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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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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Are knights vulnerable to spearman?
The description of a knight from the civilopedia:
As a mounted unit it is vulnerable to Pikemen, but it can crush other opponents with ease.
Is that to say that they are not vulnerable to ...
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What game mechanics do you have to take into consideration when playing multiplayer (team) games of Civilisation V?
I have started playing Civ 5 with a group of friends. We play LAN in teams of two.
There are some obvious things to avoid, like both players on a team focusing on religion or both aiming for a ...
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How to stop the deity AI from expanding towards you in Civ5?
Anybody who has tried defeating the deity AI in a domination game is aware of the challenge they are undertaking. Personally, I have found it to be extremely frustrating, and there are times when I ...
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Changing a Hotseat Human Player to AI
If I'm playing a hotseat multiplayer game with a bunch of friends, and one has to leave, is there a way to make AI take over that friend's play, in the middle of the game?
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Luxury tiles are 6 tiles apart: grow one big city or two modest ones?
When laying out the board tiles Civilization V has an uncanny knack of placing the luxury resources exactly six tiles apart.
Should I drop one city in the exact middle between them and grow it to ...
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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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Cilivization Production times change after turn?
I am playing Civ 5 and during one of my turns all of my production times changed drasticly. one of my soldier sets went from 4 turns to over 30 turns this is after I chose it.
This happened to all 4 ...
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Do technologies still get cheaper as they get older/discovered by others in Civ 5?
In Civilization 5, do technologies still get cheaper as they get older/discovered by others? Or is there no difference which order you research them in? In previous Civs, I believe they got cheaper as ...
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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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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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How do I allow unit stacking?
I am browsing Steam Community Mods and I can't find a mod that does this.
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How to find upgradeable units in Civ 5
When I'm cycling through my units, I'll sometimes notice that a unit is upgradeable to a more advanced unit; often, this happens after I've already moved them away from friendly territory on another ...
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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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Does game speed in Civ-V affect the viability of paths to victory?
I was curious as to whether playing a fast or slow game had an affect on the difficulty of reaching certain paths to victory. It seems to me that Science and Culture victories would be much easier on ...
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Options to take over an AI controlled city?
I had an open borders agreement with an AI controlled player, and the little weasel took advantage of it to plop down a settler right smack in-between two of my cities.
Excluding a military ...
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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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Civ5 Steam workaround [duplicate]
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Can I play Civ 5 without having Steam installed?
I purchased Civ5 Game of the Year Edition (physical CD) in June from Amazon - a seemingly brand new, unopened package. ...
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Civilization V - Resurrecting a player?
Civilization V's Fall 2012 balance patch mentions resurrecting a player:
Resurrecting a player will have both sides forget any denouncing that happened before resurrected.
What is Firaxis ...
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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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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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Is “Pledge to Protect” available in the original?
I was playing Civilization V when my friend told me of Pledging to Protect City-States. I don't have that button and would like to know why. I would get Gods and Kings but my friend's computer is ...
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Effect of Shortage of Resources on Buildings and Cities
I know that having a shortage of resources (such as Iron or Uranium) has an effect on units that require that resource. For example, if you have a Nuclear Submarine and -1 Uranium, that Submarine will ...
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Switching Between Order And Autocracy
Related: What is the effect of switching between conflicting social policies?
I know that switching between conflicting social policies results in a few turns of anarchy, but I was wondering about ...
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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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Civilization V on OSX is very very slow
I'm trying to play Civilization V on OSX. I have an i7 2.8 GHz and 8 GB of memory but it is very slow.
My mate told me that this is because the game was written in Logo running on a Sinclair ZX80 ...
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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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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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Frequent disconnects over LAN?
I'm experiencing frequent disconnects while playing Civilization V in multiplayer over my home wired LAN. I do not experience something like that in other multiplayer games. Is there any known ...
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How does game difficulty work in a multiplayer game? [duplicate]
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What happens when two players play the same game at different difficulties?
I play a cooperative game with another human, with all the other players being AI. Apparently ...
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Can I disable science sharing in my team?
I'm trying to play a cooperative game of Civilization V - that is, a multiplayer game with two humans (all the rest AIs) with both of us sharing the same team. However, I discovered that when we are ...
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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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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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Civilization “doesn't want anything to do with me right now”?
So in Civilization V, I'm playing as Polynesia on an archipelago map. The first Civilization I come across is Greece, on an adjacent chain of islands some 20 hexes away from mine. About 10 turns after ...
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What do city-state personalities mean?
There are 4 different personalities that I've seen for city-states: friendly, neutral, hostile, and irrational. I have never seen any use for them, though, except that influence over hostile ...
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What can I do to provoke a single city state to declare war on me?
I started the game with more city-states than the game can handle and therefore was able to pick up a lot of free labor from city-state settlers who were just standing there doing nothing.
I ...
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How is unit maintenance cost calculated? [duplicate]
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What is the Formula for Unit Maintenance in Civilization V?
Each additional unit I build adds to my maintenance cost, but I'm not sure how. Is it just a function of how ...
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How long do multiplayer games take? [closed]
I have never played civilization 5 before but the trailers, game play trailers and let's plays make it seem awesome. Great graphics, game play and back story. One thing I could not make out is how ...
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How useful is advisers' advice?
This is one of my first multiplayer games and I've been following my advisers' advice for the most part, but I don't seem to be doing all that well. Is their advice actually good, or should I not be ...
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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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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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CIV V modding Lua API? [closed]
I want to create some simple mods for CIV V. I have already created one that tweaks some values through XML and SQL.
What I would like is to make some calculations on each round and apply some ...
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Enemy units spawn nearby on Immortal?
I'm playing a 1v1 Civ5 game against an Immortal AI on a continents map I edited in the world builder. (I'm on one continent; the AI is on another.) It is around turn 650. Maybe I'm crazy, but it feels ...
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In Civ 5 my workers won't build a plantation. Where and how do they do that?
And yes, I do have the Calendar technology. I tried doing it in a grassland with no hills, and it is my territory.
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How do you use workshop on Civilization V?
I'm trying to use some add-ons for Civ V from the workshop. I subscribed to some as described in this answer. When I start the game, nothing. I restarted Steam and then the game, nothing. I bet I'm ...
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How do you play multiplayer in Civilization V?
In the game there is a tab for multiplayer and after that, the "Internet" option.
When I clicked it, only one game was there and it was only two people. So how do you connect and play multiplayer?
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Do traded cities produce unhappiness? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do cities received through a trade have any special properties?
Do they create unhappiness like a puppeted/occupied city? Or do they act like a normal city?
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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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Is the AI smarter on Immortal or Deity, or do they just get bonuses?
I know that higher levels AIs get bonuses. But do they actually play smarter? It seems a little unfair for the AIs to get bonuses. Is the idea just that to beat them, a player has to be so good that ...
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Trouble with Barbarians and Happiness on Immortal
I'm 450 turns into a game on Immortal on Civ 5. It's a scenario I set up where it's a giant continents map, with me versus one Immortal AI. The only victory allowed is domination.
The whole time, ...
