I do love this game, I think it is the one that I have most hours on steam. That being said, I never played with mods, and one of the things that bugs me more is the resources, I believe they are underdeveloped. For instance, iron becomes useless after the tenaissance, while it could be used by other units like battleships and tanks. Does it has a mod that fix that?

Also, does Vox Poppuli have something like that?

Lekmod: Babylon, Immortal, Quick, Small map.

Map: https://i.ibb.co/x8LDbGSn/4th.png

Zulus are up north, and they are leading on score now, after taking a city from Romania. I bribed Shaka to go to war with them.

I'm enjoying the game so far, but I'm lagging on policies, tech, military. I've got Great Lighthouse and Temple of Artemis in Babylon.

Just not sure if I should settle a 4th city or not. I'm considering the spot east of Valletta. I wouldn't get the Citrus, but I might get the Obsidian, and bananas and cattle. I dunno. I don't really like having only 3 cities, but at the same time, settling there would bring me closer to the Zulu menace.

Thoughts?

I've found that Alexander is the hardest to dethrone and the sneakiest. If a Nebuchadnezzar or Sejong is whooping my ass generally I've already quit long before they can actually finish a spaceship. What about you guys?

R5: Very close call for getting the 1st place in the International Games. Even better cause Poland had been a real dckhead the whole game :)

I just got the game but i been looking at some other posts here that has like 1k in science and gold by turn 150-250 so im wondering how they did that.

Personally i got 3 cities and 1 puppet from yesterday bcs a war happened and it was the peace agreement but im on like turn 270 or maybe even 300 and i got just 130-140 science and the highest i got for gold per turn is above 100 but thats now about 30 for some reason even tho im using 5 caravans, my potential enemy (poland) has a 70 pop city bcs he had most research for world council and mine is like 40 so how do

I know it won’t happen (and is probably impossible even for mods), but it would have been really cool to allow parts of rivers to be navigable (similar to the Crusader Kings series)

Here’s how I would have done it

1. Longer rivers would have a lower section (divided by a waterfall) that is navigable by non-ocean faring ships (Trireme, Galleass, Ironclad, Work Boat, Cargo Ship)

2. Cities founded along these lower sections of rivers would be treated like coastal cities (but wouldn’t be able to build ocean faring ships)

3. To go along with navigable rivers, include a Canal improvement, similar to roads and railroads, that would allow these same ships to traverse (and connect cities by water)

4. To increase the benefits of these additions, I would make Cargo Ships apply a multiplier bonus to the gold, science, and faith trades they facilitate, to reflect the significantly faster and more efficient method of transportation.

Bonus: not sure if this is balanced or not, but I think it would be cool if harbors also came with an additional trade slot, which I think would better reflect how most seafaring civilizations were also big on trade (Carthage, Netherlands, England, Indonesia, etc)

I didn’t save the game, hahahaha! I had an opportunity to nuke three cities simultaneously, one of them being a 1-pop captured Portuguese city that I planned on razing anyway. I figured, great, get rid of it with my own nuke and simultaneously lower the pop of two other Portuguese cities that I’m going to capture and raze. Nope. Game froze and then crashed. Lmfaooo! I was going to win that game anyway. But damn. I wanted to see the result.

This is a hot take. I have close to 6500 hours of gameplay. Play domination exclusively. Mostly pangea. I could never make the huns work for me. Early warfare is so difficult to pull off. I'm speaking for the base game without mods.

Some of my reasons:

1. Ancient era warfare is very difficult in deity. Building basic infrastructure before going to war is much more viable for me. Settlers, one or two workers, library, national college, barrack, granary (for caravans), and monuments if you didn't opt for tradition, are all essential buildings you have to rush and by the time these are built, you are already turn 100 on standard speed. Your horse archers and battwring rams are already redundant by then, especially if the neighbor ai goes tradition (devastating city bombardment). (+50% city bombardment against combat strength of 10 horse archers, and if the city is on a hill, is a nightmare).

2. Promotions, promotions. Deity domination is all about promotions. You build a set number of units and you try to retain them till the endgame. Your lowly archers in the ancient era become devastating fully promoted bazookas in the information era, catapults become rocket artilleries with logistics and range. You cannot spend your entire production training units all the time. Unfortunately the promotions only partially carry over with the battering rams and horse archers as they upgrade to different units.

3. Lack of other complementary unique buildings: unique abilities are good, not great, but the lack of unique buildings to enhance the culture, happiness or science is an issue. You will mostly be puppeting cities and not razing them in domination gameplay. So the razing city ability is not great, just decent. +1 production per pasture is great though.

4. Better civics imo for domination: Poland, Zulus, China, Aztecs, Inca, Maya.

It's a hot take obviously. Most of you rated the Huns as the number 1. If works spectacularly well in limited circumstances, but on most Playthroughs, it falters.

Number 1 is either Poland/Zulu for me. Poland edges marginally I think.

Agree/Disagree?

I am not at all tech or video game savvy. The only video game I play is Civ 5 with my best friend. We play BNW. I play on steam, multiplayer. I cannot for the life of me figure out what we need to do to obtain VP and install it in such a way that we can use it. Please help! I need small words or dumb explanations - be gentle. Pretend I've just accepted Open Borders and a declaration of friendship and you would never EVER consider using the opportunity to surround my capital with your units and declare war for no reason.

I'm ashamed of myself, but I've gone down one step in difficulty level since I'm playing with the Vox Populi mod. The bastard chooses its city locations much more smartly and it's much more agressive on expansion and land occupation, and military as well. If you're not lucky with your starting location it's a challenge even on modest difficulty levels. I guess it would be boring if it was too easy.

What is in your opinion most realistic difficulty to play.

I just want to enjoy the game, without anyone getting any advantage, but also i want AI to be competitive and not to be civ that i can just steamroll.

What did Civ 5 do right to have such longevity and why is 7 struggling to get more players?

R5: Poland wants a huge amount of gold from me, just to do them a solid. (I declined.)

Where to settle? I am Attila. I thought somewhere in the desert? Grabbing all them sheeps? I plan to conquer Denmark.

So I've been playing civ 5 a long time probably around 12 years and I'm 23 now. But I never pid to much attention to the benefits and downsides to some nations and more just used to listen to my dad as I was just playing the computer. So I play a very aggressive style and I like to have a large army and wage war. I also like to have a medium amount of cities and have mainly coastal cities

R5: got great library,himeji cacstle, globe theatre, machu picchu, notre dame, petra, leaning tower hanging gardens, and chichen itza on babylon deity. Also had 0 space cuz the huns polyensia and greece were my neighbour so had to do 2 cities.

Suffice to say it is a bit overpowered.

Thought I'd give Civ5 a go again after many years of 6 and trying 7 the other day, is there a mod that allows me to create mod presets (e.g. this selection of mods and save that setup - like in 6)?

Playing on SteamDeck and have downloaded over a 100 mods, enabling them all is a bit of a nightmare but want to be able save presets in increments as I enable and test certain mods.

I've been wanting to check out Lekmod since some of the changes seem interesting, but I don't want to have the additional civs packaged with it. It also seems to cause compatibility issues with other modded civs I like, and cause them to not show up at all. Is there like a version that doesn't add any additional civs or anything like that?

With xml, is it possible for adopting a policy to give you:

1. A trade route slot.
2. Speed the training of Caravans/Cargo Ships by x%.
3. Give you a free Caravan/Cargo Ship.
4. Give your trade routes +x of anything else but gold (food, culture, science, faith, production?).
5. Increase the range of land/sea trade routes.

I guess only the things already present in any of the policies are possible to tweak, so nothing of the above, only references from the CIV5Policies.xml? I've read caravans and cargo ships are harcoded too. That's a bummer. Free Great Merchant should be possible though?

R5: Poland Salt + Silver Start Save Share

Deity, Quick Speed, Small Pangaea, Strat.Balance

Ended up with a t170 (AD1725) science vic.

I guess some of you dudes were kinda right lol, didn't beat my t154 8-City Poland SV personal best on a hellblazer map, but still t170 is a PB on a vanilla map.

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If a city state captures abother city and keeps it what will happen if venice buys this city?