Questions tagged [civilization-v]
Sid Meier's Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game encompassing all of human history. Players attempt to take a fledgling civilization from 4000BC to modern times and lead their civilization to victory through domination, science, culture or diplomacy.
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How to "create Pantheon now!" (i.e. in the *current* turn)?
When I go to Religion, I see the message
Can create Pantheon now!
(I got enough faith in the current turn after meeting religious city-states.)
I can create a Pantheon when I go to the next turn.
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Civ5 Windows10 half map appears /other side grey/
Civ5 Windows10 half map appears /other side grey/ Lenovo laptop 11th Gen Intel processor Intel(R) Iris(R) XE Graphics card! Could card have gotten too hot? Starting to fail? Game was working the day ...
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How do I check which mods were used in a save file?
Please tell me how to view the full list of mods in the save. Since when you open the window with the download of the save, and click to see which mods are needed to download the save, the list ...
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How is the amount of culture granted by "Write Political Treatise" determined?
With a Great Writer, I can "Write Political Treatise":
This order will consume the Great Person and will grant a large amount of Culture.
Below for example I get +5472. How is this number ...
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How do I remove the overuse of iron penalty?
In Civilization 5, I used more iron than I had access to. (I maxed out my actual iron by building swordsmen, and then I built the Terracotta Army, which gave me a bonus swordsman, putting me at -1 ...
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How many nations are able to be played in Sid Meier's hotseat?
How many nations are playable in Sid Meier's civilization V hotseat? Also, is it possible to have all players as human without additional AI? I would prefer to play with friends locally, without AI.
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Are there any downsides to having a coal deficiency if you've only used coal to build factories?
Yesterday I was playing Civilization V and lost the city containing my sole coal source. I had built factories in my other cities prior to this and as such I now ended up with a deficiency in coal. ...
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How to play Civilization V online (with and without Steam)
So I've got a Mac and a copy of Civilization V, I got from Mac App store years ago for free. A friend of mine has got a Windows machine with Civilization V running from Steam. We want to play online.
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Civ 5 - told I lack iron but have an iron mine?
I'm used to playing earlier versions of Civ. Playing Civ 5 and despite having an active iron mine, which is connected to my cities/trade network by roads, I'm told that I can't build any unit which ...
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Can I build all ideology wonders in my original capital in Civilization 5?
Can I somehow build all ideology wonders ( Statue of Liberty, Prora and Kremlin ) into my original capital in Civilization 5? I understand that I need two revolutions to change the ideology twice but ...
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Civilization: game in real time with 10 players
I would like to play civilization with 8 to 10 friends in multiplayer.
We are currently playing on the V and it appears that with more than 6 players it is not possible to play (people are ...
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How to steal a square on a distant continent to work the Great Barrier Reef?
Came across the following situation:
Exploring the world by ship, I found the "Great Barrier Reef", 2 hexes off of a different continent. After some research, it appears the only way to work these ...
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Civilization 5 population demographics
In Civilization 5, when the game ends and it displays the score screen ranking each civ by things like GDP, literacy, population, and army size, how is the population calculated? It doesn't seem to ...
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Losing my city on a one-city-challenge on complete kills, do I still stand a chance?
I am currently in a long term Civilization game with a few of my friends. During our previous session I was one single turn away from a science victory, however, the warmonger among us managed to ...
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When you 'Prove the Earth is round", do you receive any in game benefit?
A message "You have proven that the earth is round" up when you are the first to travel around the whole world.
Is this just for fun, or does it give any benefits?
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What do I do with stacked units when city is at war?
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I'm in the middle of a war and a town is surrounded by enemies. To get better defense I have a great general in that city, but suddenly a great engineer appears and I'm told to do something ...
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Can AI utilize the mods?
There are some fun mods in Civilization. For instance, I do enjoy the mod that removes the xp cap for fights with barbarians. A mod I have not tried yet but probably will is the mod that increases the ...
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Is there any reason to use the early siege units?
I compared the early ranged units. I'll abbreviate melee strength with MS and ranged strength with RS.
Unit MS RS
Composite bowman 7 11
Catapult 7 8
Crossbowman 13 18
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What's the benefit of provoking war?
Is there any benefit of provoking a war, rather than just starting it?
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Does National visistor center affect all cities?
The description for National visitor center says:
Must have built a Hotel in all Cities. The cost goes up the more cities there are in the empire. 100% of the Culture from World Wonders, Natural ...
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How do you play a PC DVD game on Mac?
I have got Civilization V Gold edition as a PC DVD ROM. I was wondering how I could play this on Mac? Does anyone know how to do this?
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What is the strategy to maximize peace in Civilization 5?
How to minimize total war casualties for all nations in Civilization 5? It comes to my mind that it is to have domination victory as fast as possible, but may there be other strategies?
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CiV crashes on a newer, high-end system
When running CiV on a newer high-end computer, it will sometimes crash. The usual message is a segmentation fault or similar problem.
Crashes happen seemingly randomly, though usually between ...
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Civilization 5: DLC Civs unavailable despite owning DLCs?
So I was playing playing Civ 5 with my friend, and we were setting up a new game. I chose a civilization from the Brave New World expansion, which he owns, but on his screen, it said unavailable ...
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Is there a way to bind "Buy a Tile" in Civ 5?
Using a x10 mod and playing as America, enabling me to buy tiles and gain money. Since I'm messing around with it, is it possible to bind "Buy a Tile" to a key?
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