and 
generated by the Spiral Minaret and Uni. of Sankore will be lost when you switch to Free Religion.
from the Apostolic Palace religion will be kept though. generated by the Holy Shrine of the religion (the one built using a Great Prophet in the founding city) is also kept., and maybe in some games I'll appreciate the extra 
if my big cities have multiple religions in them.
Perhaps an organiser of the Immortal University can comment better than I can - but don't they often post WorldBuilder saves?
) it should come up in the list, and if done correctly you should be able to change things like game speed and difficulty level.Perhaps an organiser of the Immortal University can comment better than I can - but don't they often post WorldBuilder saves?
If this is the case, then rather than playing a custom game, choose to play a scenario - if that WorldBuilder save is in the right place (in the directory with other WorldBuilder saves...
Another option might be to take any ordinary game which doesn't have the "locked modified assets" box checked, and create a world builder save yourself. From the main menu in game, go to World Builder and save it - then load it up in a custom scenario as described above.
No; you may have come across some advice for an older version of Civ. In Civ IV, the production points ("hammers") for the current build will not go toward the next build if you switch builds. In fact, because of production decay, you will likely lose hammers by doing this. (Unfinished builds in a city's build queue start losing hammers after 10 turns for units or 40 turns for buildings; so if you stop building a warrior to switch to a settler, after 10 turns of building the settler you'll start losing some of the hammers you put toward the warrior.)
If you chop a forest while building wealth/research/culture it does not go to wealth/reserach/culture. It is also not wasted. It'll wait there until you eventually build something real. Although, and I'm not sure exactly how long it takes, the 'stored'
might start to decay away over time.
I would like to ask you guys how you handle copperless defence at monarch. (A similar issue might be more or less valid for prince as well, although this particular part is only starting to annoy me now, when trying monarch)
The thing is, there's a certain framework I've grown accustomed to, and that goes: worker techs, defence, culture/writing, and then whatever the map offers, although monarchy should start to be more important (I almost always ignored it early on playing noble, early prince), along with the usual currency and/or aesthetics.
Such an approach usually works well enough at prince: agr/ah/mining/bw, and either I find copper, which means all barb worries fade away, or I find horses, which, at prince, meant the same thing, with very few exceptions. It happened very rarely that I didn't come across one of these two early strategic resources.
My main problem is that at monarch, spearmen show up earlier. At higher difficulties, I get the feeling that they don't get the chance to spawn too often, as barb cities emerge earlier, but at monarch, they're a terrible pain.
So... anyway... do you usually tech archery early on, if you're without copper? And if you do, what if you're playing a civ which doesn't start with hunting? And what about the other techs, mainly pottery, writing, mysticism? And if you choose this path, what do you do when axemen show up and you're forced to keep your archers garrisoned, hope they don't die, while the barbs pillage your improvements?
Do you tech IW? (I almost never do this; should I reconsider?)
grrr... well... this is mostly a rant, as I've abandoned most of my monarch games as a result of barbs, and in particular because of spearmen. But I'm hoping that maybe I'm missing something and that someone has some nice tips?
Also: fog-busting.
) By using this information effectively, you can wind up with the effect of the Great Wall without ever having to build it. Even if you can't fog-bust completely--which I find can happen on larger maps with fewer civs--then you can at least use your fog-busters as a "distant early warning system", allowing you to deploy fewer anti-barb units and to direct them more effectively. 
