Block a bunch of techs instead of the one you want and you get where this is going.
Because of this you can put research into a technology to "block" it from being the free technology that you get from the research agreement. When the game does this firaxis decided that it would be a good idea to make sure that the new technology wasn't something the player was already researching, so they coded research agreements to go to technologies that don't have a lot of research in them versus techs that do. After the research agreement expires the game gives you a new technology. But what if there was a way to guarantee what technology you got? Thankfully for you Firaxis coded the game in a way that you can guarantee what technology you get! Here's how this works. Research Agreement Blocking So what do you do with all the extra gold that you've stolen from the AI? Why get research agreements! Research agreements are fantastic as they give you a free tech after 30 turns or so. This works even better on higher difficulties when the AI has a pretty substantial gold bonus.
Open the diplomacy screen and trade all your resources, and I mean ALL of your resources, to the AI as well as all your gold per turn in exchange for a giant lump sum of gold.īecause of this you will IMMEDIATELY get back all the resources and GPT you traded away, while at the same time keeping the lump sum of gold from the AI.Before hitting the giant "Declare War" button would you be interested in getting some extra cash first? Well you can! All you have to do is follow these simple steps Ok say you have an AI that you want to declare war on. I've also learned two very hilarious exploits for the game. Through this I've learned very good tips for the guide.
Then select and that should then list it in your Content Libraries.Īt this point make sure your reselect the default library to be your original one, because Steam auto-defaults it to the new one, and we don't want it trying to use the 10GB civ.dmg for all things holy and un-holy.Ħ- Close out of all of this and then go back to install CiV, and the new content library on the civ image will appear in that drop down box on the install dialogue!.So I'm writing a guide on the site to give general tips to new players for Civ V, and to do this I've been reading civilization forums and watching youtubes of high level play. With the civ.dmg disk image mounted, from the main Steam screen go to:Ĭlick on Steam Library Folders -> Add Library Folderįind the main part of the file listing/tree called Volumes and select your civ disk image volume, and then new folder. Navigate to the folder where you'd like to keep the image.ĭisk image name at the top, make it something short and easy such as: civĪlso use the same in the Name field belowĤ- macOS will probably mount the disk image for you automatically, if not, go mount it.ĥ- Get steam up and running, and uninstall CiV if you haven't already Wish we could have someone post this and sticky it, so folks don't keep opening these new threads:ġ- Open up Disk Utility (easiest to just search for it with Spotlight)Ģ- Then do: File -> New Image -> Blank Imageģ- In the save as box use the following settings: