Civilization V
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You're playing as Persian (golden ages last twice as long), so an uber golden age is really easy
Building the Taj Mahal wonder as Persian will instantly give you a 52 turn golden age. I think there's also an earlier wonder that gives +50% to golden ages too, so Persians can get an instant 78 turn golden age that can be made to last to the end of the game if you can make great people quickly enough.
You're playing as Persian (golden ages last twice as long), so an uber golden age is really easy
Building the Taj Mahal wonder as Persian will instantly give you a 52 turn golden age. I think there's also an earlier wonder that gives +50% to golden ages too, so Persians can get an instant 78 turn golden age that can be made to last to the end of the game if you can make great people quickly enough.
Blady'el. Why 52?
It was actually a maths fail on my part
Persians get +50% longer golden ages not 100% as I wrongly stated in my above post. Pretty sure there is a wonder that gives another +50%, or a social policy, or both
I'm pretty sure I've had massive golden ages triggered by Taj Mahal with Persians (70+ turns) and I've read of bigger than that too. On easier difficulties it's perfectly possible to have a golden age from Taj Mahal last to the final turn (over 200 turns later!).
edit: Chichen Itza wonder gives +50% golden age.
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Anyone got any tips to improve performance. I'm running an i5-750, GTX280 and 4GB Ram. Resolution is 1650x1080 and most of the video options are set to medium. It starts out okay but gets really sluggish and slow towards end game. I'm only playing a standard map with 6 civs and 12 city states. I suppose I could always overclock my processor but thats a last resort for me
Same but with Crossfire 5770s and a Q6600 @ 3.6GHz.
Ive played it enough now to frankly get bored of it.
Come Riflemen and cannons - My game nealry always degrades into the beginning of a world war which entails me moving countless units of riflemen across most of the know world to crush 2+ war liek lunatic neighbours.
IT can literally take 5 minutes per turn with 2 minute calculations. and I get bored... shame tho. Will come back to it each patch or xpac.
Come Riflemen and cannons - My game nealry always degrades into the beginning of a world war which entails me moving countless units of riflemen across most of the know world to crush 2+ war liek lunatic neighbours.
IT can literally take 5 minutes per turn with 2 minute calculations. and I get bored... shame tho. Will come back to it each patch or xpac.
I have to agree - I've not even gotten to modern tech in any game I've played. The AI just always declares war, no matter what I do. You can beat them back to having 1 city, since the AI is so bad, but then it's just boring as its no longer a challenge. 
i have had this a few times.
how many cities have you? inc. puppets
on my (lower spec) system it starts happening after 40 ish cities, with a total crash at 70
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Have to agree with this - not sure about anyone else but it's practically impossible to win without killing everyone in sight - unless you beat them down to one city and then it's just dull. The AI is very aggressive.
Why not build enough military to hold them at bay and just plod along for a science victory or whatever? Just because you have troops doesn't mean you have to actively go after enemies.
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Best thing i find esp. if you're china is to put a unit or two of Cho Ku nu and just let the enemy crash upon wave after wave of arrows from them. They'll turn round and give me 3 or 4 cities as part of the peace treaty. Most annoying bug ive come across is permanent peace with Egypt whilst they colonized most of their continent. This new patch cant come soon enough.
Having a standing army costs too much money and it all slows down, time on turns gets too long.
Yes in extreme cases with geography on your side you can have formidable choke points but without them its jsut non stop war.
I have tried mate trust me i used to always go for space race wins in other civ games as i felt it was the true way to win.
I loved i think civ 2 ?? where after the launch you still had 50 turns and you could take the enemy capital to destroy their ship, that would be decent fights that ment something.
In civ 5 its just war or slowly lose. JUST MY OPINION
Great game, shame about the huge amount of bugs.
The loading resetting game difficulty has made multi player with friends a bit easy so far.
None the less we had an amusing bug the other night, check out how many horses I had when the game ended Link
It was so broke that I could trade cities for 999 horses with any AI.
The loading resetting game difficulty has made multi player with friends a bit easy so far.
None the less we had an amusing bug the other night, check out how many horses I had when the game ended Link
It was so broke that I could trade cities for 999 horses with any AI.