I'll be adding tips on loading screens soon, here are the suggestions made by the community so far:
"Great Person yields are fixed at the moment they are created.",
"Unhappiness from needs caps at city population.",
"A large standing army costs less than losing half your empire to an opportunistic neighbor. The AI knows exactly how big your military is, so make sure it's never small.",
"Roads and forts can help immensely in both offensive and defensive wars, but be wary of the maintenance cost.",
"To deal with a snowballing civilization, isolate it diplomatically and weaken it one step at a time. Light a thousand fires.",
"Against an aggressive warmonger, value defensive positions for your frontier cities instead of good economic output: a lost city will grant you no reward.",
"Tourism is more than a victory condition: it also helps your trade routes and preserves the buildings and population of conquered cities.",
"Internal trade routes can be reliable ways to preserve your economy when barbarians and aggressive neighbors roam around.",
"Never let a settler or great person unguarded.",
"Your recon units are most vulnerable near coastal or mountainous tiles, where barbarians can often surprise and trap them.",
"Founding a religion isn't crucial if you know you can take the Holy City of your neighbor.",
"Even if you aren't aiming for a diplomatic victory, Great Diplomats are critical to not to be left at the mercy of more influential civilizations after the World Congress is founded.",
"Offense is often the best defense, particularly against warmongers whose power spikes later in the game.",
"Combat strength allows you to win battles, healing allows you to win wars.",
"If you don't have any gold and have negative income, your science will be reduced, and some units will be disbanded.",
"Technologies have their cost lowered when other players have researched them.",
"Always check your faith and gold stockpile before clicking 'Next Turn.' It's easy to forget you were saving them for a unit.",
"Units suffer a 0.3% combat strength penalty in melee combat and when attacking for every 1 damage taken. Soften your enemy's units with ranged attacks before attacking with your melee units.",
"Melee units garrisoning a city, fort, or citadel don't move to the tile of the unit they kill when ordered to attack. You can use those to keep your units from overextending.",
"Unhappiness from needs grows rather exponentially with the number of non-puppeted cities you own. Don't expand your empire without sizable surplus happiness.",
"Cities, forts, and citadels on a coastal tile count as a canal for your naval units and sea trade routes.",
"Missionaries lose strength if they end a turn on a tile belonging to another civilization that you do not have Open Borders. Try to end their turn just outside their borders.",
"When you expend a Great Writer, make sure you do it in a city where you want to grab new tiles from border growth.",
"Issue move orders with SHIFT+RCLICK to create waypoints.",
"CTRL+RCLICK issues a 'Move and Act' order. 'Act' depends on the unit: Workers repair tiles and improve resources, missionaries spread religion, diplomatic units spread influence, archaeologists dig, and combat units go into fortify or alert mode.",
"When voting for resolutions, right-click to assign all delegates and middle click to assign ten."
What do you think about these, any suggestions, objections or corrections? I think specific tips about VP mechanics (or areas where VP diverge from Civ5) would help the beginners most. All feedback and additional tips are welcome.
"Great Person yields are fixed at the moment they are created.",
"Unhappiness from needs caps at city population.",
"A large standing army costs less than losing half your empire to an opportunistic neighbor. The AI knows exactly how big your military is, so make sure it's never small.",
"Roads and forts can help immensely in both offensive and defensive wars, but be wary of the maintenance cost.",
"To deal with a snowballing civilization, isolate it diplomatically and weaken it one step at a time. Light a thousand fires.",
"Against an aggressive warmonger, value defensive positions for your frontier cities instead of good economic output: a lost city will grant you no reward.",
"Tourism is more than a victory condition: it also helps your trade routes and preserves the buildings and population of conquered cities.",
"Internal trade routes can be reliable ways to preserve your economy when barbarians and aggressive neighbors roam around.",
"Never let a settler or great person unguarded.",
"Your recon units are most vulnerable near coastal or mountainous tiles, where barbarians can often surprise and trap them.",
"Founding a religion isn't crucial if you know you can take the Holy City of your neighbor.",
"Even if you aren't aiming for a diplomatic victory, Great Diplomats are critical to not to be left at the mercy of more influential civilizations after the World Congress is founded.",
"Offense is often the best defense, particularly against warmongers whose power spikes later in the game.",
"Combat strength allows you to win battles, healing allows you to win wars.",
"If you don't have any gold and have negative income, your science will be reduced, and some units will be disbanded.",
"Technologies have their cost lowered when other players have researched them.",
"Always check your faith and gold stockpile before clicking 'Next Turn.' It's easy to forget you were saving them for a unit.",
"Units suffer a 0.3% combat strength penalty in melee combat and when attacking for every 1 damage taken. Soften your enemy's units with ranged attacks before attacking with your melee units.",
"Melee units garrisoning a city, fort, or citadel don't move to the tile of the unit they kill when ordered to attack. You can use those to keep your units from overextending.",
"Unhappiness from needs grows rather exponentially with the number of non-puppeted cities you own. Don't expand your empire without sizable surplus happiness.",
"Cities, forts, and citadels on a coastal tile count as a canal for your naval units and sea trade routes.",
"Missionaries lose strength if they end a turn on a tile belonging to another civilization that you do not have Open Borders. Try to end their turn just outside their borders.",
"When you expend a Great Writer, make sure you do it in a city where you want to grab new tiles from border growth.",
"Issue move orders with SHIFT+RCLICK to create waypoints.",
"CTRL+RCLICK issues a 'Move and Act' order. 'Act' depends on the unit: Workers repair tiles and improve resources, missionaries spread religion, diplomatic units spread influence, archaeologists dig, and combat units go into fortify or alert mode.",
"When voting for resolutions, right-click to assign all delegates and middle click to assign ten."
What do you think about these, any suggestions, objections or corrections? I think specific tips about VP mechanics (or areas where VP diverge from Civ5) would help the beginners most. All feedback and additional tips are welcome.
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and then the 20
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from the first border grow, it's an immense amount of yields. Usually I don't have any expos before then and found 2-3 in that burst, but if there's a really tasty spot maybe you want to rush getting it. I also never play Pyramids with Authority because units in the first critical turns are too dear after monument/shrine.
