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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Why does Ghandi want to nuke me?
Different civilizations obvioulsy have different priorities. For example, Ghandi always seems to rush nuke technology and the Mongols will most likely start invading and spread like mad. Are these ...
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Is there a way to have my second monitor usable?
I play Civ 5 on my primary monitor full-screened. However, when I do this, my second monitor is always simply black. I can't use it for anything. Typically, I keep some things on my second monitor - ...
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Is there a list of luxury resources?
In civilization 5 is there a way to see a list of all the resources your civ. has? I know I can see the different kinds in the happiness menu and the count on the trade screen. I just want a list of ...
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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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How can I stop Civilization 5 from asking me twice which DirectX mode to play in?
I (pre) downloaded and installed Civilization 5 through Steam, on Windows 7. When I start it, Steam asks me if I would like to start:
Civilization 5
Civilization 5 (DirectX 9)
Then, Civilization ...
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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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How can I modify Civ 5 for a longer opening and midgame and shorter endgame?
Whenever I play Civ 5 I notice that it is fun in the beginning (expanding/building) and in the midgame (fighting) but then follows a very long boring endgame.
Unfortunately Civ 5 is by default ...
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What should I do if a city-state requests my support?
I'm in a game where Catherine's empire has grown to enormous proportions and started to attack city-states. When she attacked Dublin, which I was befriended with and which I depended on for food at ...
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In Civ V, playing as Germany, and with earth, how do I start in Europe where Germany should be?
Every time I start Civ V with Germany and with earth as the terrain, it doesn't start me in central Europe where modern day Germany is. Can I correct this somehow? Civ 4 would automatically start the ...
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What can cause a City State to enter “permanent war” with a main Civ?
I know that capturing enough City States will eventually cause all the remaining city states to enter permanent war against you.
So, what else can cause City States (either collectively or ...
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What's the best way to increase my rate of research?
What's the best way to increase my rate of research in Civilization 5? Is it purely a function of population and buildings, or is there something else I can do to speed it up (especially in the early ...
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What is a Pact of Secrecy? Also, what is a Pact of Cooperation?
In Civilization 5, one of the diplomatic options is a Pact of Secrecy. You sign it with one civilization against a specific other civilization.
There's another called a Pact of Cooperation, which you ...
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Do I gain income for connecting city-states to my trade network?
City-States keep asking me to connect to them, but I'm not sure if the life-long upkeep is worth the one-time influence gain. If, on the other hand, I get influence and an income boost, I'm gonna have ...
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Pink number when clearing barbarian encampments?
After clearing a barbarian encampment, a pink number appears above the tile where the encampment was. What does this number mean?
Example:
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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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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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Civilization 5 Elizabeth-specific achievement domain?
The achievement specifically tied to Elizabeth (that's the English) is as follows:
Ruler of the Seas
As Elizabeth, sink and destroy 357 enemy naval units, across any number of playthroughs.
So my ...
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Do Natural Wonders spawn more closely to city states?
This is purely anecdotal speculation, but it seems to me that Natural Wonders are more often than not placed close by city states. What does the world-builder use to determine where Natural ...
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Are puppet cities counted towards the limit of 3 imposed by the “Bollywood” achievement in Civilization V?
Bollywood
As Gandhi, win a cultural
victory with 3 or fewer cities in your
empire.
Do puppet cities count towards this limit or not?
I'd assume they probably are (since you do get ...
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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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What rule does border expansion follow?
Does anyone have any insight into what rule the cultural border expansion follows?
Weakest tiles first?
Strongest tiles first?
Random?
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What happens to a research agreement when we go to war in Civ 5?
I formed a research agreement with an AI in Civ 5, and when it was about halfway done he attacked me. Is that money just gone for both of us, or can we resume it somehow once I've taught him a ...
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Does working a tile with a city transfer ownership of the tile to that city?
This stems from the comments on this question. Imagine two cities, A and B, close enough that one can work the tiles that were acquired by the other (either through purchasing them or through ...
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How valuable is it to build next to a river?
For some reason I give a very high preference to hexes that put my cities on a river. But I'm asking myself if I'm overdoing it for Civ5.
Given a city planted in the middle of 7 Grassland hexes...
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Is it possible to buy tiles in Civilization5 that are more than 3 hexes away from any city?
Cities can use a 36 hex grid at maximum.
It seems to me that 3 is also the maximum "range" at which one can purchase new tiles. Is this correct, or is it possible to buy land further off?
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Understanding unit movement
Looking at a unit is there anyway to tell if it has moved or not in the current turn? I've noticed the emblem for the unit greys out, but it also seems to remained greys out if the unit has been ...
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How does Civ 5 multiplayer work?
We tried playing a civ 5 private game, but one of our players (the one who had originally started the game) disconnected and then couldn't rejoin. Is that intended, or a bug, or what? How is civ5 ...
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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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What happens when you conquer a city where a spaceship is under construction?
What happens when you conquer a city where a spaceship is under construction? Can the conquered civilization continue construction in its new capital? Does the conquered civilization retain its ...
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Why won't a Stealth Bomber fire on cities anymore?
My stealth bomber won't fire on an enemy. It fired in the previous turn and now it won't attack my enemy's city. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is?
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After buying the deluxe version of civ5 on Steam, where is the soundtrack?
I've checked the media tab on under Library and the purchase email doesn't say anything about it.
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What are the rules for territory ownership when you raze a city?
If I raze a conquered city its territory returns to neutral ownership. However suppose I have multiple cities clustered together, it is not always possible to know which tiles I will lose when razing ...
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How do I build a courthouse in a captured city?
I captured an enemy city, and my advisors informed me that the city will produce a lot of unhappiness until I build a courthouse there. However, the production in the city is 0, so no actual progress ...
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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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Ruler of the Seas, how to do it?
How do I sink a million ships? Well, not a million, 357 for the achievement?
What is a good setup? I set up a huge archipelago game with epic game length and raging barbarians... but ships still ...
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How do I play the “Cradle of Civilization” DLC?
I own several of the "Cradle of Civilization" DLC packs for Civ 5, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to load them. It's not an option under "scenarios," and when I set up a game, it's not ...
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What is a good benchmark for the cultural win strategy?
I am currently learning to play Civilization 5 and decided to experiment with the cultural victory strategy. I am going to play game after game with the same strategy, making minor adjustments to see ...
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How much does each city increase the cost of social policies?
In Civilization 5, each city you build increases the cost of new social policies by some percentage, based on the current map size.
This question mentions +30% for duel sized maps. I'm assuming this ...
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Is there any way to 'turn off' science and convert it into something else?
I am late on in a game and don't need science any more (as I have researched everything). Is there any way to 'turn off' science and convert it into something else e.g. Gold, Culture or Production. ...
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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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Changing Teams in Civ 5
What is the effect of changing an opponents team in the Advanced Setup screen?
What benefits do I get from changing the second player to Team 1? Does it give me a permanent ally throughout the ...
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Do I need to rebuild a courthouse if I re-conquer a city I have captured in the past?
If I remember correctly, courthouses are always destroyed when a city is conquered. On the other hand, when a civ loses one of their cities and then conquers it again, it does not have to build a ...
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How do I add mod support into Civilization 5 for Mac when I have MainMenu.xml instead of MainMenu.lua?
I'm trying to enable the mod button within the Steam version of Civilization 5 for Mac. When I navigate to:
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization ...
