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Civilization V First Major Patch Update Goes Live

The wait is finally over for the fans as Civilization V patch update has gone live which will make many major changes to the game, and alongside patch Mongols and Babylonian DLC also released. Mongols DLC is available for free of cost whereas Babylonian Pack will cost gamers €3.49.

Here is the details of what changes and improvements this first major patch update make to the game:

UI

• Fix for production prompt that sometimes appears with newly created puppet states that could stop the player from being able to end the turn.
• Aircraft banner corrections – now when you rebase an aircraft, the number will move with it.
• Resource icons now come up with Ctrl-R again, instead of sharing the same button with Build Roads.
• Selecting a great general will no longer cause yield icons to appear.
• Added option to disable auto-unit cycling.
• Fix for full-screen game when running dual monitors. Previously, the curser could scroll off the “open” side, and not be able to scroll the map in that direction.
• Misc additional fixes to mouse controls, and other interface issues.
• Rounded out financial information in the Economic Overview screen. Details now provided on the amount of gold provided by each city, the cost of buildings in each city, etc.
• Auto-populate save menu with save file name
• Allow selection of other cities by hex from within the city screen
• Added detailed trade route info to Economic Overview screen
• Added new tab to the Economic Overview Screen: “Resources & Happiness.”
• Added option to activate the mp score list in single player (for “always up” score similar to Civ V.)
• The Annex/Puppet/Raze popup now indicates how much extra Unhappiness will be assumed with each action.
• If there are less than 5 buildings still needed to construct a National Wonder, the production popup tool-tip now lists which cities lack them.
• Added Yield & Culture tool-tip info to the production popup.
• Tweak information on the Global Politics tab in the Diplomacy Overview screen.

MODDING

• Category list now displays correctly
• “Installed” panel now displays ALL versions of a mod but prevents the user from enabling multiple versions.

GAMEPLAY

• Workers – Added option to force workers to ignore manually made improvements (so they don’t change what you decide was best for a plot).
• Workers – Fixed bug where number of turns to complete were incorrect in build action button tool-tip.
• Economy – Fixed bug where players could disband a single unit, and not see the economic return until disbanding 1 more.
• Economy – Increased city wealth setting to 25%
• Economy – Multiple fixes to the way trade-routes are tabulated and recognized.
• Economy – Can now sell Buildings in a city (to help lower maintenance for obsolete buildings later in the game).
• Trade – Found and corrected a Trade problem that could cause your Resource inventory to multiply.
• City States – Fixed a bug where you could not gift aircraft to city states.
• Military – Medic promotion now only provides healing bonus for adjacent units.
• Military – Fix for Minuteman movement.
• Military – Correct promotions for “archer-like” units (horse archers, chariots).
• Military – Embarked units will no longer slow enemy land units
• Military – Improved unit cycling logic. Camera will jump around much less.
• Balance – Engineers +1 hammer
• Balance – Disbanding units now provides only 10% of their production cost in gold.
• Request – Enable “one more turn” button if you lose, but are still alive.

AI

• Military – Better handling of unit need (navy vs land, etc.) .
• Military – AI will tend to build ships to deal with blockaded cities more often
• Military – Corrected an issue hampering movement of AI armies, especially when in close proximity to enemy forces
• Diplomacy – AI will be more reluctant to offer or accept open border agreements with more powerful opponents.
• Diplomacy – Fix for never ending deals (peace, research agreements, etc).
• City – City specialization and city focus improvements.
• City – Cities that are Avoiding Growth will not grow while that option is selected
• Workers – Priority of trading posts reduced, and rebalanced priorities on other improvements
• Workers – Improved the path-finding mechanic when building route-to roads improved, including a large performance increase when evaluating road-pathing.
• City – Make sure Puppets don’t construct buildings that require Resources.
• City – Add a Puppet city strategy that turns off training buildings and emphasizes gold.
• Military – Defensive tactical AI update. When you are at war and threatening an enemy city, the AI will better utilize the garrison, as well as the surrounding terrain in defense of the target city.

