Turns out 2kgames has heard the thousands of complaints of Civlization 5 crashes and are working on a patch to fix a lot of the numerous issues that most of us have encountered.

Below is a list of upcoming fixes that will eventually make it to Civilization 5.

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 IV.)
• The Annex/Puppet/Raze popup now indicates how much extra Unhappiness will be assumed with each action.

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

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.

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.

2kgames’s Greg says the patch could be out as early as next week 🙂