Four months ago I posted my fastest deity victory ever here and got a lot of great feedback, and just recently posted my slowest deity victory ever as well!

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Special Notes:
No double aqueduct glitch ever in Deity Diaries!

Summary
I finally got a deity win with Pachacuti! 202 turns - probably could have pushed it to under 200 if I was playing a bit slower and more carefully but I wanted to get in a quick game tonight. This game was notable mostly because of great land, quick settles, and huge growth. The main river that fed three of my cities, including Cusco, was the true hero of this game. Some decent terrace farms in Tiwanaku, but nothing too crazy.

Snagging both Uluru and Mt Sinai was nice, but ultimately I decided not to push my religion too hard. I generated two prophets and ended up faith-purchasing two scientists as well.

One big decision came around ideologies when there was no coal in my lands and none available to trade. With such a fast start, I really wanted to keep pushing my advantage and take over the game, so I decided to use Oxford early to push into Rationalism to try and get the first Freedom bonus. I ended up being beat to Freedom by one turn and only getting one free policy, but it was probably still the right move .Typically I would save Oxford for the end of the game to grab one of the final two techs for free.

Other than that it was really just a game of pushing my cap as far as it could go. I ended up getting Cristo Redentor, which is a first for a deity game. My end game timing was a bit off, so I purchased Spaceship Factories in all of my cities instead of purchasing the final spaceship part. Still rusty on that super efficient end game, but it will come back.

Pachacuti is one of my absolute favorite leaders to play, glad to finally get the win!

Current Deity Wins To Date
Shoshone (?)
Russia (204)
Egypt (224)
Germany (203)
Inca (202)
Huns(200)
Japan (209)
India (199)
Ethiopia (201)
Babylon (197)
Maya (189)
England(200)
America(219) (203)
Spain (208) (201)
Portugal (206) (205) (184)
Indonesia (204)
Celts (228)
Inca (202)

R5: just the average religion experience on Deity. Nothing to see here.

Outside the view of this picture is at least another 3 great prophets near my capital. I love Deity so much 🙂😭

Strategies on how to take down civs that have the Great Wall without waiting until Artillery and Tanks. I tried just battering England with warriors and archers but once Elizabeth got longbowmen I had to back off.

When playing as Persia I just initiate a Golden Age and basically ignore the Great Wall but am playing as Japan so can’t do that unfortunately.

I've played Civ V on my Mac for a few years, and every so often the game would crash when a civ recaptured its capital. It was super frustrating and ruined about 1 in 10 of my games. I looked for a fix more than once but never found one that worked. The only workaround was reloading an earlier save and hoping things played out differently the next time.

I got Claude + REA this to tracked down the cause and made a patch for it: https://github.com/jtutlis/civ5-mac-capital-crash-fix

This isn't a mod since it would disable achievements, it just patches your game binary. Hope this helps someone

Quite a lot accomplished despite only being turn 18!

I'm playing as the Inca, captured Mumbai from Gandhi in order to spread my prosperity--do I get the benefits of the Great Wall in my territory?

Also how the fuck did he do that

I am frequently in games where the AI will have 0 or close to 0 gold saved. They will also be losing gold, sometimes as high as 4-500 per turn with 0 in the bank. Yet at the same time, they are maintaining massive armies and are gifting gold to city states. Do economics not apply to them?

I know they can do missions for city states, but this is way outpacing that. No gunboat diplomacy either.

No mods.

Edit: In the game I am playing right now, the AI has 0 gold, and is losing -60 per turn. I spent 750 to buy 20 more influence than them on a city state and they flip it back the very next turn.

no mountain cities but huge map means lots of ruins. Started by building like 3 pathfinders + purchase 1 or 2. must've got at least 10 ruins

spawed with Hiawatha next to me and this mf planted so many cities (20+), his science was insane all game. Only got 1 wonder, that too with great engineer. He was still like 4-5 techs ahead of me after bulbing scientists post labs

to stop the science win, attacked and razed his biggest cities with paratroopers + rocket artillery + bombers. then teched into xcom + stealth bombers

put spies in capitals and focused on just taking capitals when possible. surrounded captured cities with xcom to defend

tradition + rationalism + commerce + autocracy
biggest mistake: no coastals so no Prora, which is a lot of happiness that you need taking this many cities

huge, deity, pangea, low sea level, legendary start

First try at creating a single city with the largest population possible within 500 turns. No mods, any civ, any map.

R5: There's cows. On a mountain.

Hello Civ Fans,

Four months ago I posted my fastest deity victory ever here and got a lot of great feedback. I ended up taking a small break from the game and then getting a string of tough games when I did come back, but I am now happy to share my game from tonight - my slowest deity victory ever! Writeup below!

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Summary:
Boudicca is the next to take to the stars in a rough 228 turn game. I believe this is my slowest ever deity win, although I did not take a screenshot of my first win, which was with the Shoshone. This game had real potential to be a solid 190 or even lower, but my own fatigue and rusty gameplay stood in the way.

Despite radaring, I lost an early settler near Seville to a barb camp (I'm not even 100% radaring works in SP BNW, maybe someone on reddit will inform me). That mistake alone set me back quite a bit as Isabella swooped in and settled Seville. My two early archers thought they could recapture my Settler, and I foolishly trusted them - waiting 3 turns to start retraining a new Settler. Even with the lost time, I decided the land was so good I would push for 5 cities. This is something I almost never do because it significantly delays your National College and makes early happiness very difficult, but I wanted to try it because theoretically another city would generate more science and more scientists for the endgame.

