Sid Meier's Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game encompassing all of human history. Players attempt to take a fledging civilization from 4000BC to modern times and lead their civilization to victory through domination, science, culture or diplomacy.
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When are submarines visible?
Officially:
[a submarine] is invisible to most units - except for destroyers and other Submarines - until it attacks.
However, I've noticed that other naval units can see non-attacking ...
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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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What effect does happiness have?
I understand that happiness affects growth? Does it matter to what degree my population is happy? Am I ok as long as I have one happy face, or is there a relative effect?
Also in Civipedia it says:
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Problem with stretched sheep in Civ V! What to do?
I installed Civilization 5 on my laptop recently and there is a problem with the graphics.
The game itself looks good, but some resources like sheep are stretched. When I encounter them I see big ...
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What are the requirements to unlock “We are family”?
We are Family
Become the dominant Religion in every Capital city on a standard-size or larger map.
I have set up a game on a huge map and my religion was spread over all cities, while 35 of ...
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How many turns left to construct?
In Civilization IV (G&K), I order my workers to build a road, then cancel so that they only put in one turn's worth of construction. I order them this way then move on to the next tile before ...
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Clicking “next” in the mods selection dialog is extremely slow
When I go to the "MODS" option in the main game menu, it shows me a list of all installed mods and offers me the chance to enable/disable them, to get more mods, and to continue to the next screen ...
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What bonuses do I get from the tile on which I place my city?
I'm trying to understand all the facets of city placement. One thing I can't quite find, however, is if the specific terrain of the tile the city is built on has a significant effect.
Does it make a ...
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Civilization V always crashes on big games
Since bigger is better, I usually want to play on Huge worlds with max number of Civs and City States. After I begin conquering the world and my empire spans about 50 cities, the game begins to crash. ...
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What is the effect of switching between conflicting social policies?
Certain social policy branches conflict and cannot be taken together (eg, Piety and Rationalism). I usually plan ahead to make sure I don't end up wanting conflicting branches, but the other day I did ...
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Are some of the Civ 5 achievements bugged?
I seem to be having trouble getting the Magellan achievement, but I see a LOT that still have 0% on the global statistics for the game. Does anyone know if some of the achievements are bugged, or if ...
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In Civilization 5 the game wants me to adopt a policy but no policies are available?
What do I do? I've tried right clicking. I just don't know what to do, the game will not let me move on without adopting a policy. This is very agitating. Someone please help.
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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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Can I get steam redeem key for my Civilization 5 purchase on Apple AppStore? [duplicate]
A few months ago I bought Civilization 5 on AppStore but since then I'm using only Steam for all purchases.
I've noticed that for example on Humble Bundle you can directly download the game or get ...
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Civilization V: Gods and Kings naval combat
I hate the fact that embarked units can be destroyed in one hit in vanilla, and you can't even stack naval units on top of them. Is there a mod to fix it? Is it the same in Gods and Kings?
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Green lights in ocean
While playing Civ 5, I occasionally see these green things in the sea:
Is this just a bug like the red dots that sometimes show up on land, or is this some kind of easter egg or resource?
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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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How powerful is the Atomic Bomb?
I just dropped my first A-Bomb. This sparked a few questions:
How long does the radiation or fallout last?
Can my units get damaged if they stay inside the fallout?
How much damage does the ...
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What is the maximum amount of experience a unit can receive in each age?
To put it another way, how far through the experience tree can a unit progress in each age?
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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 a way to end a turn immediately, without moving all units?
In Civilization IV (and earlier) you could end a turn not having moved/actioned all of your available units. For example, if you want to leave some units in place for a turn or two, without having to ...
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How can I activate a game bought from the Mac App Store on Steam?
If Civilization 5 was bought from the Mac App Store, would I be able to activate it on Steam, and how could I do so?
It says here that CD keys for Civ 5 are accepted on Steam. Would this still work ...
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How to use TSL maps for Civ 5 (making True Start Locations work)?
Some maps for Civilization 5 are advertised as 'TSL', featuring True Start Locations. An example is http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=388696 . How do I make these work? With the map ...
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How to get the Steam Workshop to work with “Civilization V” for a Mac?
I currently own Civilization V, (not the Gods & Kings expansion,) and have the latest version of it and have subscribed to several items on the Steam Workshop, but when I start-up the game, none ...
