Civilization Tips and Cheats

When you're on the "choose your civ" 
screen, press esc and type in your own!

Version 1:
Hold down <shift> and press 123456789t.  
Older versions, ALT-R will randomize enemy 
leaders.

If you look at the civs using the Shift-56 
cheat and F7, civs can go into "Vendetta" 
mode and be more inclined to go to war 
with you, charge you more tribute, etc.

Settler cheat:
The way it works is that, when you tell a 
settler unit to do something (build a 
road, mines or irrigation, for example), 
and you have at least one other unit that 
still hasn't been moved (blinking), you 
can go back to the settler unit, click on 
it to start it blinking again (click on 
its icon in the box that comes up when you 
click on the unit), and then press R, M, 
or I to start the settler working again.  
Then you go back and click on the settler 
again and hit R, M or I while it's 
blinking, and you keep doing that until 
the improvement is built (you can tell 
it's done when, when you click the unit, 
the icon in the box no longer has a letter
on top of it).  This works best when you 
have the "end of turn" feature on, and of 
course you shouldn't move other units 
until you're done with the settler.  If 
you do this right, you can get your 
settlers to build anything you want in 
just one turn (normaly it takes 2 to 12 
turns)!!