MULTIPLAYER

• Exploit – Fix for gifting unit exploit
• Chat – Color-coding, sound alerts, etc., added for in-game chat system, including a larger window.
• Deals – Additional deal validation put in place to verify deals before they are committed

MISC

• Research treaties that end because you declare war will no longer grant the free tech
• Save/Load – Fix for corrupted saves being experienced by some players in late-game.
• Map – Huge map crash-during-load fix that were reported on some specific systems.
• Map – Terrain caching fix that could cause problems for certain video cards (the “glowing red orbs” seen on the map are an indicator of this).
• Map – Fix for the low res terrain that appears the first time the game is run (terrain tiles would not load in anything but low-res the first time you play on some computer configurations)
• Strategic View – Crash fix for units rendering in background.
• Strategic View – Fix for selecting units either standing on a city plot, or garrisoned in the city plot.
• Eyefinity – Better handling of leader scenes when using Eyefinity displays.
• Tutorials – Many tutorial tweaks and adjustments.
• Multiple crash fixes.
• Taller than wide map crash fix.

By Sehran Shaikh on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 08:43

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Terrain is a term that describes the land in Civilization V and its features. The land is broken up into hexagonal tiles, which represents distinct areas of the terrain. Units appear on the terrain and are affected by it as they move about and fight on it, and Citizens in cities can work the tiles to produce tile yields. Terrain can be claimed by empires as part of their Borders.

Base TerrainEdit

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Base terrain is the type of ground a certain tile contains, and determines its base properties. Other terrain features, like a forest or a resource, might exist on top of a tile's base terrain. These features can modify a tile's properties, but its base terrain can never be changed. Sometimes these additional features can be removed, at which point the tile will revert to its base properties.

There are several types of base terrains - plains, grassland, desert, tundra and snow. Check the table below for more info on the properties of each terrain type.

Terrain CategoriesEdit

Base terrain, along with the presence or absence of certain terrain features, are used to categorize tiles into several different types. Тhese categories are often used in game info and tooltips:

• Open Terrain: This represents flat, level terrain and includes all terrain without a hill, forest, or jungle. As such, marshes are considered open terrain.
• Rough Terrain: This represents land with objects obstructing free movement; it includes all terrain that does include a hill, forest, or jungle. Note that marshes are not rough terrain.
• Lake: A body of water inside a landmass. It consists of one to ten water tiles that are enclosed by land tiles on all sides. Note that if more water tiles are enclosed (including some ocean tiles), they are considered an 'inner sea' and not a lake!
• Coast: The shallow waters typically located along the shoreline of a landmass. All navalunits can traverse coast tiles. Also, all ocean resources are found on these tiles.
• Ocean: Deeper waters typically far removed from any landmass. Only middle and late game naval units can pass through them.
• Fresh Water: This represents all land tiles that border a river, lake, or oasis. Important for some game features.

Terrain FeaturesEdit

Certain special features often appear on base terrain, modifying its properties, or altering its use in the game. Some of them may be removed, while others are permanent, essentially forming more types of base terrain.

VegetationEdit

Many areas of the land are covered in dense vegetation. They are known as forests, or jungles if located in warmer climates. Both forests and jungles usually cover vast expanses of land (more than 5 tiles, sometimes as many as 20-30 adjacent tiles). Large forest expanses are quite often found on tundra terrain, close to the snow borders of the far north and south; while jungles are found in more central areas (tropics, the Equator). Forests are considered more 'tame' areas, while jungles teem with wildlife and have little use for civilization. Both features present obstacles to unit movement.

Marshes are another special feature of the land - these are lowlands where underground water gathers to form large pools of stale, shallow lakes. Birds and low plants grow there, but generally the terrain becomes almost useless because of the unstable ground. Marshes may be found in many climates and also present obstacles to unit movement.

All three types of vegetation may be removed by Workers to reveal the base terrain underneath and free the land for other uses.

