I always play Germany. I adopt tradition and liberty early as I can alongside honor since I suck at early game military outside of defense. (This I need heavy work on)

Then just build up with 3-4 cities max till dynamite rolls around then I just defensively cheese every other civ I can then cut cost and increase happiness with merchant and order policies.

I’m never playing the Shoshone again tho due to an epic length game of fighting Alexander that only ever stopped due to peace treaties and his death.

So many good unique units, so much mismanagement by the AI.

I'm thinking some kind of melee unit that comes in waves, probably Impi.

Others are kind of hard to take over, but that's different.

The absolute shitehawk that he is, has no stolen a tile next to my capital by using no less than four great generals.

Was playing a civ game with a buddy where we both had horrible starts and got destroyed by the bots, we had a prayer of a chance of winning through science but I accidentally gave all my city’s to another civ when making a peace treaty. Also we didn’t save one time so there was no way of going back. I’m wondering if there’s any type of mod I can get that will give me unlimited power like infinite nukes or something to salvage the save and get revenge on the other civs😂 they took my precious city when they shouldn’t have been able to and I can’t stand for this I need something to save my poor city’s

Nearing my first non-cheese Deity win playing as Babylon, small continents, standard map size, 8 civs/16 city-states.

I got the first ideology and chose Order, but I had to abandon it when a few others chose Autocracy and my happiness cratered. The game is still I think winnable but this was a huge setback, and has been a problem for my other Deity attempts and when I play on Immortal, even though I often win those games.

I know I need to up my culture and tourism to resist pressure, but I am wondering specifically whether it is possible to try to anticipate or influence what ideologies other civs will take when you have the first choice? I had declarations of friendships with the influential civs who chose Autocracy after I went Order, but am I not doing enough diplomatically to get them to follow me on higher difficulties? When I play on Emperor I never face meaningful pressure because the AI usually follows me to my ideology.

Weird issue I found today after installing the Enhanced User Interface v 1.29i. I noticed when I have a unit selected, I click where it supposed to move, the unit moves, but the movement indicator remains on my mouse cursor instead of disappearing automatically (even after a full movement). The only way to get rid of it is to press Escape key (often multiple times) or turn on Auto Unit Cycling and hopefully it will switch away to production or science or something else. I prefer auto unit cycling to be off.

Is there a setting I am missing or need to auto escape from moving a unit instead of the movement cursor with the path following me to everywhere on the map (possibly forcing me to commit to a weird movement in a later turn)?

Remember how they would take cities in previous versions?

Does that happen anymore?

I am unable to run Civilization 5 at all. I get a continuous "Updating Executable" message in Steam and then it gives up the ghost. I haven't played in months, maybe a year, and so this is new to me. Seems lots of other people had issues. There are no other processes running for Civ 5. I used to have a ton of mods including some intrusive ones like Community Balance Patch (I can't remember which one and which version). I turned off most of the mods through Steam itself.

My specs and configurations are:

• Windows 10 up to date
• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
• Nvidia 3080 12GB
• 64 GB RAM 3200Hz DDR5
• Steam installed on second 2TB Gen 4 NVME for "games" and not on main C drive
• My user is the only user and is admin

Here are the list of things I tried (I'm Windows 10):

• Restarting my computer
• Restarting Steam
• Restarting Steam as admin
• Run Steam, the launcher.exe, and the Civilization5.exe as admin (directly in Civ 5's steamapps folder)
• Turned off Windows Defender in various combinations with above. I did delete the "inbound rules" at one point and they got repopulated on re-install and running of the app's launcher variations. All of the Civ 5 inbound rules seem to be set to "allowed" in Windows Defender. I have no other anti-virus.
• Run the "ineedlegacylauncher" in betas code in Steam for Civ 5 and tried to run each version multiple times.
• Reinstalled the app and deleted the Civilization V folder after uninstallation from Documents/My Games and the steamapps folder. The Documents/My Games folder did not repopulate neither after I reinstalled my app
• Tried to remove the "read only" from Steam main folder and the Civ 5 folders in my F: "Games" drive. The system seems to revert the folders back to "some subfolders are read-only" after it applies changes to all of the folders, I close and reopen the properties window.
• Deleted the contents of the appdata folder directly in Steam's installation folder. It repopulates correctly it appears.
• Verified the integrity of the game files many, many times. Sometimes it is fine and sometimes many files or a single file need to be redownloaded.
• I deleted the Steam download cache through the steam app.
• All other games installed seem to be working including Civilization VI. I didn't test every single game installed, but no one else seems to be having issues.

If you have anymore suggestions or a way to make a true clean install, that would be a big help. If you know where Steam launching or Civ V launch logs are being stored (if at all), that would be helpful. If there are solutions that don't involve admin privileges, that would be helpful. If you know why My Games folder does not rebuild the Civ V folder, then that would be helpful. If you know why my "read only" turn off for the folder and subfolders for Civ V happens, then let me know. I can't even get the application to launcher (the new launcher will launch only in the "ineedlegacylauncher" beta is on and the old launcher can only be launched directly from the Civ 5 steam game folder's launcher.exe file).

EDIT/SOLUTION: I found this page which showed me how to setup Steam to launch the specific exe to launch. Don't forget the %command% at the end.

https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/34890889538707--Civilization-V-Launcher-Removal

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Shaka as a neighbor? No problem! Just endless farm him for xp and great generals!

