Questions tagged [civilization-5-gods-and-kings]
Gods and Kings is an expansion pack to Sid Meier's Civilization V.
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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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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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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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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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Do I need to have the Gods & Kings expansion to play Brave New World?
I want to skip the Gods and Kings expansion. Does anyone know if this is possible? That is, will the expansion Brave New World work without Gods and Kings?
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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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Is there an advantage to building a road to a city-state before they request one?
Occasionally city-states will request that you build a road to connect them to your trade network, giving influence when you do. Is there any advantage to building a road to a city-state before they ...
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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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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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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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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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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 happens if I purchase a building halfway through construction?
If I purchase a building that is halfway through construction, what happens to the extra production? Is the cost of purchasing the building lowered? Do I receive a cash payment, similar to an ...
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If you conquer a holy city do you take "ownership" of that religion?
I've conquered a city that was the holy city for one of the religions. I didn't manage to found a religion myself.
Does this mean I own that religion and can upgrade it and do whatever else the ...
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If you lose the game and choose just...one...more...turn, how does the AI behave?
If one of the AI players beats you and you choose just one more turn, does the AI still try to win via domination or does it totally give up and do random things allowing you to dominate easily?
I am ...
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Ethiopian loyalists won't give me my land
While recently playing a game of Civilization 5 (with Gods & Kings) I seem to have run across a bug with the cultural borders. In the image below the city of Budapest is surrounded by the borders ...
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Can I restore 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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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" imply?...
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Do Papal Primacy and Consulates stack?
Papal Primacy: +15 to influence resting point with City-States following this religion
Consulates: +20 to influence resting point with all City-States
Assuming the city state has adopted the correct ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Going for Religious Dominance in Civilisation 5: Gods and Kings
Ive played Civ 5: Gods and Kings many times now, and I'm interested in playing a game where I can get religious dominance.
Can anyone suggest strategies in order to dominate the world with your own ...
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How to calculate gold earned from a Wonder if another civilization finishes first?
In Civilization V I noticed that when you are about to finish producing a Wonder and another civilization finishes it first, you will earn gold equivalent to how much production you have produced for ...
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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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What's good about a city adopting your religion? What is bad about it adopting another's?
I have been promoting my own religion in my cities, but some have fallen to others' religions instead. I know that I can only buy faith-based assets in cities that are following my religion, and that ...
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What are the chances of a spy stealing your cities' information?
I understand that in the espionage tab of the game, there are stars next to the your cities and that they refer to the potential that each city has. However, I have more cities with 5-star potential ...
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What determines which religion the computer will found?
When I play Civ V, it seems as though some religions are more likely to be founded by the computer.
For example, in Gods and Kings, it felt like Christianity was almost always the first religion ...
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Found city in desert hex or improveable tile beside desert hex?
In Civilization 5, given a situation where you have several desert hexes around a prospective founding location and a few non-desert hexes (e.g. grassland), is it better to found the city itself in ...
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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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Do special buildings need citizens to produce benefits?
In Civ 5, do special buildings (ones that can generate Great People) need citizens to produce their benefits other than Great Person Points?
For example:
The Bank building gives +25% Gold and 1 ...
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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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What defines "Friendly territory?"
In order to fortify my units I have to be in friendly territory. I have had to go into territory for it to work, but sometimes I don't have to. Is there a set number of tiles away that allows for ...
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Why would my cities go into a demand loop for luxury resources?
Every so often, your cities will want a luxury item and if they get it, they will enter
"We love the king day". Is it normal for multiple cities to demand the same resource? 4 of my cities wanted ...
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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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Will the AI go for an impossible victory?
When you set up a game, you can choose which victory types you want enabled.
Will the AI ever attempt to achieve a victory type that is disabled?
For instance, if the only victory type that is ...
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Can you capture an enemy settler before they settle the capital city?
Could you take out a civilization before it starts by killing its starting settlers and warriors? On a duel map, could you do this and win without founding your capital either?
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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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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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Duration of defensive pacts in late game
My English civilisation is close friends with the Dutch and we've had a succession of defensive pacts to hold off the Carthaginians, Japanese, Americans, and Portuguese. I have G&K and BNW ...
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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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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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Can I switch religions to that of a conquered opponent?
I'm playing America/Hinduism, and just conquered Ethiopia/Christianity, but the strength of the Christianity has taken over all of my cities. All I can do with religion is build Pagodas and great ...
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How do City State unit gifts work?
Earlier in the game, I received a few units from allied CS Valetta. The odd part is that these units were H'wachas, a Korea only unit. There was no Korea in this game to gift it to them either. How ...
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City State Empire?
I was wondering what conditions cause a City State to puppet a conquered city instead of burning it down. I know sometimes it happens when they capture a city that cannot be razed, but that's not the ...
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Can a great improvement (ex: Manufactory) be removed by automated workers?
While playing a game, I rushed getting a Great Engineer in order to produce an early Manufactory. A few turns later, I noticed the square had changed back to a farm.
Is it possible my automated ...
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How many turns does a Spy in Civilization 5 replaced by new recruit when killed?
Recently I installed Civilization 5 with DLC. I love playing the game with spies. But when I encounter that my spy got 'Killed in Action'. I have search the net for this but so far I read the wiki ...
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