RiverEdit

Rivers are of great importance for civilization historically, and they have special functions in the game as well. Rivers flow between tiles (which means that there is no special river tile), but they provide all tiles that border them with some special features. For example, they determine the formation of flood plains in a desert area (all desert tiles adjacent to a river become flood plains), provide access to fresh water to all adjacent tiles, and allow the construction of a number of buildings in cities adjacent to them. In vanilla Civilization V and Gods & Kings, rivers also provide 1 Gold potential to all adjacent tiles. In Brave New World, they don't have this bonus anymore, but they provide additional Gold bonus for Land Trade Routes opened to cities built next to them.

Rivers present great obstacles to unit movement - each land unit passing a river will lose all its remaining MPs for its turn, unless there is a usable bridge over it or the unit has the Amphibious promotion.

HillEdit

Relief features which rise high above the general level of surrounding land are known as hills. These are found on any base terrain type (including snow) and are quite useful for mining operations. Units that are standing on hills have better vision while they occupy them. Hills can either be solitary (occupying one tile), or form a highland of several adjacent hills. Hills also present obstacles to unit movement.

MountainEdit

Tall relief features, mountains rise high enough for their peaks to be covered permanently with snow and become an impassable barrier. Most often they occupy only single tiles, but sometimes they extend through 3-4 nearby tiles, forming mountain ranges. These can be great obstacles to movement, because all mountain tiles are completely impassable (save the late game air units, and the Carthaginian civilization, provided that they've generated at least one Great General), and force land units to circle around them.

Mountains have almost no use for civilization because of their harsh climate and difficult access. However, cities built right next to Mountains may construct some special buildings and World Wonders. Also, the Incan civilization gets additional Food from their Terrace Farms if built next to mountains.

IceEdit

In the far north and south of the world, the so-called 'polar regions,' temperatures are so low that water is permanently frozen. These ice tiles are completely impassable, save Submarines and Nuclear Submarines.

ResourcesEdit

Finally, many tiles may have resources on them - special commodities with great importance for civilization. Search these tiles out and try to include them in your empire's territory as soon as possible to gain a considerable advantage over the others.

Relations between and Game Implications of Base Terrain and FeaturesEdit

Base terrains and features in the game combine according to logical real-world relations. Knowing them might allow a player to anticipate the presence/absence of certain features even before discovering them with his scouts. Here are some common relations:

• Plains and grassland base terrain are the most common types in the central regions of the world. However, they may also be found intruding into harsher climates to the north/south.
• Deserts are also found in most regions of the world, but most often in the central, level parts. Some other features combine with deserts:
  • Oases are only found on desert tiles, usually far from any other features. They allow access to fresh water to all surrounding tiles.
  • Rivers may pass through deserts, and when they do, they form the unique terrain type flood plains. This terrain may be thus found only in desert areas.
• Forests and jungles rarely appear in a single tile; they typically form larger expanses of foliage. In the north/south regions of the world, forests often cover vast expanses of tundra tiles, while jungles are more common in the central regions. Often, there are marshes among the jungles, making it even more difficult to move through these parts. So, when you encounter what looks like a solid three-to-four-tile forest, know that this is probably going to be a major obstacle for movement.
• Rivers, lakes, and oases provide fresh water to all nearby tiles. Settling cities next to them is highly recommended for the additional buildings you can build, as well as some bonuses for tile improvements, such as Farm, which will yield lots of Food early in the game.
• Rivers always end in the sea, or a lake. So, whenever you discover a river, be sure you'll eventually discover some water tiles at the end of the river. Just follow the flow direction!
• All land tiles (regardless of terrain type) are surrounded by water tiles. Coasts may cover one to three tiles away from the land, after which the water becomes ocean. Sometimes tiles of land may appear inside the ocean, away from a larger landmass - these are called islands. They also have some water tiles around. Many times coasts from big landmasses and nearby islands form a single coastal region which allows free circulation of early game naval units. In some rare cases, such coastal regions may even connect two major continents.
  • Atolls only appear in coastal tiles
  • Sea resources also appear only in coastal tiles
• Tundra base terrain is found far to the north/south of the world, never in central parts. If you find this terrain, know that you're nearing the polar regions of the map.
• The far northern and southern regions of the world are the polar regions - they are always cold and inhospitable to life. Land in these regions is of the snow base terrain type (thus unsuitable for settling), and water forms ice, blocking sailing around the land. Most often continents which reach the far north/south may not be circumnavigated because of the ice blocking the path. Also, you can't circle the world from north to south because of the ice - not even with a submarine unit.

Terrain and Unit MobilityEdit

The effectiveness and mobility of combat units is affected by the type of terrain they occupy. As stated above, many terrain features make movement more difficult, while at the same time providing additional options for cover and defense for combat. Such effects aren't found on water tiles, which all provide equal conditions for movement and combat. For more information, see Movement and Combat.

Terrain and CombatEdit

Finally, some terrain types automatically affect any combat waged there. Jungles, forests, and hills all give a defending unit many options to hide, which confers them a +25% combat bonus when defending. Marshes, flood plains, and oases have the exact opposite effect: they're open spaces which at the same time present difficulties to movement and reaction, in turn bringing a disadvantage to any unit defending there (-15% combat penalty).

Nuclear Fallout Edit

Few things in our world are so terrible as the results of a nuclear strike! Nuclear fallout is a terrain feature that represents these results in-game. It appears as a terrain feature on (usually all) tiles within the 2-tile blast radius of the nuke, making them completely unworkable and unproductive. In addition, entering a fallout tile without any movement infrastructure (Road or Railroad) will end a unit's movement. Fallout can be removed by a Worker with its special action Scrub Fallout - this will make the tile usable again. Note that this action doesn't repair any improvements on it - this will require a separate action!

Terrain PotentialEdit

Each terrain tile may have production potential of some type, which may be used by an adjacent city working its tile. Most commonly, this potential includes Food, Production, or Gold. Natural Wonders also have potential, including other types of stats.

The particular potential a tile has depends on the features present on it, and follow this logic:

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What this means is that a plains base terrain with a Wine resource of it will have a potential of (1 Food and 1 Production from the base terrain) + 2 Gold from the Wine. However, a plains base terrain with a jungle on it and a Bananas resource will have 2 Food from the jungle (which overrides the base terrain) + 1 Food from the resource. Later, if you decide to cut down the jungle, the tile's potential will change to (1 Food and 1 Production) + 1 Food!

It is important to note that all terrain/relief features alter the base terrain potential values. For example, a hill in the desert will have 2 Production potential, even though plain desert has no potential of any kind!

Tile potential will be used by any city founded nearby, if the tiles in question are worked by its Citizens. Note also that certain buildings built in the city which controls the tiles, and certain special abilities may alter the tile potential. Often we get cases when the same tile may be controlled by two different cities. If these two cities have different buildings which somehow affect yield from the tile, then its final potential may change all the time according to which city controls it currently. Also, your Workers may build improvements on tiles to add more potential.

Below is a table with all terrain types and features and their potential:

Name	Base Resource			Improvements			Modifiers
	Food	Production	Gold
1	0	0**	Lighthouse (+1)	N/A	N/A	1	0%
0	0	0	Farm (+1, +2, +2)	N/A	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	1	0%
2	0	0	Farm (+1, +2, +2)	N/A	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	1	0%
0	2	0	Farm (+1, +2; must be next to fresh water)	Mine (+1, +2)	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	2†	+25%
0	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	+25%
1	0	0**	Lighthouse (+1)	N/A	N/A	1	0%
1	1	0	Farm (+1, +2, +2)	N/A	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	1	0%
0	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	0%
1	0	0	Farm (+1, +2; must be next to fresh water)	N/A	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	1	0%
Forest*	1	1***	0	Clear-cut (+1, 0, -1)	Clear-cut (+1, 0, -1) Lumber Mill (+1, +2)	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	2‡	+25%
Jungle*	2	0	0	Clear-cut (-1, -2)	Clear-cut (+2, +1)	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	2‡	+25%
Marsh*	1	0	0	Drain (+1)	Drain (0)	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	2	-15%
2	1	0**	Lighthouse (+1)	N/A	N/A	1	0%
2	0	0	Farm (+1, +2)	N/A	Trading Post (+1, +2) River (+1; true prior to BNW)	1	-10%
0	0	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0%
2	0	0**	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0%
3	0	1****	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	-10%

