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[Phantom1tr]

Is it intended behavior if I ask a civ to remove their troops from my border and if they decline and decide to declare on me then the civ that they have a defensive pact with also declares war on me? Meaning, does the game treat asking the question of removing troops as a declaration of war?
That's what just happened in my game and I find it odd that the game behaves like I declared war on a civ so that his buddy decides to join in a defensive pact

 

[Azhral]

Is there any way to tell how much each vassal is costing me in maintenance? Hovering over the Gold income in the top bar shows the total amount of maintenance I'm paying but I can't see to find anywhere that shows the actual numbers for each vassal.

It's also quite annoying setting taxes. The popup makes it very clear the tax rate cannot be changed for 10 turns but it's really hard to tell how much you will actually be receiving, there's no estimated income or anything. I suppose that's something I should add to the bug tracker on Github.

 

[Laz0r]

Is there a way to modify warmonger penalty in the config files?

EDIT: just found it. It's under balancechanges/difficulty/difficultymod.XML, at ResistanceCap for any who are curious. Under the HANDICAP_AI_DEFAULT variable apparently, but I would change the difficulty ResistanceCap variable as well to be sure.

 

[Laz0r]

Lumber mills and farms get an adjacency bonus if they are touching 2 others, but not mines.
Do all three mills have to be exclusively forest or jungle? Or can you mix and match them?

This is something I never quite figured out. Even with the original game so I dont know about vox populi.
Is there an optimal strategy for the number of cities you should have?
What about puppets? is there a proper timing or # of cities that should guide you to decide wether you are annexing or not?

Forest mills and jungle mills are two entirely seperate improvements, so no.

The optimal amount of cities is about as many as you are able to conquer, as warmongering is always the most optimal route.

Honestly puppeting is only pragmatic when your happiness is in the toilet, or will be say for example if you're about to rapidly conquer large amounts of cities, or if it's late in the game and investing into annexed cities will not pull returns of investment. The sooner you annex and start investing in cities the better because cities tend to multiply in yield output as science and culture progresses, so each extra city will end up yielding to where it justifies and exceeds the culture and science growth penalty it incurs.

 

[Laz0r]

Is there any way to tell how much each vassal is costing me in maintenance? Hovering over the Gold income in the top bar shows the total amount of maintenance I'm paying but I can't see to find anywhere that shows the actual numbers for each vassal.

It's also quite annoying setting taxes. The popup makes it very clear the tax rate cannot be changed for 10 turns but it's really hard to tell how much you will actually be receiving, there's no estimated income or anything. I suppose that's something I should add to the bug tracker on Github.

the tax rate is calculated by multiplying their gross gold per turn by the percentage of taxation to find out what you will earn from it.

 

[Recursive]

Is it intended behavior if I ask a civ to remove their troops from my border and if they decline and decide to declare on me then the civ that they have a defensive pact with also declares war on me? Meaning, does the game treat asking the question of removing troops as a declaration of war?
That's what just happened in my game and I find it odd that the game behaves like I declared war on a civ so that his buddy decides to join in a defensive pact

They had a coop war planned against you and you triggered it early by forcing them to declare.

Is there a way to modify warmonger penalty in the config files?

EDIT: just found it. It's under balancechanges/difficulty/difficultymod.XML, at ResistanceCap for any who are curious. Under the HANDICAP_AI_DEFAULT variable apparently, but I would change the difficulty ResistanceCap variable as well to be sure.

That value is the maximum anti-warmonger fervor. The defines for the actual penalty are in CoreDefines.sql in (1) Community Patch.

 

[rkkn]

while playing Maya, I managed to research Mathematics by 1 b'ak'tun 18 k'atun, but next turn when 2 b'ak'tun rolled around... nothing happened. No great person. Is this a bug or is it an intentional undocumented limitation?
Either 1->2 doesn't work, or Mathematics needs to have been researched for multiple turns before the end of the long count cycle. I don't know which it is (or something else??)

 

[Konietzko]

I had overwhelming victory on the difficulty of 4. In the end, I had like over 4k score while 2nd best had almost 2k score. My question is: Should I play next round on the difficulty 5 or jump to 6?