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Civ 5 speed mods
Right. I've been playing Civ 5 for a few days and enjoying it. I'm currently trying for a domination victory (my first serious play-through on Deity) and I'm astonished by how long it takes to do ...
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Formula for diplomacy in Civ 5?
Since the AI in civ 5 are, as their name suggests, artificial, that means that all their actions are determined by numbers and formulas.
That would include the diplomacy between the AI and the ...
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How do you stop unit cycling in Civilization V?
We did our first multiplayer Civ V LAN game (it was fun) yesterday, but the unit cycling is very, very, very annoying. Is there a way to make it stop? I searched the Internet and the answers are old ...
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Is there any way to play a custom map in multiplayer?
Civilization 5's multiplayer does not support any form of modding aside from changing the .lua scripts associated with existing multiplayer map options. They consider pre-generated maps 'modding' in ...
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Is there a limit to the number of tiles a city can use in Civ 5?
Is there a limit to the number of tiles a city can work? I've noticed that I can purchase and use tiles several spaces away from my city. How far can I go?
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Civ 5 mod compatibility
In the vanilla version of Civ 5 (the mac version), is it possible to add new civilizations as a mod? Because I added this mod and when I enable it, no new civ shows up when I go to select them. I'm ...
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Civ 5 mods not working on Mac
I'm trying to use a byzantine mod in Civilization 5 on my Mac (Mountain Lion), but when I put the mod's folder in ~/Documents/Aspyr/Sid Meier's Civilization 5/MODS, it doesn't sho up in the mod menu. ...
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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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Civilization V: Other human player can't find hosted game
I'm trying to load a saved multiplayer game with my friend. We started yesterday and I, as the host, turned autosave so it'll save the game every turn.
I went on Multiplayer > Local Network > Host ...
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Civilization 5 keeps crashing - invalid reference
Looking in the logs files specifically Database.log, I keep seeing this error:
[417084.850] constraint failed
[417084.850] While executing - 'INSERT INTO ArtDefine_StrategicView(StrategicViewType, ...
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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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Is it possible to have too many cities?
I have 46 cities, but for some reason I can no longer attack cities, nor can I raze any of my current cities. Each time I try to finish off the city, it just goes to the next unit. The same happens if ...
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How do I improve Civilization V's performance?
I have pretty decent hardware and I run many games on it. But Civ 5 is unacceptably slow when it reaches an advanced stage where it shows the whole map and there are many units.
I tried to monitor ...
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As science research points increase in Civ 5, why does the research itself not hasten?
In the ancient era I may have +32 science and it takes 18 turns to research the Wheel, for instance. In the modern era I may have +520 science and it still takes me 18 turns to research Atomic Theory, ...
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Refusing friend's declaration of war
So I'm friends with Spain. She says she wants to go to war with England. I say give me 10 turns to stall her. I don't really want to fight England right now, but I don't want to make her 'unfriend' ...
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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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Why can I not gift any units to either city-states or other players?
This is probably a really stupid question, but I tried searching and could not find anything in either the help files or online.
Perhaps it is a bug, but I cannot gift any units to either city-states ...
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How can I get mods from the Steam workshop?
So I got Civilization V the other day and I am wondering how steam workshop works? How do I get mods for Civ V and what happens if it doesnt work?
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How do you play Civilization V by E-Mail?
The Civilization series of games is famous for having a way to play by e-mail. This allows people to take a long time on their turn without holding up the other players, as you do in a real-time game. ...
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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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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 one remove a courthouse without suffering unhappiness?
In Civ 5 the courthouse is needed to quell unhappiness once a city has been captured.
Can one ever remove the courthouse, and thus it's maintenance, without returning to a state of unrest?
Is there ...
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What happens to the social policy of a conquered civilization?
I am playing against Elizabeth, where she had adopted a social policy that makes every other AI players and me lose the infl uence on the city states at a faster rate. I'm struggling with the budget, ...
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Can't play Civilization 5 with friends
This is extremely frustrating, and has been an issue for the past month. I cannot play Civilization V over the internet with any of my friends. Whenever I try to play a game with my girlfriend, it ...
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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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What are the rules of settling?
I'm pretty new to Civilization, but I'm getting the hang of the rules I think. Recently, I had a settler and was going to have him create a city in this narrow strip land, but was told I couldn't ...