* The terrain tooltip indicates what forest/jungle/marsh tiles will turn into when cut/slashed/drained (respectively); very useful for planning
** Gold potential was 1 prior to Brave New World (see below)
*** 2 with the Iroquois unique building Longhouse
**** 3 with the Arabian unique building Bazaar
† Incan units ignore movement cost for hills
‡ Iroquois units move through friendly forest and jungle tiles as if a road was present

Brave New World changesEdit

In the Brave New World expansion pack, Gold potential has been removed from almost all terrain types, with the exception of the oasis. This was probably done to shift the gold-producing process away from terrain and more towards the new Trade Routes system. This makes conquering land with resources and/or Natural Wonders even more important in the early game, and you also need to develop your trading network really quickly, or you'll find yourself running in the red.

Natural WondersEdit

There are some unique, incredible terrain features spread across the world. They are known as Natural Wonders and are special in every sense of the word!

Each Natural Wonder is available only once in the world and provides unique benefits to whoever controls it, or even discovers its location, so send out your explorers in search for these features as soon as you're able! To learn more, visit the main article.

Civilization V [edit]
Gods & Kings • Brave New World
Lists Buildings • Civs • DLC • Improvements • Promotions • Resources • Scenarios • Social Policies • Technologies • Terrain • Unique Abilities • Units • Wonders
Eras Ancient • Classical • Medieval • Renaissance • Industrial • Modern • Future† • Atomic‡ • Information‡
Concepts City-State • Culture • Espionage‡ • Food • Gold • Great People • Happiness • Production • Religion‡ • Science • Tourism‡
Guides etc. Achievements • Mathematics • Modding • Major Patches • Soundtrack • Civilopedia
† Only in vanilla Civ5 ‡ Only in Gods & Kings and Brave New World

The Complete Civilization 5 Guide: Research

Technology is a very important part of Civilization 5. A civilization that performs research quickly and effectively will always have an edge against a civilization that does not. Civilization 5 research is also obviously important if you wish to go after the research victory condition. Let’s look at the basics of research.

My beakers! Where are my beakers!

In Civilization 5, as in Civilization games before it, research is represented by the beaker icon (a small beaker filled with blue fluid). As a result, research income is generally referred to as beakers. The more beakers you have, them more quickly you research technology. Your total income is always represented in the upper left hand corner of the primary game window.

So, where do beakers come from? The primarily come from your population. Each citizen generates one beaker per turn, although this isn’t readily apparent on in the city details display because his income does not show up on the city map.

This base number of beakers, however, is modified by many things. City improvements often increase beaker income by providing bonuses – the Library, for example, provides one extra beaker for every two citizens in a city. Improvements allow for a further increase of beaker income through the assignment of citizens to specialist roles at those buildings – this takes citizens away from working the land and instead assigns them to academic pursuits.

You can also increase beaker production through social policies and wonders. The rationalism branch, for example, has a number of social policies that improve overall beaker income. These overall bonuses can be a great boon to your beaker production and are a must-have if you want to go for a scientific victory.

Other Ways to Research

Besides increasing beaker production there are a few other ways to improve your research. One is through the production of great scientists, who can be spent in exchange for a free technology. There is some debate about the real usefulness of this as opposed to expanding the great scientist in the production of an Academy tile improvement, which improves a city’s beaker production.

Research can also be improved through diplomacy by entering a research agreement with another civilization. When you enter this agreement you and the other civilization receive a 15% bonus to total beaker production. You have to pay gold to enter the agreement, as does the other civilization.

Finally, you can obtain research through the exploration of ancient ruins. This is particularly effective on Archipelago maps because the AI often does not search smaller land masses, which means that you can find useful ruins even in the mid-game.