under each one, which I think it did before even before the councils were available. I'm pretty sure that that's how it works in unmodded Civ 4, anyway. Not that you can't still see the possible resolutions under the civic entries in the Civilopedia, so I guess that it's mainly an issue if it's still the case even after the councils exist, because then you can't see which resolutions have been passed.
Did you break a non-aggression pact? I believe the diplomatic penalty from that uses the same text.
I'm not using the Advanced Tactics setting, so I don't think that non-aggression pacts are even available. I don't see the option listed, anyway; is it enabled with a particular technology? What does a non-aggression pact even do that a peace treaty doesn't do?
The way that the same text is used for different things is generally rather less than ideal, because it makes it unclear what's actually going on, if it even makes sense. (How does "We would have nothing to gain" apply to the AI granting me something, rather than vice versa? Obviously they'd gain whatever I offered in trade!)
Similarly, the need to manually navigate to a promotion (or effect or race or item) entry in the Civilopedia because another entry linked to the identically-named unit's entry instead of what it friggin' should have linked to gets to be a tad tedious after a while. Giving different things (e.g a technology and a civic that that technology enables) different names was a positive change from earlier versions of Civilization that Fall From Heaven should have gone along with, in my opinion.
(In contrast, I don't dislike the reintroduction of different attack and defense strengths for units. Of course, that's just one instance of FFH's tendency to use absolute, rather than only relative, modifications to unit strength.)
I see that some changes have been made to standard diplomacy, and it's nice to see that more trades are possible, but I notice that you still can't offer to go to war with someone or to change civics or religions. Are those still things that the AI only demands of you and gets mad at you for refusing, without ever offering anything in exchange?
It's just a bit irksome in the case of FFH, because there's a civ whose shtick is supposed to be that they're mercenaries, but you're disallowed from actually being mercenary in a single player game. Of course, just declaring war doesn't necessarily mean doing any fighting... Maybe to a limited degree you can actually fight for gold and techs now via trading captured enemy cities to your allies?
