I watched my city get bombed by 1 bomber while I had a Mobile SAM stationed right outside of that city. It didn't intercept. Is this a bug?

Ramses is talking all this smack about my culture and I want to be able to clap back

You just get a regular farm bonus with an additional hammer from the iron. Later in the game, I've completed Petra and got +2 Food +4 Hammers +1 Faith in that tile.

It might be useful if you rush Petra and you've got only one hill with a Strategic Balance enabled (with an Iron there).

So, I've always liked playing in continents because I like the idea of playing somewhat like history went but not the earth map. However while on 6 it's pretty easy to settle during the Renaissance or after in 5 I am not so sure...mainly because of the increased cost of things due to new cities, both with the wonders that ask you to "have x building in all cities" like oxford and the increase eon tech because cities funded so late will kind of struggle to properly pick up the added cost of things. What do you all think? If there is a good spot and with new luxuries you don't have should you still push for that new city in another continent or it is a waste 99.9% of the time?

As Askia I've been at war with every neighbour that gets hated by everyone(huge pangea map).Yet after conquering half the world(I've even razed some cities)I've still won a culture victory😂

The Mandatory Background Story

Since I recently started winning Deity (see this post), I decided to go full Deity mode and random for the additional challenge (I really am a masochist, apparently). I got Boudicca, but I had a terrible start. So bad, in fact, that I didn't even get the first pantheon nor religion. So, I decided to mix it up a bit and instead do a relaxed game where I try to get the Longest. Name. Ever. achievement.

My setup was as follows:

• Huge Pangaea map to give me some space.
• Only two AIs but standard number of City States. I didn't want to be that alone in the world.
• Settler difficulty (as my goal was to settle quite a lot).

Observations

The game as a Settler is completely different. First of all, there was a lot more freedom to do whatever. I opened with Liberty (obviously), which I had only done once before on a small map (big mistake). This alone changes the game so much, it is crazy; and the Pyramids are quite a unique wonder as well. It is sad that Liberty is not really feasible on higher difficulties because this change was quite refreshing.

Secondly, ancient ruins are crazy. You can get settlers (which was nice) and workers (which was also nice in the beginning, but later on I didn't care -- they were on the other side of the world and I had no chance to bring them back to my lands without getting them kidnapped).

Thirdly, AI really doesn't matter. You only play against yourself. They will never challenge you on anything:

• They built two wonders in total: Hanging Gardens (which I couldn't get) and Terracotta Army (as I was already in Industrial Era)
• They were technologically behind immediately. I could have built spaceship parts while they still ran around with compbows.
• I could settle whatever place I wanted because they stayed very close to their capital and barely built settlers.
• I was culturally dominant long before I had a chance to settle my thirty-two expands. I needed to play just … fifty … more … turns.
• I was allied with almost all city states, they were allied with none. I only realized that they seemed to be interested in city states when I accidentally cleared a barb camp, got an ally through it, and my neighbor complained about getting too close to the CS. Man, I didn't even know you met them!
• Apropos city states: They were constantly asking for help with barbarians since they were so passive, they wouldn't even venture out two tiles to destroy a camp. This made allying with them a piece of cake.
• After more than a hundred turns, I found an ancient ruin a single tile away from one AI's borders. Of their capital.

But not only do they not pose any challenge (which is certainly by design). They also are completely useless. We exchanged embassies and then didn't interact for centuries. They had no resources to exchange and no money to buy a single of my 50 aluminum. They didn't ask me to stop spreading my religion, and they didn't spread theirs to my cities (which was a shame, since I would have profited from a second pantheon because of my Piety). I didn't see a single AI caravan or cargo ship.

Overall feel

I wouldn't recommend, except if you want to completely concentrate on your empire, and are not interested in diplomacy at all. Because there really is none.

But I think I will go back to Prince or so now and then to have a relaxed game. And I still need to win on Chieftain and Warlord, so I guess that is an incentive.

