It isn't against the rules, although it is a little unusual. Cities can naturally (through Culture gains) acquire tiles up to five hexes away from them. They can only work the inner three rings of tiles, but tiles in the outer rings are part of the country for the purposes of military units that care, can be worked by other cities (effectively increasing the rate those other cities gain tiles), and luxury and strategic resources there can be improved and added to the country's stockpile. And, of course, they can't be claimed by other civilizations. Normally, the fourth and fifth rings of tiles are only picked once the first three are filled because they're less valuable. However, tiles with resources on them are an exception; they can be very valuable for the resources even though the yield can't be harvested. In this case, the expansion script appears to have picked the southern of those two tiles to acquire the wine there. This is perfectly ordinary behavior; I've had it happen with my own cities, albeit not all that often. The northern tile I'm not sure about. One possibility is that Salzburg was the city that decided to target the wine tile, and it picked up the other along the way. Vienna being the original capital and hence older, though, I would expect it to have expanded in that direction first. Another possibility is that the expansion script gives some weight to "cleaning up" gaps or concave portions in the country's border. Given that Vienna has only a few less-valuable tiles left unclaimed in its third ring, that weight might have led it to pick up the otherwise valueless fourth-ring tile.

No, unfortunately. You have to wait until the legion or worker is done. Protip: If you want to build a road fast, the combination of a worker and a legion can be very useful. Since they can stand on the same tile, you don't have to waste precious turns while moving around the other unit. This is especially valuable in rough terrain.

Percent bonuses are additive If you have racial 50% bonus and 25% social bonus, you should get in the end, as expected a 75% bonus. Source

You can't hurry Manhattan Project, Apollo Project, and World Congress projects as they are projects rather than wonders.

A city state is a civilization in many aspects. They research at their own pace, they build stuff at their own pace, and they also have things like happiness and upkeep A city-state usually will have low happiness, which will put them below 0 when they capture a city. This will prompt them to raze said city, but in rare cases they have enough happiness to keep said city, in which case they'll puppet it and not raze it if happiness goes low afterwards

You can capture a city simply by melee attacking it, like you would do with a normal unit. Remember that you can only take cities with a melee attack, you cannot take cities with ranged or air units. You can take cities with naval melee units, such as the Privateer or Destroyer. To entirely wipe out another civilization, you will have to conquer all of their cities. But in order to win a domination victory, you only have to be in control of the capital cities of all civs in the game. About the warmonger penalty; this is diplomatic penalty you will get with other civilizations in the game. This means that they will like you less, resulting in them giving you less money for luxury and strategic resources, or if it gets worse, they will denounce you or even declare war on you. Taking the last city of an enemy will result in a much larger penalty. You will not lose any money once you capture the city, if anything, you will gain income, but only after the city gets out of resistance. You will lose happiness once you conquer an enemy city, so make sure you don't drop too much into negative happiness. I can also refer you to the Civilization Wikia page about city combat for more information.

It can be a result of gunboat diplomacy, but there are other factors that also play a role here, such as: if these city-states share the same religion with Byzantium, their influence decay will be slowed down by 25%; if Byzantium has patronage opener, influence decay will also be slowed down by 25%. If Byzantium has these factors but you don't, then their influence decays slower than yours, so effectively their influence is gaining every turn relative to yours.

The religion must be the majority in the holy city. I know that sounds redundant, but the AI loves to convert your holy city!

The pressure is towards your city. Normally religion pressure is only exerted to a certain range around any particular city. Venice being a religion-founding holy city doesn't change that range. Trade routes bypass this range limit mechanic, and the cities will be considered in range once connected by a trade route. So presumably by this, Venice is out of range to pressure you normally, but setting up a caravan will allow their religion to spread your way.

Defensive pact is automatically disbanded when the civilization you have it with declares war itself to anybody else. Your people don't like to have defensive pact with somebody such aggressive that he declares war to anybody else. That is quite good thing otherwise, because you have free hands to help or not to help attacked civ or anything else.

I was able to find an unnoficial workaround for my case (which I will update if I run into the issue again), but I'd still be interested in a more detailed answer. By performing the following steps, I was able to progress to the next turn: Select a different city Add an aditional building/unit to the build que for the second city Return to the problem city The problem city shows the build list for the previous city Selct a building/unit that the Problem city is capable of building (some items listed have already been build/can't be built)

You can only purchase tiles that are directly workable by your city, which means only tiles that are within 3 tiles of your city. City cultural expansion can move beyond those tiles, but occurs randomly. You cannot direct it. If you really want that gold tile, you can plant another city on or near it, or you can use a Great General to construct a Citadel within one hex of it. (That's assuming Gods & Kings or Brave New World. Use a Great Artist's Culture Bomb in vanilla.)

The only benefits you receive from a religion founded by another civilization are the benefits from the Follower Beliefs in each city that has the religion, which affect the city directly rather than the owner of the religion. There is no way to change your state religion, nor to adopt one of an opponent if you didn't already have one. You're stuck with either the one you found yourself, or none at all. While it is possible to overwhelm an opposing religion such that it's not the majority religion in any city, that religion's Holy City will always exert pressure for its religion, meaning it can never be fully removed from the game. Further, a Holy City can never be razed. If your religion is strong enough, you might be able to keep the rival Holy City locked down, but it could be difficult.

The placement is pseudo-random. It picks a random location and then determines if it's viable. Viability is determined by tile type. The game then, based on your civ, looks for a tile in that area. The tile is called your 'starting bias'. It attempts to put you close (or far from in certain cases) as many of those tiles as possible. For example, Greek has a starting bias of 'Coast'. So the game will start you basically as close to a cost as possible. Byzantine, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Portugese, Venetian, English, Danish, Ottoman, Carthaginian, Spanish and Polynesians all have 'Coast' as their starting bias and will spawn close to water. Arabian and Morroccan both have 'Desert' and will spawn you in the middle of a desert if possible. Aztec and Brazillian both have 'Jungle' Iroquiois and Celtic both have 'Forest' Indian and Dutch have 'Grassland' Russian and Sweedish have 'Tundra' Mongolian, Polish, Shoshone all have 'Plains' Austrian and Incan have 'Hill' Zulu, Hunnic and Egyptian have 'Avoid Jungle' Egyptian, Hunnic, and Siamese have 'Avoid Forest' If you want to change them you can AT YOUR OWN RISK in this file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\assets\Gameplay\XML\Civilizations\CIV5Civilizations.xml For expansions check C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization\assests\DLC\DLC_xx\CIV5Civillization_CIVNAME.xml When the game searches for a viable tile from its initial random location, it will seem to only check so far before giving up and then placing you on a different tile. I don't know how it decides second choice nor how far it looks before giving up. I have had it happen where a Civ was not near their starting bias because it didn't exist anywhere near. With multiple players, human or computer, this chance increases in some case......

Your friend will be able to use the Civ V files installed on your second PC but will only be able to access DLCs and expansions that he owns. If he does not have Gods & Kings or Brave New World, he will not be able to play with them. All players in a multiplayer game need to have all the DLCs that are in use. This means you will have to play vanilla unless you both own G&K and BNW.

I suppose it does not. I'm in a 12v12 team-game. I've made two declaration of friendships with 2 members of team 2 (me being on team 1 of course). As you can see from my screenshot, you only receive the bonus specifically from the DoF which does not include teammates. Unfortunately

Once you capture a City-State, it is no longer a City-State, and you do not receive the bonuses due to being a City-State's ally. So that bonus Faith, Culture, Food, etc. disappears entirely, and Porcelain and Jewelry also disappears. Only Mercantile City-States produce Porcelain or Jewelry, so it's treated like any other City-State bonus and it goes away. Once it's your city, it acts just like any other city you've captured, and it does not have any special bonuses.

These have no effect, its just a flavor/role playing choice.

As you would be playing on Immortal, which I believe is harder than King, we know that your opponents will have bonuses to progress faster. That being said, you can do things to ensure your science output remains high, if not on top. To do this, you would have to play as a certain civilization. Babylon is your best bet for a science victory, because they get a free Great Scientist upon researching Writing, as well as a few other Unique Buildings, I believe. Also, in Civ5, population is a great factor in science output. You can either create a bunch of cities (not recommended because of unhappiness), or build tall (small number of cities, large population). India is the best civ for this, as they have Unique Abilities for population growth and happiness, so that you can have a large, happy empire that produces a bunch of science. Also, Korea gets +2 science for every specialist worked, so that may be an alternative, albeit not as great. The maya (Pacal) are a great civ, as you get +2 science on pyramids, which you can actually use to your advantage by building wide (many cities). The maya also get a free great person after every 394 years (Long Count calendar) after researching Theology. One last civ that is great all around, surprisingly, is Austria. You will almost definitely start slow with this civ, but Austria has a Unique Ability which allows you to buy allied city-states (and make them your own city) using gold. If you wait until a later era (Industrial, perhaps) you can literally get a successful, strong city with a BUNCH of science output for 500 gold.

This is probably a bug. It may be related to one of the following links. (Thanks @Jonathan Drapeau) http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=465974 http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=465889