Quick Questions and Answers

[Kidies]

So that's...science per turn?

 

[Browd]

Yes, science per turn

 

[BuzWeaverCiv]

Directional Arrows, they seem different when trading, but it could just be me. What are they trying to indicate for example <= means its From "Them" to "Me", is that a Greater than sign meaning stuff comes to me?

I noticed when I'm trading Food/Production its nearly the opposite, >= then means its Trading "Food" from me to another city? Well, the directional arrow Icon is different in graphics, but I hope I'm getting my confusion across as to which is which.

 

[iamdanno]

You need to install it to activate the game, and be online *once*. After that, you may set the Steam client to run in off-line mode, and it will not "phone home" with your play data. Once it is activated, you may retain your privacy. It is *not* a requirement that you have an active internet connection to play the game.

Not exactly the truth. Even after setting it to offline mode. Steam still occasionally resets itself and requires you to connect your internet service to be able to set back to offline. Until you connect you can not play your game.

 

[KylarXD]

Why are there sometimes 2 GBR in a map? Is that a bug or something? I have seen it twice already.

What does it require for a city to suddenly switch civs? Not cs. In my game, an american city suddenly revolts and changed to brazillian city. What happened?

 

[greygamer]

Why are there sometimes 2 GBR in a map? Is that a bug or something? I have seen it twice already.

What does it require for a city to suddenly switch civs? Not cs. In my game, an american city suddenly revolts and changed to brazillian city. What happened?

I think it is always 2 tiles, at least that has been my experience ...it's supposed to be big

 

[Arachnofiend]

The GBR is always two tiles, yes. As for the second question, a city might revolt and join another civ if your happiness is past -20 and you are suffering ideological pressure from at least one other civ.

 

[vorlon_mi]

Not exactly the truth. Even after setting it to offline mode. Steam still occasionally resets itself and requires you to connect your internet service to be able to set back to offline. Until you connect you can not play your game.

That's a good point. In addition, I realized that Steam (when you are online) will also automatically check for patches or updates on your behalf.

So, to be more complete: one needs to be online to activate the game. If you wish to play offline, you may do so most of the time. A persistent internet connection is *not* required for Civ 5, unlike some other video games from other vendors.

 

[greygamer]

That's a good point. In addition, I realized that Steam (when you are online) will also automatically check for patches or updates on your behalf.
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You can turn off the auto-patch if you want, not sure why you would though.

 

[binks]

Quick question, maybe I'm dumb but I don't see it anywhere, how to turn on those big icons under tiles with resources like fish(icon wit a fishes), iron(icon with an anvil) and so on?

 

[compwiz1202]

Quick question, maybe I'm dumb but I don't see it anywhere, how to turn on those big icons under tiles with resources like fish(icon wit a fishes), iron(icon with an anvil) and so on?

CTRL+R; Also G is for Hex Grid and Y is for Yields. They're also in the menu from the button on the bottom left of the MiniMap I think.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Question regarding trading resources with other civs:

Sometimes when I am attempting to trade luxury resources with other civilizations some of my resources only show up as available to trade with certain certain other civs. For example, when I try to trade with (for example) Greece it shows I have 3 gems available for trade, but when I try to trade with (for example) Korea it shows I have no resources available to trade. Shouldn't I have the same resources available to trade to all other civilizations? Can anyone explain why this might be happening?

 

[iamdanno]

Question regarding trading resources with other civs:

Sometimes when I am attempting to trade luxury resources with other civilizations some of my resources only show up as available to trade with certain certain other civs. For example, when I try to trade with (for example) Greece it shows I have 3 gems available for trade, but when I try to trade with (for example) Korea it shows I have no resources available to trade. Shouldn't I have the same resources available to trade to all other civilizations? Can anyone explain why this might be happening?

Because they already have everything you have.

 

[simcoast]

Hey guys,

If your tourism overtakes another civ's culture and becomes influential, and then maybe even dominant, does that other civ become more friendly toward you or anything?
Or does it just affect their ideological leaning?

 

[Baratitas]

The submarines are invisible, until other submarine/destroyer is near, or until you fire, right ?!

But after you fired, and outsighted the enemy, you recover the invisible against the enemies ?!?!

 

[clearbeard]

The submarines are invisible, until other submarine/destroyer is near, or until you fire, right ?!

But after you fired, and outsighted the enemy, you recover the invisible against the enemies ?!?!

Pretty much, yeah. IIRC, submarines can also be seen by any sea unit that's adjacent to them, other subs and destroyers can just detect them further out. Their invisibility is more of a nuisance than anything, but their frequent 1-hit kills on other naval units is nothing to sneeze at.

 

[JohnYoga]

Hello Folks,

I've watched several BNW game play videos and I notice that some don't kill off the Civs they attack entirely; they'll keep one of the cities.

Why?

I can think of several reasons, but I don't know if they are the biggest reasons:

a. Each city one takes over, causes additional unhappiness to accrue
b. If taking over the last time means barely gaining much in resources/goodies, then why bother?
c. If you keep the last city in an overtaken Civ, you can trade with that City.
d. I think there is a penalty for wiping out a Civ; a warmonger penalty? Not sure what impact that would have BTW.

Regards,

Marc

 

[FeiLing]

Yes taking out the last city from a civ used to be to worst thing you could you and the whole world started to hate you for it (this is also why taking city stat4es used to be a no-n- as their only city obviously also was their last^^).

I'm saying "used to" because with BNW this has changed afaik. I am not sure about this, but I think it actually was removed entirely and taking the last city of a civ "costs" the same now as any other city. However taking cities in the first place now is worse diplomatically than it used to be (as a tradeoff).

Might be a good idea to wipe out a civ now (unless they have to many useless cities to far apart) just to take out their annoying spies and stop them making hate you more by others (their denouncements).

 

[binks]

Just want to clarify that. I've just begun my 2 play-through as Russia and is it normal that I don't have any buildings to produce? I've started playing from 3000 BC and have only land units available. Before I was playing as US so I'm not sure about this.

 

[binks]

Sorted(I think so). I just didn't had any research done, therefore I couldn't construct any buildings.
If I'm getting something wrong, please correct me.