Gods and Kings is an expansion pack to Sid Meier's Civilization V.
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What are the mechanics for bullying city states?
Two things are required to bully a city state: high military power relative to the other main civs, and nearby military power. This begs two questions:
How high do you need to be in military power? ...
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How do I convert a city to my religion?
I want to convert a city to my religion, and it already has some followers of other religions. What is the process I need to take to convert it to my religion?
Do I need inquisitors?
Do I need ...
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Is it possible to give or receive false intrigues from the AI?
In Civilization 5: Gods & Kings, is it possible to give or receive false intrigue?
If another Civ tells me that some other Civ is plotting against me, should I always believe that this is the ...
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Should I stop building a wonder if I find a rival is likely to beat me to it?
Let's say I'm currently building a world wonder, and through my spy I find out a rival civ is also building the same wonder, and are likely to complete it before me, even if I try to rush mine in a ...
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How do I obtain more spies?
The latest expansion to Civilaztion V added spies to the game.
These spies can help in a multitude of ways. The most important, in my opinion, being the ability to prevent enemy spies from stealing ...
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Should I accept embassies from AI civilizations?
The AI seem to be very fond of paying me 15 - 25 gold to establish an embassy in my capital very early in the game. I'm quite fond of free money, so I've generally taken the deal, but is that ...
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What are the effects of Civilization V responses to other leaders?
Some responses seem not to have any effect reflected in the relationship details. Some examples:
When they admonish you about making friends with one of their enemies:
Get over it.
We're sorry this ...
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Can I construct a citadel next to the borders of a city state?
The description for "Constructing a Citadel" says that "If the new culture border claims hexes owned by another Civilization, you will incur a diplomatic penalty as a result."
Does this apply to city ...
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AI Civ having another civ's specialty unit
How is it possible for an AI civilization to gain/build another civilization's specialty unit?
Twice now I have run into this issue. On my current game, the Dutch have a Cho-Ko-Nu (the chinese ...
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Do your opponents gain the benefit of a religion you found?
Most Religions benefits appear to apply to all followers.
Example:
Guruship: +2 Production if city has a Specialist
My question is, do these only benefit the founding civilization, or all cities ...
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How to create a religion in Civilization V?
Just got the Gods and Kings expansion and was playing 3 player game with friends. They both made a religion and I was over 1000 in faith and still could not work out how to create a religion or get a ...
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Can I politely stop an AI's Great Prophet from getting to my cities?
The strongest player in the game is a close ally of mine and we each founded and follow of one of the strongest two religions in the game, with little cross-over between religions within our ...
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What happens when you rescue an opposing civilization's settler from the barbarians?
In Civ 5 G&K do settlers captured by barbarians stay as settlers when you take one from them if the settler is NOT from your civilization?
I remember capturing a settler that wasn't mine from a ...
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Does the choice of religion (not beliefs) have any impact?
I just had the chance to found my first religion, and am offered with a list of religions to choose from, such as Buddhism, Judaism etc. I understand that I then choose a founder and follower belief ...
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How much is faith worth?
The Civilization 5 expansion Gods and Kings added a new faith mechanic. I noticed you can now use faith points instead of gold to buy units, but I did not see a conversion rate between prayers and ...
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What to do with excess Great Generals in G+K?
I'm playing for a Conquest victory in G+K.
Before G+K, when Great Generals start popping up, I would use 2 or 3 for combat and rest for Golden Age. G+K altered the Great Person mechanics so much that ...
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Is there a chart showing all unit upgrade paths in Civilization 5 Gods & Kings?
Is there a chart showing the upgrade paths for the units? Something like
Warrior → Spearman → Pikeman...
for all of the units, similar to the chart on this site for vanilla.
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What causes a converted Holy City to regain its original religion?
Whenever I take over an enemy capital that was a Holy City for another religion, I always convert it to my religion and remove the other religion from it completely.
Sometimes I've noticed that after ...
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What are some strong defensive formations that can be used in Civ 5?
Playing on deity difficulty is not easy. Often I am facing a numerically superior opponent whose reinforcements seem almost ceaseless and are technologically better armed than my armies. I therefore ...
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I can't use my great prophet to enhance my religion
I just got a great prophet from building the Hagia Sophia in one of my cities, but although my religion is not yet enhanced, I can't use my prophet to enhance it. What's going on?
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How many beakers does Great Scientist give in Civilization V Gods & Kings?
When you consume a Great Scientist on research how many beakers does it produce? Is there a cap to how many technology you can unlock by bulbing Great Scientists?
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What does the pressure value mean, and what is the scale?
I can see a "pressure" value on cities which seems to indicate how powerful is the conversion to a religion in a city. But how can I translate that value to some meaning? What does "+4 pressure" ...
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Is there a way to play a game with some elements from “Empire of the Smoky Skies” scenario?
The "Empire of the Smoky Skies" scenario has a unique tech-tree (complete with unique units and buildings), unique social policies, unique leaders and unique victory conditions, as well as forced game ...
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I've captured some Great Prophets, now what?
I've managed to capture two great prophets, but they aren't the same religion as the one I founded. I created Shinto, but now I have a Great Prophet from Buddhism and one from Confucianism.
What can ...
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Strategy to win “into the renaissance” scenario?
