r/civ • u/dgeiser13 • Apr 30 '13
Civilization 5: Q&A
I often have a lots of small questions which don't (necessarily) deserve their own posts. So I thought I'd create a thread where we could post a simple question as a comment and get a straightforward answer.
Edit: I want to thanks all of the Answerers for helping out all of us Questioners. I wasn't expecting such a robust response to my seemingly simple questions. It is greatly appreciated!
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
If you were to queue Future Tech (if it's even possible) as your tech how would the game decide what order to progress through the tech? Randomly as they became available? Orderly based on the cost of the tech? Another way?
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
How come production hammers aren't listed in the stat bar like Science, Gold, etc. are?
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
How can you tell that one (or more) naval units and/or one (or more) air units can tell where your submarine is? Are they unaware until you fire for the first time? Or are there certain units, e.g. the destroyer, that can see the submarine and relay that information to the other units?
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
When you move from one era to the next, do you move to the new era first? And then the technology is available? Or does simply building a new tech in an era cause the move to the new era?
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
When you drill into a city and look at it's Food count, e.g. +7.5, does that mean the city is producing enough food that each one of the populous is getting 7.5 food per round? Or does that mean you have 7.5 surplus once every one of your population is fed?
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
Is it better to play with recommendations turned off? And completely decide based on what you see with your own eyes? Or does it help to know what the game would (might) do and then decide from there?
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u/JuustoKakku Apr 30 '13
Is there a way to disable the automatic camera center on turn start?
I already have auto unit cycle turned off, but it still whips the camera around when the turn begins. Or actually, slightly later. For example, often a notification comes up that one of my cities can fire on something, click it to go to the city and the game decides only after that it's my turn and moves my camera back to whatever unit happened to be selected.
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Apr 30 '13
This is a great idea for a post - I would recommend that the Mods set up a weekly Q&A on the top-bar. It is how they roll in r/photography and seems to work well.
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u/dgeiser13 Apr 30 '13
Is it always wrong to automate your workers? How much of a gap exists between how the workers decide to work on tasks and the "proper" way to work on tasks?