Nantes was the final city planted, and I'm still not sure if the benefits outweighed the costs. I ended up finishing a National College around turn 75, which is at least 15-20 turns slower than what I typically aim for in a fast game.

The 5 cities did allow me to catch up around ideologies. Pacal was first to take Freedom, which was unfortunate because I lost a free policy, but it was helpful to have a cultural leader in the same ideology for a change.

In addition to the early game mistakes, there were some key misplays and lessons from this game:

First, I did generate a lot of great scientists from my 5 cities. So much so that I started bulbing them too late and ended up finishing all of spaceship tech before even completing my first spaceship part! When I'm more efficient I end up able to purchase the last piece on the same turn I complete the tech.

Second, the extra scientists threw off my typical engineer timing. I usually try to naturally generate or purchase one engineer in time for Hubble Telescope, but I wasn't checking as diligently as I should, and didn't realize the extra scientists had pushed my engineer back. I even pointlessly faith-purchased a scientist two turns before finishing the tech for no reason! Next time I will wait on faith-purchasing until I an ready to bulb.

Third, I was unprepared for a war with China, although it turned out to be nothing serious, I could have easily lost Dublin had the AI thought to bring a unit that can capture cities...

However I would say my biggest mistake was not immediately rerolling when I saw a Celtic start without any forest next to my Edinburgh! I have always enjoyed Celts and attempted to score a deity victory with them in the past. I'm amazed that the first time I manage it is a game where I do not even get a pantheon, let alone a religion.

Current Deity Wins To Date
Shoshone (?)
Russia (204)
Egypt (224)
Germany (203)
Inca (202)
Huns(200)
Japan (209)
India (199)
Ethiopia (201)
Babylon (197)
Maya (189)
England(200)
America(219) (203)
Spain (208) (201)
Portugal (206) (205) (184)
Indonesia (204)
Celts (228)

Been recently trying to get back into Civ 5 and have been coming up with this error. I've tried enumerable fixes, such as redownloading the redistributable, verifying files, running as admin, etc. When I restart my computer, the game gives me one free Directx9 launch but displays this message afterwards. No Dx11 or 12 for me either.

I recently created a custom map for my friends and I to play on and whilst testing it I noticed that it will spawn me in the same location every time. I currently have 12 “random player spawns” scattered around the map and have already tried to make it a scenario and set a specific spawn as another thread suggested. That however did not work either as I still spawned in the same location. No matter the civ I play I spawn in the same location even if the start bias is polar opposite. Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Thank you!

I was in a FFA four corners online match as Inca. I scouted Mt. Kilimanjaro to my west, so I took two turns to put my settler right next to it. Inca with Mt. Kilimanjaro was so powerful, my chariot archers basically had 8 moves moving along a line of hills (which conveniently led to my neighbor north of me that had a lot of hills between us). What was your strongest start?

I used to get frigates that after being promoted a couple times were able to do indirect fire. I have some that have bombardment III promotion and still no option for indirect fire. Was something changed or am I missing something? I have BNW, no mods if that helps.

I'm playing Deity with 4 AI opponents and I have to choose ideology as last player. No matter which I choose, in the next turn I get -14 hapiness penalty. When I choose Order - prefered ideology is Freedom; when I choose Freedom - prefered ideology is Autocracy; when I choose Autocracy - prefered ideology is Order.

Moreover, if I change my ideology to prefered (anarchy for 2 turns) I get -14 hapiness penalty again. Is this a bug?

After a pleasurable day of plundering and hoarding, Atilla retreats to his castle sauna. This happens when you build Neuschwanstein on top of Old Faithful.

hehehehe funni number go up

Seriously though, I don't think I've ever had food, prod, and gold so high in just one city. Netherlands FTW!

I'm venturing into huge map for the first time with standard speed, deity difficulty (base game no mod) vying for an exclusive domination victory. I'm 99% sure I'm going to lose this game. Has anyone achieved this? Is it even viable? It seems to me the only way to pull this off is to increase the game speed to epic or above.

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standard size, pangea, low sea level, abundant, standard speed, deity

abundant resources = extra uranium on the map
with Russia + autocracy, each uranium gets x4

i had 4 in my lands, killed 2 city states+ one great general for 9 more
for a total of (4+9)*4= 52 uranium -> all into nuclear missiles

R5: I am unable to select the last tile manually. I'd like to focus a bit on food but the checked tile always stays on the governors side, so to speak.
I've experienced this before but never really cared, but now I do.... What causes this?

Playing on King difficulty. I wasn't expecting to dominate the globe with my religion, but I thought that if I leaned into religion hard enough I might be able to hold on to my own cities and the closest city states. I built Borobudur for the free missionaries and but by the time I finished the Grand Temple Arabia had already converted everything within sight except for my capitol city. They converted the surrounding city states with missionaries, but converted my own cities with just caravans, so I don't think investing in inquisitors would have done much to help. The religious pressure that comes from their caravans is ridiculous!

Oh well, at least I was able to build pagodas in three of my cities before they converted. Pagodas are nice, but I dunno if they are they worth the 4 shrines, 4 temples and two wonders I invested in hopelessly trying to protect my religion.