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[WildFire]

I believe thats impossible. I never have gotten any money from the AI.

 

[hbdragon88]

Pretty easy, actually. For example lend them 400 gold, and charge a price of 21 gpt. You get 20 gold on your return. It's a bit hard, but you need to make sure that you make money for loaning gold.

 

[Hurricane]

You can do it, but not through the "care to lend me some money" option. You have to do it like hbdragon describes.

 

[Hygro]

The intelligence agency gets destroyed. However, if you have a spy in their capitol it will have the intelligence agency simbol. When you take someones capitol, it gets relocated to the next largest city. The spy goes with it.

 

[Ambiorix]

Two questions :
I'm running PTW 1.14f. In the domestic advisor screen you can sort the cities on every column, but I can't seem to restore them to sorted by founding date...

second question : from what I read people have lost a diplomacy-vote. Was that when you called the vote yourself, and found yourself losing, or did the AI at any time initiate the vote ? Haven't had the latter yet myself. How does it go ? Is the human player always one of the contenders, or can you be forced to choose between two AI's ?

 

[Hurricane]

The one who built the UN decides if there will be a vote. Most players try hard to get the UN just to avoid the voting.

When you vote, the choice is between the strongest civ and the holder of the UN. You can also abstain your vote. To win you must get a majority of the votes.

 

[Diocletian]

Here's a newbie question.

I've noticed than in two of my cities, certain squares have a thick, outlined border around them, and I can't put any citizens to work on these squares. What's happening?

 

[Renata]

They're being shared with a neighboring city, and citizens of that other city are already working them. If you want them for the first city, you have to go to the other one and take those guys off them first.

Renata

 

[philippe]

ambiorix ik weet het niet zo maar ik denk dat het niet kan.Jammer he?
You cant do it to change the order

 

[YNCS]

Do AI Civs have Golden Ages?

 

[philippe]

Yes they have.so dont do wars with them and do trade embargoes on them while they have it.

 

[YNCS]

Thanks. Now for the next question, how can I tell that they're having one?

 

[philippe]

check espionage options===> investigate city and you see their production has doubled you may be sure they are in it....

 

[YNCS]

Thank you, philippe.

 

[morkaphi]

Golden Age does not double the production. It gives an additional shield and gold for every tile that is worked on.

 

[Shillen]

They get Golden Ages the same way the player does. So try not to start a war with a civ within 20 turns of them getting their UU. Or even later if that civ has been at peace ever since getting their UU. You can find out when they got their Golden Age at the end of the game. It will list that as one of the events in the playback thingy. Doesn't help while you're playing, but it's good to know anyway. Might shed some light on why they were so hard to beat at one point.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by morkaphi
Golden Age does not double the production. It gives an additional shield and gold for every tile that is worked on.

IIRC: an extra sheild and gold on each worked tyle were already is at least one sheild or gold.

A 3 grain 0 sheild 0 gold tyle won't change.

 

[philippe]

Ok sorry then...But Anyone ever had A golden age in modern times?I had and man i became quiclky superpower by it...

 

[Shevek]

Probably a stupid question, but how do you win by conquest??
I always get domination victory when I try.
Can somebody enlighten me, pleeease.

 

[anarres]

Shevek,

To win by conquest you must kill all civs.

To win by domination you need 2/3 landmass inside your cultural boundaries (including costal squares, but not sea/ocean), and also 2/3 of the worlds population.

I suggest you raze more cities near the end, they are most likely 95% corrupt anyway.