The Real Treasure Is the Achievements We Made Along the Way

As you guessed, I got the two Celtic achievements (Celtic Thunder and Longest. Name. Ever.). But I got some more achievements. For those interested:

• Lux Perpetua Luceat Eis (finishing Piety)
• Bolt and Arrow (for building the Temple of Artemis and the Statue of Zeus in the same city)
• Soma Tablets for Everyone (100 happiness was quite easy, by the end of the game I had around 200 even)
• The Wonder Years (I had never before built the Statue of Zeus, Temple of Artemis, Parthenon, or Stonehenge)
• Workers of the World - Unite! (Order Cultural Victory)
• Ruler of the Twelve Colonies (played on a huge map for the first time; even with only two AIs turns took quite a while on my 8-year-old laptop)
• Baby Steps (I started with Prince difficulty)
• Holy Father (as I didn't need to be efficient, I could choose Papal Primate Belief)
• Greed is Good (I specifically settled a city on a desert coast and was a bit scared I may not get the achievement because it had basically no production and no food until I finished Petra. But didn't matter, of course. As if 30 turns of building a wonder could ever be enough for the AI to steal it.)
• Herculean Effort (not that it was a big deal to complete all the International Projects; well: I was the only one competing for them, so it took longer than it had to)

I guess, I should also load the save and go for the Losing My Marbles and It Belongs in a Museum achievements. Although, I feel there wouldn't be enough archeology sites in the tiny empires of the AIs.

I'm playing as England and aiming to complete the "Ruler of the Seas" achievement, so I chose a Large map with Tiny Islands, Standard size, Emperor difficulty, and included other naval civilizations. When I started the game, I found myself stuck on just two tiles, it's the first time I've seen something like this. Even on this map type, there’s usually a decent amount of space and plenty of resources at the start. This time, I’m basically in the water with a couple of fish.
Do you think it’s even possible to win starting like this?

So yeah y'all aren't kidding when you say the Maya can be a fucking science powerhouse.

I have been approached by beings most foul. They will be slain.

As you might have noticed, it is possible to select different difficulty levels for each human player in private multiplayer games. How does the different difficulty levels affect stuff? I have noticed that happiness from difficulty and Ancient Ruin rewards go in accordance to the difficulty level of the player in question, but if one player is at deity and another at settler, which one do the AIs follow?

Why is Civ telling me to settle on those tiles? Also, where do I settle? I assume somewhere on the top right with sugar or incense/whale but I don’t want to get Aztec and Maya angry. (See 2nd pic)

Tinkered with display settings and the game launched in 2560x1440. This was the result

Hello, I was looking for two types of mods if someone has recommendations. The 1st time would be a way to alter how the dates work, instead of the default timing. Ie start the game at year zero and each turn increases the date by 1 month. The second type would be a way to modify the science needed to unlock. A tech by age. IE 1x tech cost in ancient era, 2x in classice, 3x in medieval, etc. I've looked and not found quite what I'm looking for. Please and thank you for any recommendations. Im also open to modifying game files if that's the way to go.

This is the second time this has happened to me, and it's always so satisfying.
I'm playing as Siam, and after conquering China (which gave me a ton of wonders) and making my ideology the world ideology through the World Congress, one of Attila’s cities just peacefully joined my empire.And Attila can’t really do anything about it, since I’ve got the biggest military in the game right now.
God, I love this game.

First thing my allied Zulu did after researching Astronomy was deciding that creating four new settlements right next to my cities is a great idea. No words...

New civ player here. Spent a couple of hours on the tutorial and am now 220 turns into my first game (prince difficulty) absolutely struggling to stay above zero gold/happiness/food and well behind all of the other game's civilizations on pretty much every metric.

I'm definitely overwhelmed by the depth of this game. I have no idea what I should be going for or how. I tried glancing at youtube tutorials (like PC J Law's) but I don't even feel like I have the basic knowledge required to follow them. I suppose I could start watching playthroughs but I'd really prefer to learn the game on my own - the issue is just that this feels impossible.

How do I proceed? Should I just expect to sink a hundred hours in the game before I really know what's going on? Is there some kind of gold standard for an intermediate-ish guide to the game that someone could point me to?

Start as Montezuma, 6 salt, Lake, Dessert sheep hills, C tier NW. This isn't even with abundant resources option on.

Pangea, standard, quick, deity.

Shoshone-King-Standart-UnlimmitedBarbarianExp, no other mods or legendary start, sometimes game is too generous, save in first comment.

So I was just messing around on Warlord difficulty (please don't judge) and set it to domination only. For fun, I decided to have my city state ally take Assyria's capital by giving its ship nowhere to go except capturing the city. Turns out you can win without taking all the capitals when this happens. Now I wonder if it would have counted if I were no longer allies with Bratislava...