Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, an earlier installment of the same game series. Rather than once again pitching ancient and modern civilizations into a race to space, this turn-based strategy game is all about new colonies being founded on strange alien planets and their fight for survival.
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How to tell if an Expedition site is "claimed"?
Basically, How close is too close?
Other civs regularly get annoyed if you dig up one of "their" dig sites, and will demand that you stop doing it.
Since the game doesn't tell you that you have broken a promise until after you do so, I want to try…
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How can I get more expedition modules?
I found some ruins with my explorer and let it dig around a bit. But when I went with this explorer to a second site, I couldn't construct an expedition there.
I checked the Civilopedia and it said that expeditions consume expedition modules, and I…
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What does the 'Play in Starships' button do?
In the game menu of Civilization: Beyond Earth, there is an option labelled 'Play in starships'. It appears to be disabled.
I know there is a game titled Sid Meier's Starships - does this have anything to do with it?
What is this button, what does…
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Which Civ:BE tile improvements provide benefits without being worked?
In Civilization: Beyond Earth, your cultural boundaries extend up to 5 tiles away from a city. However, the city can only work tiles up to 3 away from the city. You cannot build most tile improvements outside of your cultural boundaries, but it is…
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Skip mantle question when launching game
I have an nvidia gpu and as such will not be launching Beyond Earth with the mantle option. Is there a way to bypass the start up option of launching in normal mode or mantle mode, and just always default to normal?
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How does alien hostility work?
From careful experimentation (i.e. randomly shooting bugs) I've discovered that the aliens become hostile if you attack them. However, I can't quite tell if this is per-unit (i.e. that unit becomes hostile), per-nest (all units from the nest) or…
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How can I drain a lake of Xenomass?
For the quest Cultural Burden, I have been tasked to "Drain the Xenomass lake at
the crash site."
However, I've no idea how to do that. Any improvement a worker can apply produces a warning that doing so will fail the quest, as does attempting…
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What can I do with favors?
I got a favor from doing a trade with some AI, but if I click on the favor in the diplomacy screen, it opens the trade window, and at that point, I can see no favor.
Does this mean I can do a trade that is unfairly balanced to me? IF so, how do I…
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How many hexes can a city use in Civilization: Beyond Earth?
When I started my game, I originally assumed that my city could use 36 hexes, or up to a 3 hex radius beyond the city's origin hex, as it was in Civ V.
However, I noticed my second city's borders expanding to 4 beyond the founding hex, as seen in…
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What tech reduces the energy cost of roads?
There is a technology that reduces the upkeep cost of roads and Magrail, but I can't remember what it is, nor can I find it by searching the civopedia.
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Disable city ranged attack notifications for aliens?
I'm trying to focus on harmony, but the game tells me every turn that I can perform a ranged attack on the aliens nearby my city.
Can I somehow tell the game I don't want to attack aliens?
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What are the effects of my Agents getting "detected" in Beyond Earth
I've been reading over this excellent explanation of how Covert Ops work in Beyond Earth.
So far I've been working with a policy where, if one of my agents is "detected" whilst performing a covert mission and there is a counter agent in that city, I…
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Difficulty Bonuses for AI in Civ:Beyond Earth
If you choose a higher difficulty in Civ:Beyond Earth, the AI gets several bonuses. But I can't see a list of what these bonuses actually are. Ingame, it is simply stated that the AI has some advantages.
I've found lists like this for previous…
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Is there a finite amount of Siege Worms and Krakens?
In Beyond Earth I was wondering if Siege Worms and Krakens were spawned by Alien Nests, or is a limited number of them were scattered across the map when it was generated?
Is it possible to elminate these aliens from the game?
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Where are the quotes in Civilization: Beyond Earth from?
In Civilization V, the quotes in the popup window appearing when researching a technology was finished, were from history's famous people like Einstein etc.
In Civ: BE, the quotes are like
-Hutama, We are All Destined to Prosper
I haven't heard of…
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