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Good thing health care is in effect now :)

I always wondered, what's the difference between legal and illegal fireworks? Or are fireworks not available legally?

I have to admit that since I live outside the U.S. I am only in my first game, but I kind of missed the diplomatic component of religion. I just got to the renaissance and I have only seen one...

I am not too sure about the religious motive of the thirty years war. The best example is that France (as a catholic country) decided to join the war against Germany (another catholic country), since...

I agree with you here in principle, but I don't think that faith as such oppeses reason.

There have been many scientists, who were very religious people (like Einstein for example).

While...

I think this is a very dark interpretation. Sure, you manually select the shape of your religion, but that's purely due to the game mechanics.

In comparison to Civ IV, one could argue that Civ V...

I second that. I always felt that having multiple trade partners was a reward for good diplomacy, as described above. Building maps where you on average only have one unit per resource would weaken...

Probably you are right. Stranger things have happened, though (see Greece), and Ireland has a very good track record against Italy so far.
It is good to know that it will be availabe later, thanks...

It's 10pm where I am. This means I will have to choose between Civ and some part of the soccer match this evening.

But I do hope it will be recorded like it has two years ago.

My thoughts exactly. This discussion is two years late. I think we were all (or mostly) disappointed at first (I wrote some posts about this as well back in the days), but I think Civ V progresses...

I like that idea. I know realism is not always the main goal in a game, but it would make more sense that way, because I always thought it was odd that in a research agreement you still research...

I am not sure which version it was at the start exactly. I think it was early Alpha, shortly after the Haloween update that introduced the nether.
My favourite update was the one introducing...

I am taking a break from Civ V, since I am impatiently waiting for the new features of G&K (I don't know if it makes sense, but I somehow feel that something is missing in Vanilla already).

At the...

I hardly use the advisors in Civ V.

I think my favourite advisor was the foreign one in CivIII, because this one was there when you needed it. Whenever you were in diplomatic discussions with a...

That's true for the moment, but since in the end game everyone will fight everyone, any strong nation will be a threat. In the end I just aided a potential enemy in the future. (Maybe I am thinking...

I too would like to see health resources return. Not so much because of the health system as such, but so that there are more tradable items.

Maybe it's my playing style, but I don't really feel...

Religions are not as inflexible as most people believe. Taking the example of Christianity the rituals and interpretation of the faith have changed significantly over the last two millenia.
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That's what I always thought. As of yet there are no real reasons for a true alliance, since there is no real benefit. Making some actions only available to allied civs, like the OP suggested, would...

Since I am looking forward to the new religion system, I will play with either the Celts or Byzantium. At the moment I tend to Byzantium, since I want the Celts as an AI.

I would like to see capitulation back as well as an allied victory, since it would put a stop to the inevitable world war at the end, just like the OP states.

I doubt that an allied victory will...

I don't think that Civilization V takes itself more seriously than the other games.

Furthermore due to the policy tree and in the future the religion, you have even more ways to cusomize your...

I think the unique building could be a Coffee House.

If I remember my history right, the first Eurpoean Coffee House has been established in Austria after they had pushed back the Ottomans.

That's exaclty what I thought.

I especially liked that before each vote you could contact each leader and urge him to vote yes/no, sometimes with a little bribe.

A more sphisticated UN would...

I would like to see a war having some kind of influence on my overall empire, since I think that warfare is still too powerful in CiV compared to other strategies. (I am playing on lower difficulties...

I would like to see the comeback of Vassal States, since I used to enjoy them in Civ IV. It was always a good option to make a vassal out of a civ you just defeated, since it prevented further wars...

I agree. I really like the idea of more diplomacy options and foreign trade routes in particular, but there should be no option that is all good. Other than the already suggested set-up cost, I would...