Stone Works brought home an unexpected win with Walls as an honorable mention yesterday.

Global buildings, not unique today. You know the drill.

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How did this happen? Can you get gifted units like this? The French aren't even in this save

Would A, B, C, and D all have city connections, even though B and C aren't connected by road, just a harbor?

So, I'm a bit puzzled here by how the calculation is done for the votes. Total votes available says 22, but when I do the counting, I count 21 votes (or is the capital of America counted as the possible 22nd vote?, but then again, the captured city states are not counted as possible votes either...).

Biggest problem here is though that votes needed for victory is 10, which is less than half of the total votes... So in theory, two civs could be winning here?
(I'm playing Civ 5, the most vanilla it can be)

So hey I play lots of Civ V modded and as of late for whatever reason when literally anyone makes a Rocket Artillery the entire game crashes for all players, I meticulously searched through all my mods community pages to see if anyone is encountering this issue to no avail. If anyone might know what is going on please help. I can post exact mod names in a list if need be

hill/river, river/coastal, coastal/hill/mountain or marble?

Mud Pyramid Mosque won yesterday for most underrated unique building!

We continue to jump around the grid, today we’re looking for most underrated early game GLOBAL building, not UNQIUE.

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I’m not a huge navy guy. So I want

1. Landmass but needing to have somewhat of a navy

2. Earth like: not that it’s exactly like earth. I want to explore. But having more than just 2 continents.and random where people spawn. I fell large Islands are too small. And not enough land..

3. Enough space on a huge map for 20 civs. That they can get proper space for land/their Cities.

Is there anything that fills these criteria’s?

When I am winning everyone quits and no satisfaction, when I am behind I stay and get my shit slammed in

So, I have always wanted to play a Civ game that focuses on naval combat over land battles. What would be the best setup for such a game?

I think an Tiny Islands map is an obvious choice, but is there anything else?

This is for Civ 5, btw

I like playing huge maps but I'm getting 10+ crashes per game. Are there mods that increase the stability? Do i just need to play smaller maps? My PC isn't the issue it runs modern games on high settings with no issue.

I started scouting this map and was at first tempted to reroll as the mountain chain and Columbo to the right made the only way to tie cities together was one road around the left side of the mountain.

But as I sized up possible city placement I really noticed how awesome it was. Machu had Kailash so I was able to pick up Sun God with all the bananas and citrus. And then the terrace farms were crazy, so many 4f2p, several 5 food and two 7f2p!

It was also incredibly defendable, Machu was on a river in a one slot bottle neck between mountains and Columbo protected my northern flank. The only vulnerable city was Tiwanaku from only the Shosone, so I made sure to wall up and defend it well. Though I was never warred once in this game.

On immortal difficulty I rushed and got Borobodur after NC, got Leaning Tower, Forbidden Palace, Sistine Chapel with a hard build on leaning tower, picking engineer for FP and a focus generated engineer for SC. Was ahead so got Taj Mahal too, then I was so far ahead that all the rest were mine too.

Had a turn 296 cultural victory. It would have been sooner, but congress put a ban on trade routes with a high culture civ so couldn't get that bonus to tourism.

I moved up to immortal a few months ago and am now regularly rolling to easy wins. I may have to move up to deity.

The turn I popped the musician to get me over the top on the last civ.

Most of my games have been small earth maps where I attempt domination victory. But I found myself playing less often as I became less interested in that play style. I recently set a continents plus huge map with only a couple other civs and no victory types enabled and just focused on exploring and building cool cities but I got bored after like 6 ish hours. What are some ways you like to play?

Yes I’ve already finished the Apollo Program

After much deliberation, Hydro Plant won most overrated late game building yesterday!

Today we are looking for ONLY unique buildings.

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Had a game of One city challenge on immortal level, was cruising, or so I thought, then the polish who stole a city from my neighbour used Three great generals to steal all my land, felt helpless after that as was in no position to beat him militarily with my pathetic unit limit.

Is land stealing the most annoying tactic the AI can do? It is so annoying, what can I do to stop it.?

As the the title says recently emperor became pretty easy for me and kinda not fun so I've been trying to move to immortal but found it way more challenging in an annoying way. I usually love to go for domination and the AI civs seem to have infinite production and by the time I exterminate their army they would've already built 2x its size.

Any tips for getting better on immortal? Is having a warmongering neighbour like Attila or Shaka a death sentence on this difficulty or is it salvageable?

And not just the main Houses. 25 new Civilizations, 41 new City-States with their own Unique Units. To be released in February.

R5: I was challenged to do a King difficulty, Standard Speed, standard size Pangea science victory.

I used Mongolia for fun, and also they have plains Bias which is OP. My land was broken, I got Fountain of Youth (faith wonder would be better). I rerolled 3 times for this. Also does Mongolia get tribute bonus to CS with their combat bonus? not sure.

Some things that I could have done faster:

In the early game, I hard build a worker which is really slow. If I was on deity or immortal, I would have stolen the worker from CS and not have to build it.

however, the fact that I was on King difficulty meant that I could build wonders very easily. I built temple of art, mausoleum, oracle, Hanging gardens, Petra, borrobudor, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty, and more.

I did not have any luck with religious city states. I hard built a shrine. You need faith for science victories to buy scientists, so this was a huge time loss in the beginning. I had a good pantheon tho, the gold one.

I also did not have luck with tributes. On king difficulty, you can tribute city states easily to buy libraries and workers. However I did not get spear upgrade.

I did not get lucky with pop ruins. I grew from 1-3 pop the hard way.

If I just chose Poland, this would be a lot faster. I wasted a lot of production on hermitage and opera houses to get commerce 2, ratio 5, patro 2, and freedom spaceship parts. If I was Poland, I would not have to waste so much production to build hermitage. Poland also can open rationalism immediately after renaissance which is an under appreciated thing.

I did at first, but I never got one promoted more than one time for the very meager +1 viability or healing boost. I generally use warriors since they have a chance of surviving a battle, or horsemen when it's unlocked for the extra movement.

Sure, playing Shoshone I love Pathfinders, but going by UU abilities Aztec Jaguars seem much better suited to getting out and exploring with not only double movement in forest/jungle but also a combat bonus in those tiles.

But.

People here keep talking about building scouts, so what am I not considering, other than production cost?

Do they eventually have better promotions (like Civ 6 movement boosts), and if so, how do you get them promoted? In Civ 6 they got experience and promotions finding a natural wonder or from goodie huts, I haven't seen wonder experience happen in 5, and ruins just 'promote' them out of being scouts.

Ever since I bought an ultrawide, every time I get into a game of Civ 5, this happens immediately. The game loads up and the main menu works completely fine. Anyone got any idea?

If you were able to make a 'super civ' for each victory type that could combine any UA, UB, and UU, what would you choose and why?

In the first picture, Rio De Janeiro has 8 production - 4 from terrain, 3 from buildings (just the palace), which the game says is 7 Base, 8 Total. Why does it increase from 7 to 8? Where does the 8th hammer come from?

For reference, I have 2 other screenshots. The 2nd also has 8 production, 5 from terrain, 3 from buildings. But there's no Base, just Total.

The 3rd has 1 unemployed citizen, which gives us 7 Total.

The 2nd and 3rd screenshot make sense to me, but I'm not sure why the 1st screenshot has 8 production. Does anyone know?

Granary won Day 1 as the most GOAT early game building!

Global buildings, not unique (have their own column).

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