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Is there any reason to use the early siege units?
As you have noted, the main difference between the "seige" units (Catapult, Trebuchet, Cannon) and other ranged units (Composite Bowmen, Crossbows), is that the seige units have a bonus against cities....
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When you 'Prove the Earth is round", do you receive any in game benefit?
This message shows up once you have discovered (at least) one tile in each vertical column of the map. They don't have to connect horizontally. This way you 'connect' the two sides of the world and '...
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Prevent AI from using Venice
Out of the box, there is no way to blacklist certain civilisations.
Your best options are:
Selecting the civilisations manually as you note, using the in-game Advanced Setup feature.
Using the ...
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Is there any reason to use the early siege units?
As you said, they get a bonus when attacking cities. This is not a small bonus- it's a 200% increase. That's 24 strength for the catapult (vs 11) and 42 (vs 18) for the trebuchet. When you're dealing ...
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Why is movement limited within enemies' borders outside the Great Wall?
The Great Wall graphic is purely ornamental. It's effect is civ-wide.
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Why is movement limited within enemies' borders outside the Great Wall?
Taken from here:
Enemy land units must expend 1 extra movement per tile inside your territory. The wall encompasses all of the territory of the civilization that has built it.
Free Walls in ...
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Why does +xp shows when upgrading unit?
It's a minor UI bug due to how units are upgraded. The new unit is created, the old unit's properties are copied over, and the old unit is destroyed. Thus, the game sees XP being added to the new unit ...
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Is there any reason to use the early siege units?
Another incentive to use siege units early is to increase their level to get the Range promotion (+1 range) as early as possible.
Early cities are realatively weak and need a few rounds to destroy a ...
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How did Austria expand to 4 tiles away without a citadel?
It isn't against the rules, although it is a little unusual.
Cities can naturally (through Culture gains) acquire tiles up to five hexes away from them. They can only work the inner three rings of ...
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Which wonders can I not speed up with a Great Engineer in Civ 5 BNW?
You can't hurry Manhattan Project, Apollo Project, and World Congress projects as they are projects rather than wonders.
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Can AI utilize the mods?
Your question is actually two-fold. Will the AI make use of modded capabilities such as increased range? Yes, it will. The AI has access to exactly the same units you have access to, so it will be use ...
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Is it worth it to use Great Person's improvement on tiles with ressources?
The reason great person improvements collect strategic resources is because those resources are hidden until the correct tech is researched. Putting an Academy on a tile then being forced to demolish ...
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What do I do with stacked units when city is at war?
According to this thread it's possible in Civ 5 to change production to something else without losing the previous unit / building. Unfortunately while I do believe this should work I haven't played ...
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What do I do with stacked units when city is at war?
You could:
Rush Wonder. It may seem like a waste, but you can always rush engineer generation afterwards.
Soothe things over. Have you tried asking for peace with the enemy? It may be a high cost, ...
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Why doesn't production focus always yield most production of the different focuses?
Other comments (and the answer) are correct, but you are dismissing them as not making sense. But I think you're missing part of the logic here.
At first sight, your observation is correct that ...
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Can AI utilize the mods?
Simply put, yes. Unless if a mod author clearly states that it only affects the player, or if it affects something the AI can't use anyways (such as chat) then there is no reason why the AI wouldn't
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What is the ratio of Tourism to Culture when influencing a civilization?
The phenomenon you described above is simply a mathematical issue.
I believe that the "rising" refers to the percentage (of your total tourism compared to total culture, not whether you are producing ...
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What is a theming bonus?
There's nothing wrong with the current answers, but they are lacking a bit in why theming bonuses are so important. After all, it looks like an awful lot of work to get some of them. Part of the ...
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Why can I not find any Aluminium?
The custom map you're using has an issue, it doesn't appear to be a problem with the game itself.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/77138438/135508489638009415/
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What's the benefit of provoking war?
You receive a lower warmongering penalty
Warmongering is an in-game term used to denote general aggression towards other civilizations, such as excessive waging of wars and capture of cities. It ...
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When you 'Prove the Earth is round", do you receive any in game benefit?
Someone wrote this in a comment that is now deleted.
It does not give any in-game effects per se, other than that you know how wide the world is. But it does give your opponents a small hint of your ...
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Civ 5 Multiplayer version mismatch Mac-pc
There is an unfortunate reason for this, which can be found if you dig deeply enough, and it is that the Mac side of Civilization 5 recently had to undergo a substantial update (giving it a different ...
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How is the amount of culture granted by "Write Political Treatise" determined?
Like all the great people who produce a one-time large amount of something, it's based on your current output of that thing. Since the writer generates culture, it will be based on how much culture ...
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Can you build with a worker and a legion at the same time?
No, unfortunately. You have to wait until the legion or worker is done.
Protip:
If you want to build a road fast, the combination of a worker and a legion can be very useful. Since they can stand on ...
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Does National visistor center affect all cities?
The effect only applies to the city where the center is build, so it's best to build it in the city with the most wonders and culture producing sites.
Source: Civilization wikia
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Civ V Multiplayer - Change turn mode while in a game
I made a simple web app that will let you change the game parameters of a save file, including the turn mode: Civilization V save editor
Just open your save file in the app and change the value under ...
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