 

[Agiwan]

I had overwhelming victory on the difficulty of 4. In the end, I had like over 4k score while 2nd best had almost 2k score. My question is: Should I play next round on the difficulty 5 or jump to 6?

If you have a really good start: 6, but 5 should be safer !

 

[Laz0r]

I had overwhelming victory on the difficulty of 4. In the end, I had like over 4k score while 2nd best had almost 2k score. My question is: Should I play next round on the difficulty 5 or jump to 6?

6 is a good bit harder than 5 in terms of the earlygame AI bonuses but it really depends on your playstyle. If you're good at warmongering than I would recommend 6 because warmongering will make it much easier. 5 is better for tall play which is generally more difficult

 

[Konietzko]

Ok thanks for answers! I will think about it.

 

[Zanteogo]

I had overwhelming victory on the difficulty of 4. In the end, I had like over 4k score while 2nd best had almost 2k score. My question is: Should I play next round on the difficulty 5 or jump to 6?

It's personal taste of course.

It's actually hard to find the "sweet spot" for difficulty. The jump in the last three levels is insane.

My issue is if you go too high, you REALLY can tell the AI is playing a different game than you. You see it in wars when the AI can just build units as fast as you can kill them. It's my main reason for never going too high, it just kills any sense of immersion for me.

 

[nyken155]

How do I change the max number of active religions? I used to be able to change it before in CBP\Balance Changes\Worlds\WorldSizes.sql but the code no longer seems to be there after the 2.0 update.

 

[suriv]

How can I change the GPP points needed to generate GPP for marathon and epic speeds. Want to do the same for border growth as well. I feel that the scaling is off as too few gpp are generated compared to standard speed for the entire game after playing 1000+ hours on all 3 speeds.

 

[notaspambot]

How do I change the max number of active religions? I used to be able to change it before in CBP\Balance Changes\Worlds\WorldSizes.sql but the code no longer seems to be there after the 2.0 update.

It's still there: MaxActiveReligions.

How can I change the GPP points needed to generate GPP for marathon and epic speeds. Want to do the same for border growth as well. I feel that the scaling is off as too few gpp are generated compared to standard speed for the entire game after playing 1000+ hours on all 3 speeds.

For GPP, GreatPeoplePercent in the GameSpeeds table. Refer to CIV5GameSpeeds.xml. For border growth, CulturePercent in the same table, but it will affect more than just that if you change it.

 

[Trambambaj]

How do I use autobuild function, I read about it in some patch notes but didn't manage to find it in game.
Edit: Nevermind, found it

 

[alexb5dh]

When does spy gold stealing actually takes effect? Is it after the mission success or while mission is being "attempted"?

If former, what if mission fails - is stolen gold being returned? If latter, what if civ doesn't have enough gold at that turn?

 

[suriv]

It's still there: MaxActiveReligions.


For GPP, GreatPeoplePercent in the GameSpeeds table. Refer to CIV5GameSpeeds.xml. For border growth, CulturePercent in the same table, but it will affect more than just that if you change it.

Thanks a lot for the response. I was able to adjust these values in CoreDefines.sql. Also I am still interested in checking this file. Can you please let me know the location as windows search gave no results under MODS directory.

EDIT: The GPP threshold doesnt seem to affect GG/GA. Any ideas where that is defined?

 

[Rekk]

When does spy gold stealing actually takes effect? Is it after the mission success or while mission is being "attempted"?

If former, what if mission fails - is stolen gold being returned? If latter, what if civ doesn't have enough gold at that turn?

It happens at the end of the mission.

 

[notaspambot]

Thanks a lot for the response. I was able to adjust these values in CoreDefines.sql. Also I am still interested in checking this file. Can you please let me know the location as windows search gave no results under MODS directory.

EDIT: The GPP threshold doesnt seem to affect GG/GA. Any ideas where that is defined?

It's a base game file. Files with "CIV5*" can generally be assumed to be from vanilla. It's in Assets/DLC/Expansion2/Gameplay/XML/GameInfo, to be exact.

GG/GA thresholds are affected by TrainPercent IIRC, but again, changing it will affect more than just that.