What are the key concepts to grasp, or a winning strategy, for the "into the renaissance" (faith based) scenario?
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Do cities only follow the dominant religion in Civilisation V?
What happens if my city has 3 religions, does it benefit from all of the follower beliefs, or does it just work for the current most dominant religion?
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Free buildings that I already have?
I've wondered this for a while and never found a satisfactory answer. Free buildings, of course, are free - no build time, no build cost, no maintenance. However, what happens if the city in question ...
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Eradicate A Religion
I'm playing a game in which there is a very annoying AI player whose religion continually spreads to my cities. It's beginning to annoy me, and I want to fix it. Is there any way for me to completely ...
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Are expansion civs/natural wonders more likely?
I've played several games of Civ 5 with the Gods and Kings expansion, and it seems like every game has involved a similar cast of characters (Austria, Sweden, Byzantium) as well as many of the new ...
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How does religious pressure work in Civilization V? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I convert a city to my religion?
How is the religious pressure at a city calculated? I was fighting with another religion for religious control of a city state ...
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Choose Production, Is there anyway to bypass it
Is there anyway to bypass the "Choose Production" button. Basically in my cities there are no more buildings or wonders left to build and I don't want to keep building units as it eats at my money. ...
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Any way to play an “original” game of Civ 5
I have the G+K expansion, but I like the old Piety tree better for happiness. Also 2 out of 3 games I played I missed out on creating a religion. Is there anyway to play Civ 5 original without ...
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Can I restored my wiped out religion in Civ 5 Gods and Kings?
I eliminated a computer player that had a strong religion (Buddhism). My religion was weak, whereas this other one was taking over the continent quickly. Now that I have him overrun, I want, well ...
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Is there any way to use “orphaned” city-state-specific luxury resources?
I've found a tile which seems to contain Porcelain:
I'm not quite sure how it happened; it seems like a city-state used to be on that tile, but it was somehow removed (I thought cities which are ...
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Why do I have no options when my inquisitor is beside a city with a different religion?
Is this a glitch? I'm right beside a city with a religion that isn't my own and no options show up.
Also, unlike the other religious units, it's requiring that I have open borders with other civs ...
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Can the expansion play with the base game?
As an owner of Gods and Kings, can I play with someone that only owns the base game?
The steam sale has left a lot of my friends with just Civilization 5 and I was hoping to play some multiplayer ...
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Unconnected Territory Civ5
My civilization has acquired an unconnected tile(see picture below).
How is this possible? Or simply a glitch?
EDIT: zoomed out version
I'm thinking it's because El Mirador is being squeezed on ...
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If I destroy a civ should I try to convert the cities to my religion?
I have been playing Civ 5 for a while but am new to religion. If I destroy a Civ and captured its holy city, should I try and convert it, even though the other civ's religion is spread further, or let ...
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What happens if you don't found a religion?
Suppose the other civilizations have founded all the religions that could be founded in that map (that never happened to me, but I'm curious, but not curious enough to spend a night doing an ...
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When should I choose Ceremonial Burial and when Peace Loving?
I want to take a founder belief which will provide additional happiness. I'm unsure about the benefits of Ceremonial Burial vs. Peace Loving:
Ceremonial Burial
+1 Happiness for each city ...
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How does science in teams work in Civilization V?
Was playing team based game with my brother against the AI and noticed that the number of turns to research something dropped when we both selected to research the same technology. How does this work? ...
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Can you use mods in Civilization V multiplayer?
When I load mods in Civilization V it only has option to start single player game. So is there any workaround or method for loading mods in multiplayer games? I am mostly interested in using some ...
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Under what condition does the AI share an intrigue with you?
So King Kamehameha just warned me that he is spying on Attila the Hun and that Attina is planning to backstab me with his fleet. Very cool. I also share intrigue with AI civs when I want to increase ...
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How does city healing work?
When laying siege to a city is it possible to predict how much it is going to heal for on the enemies turn? Is it always a percentage of the city's maximum health or does it have some random element ...
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What is the maximum spy level in CivV
What is the maximum spy level in CivV Gods & Kings?
Maximum level my spies have reached was "special agent", never managed to get them above this grade.
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World map with multiplayer (local network)
I'm playing Sid Mayers Civilization V: Gods & Kings in multiplayer mode over local network with my wife. It's all great, but I can't find a way to choose "Earth". Does anyone know how to do so, or ...
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How much bonus ranged damage do Walls of Babylon give?
Walls of Babylon The walls of Babylon increase the damage output of all the city's ranged attacks and increase the city's defense. +6 Armour +100 HP
It doesn't however state how much the bonus ...
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Civilization V Gold
I loaded Civilization V onto my window 8 PC last December and everything worked fine. I purchased Civilization V GOLD from best buy. I used the uninstall option from the original disk and loaded ...
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civilization 5 domination victory capturing capitals
So I was reading the in-game help on how to achieve a domination victory, and I got a little confused.
It said something about the last civilization possessing their original capital is the winner. ...
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How do prerequisites for promotions work?
I have trouble understanding how promotion prerequisites work. Civilopedia lists Accuracy I and Barrage I as being prerequisites for Volley, Cover and Siege.
However, all my trebuchets only needed ...