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Basically I had a scout with scout 3 and it stepped on a ancient ruins and became archer. It just continued to upgrade into a ChuKoNu cuz I am playing as China. It also has Kilimanjaro Buff (altitude training) This thing can shoot twice AND move in the same turn while ignoring terrain cost, moves even faster in hills as well. I am just speechless with this monster right now. In my 600 hours of Civ 5 this is the first time ever I had this.

edit: Actually, if I get logistics in future promotion, will it be able to attack thrice?

more edit: We did it bois, the above mentioned unit is now a Machine Gun with logistics and with 3 movements. It can move on to a hill then shoot 3 times in a same turn.

Context: Playing as China, standard map size, continents. Time and science victories disabled and looking to win a domination victory.

I have identified 4 locations that I could settle. I initially was thinking of going for location 1 to get the marble (unique lux) and it has 3 sources of fish (nice growth with lighthouse). Locations 2 and 3 are also enticing. 2 has the benefit a pearl as a unique lux where as location 3 can work both wine tiles (enhanced with religion) + on river.

However, for the purposes of a domination victory, I am thinking of settling in location 4. I could spam triremes from there and take over Japan's capital to the north of me.

Thoughts?

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Started because I wanted to delete my 200+ old mods and have a blank slate. Just base game and vox populi. Game would boot up, but some mods came back. Unsubscribed from those mods, deleted the game’s files, uninstalled and reinstalled.

Now the game will not open no matter what I do. When I click in Steam, it says “Updating executable” then after a few seconds the “Play” button appears again.

I read this can be caused by some files being missing, so had Steam verify integrity and found it had two files missing, but they have been downloaded. Game still won’t start.

I saw that this can be caused by Windows updating folders to be “read only,” but when I uncheck the read only box it goes right back to read-only. I don’t think this is the issue though, since Civ 6 runs just fine out of the read-only folder.

I am at the end of my fucking rope over this, I am not good with computers and in fact play 99% on console because I hate dealing with dumb issues like this. Does anyone have a solution? Because every solution I’ve read to try has not worked and I just want to play Civ 5 again. I bought this PC just for Civ 5.

Edit: for everyone struggling, the solution I found was trying over and over. I uninstalled and reinstalled three times and kept restarting my PC until it finally launched. Going to try deleting the other exe files if it won’t work today.

Just spent a long time trying to grow my cities before realizing they’re locked. Playing the fall of Rome scenario and wondering if that was all pointless. Does food help at all?

I have tried everything I have found but nothing works

I am the only one in one huge island. Nobody is even close to me. I want to settle few more cities. Can you please help? Marathon, huge, 24 city states. https://imgur.com/a/where-would-you-settle-6sRhwGL

Has anyone run into this issue in multiplayer with expansions?

My wife just got GNK + BNW so we can play multiplayer together. Never had any problems when we played vanilla.

Unfortunately when we play with expansions, whenever the player who isn't the host tries to produce a DLC unit like a Shrine or Caravan, the game kicks to a short loading screen (like a multiplayer re-sync) and when it comes back the unit just isn't there, as if the city spent those turns producing nothing.

This only affects the player who isn't the host - the host can produce DLC units without a problem. We've tested switching hosts and the problem swaps over to the non-host player. Other expansion-dependent actions like founding a religion still work fine for both players, it's specifically the non-host player trying to produce DLC buildings or units that triggers the issue.

We're both playing complete edition, version 1.0.3.267, and both on DX11 with the exact same DLC active.

Has anyone else encountered this, and could you find a fix? I've played Civ V multiplayer with DLC a few years ago and never run into this issue, all I can find online is a couple of people from 2013 having the same problem with no solution. Any help much appreciated as this is incredibly frustrating - thanks so much!

I have tried everything, running as admin, setting the files to not be read only (it just automatically goes back to read only), reinstalling the game, verifying the game files, reinstalling steam, running the game on legacy, temporarily disabling the firewall.

I have filed a ticket here https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/requests/new please do that too if you have the same issue. Or even if you don't if you just wanna help get this fixed faster, since I know lots of other people have the same issue right now.

Update: Civ 5 randomly started working, but XCOM EU still does not.

How to keep my civilisation happy? Does producing food keep them happy?

I wanted to try out this game for the first time in a decade and looked up some tips on here. You told some poor guy that to stop the ai from declaring war on you it's possible to bribe them. You never told the poor bastard what would happen to the ai Civ that would win the war. Well, look who owns half the planet by the time I tried to get my factories up and running. Freaking Shaka has single handedly taken on each and every other remaining civ in the game... at the same time! I bribed every singular other ai to attack the zulus and he STILL whooped our asses!

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Has anyone else gotten this visual glitch and have been able to work around it? I have uninstalled the game and reinstalled but this still seems to happen. I don't anything crazy with mods, other than Vox Populi, but this glitch happens even when the mod isn't installed.
One weird thing I have noticed is that this has started when the 2K Launcher was removed (was about two weeks ago for me), not sure if that has anything to do with it.

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I'm teaching my 10-year-old son to play, and realizing that I don't really build melee units, except for mounted units. I use range to lower defense of the city, and mounted unit to go in.

Are melee for defense, and I just tend to be an attacker? Why build things like swordsman, musket, etc.?

Played as Babylon on continents w/ King difficulty, standard speed, and had a really easy game. Didn't go to war a single time, and took mad advantage of the +50% great scientist bonus. GGs! :D