Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Recursive]

Excluding the free starting warriors from turn 1, how exactly is the AI getting so many units in early game? Are they actually building them (with reduced production costs)? Are they buying them (at massive discounts)? Do they automatically get free units throughout the game? I can't figure out how they are building so much infrastructure/wonders while also having so many units.

https://civ-5-cbp.fandom.com/wiki/AI_and_Difficulty

AI does not receive discounts on unit Gold costs, but they do get Production discounts (increasing with each era) on the cost of combat units, and periodic yield bonuses including Production and Gold (see the "AI Handicap Bonuses" section), scaling with difficulty.

This is true for all difficulties except Settler, where they gain a 10% increase for all Production costs, and no per-era discount or periodic yield bonuses.

 

[Coffee Monopoly]

@Recursive I've realised that I don't really understand the 2 response options you have to AI diplomatic messages. Can you explain what the difference between the 2 is in both cases, as in what consequences there are for chosing which option?

"Get over it." vs. "We're sorry this has caused a divide between us."
and
"You'll pay for this in time." vs. "Very well."

 

[Recursive]

@Recursive I've realised that I don't really understand the 2 response options you have to AI diplomatic messages. Can you explain what the difference between the 2 is in both cases, as in what consequences there are for chosing which option?

"Get over it." vs. "We're sorry this has caused a divide between us."
and
"You'll pay for this in time." vs. "Very well."

Selecting this insulting response may result in WAR! (the leader might declare war on you, if they're able to and it wouldn't backstab a friend)
If this response does not result in war, the leader will be humbled, and their approach towards you will be set to NEUTRAL for one turn.

Regardless of their response, you will gain a -30 opinion penalty (decaying over time) for disappointing them with your recent diplomatic actions.

Also, if their guess as to your approach towards them isn't WAR, they will assume you're HOSTILE towards them for the next 30 turns (this increases your ranking as a competitor, decreases the chance of DoFs & DPs and adds weight to the WAR, HOSTILE, AFRAID and GUARDED approaches).

Selecting the non-insulting response does none of these things.

Strategically speaking, the insulting response should be selected if you're trying to anger another leader so they hate and/or DoW you; thus, they will gain warmongering penalties and trigger Defensive Pacts etc., and you won't. Otherwise, the non-insulting response is usually best.

 

[4CV]

Is it intended that Rome after conquering a city can keep every building, even though Spanish missions should never be captured?

Spoiler Spanish mission :

 

[Recursive]

Is it intended that Rome after conquering a city can keep every building, even though Spanish missions should never be captured?

Spoiler Spanish mission :

View attachment 539734

Yes.

 

[4CV]

Great! I really like them

 

[Recursive]

Great! I really like them

Capturing Persian cities with Satrap's Courts feels amazingly powerful.

 

[civplayer33]

Does anyone know when and why the ability to base Helicopters on Carriers was removed in VP? (pretty sure it existed before)

Does anyone know how hard it would be to reverse that?

 

[Duomo1334]

Are there ways to make earlier access for founding corporations? For example, after the discovery of Writing.

 

[vyyt]

Does anyone know when and why the ability to base Helicopters on Carriers was removed in VP? (pretty sure it existed before)

Does anyone know how hard it would be to reverse that?

I do not recall ever being to do this (been playing the mod since the very beginning)

 

[civplayer33]

I do not recall ever being to do this (been playing the mod since the very beginning)

Yeah I might be misremembering...

 

[Avendis]

Hi Guys,

I have just installed Civ 5 on my new PC with Windows 10. I have also installed Vox Populi, however, when I tried to create a first game I received several popups about missing files, and when the game loaded - interface was missing.
Tried this with both Vox Populi (7-29-1) and Vox Populi (7-17-3).

I have also checked the DLC folder within Civilization folder - if I remember correctly, when Vox Populi installs correctly it also adds UI_bc1 folder there. It wasn't there

Could anyone help, please?

 

[ASCII Guy]

Hi Guys,

I have just installed Civ 5 on my new PC with Windows 10. I have also installed Vox Populi, however, when I tried to create a first game I received several popups about missing files, and when the game loaded - interface was missing.
Tried this with both Vox Populi (7-29-1) and Vox Populi (7-17-3).

