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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In Civilization V does a workshop help build wonders?
The workshop says that it adds +20% production when constructing buildings. Are wonders considered buildings?
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Is there any way to see progress towards achievements in Civ 5?
Is there a way to see how much more I have to do to achieve the various achievements? For example, Merchant King is Trade 100 resources over any number of playthroughs... I'd love to know how close I ...
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Civ 5 - Why are Wheat and Bananas listed on the map?
When out on the map screen if you mouse over hexes, or in the strategic view you can see icons if a hex contains a resource. Wheat and Bananas show up when you do this, yet they are not ...
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Production and Research overflow in Civilization 5
What happens with overflowing research or production in Civilization 5?
If you produce more research in one turn than is needed for the current technology, is the research surplus carried over to ...
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In Civ5, when you have access to iron, does it make sense to build musketmen?
Technology upgrade tree looks like this:
|Steel | |Gunpowder |
|- Longswordman | |- Musketman |
| cost 150 | | cost 120 |
| str: 18 | => | str: 16 |
| mov: 2 ...
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What parts can safely be automated and where should I micromanage?
I usually let all my worker units roam free on automation, unless I need a specific improvement right now. I usually never care about the tiles worked by a city, at most I may switch the priorities to ...
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Does the Rocket Artillery in Civ5 have to set-up prior to firing?
The civilopedia entry states that the rocket artillery does not need to set-up prior to firing. Yet it seems in my games it needs to, just as any other artillery unit.
Is the civilopedia entry wrong?
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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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What does it mean when one civilization “denounces” another?
What does it mean when a civilization denounces me?
What effect does it have when I denounce another civilization?
What kinds of actions can you take that would cause another civilization to ...
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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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Does anyone play Multiplayer? How much time would I need to commit?
I've been into the "Internet Games" screen several times but rarely see any games. I've been reluctant to join one because I don't know how it works.
Can anyone tell me:
Is the list of "internet ...
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Is there any penalty for building a new city “far away” from your other cities?
Is there any penalty for building a new city "far away" from your other cities?
That is, if I remember correctly from Civ4, (city) maintenance was higher if a new city was "far away" from my current ...
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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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Is a courthouse mandatory to quell occupational unhappiness?
If you don't build the courthouse does the city perpetually generate extra unhappiness due to the occupation, or do they eventually settle down without one? How longer does that take with/without?
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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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How can I interrupt auto-end-turn?
When I turn on "Single Player Auto End Turn" in the game options I don't have to hit enter to move to the next turn. Trouble is the game can run on auto for quite a lot of turns (esp. on "marathon").
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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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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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In Civilization V, how can I find out what map type I am playing on?
When I play Civ V, I always start a game via the Mods menu. The Setup screen under mods lists a many more map types, and I set to random.
However, I am not sure how random it is. Is it selecting at ...
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Can AI win in any way other than dominance?
After seeing a very disappointing lack of followthrough from the AI in my latest deity game, I'm wondering if anyone has proof that the AI is capable of any of the following
Achieving a diplomatic ...
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How do you awake all aircraft on a tile?
It is fairly tedious to awake many aircraft on a tile. I'm wondering if there is a shortcut available to wake aircraft in a city, instead of clicking on each, one by one.
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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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Why would spending money on a tile lower my score?
I was playing Civilization 5 as the Arabian empire, and one of my warriors found some Ruins and earned me about 70 coins. My score was 14 at the time, and didn't go up due to the increased amount of ...
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What is “stacked unit needs an order” referring to?
I know that in Civilization 5 there is no stacking of units. However, sometimes when a unit needs an order, the blue button in the bottom right of the screen will say "stacked unit needs order" ...
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Can I download an upcoming game and then activate it on the release date?
I want to be able to play Civilization 5 on the release date, but I know that it will be at least a 4-5 GB download, so I worry that if I buy a digital copy, the high number of users hitting the ...
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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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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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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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What is the best way to detect covered/hidden units in an enemy city?
The problem is that my invading naval force tries to defend my attacking "marines", however, sometimes an enemy destroyer pops out from no where and kills the unit.
This had perplexed me on occasion ...
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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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Nuke Tactics Civ 5
How should you use Nukes in Civ 5?
In my game, it is late game, I've just built the United Nations. It's my first game so I don't know how to use a Nuke. I've built ten of them. Should I target all ...
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Can I win a science victory after I win a cultural victory?
I wanted to win a science victory right after winning a cultural victory. To win a science victory, I have to build a bunch of spaceship parts and move them to my capital, where they are assembled. ...
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What is the decay rate for influence over City-States?
On normal speed, I've seen the decay rate for my city-state relations vary from 1 to 2.5 (without the social policy modifier).
I think it is based on how nice I am to all the other city states, but ...
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Is there a way to figure out what cities have wonders?
I'm a bit of a wonder perfectionist in Civilization, and I like to have a monopoly on them. However, sometimes another civilization sneaks one by me; in those situations, I like to conquer the city ...
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How can I get other civ to attack me?
I am currently in a six nation game and I am surrounded by three smaller civs some of which are weak and some are quite strong. I would like to conquer the land which one of them holds, but want them ...
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How do you use Great Person in late game?
In late game, I feel that GPs are quite useless:
Great Scientist: All the tech has been (almost) researched, and there's no need of science now (unless you need a Point Victory). I usually sell all ...
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In Civ5, what effects does it have if another civ is “hostile” or “fearful”?
When another civilization enters the hostile mode vs. me, does it have any measurable effects, or is it just a warning for me that war may be declared soon or is it just cosmetics?
Same goes for ...
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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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Is it possible to make a decent army in the early game?
I am new to Civilization; I bought Civ 5 a couple months ago and I have only played around 4 or 5 games so far.
Maybe it is because I am new to the game, but the early game goes so fast that there ...
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What happens to ranged promotions when the unit becomes melee?
Some upgrade paths transform a unit from a ranged one to a melee one - for example, a crossbowman normally upgrades to a rifleman. However, ranged units get different damage-increasing promotions from ...
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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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Will a Culture Bomb take a city in an adjacent tile?
I understand how the basic Culture Bomb works. What I'm asking is if you own the tile adjacent to a neighboring city (other player or City State) and perform a Culture Bomb in it, will you take over ...
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What's required in order to have a city produce “Research”?
In earlier plays through Civ5 I've been able to set a city's production to Research, so I know it's possible, but I've not determined what it is that enables that (in my current game, Research isn't ...
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Is there any way to see a digest of what resources civilizations / city states own?
For example, I would like to get my hand on some pearls. A simple way to do that is to trade with other civilizations or to increase my influence with some city-state; the problem is that I can never ...
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Does a unit with the “ignores terrain cost” promotion benefit from the “woodsman” promotion?
Some units, such as scouts, minutemen, or units upgraded from them, get the "ignores terrain cost" promotion which means every terrain tile costs 1 movement point (or less if it's a road). However, ...
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Can I earn AI player's votes for a diplomatic victory in Civ 5?
In Civ 4, as I recall, you could trade for another civilization's vote in the U.N., but I can't seem to find that option in Civ 5. Are the only votes I can earn those of the city states?
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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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How do you identify who owns territory on the map in Civilization V?
When I'm exploring the world I come across the borders of other civilizations and city states. So far I've picked up that civilizations seem to have solid borders while city states have a dashed ...
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Advice on gaining the Steam Bollywood Achievement
Steam Bollywood Achievement:
As Gandhi, win a cultural victory with
3 or fewer cities in your empire.
I wish to do this achievement on a Pangaea Standard map size or larger and on Prince ...
