Civilization – Why is the social policy cost so high

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So I am brand new to Civ 5 and the Civ games in general. I've watched a couple tutorials on youtube and that's about it. I started playing the "walk me through it" tutorial and I realized that my social policy cost is at 4995 but from the videos I've seen, it usually starts around 100.

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What can I do to lower the cost to adopt a social policy?

Best Answer

This is because you are playing the tutorial. You'll find that saving the game is also disabled. I just started a regular game, and the "Next Policy Cost" is 15 culture:enter image description here

I'm sure a regular game will have more reasonable culture costs for policies.