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City placement question
Simple question: How would you fill out this island? Where would you put cities? Spoiler:
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Favorite 'fast-food'?
As in junk-food and other less polite eponyms :) I have a few of them i used to eat in the past, first i will post some from my time in London: -KFC -Doner (kebab) Fish and chips was good too, although...
View ArticleWhy are luxuries always only 5g no matter when?
5g no matter what the era, no inflation. Other civs will never pay more, and their luxury's are always 8g no more, no less. I play on Marathon. Thanks!
View ArticleWhat issues can cause city-states to crash a mod?
My mod has a crash; it always occurs when the computer is running the city-states - though I thought it may well be at the point when it's about to move to my turn, hence the problem was something in...
View Articlev3.3.4 Markets and Colossus don't increase trade route income
Info on Markets and Colossus says that they increase trade route income from this city by 2. They do not. Is this a bug? Bit confused that I found nothing on this while searching this forum.
View ArticleOn Writing: We can do this better than King!
So let's talk about writing. We can help each other edit specific passages (please don't post entire works here unless they are microfiction or poetry) and talk about the mechanics of writing....
View Article[BNW] The small things that give you an edge.
Hi everyone, I am a new Civ 5 player, but not a new Civ player. (Played 1 and 2 excessively; skipped 3 and 4, now I'm back for BNW.) The game has changed a lot and style of play is generally different...
View Article[BNW] Q & A keys inverted...ONLY
Dear all, I have a really strange bug... when I play (and only for hotkeys) the keys Q & A are reversed, a bit like if during the game I was on an AZERTY keyboard. It's driving me nuts because do...
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Happy 16th Birthday, Zelig!!!!
Dude, you can so drive now!!! Happy birthday! Link to video.
View Article3.34 Carthage Harbor/Wheel
Harbor connects cities starting from Turn 0. even without wheel researched. The internal trade route icons only appear upon completion of wheel, even though the gold bonus is applied starting from Turn...
View ArticleFood the most important factor in city location?
Started a new game yesterday with Portugal and my first 2 cities are heavy on food. First has 2 wheat, sheep and 2 fish. Second has 2 wheat and lake Victoria (6 food). They're both growing like weeds...
View ArticleHow did your political beliefs form?
Well, how did you wind up with the ideology or political convictions that you have? I'm really interested to hear from Cheezy, not to single him out, but from what I've heard he went from far-right to...
View Article[BNW] All Civ5 versions - Special Unit/Building Popup still missing from Civ...
This applies to all versions of Civ5 versions (or CiV, depending on what shortname you use). In the initial selection of civilization during game setup (assuming you do not choose random), there still,...
View ArticleDefine "Working a tile"
I need to better understand the term "working a tile". Does it mean just having an improvement built on it.....having a Worker assigned to it constantly......going to the citizen management and...
View ArticleTourism Influence Victory Woes
So, I decided to go for a tourism win (using Morocco). Everything I did was in an attempt to increase tourism. Every artifact that could go into a great-work slot, did so. Specialists were always kept...
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[BNW] Immortal Challenge #15 The Zulu
Here a map which is not that hard and can be used to achieve all of the VCs. You play with the Zulu - Leader - Shaka - Capital - Ulundi - Unique Ability - Iklwa;reduction of 50% of maintenance costs...
View ArticlePrivacy, Online Disinhibition, and Reasonable Compromise
I was thinking about something the other day. As you know, one of my favorite topics of discussion is online anonymity ( particularly in gaming. ) I'm actually quite nice and don't really do trash talk...
View ArticleCivilization 5 : Beyond the Earth
Ok, cheesy title, I know, but I do think there's stuff for a 3rd and final expansion pack. Gods and Kings focused on the early game, Brave New World focuses on the mid game. Beyond the Earth focuses on...
View ArticleBest UB?
My favorite is the Stele, because I it's like a monument and two shrines, and yet it's no more expensive than a monument. While other civilizations are racing to build a Shrine and found a pantheon,...
View ArticleMarine built in city with Alhambra and Brandenburg?
Has anyone done this? If so, does the unit have five promotions? Seems like it would be Amphibious, Rough I, then the three from Barracks, Armory, Military Academy, and Brandenburg. What a bad@ss! Or...
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