I have also checked the DLC folder within Civilization folder - if I remember correctly, when Vox Populi installs correctly it also adds UI_bc1 folder there. It wasn't there

Could anyone help, please?

I had this issue because I had Civ 5 on my backup drive. Make sure Civ 5 is installed on your main drive.

 

[Teholb]

Hi Guys,

I have just installed Civ 5 on my new PC with Windows 10. I have also installed Vox Populi, however, when I tried to create a first game I received several popups about missing files, and when the game loaded - interface was missing.
Tried this with both Vox Populi (7-29-1) and Vox Populi (7-17-3).

I have also checked the DLC folder within Civilization folder - if I remember correctly, when Vox Populi installs correctly it also adds UI_bc1 folder there. It wasn't there

Could anyone help, please?

The same exact thing happens to me . . . but not every time. I have no idea why it sometimes installs correctly, and other times it doesn't include the UI_bc1 folder. However, I can happily report that taking the UI_bc1 folder from Moi Magnus' modpack works just fine.

Yesterday, I reinstalled Civ, and then used the 11-25-1 installer- it correctly installed the UI_bc1 folder. I created an MP for my partner and I to play multiplayer with, only to later discover the spying bug. I reinstalled again today (I usually do this for each new update because I've found the game to be the most stable in MP after reinstalling) and tried to use the 11-25-2 installer. Surprise, surprise- no UI_bc1 folder.

Now, I just keep a UI_bc1 folder on Google Drive so I can pop it in when necessary. Hopefully that workaround (Moi Magnus' UI_bc1 folder) helps you while a more expert user provides the real solution. I'd love to know, too!

 

[Moi Magnus]

Hi Guys,

I have just installed Civ 5 on my new PC with Windows 10. I have also installed Vox Populi, however, when I tried to create a first game I received several popups about missing files, and when the game loaded - interface was missing.
Tried this with both Vox Populi (7-29-1) and Vox Populi (7-17-3).

I have also checked the DLC folder within Civilization folder - if I remember correctly, when Vox Populi installs correctly it also adds UI_bc1 folder there. It wasn't there

Could anyone help, please?

First, try to make "Vox Populi, without EUI" works. If you manage to make this work, it means you will just need to manually add a folder in the DLC folder and things should works.

 

[vyyt]

First, try to make "Vox Populi, without EUI" works. If you manage to make this work, it means you will just need to manually add a folder in the DLC folder and things should works.

Additional question: is your Civ5 / Steam installed in a non-standard location (such as different drive than C)? If yes, then the autoinstaller installed EUI to the wrong = default location on drive C. Move the UI_bc1 folder from the C drive to the correct location on the DLC folder where your Civ5 is installed.

 

[PapaRockett]

With the Nationalisation tenet from Order, would we be getting franchise trade route bonus for internal trade routes? Example, +10% food internal trade route with TwoKay Foods?

 

[Avendis]

@ASCII Guy, @Teholb, @Moi Magnus - Thank You all for your comments!

Additional question: is your Civ5 / Steam installed in a non-standard location (such as different drive than C)? If yes, then the autoinstaller installed EUI to the wrong = default location on drive C. Move the UI_bc1 folder from the C drive to the correct location on the DLC folder where your Civ5 is installed.

You are indeed correct! I installed my Steam app folder under path C:\_GAMES\Steam, but the UI_bc1 folder was installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam - and it was the only item there O_o

Not sure how the logic works here, but either way - thanks y'all!

 

[vyyt]

Not sure how the logic works here, but either way - thanks y'all!

Glad you made it work!

This is, sadly, a limitation of the free installer software. It automatically places EUI into the standard location. If the path does not exist, it creates the default folder structure and puts EUI there.

 

[Teholb]

Glad you made it work!

This is, sadly, a limitation of the free installer software. It automatically places EUI into the standard location. If the path does not exist, it creates the default folder structure and puts EUI there.

I can't believe I never noticed this. I have my steam folder at C:\Steam as an old habit from the dark days of slow HDDs. I was told that having games and other load-intensive things at the highest level was best for performance.

Thankyou!!