Author Topic: Civilization V this fall (Read 20041 times)

cool breeze · « **Reply #180 on:** September 23, 2010, 11:05:21 PM »

this dude wanted peace just because I nuked his cities and sent in my giant death robots

Complain about me being near your border? how about I send in five giant death robots to see if anyone survived the six nukes that just went off in your ass

wait, what the fuck, it's past 11. fuck this game :'(

archie4208 · « **Reply #181 on:** September 23, 2010, 11:46:18 PM »

0-4 on culture runs. FUCK YOU JAPAN DON'T SETTLE NEAR ME.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #182 on:** September 24, 2010, 09:27:02 AM »

The standard size map is too small.

Montezuma hates city states.

Darius made peace with me by giving me 3 of his cities and my happiness plunged to -19. I ended up giving 2 back to him since they had poor food sources and the unhappiness didn't change. I ended up having to build 4 Colosseums and 2 circuses to counter it. My gold plunged too and a couple of units disbanded over it.
It's the last time I go to war with someone cause Caesar didn't do shit in the war.

Beezy · « **Reply #183 on:** September 24, 2010, 09:29:20 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 23, 2010, 11:05:21 PM

wait, what the fuck, it's past 11. fuck this game :'(

pilonv1 · « **Reply #184 on:** September 24, 2010, 09:01:03 PM »

There's plenty of things I don't like about this but there's so much to love. Telling Elizabeth the horde of swordsmen outside the London border are "just passing through", before storming through her territory.

I'm torn on how long it takes to produce units/buildings. On one hand it forces you to be much more strategic and thoughtful about what you do, but then I'm only able to produce 2 iron units in the time I go from Swordsmen to Gunpowder units seems distinguished mentally-challenged.

I hate how quickly the city states relationship declines. I'm ignoring them now because it feels like a waste of time.

I was up till 1:30am last night playing

pilonv1 · « **Reply #185 on:** September 24, 2010, 09:25:25 PM »

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #186 on:** September 24, 2010, 09:37:37 PM »

I played the 100 turn demo. FUCK I WANT IT

Holy shit I can't believe how those 100 turns flew by while at the same time being barely ANYTHING. I may just go play 4 to quench my thirst. BUT NO FUCK, I NEED TO READ BOOKS SNHGSAKHSJFGS

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #187 on:** September 24, 2010, 11:20:39 PM »

I wish there was more to the leaders discussion. Why can't I beg Catherine to help me kill that Otooman taco whose trying to invade my no millitary at all country? Instead she just waves her tits at me and gives me a hard on.

Also is there any way to permantly disbale that intro movie? My PC refuses to skip it every. time.

archie4208 · « **Reply #188 on:** September 24, 2010, 11:21:44 PM »

Loving the game, but the AI is pretty distinguished mentally-challenged. I was attacking a capital and the CPU removed his garrisoned unit to rush me.

That was on prince (ie normal)

pilonv1 · « **Reply #189 on:** September 25, 2010, 12:02:21 AM »

Yeah the AI seems distinguished mentally-challenged. So many random cities pop up as well. CPU dumped a city in the middle of my empire, behind a number of my cities, while the rest of his cities were on the other side of the map.

Mandark · « **Reply #190 on:** September 25, 2010, 12:44:49 AM »

The description for the Angkor Wat says it'll decrease the culture cost of tiles by 75% for all your cities, but it only does it for the city in which it's built. </whitewine>

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #191 on:** September 25, 2010, 06:18:22 AM »

Since I told myself I wouldn't buy this...it's 6 am and I just played Civ 4 for 8 hours.

archie4208 · « **Reply #192 on:** September 25, 2010, 11:04:21 AM »

I have never seen an intro movie. I guess a bug actually worked out in my favor for once.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #193 on:** September 25, 2010, 01:40:05 PM »

Quote from: JayDubya on September 25, 2010, 07:14:43 AM

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on September 24, 2010, 11:20:39 PM
Also is there any way to permantly disbale that intro movie? My PC refuses to skip it every. time.

Yup.

Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini

Played til 2am last night. $:-\$

It seems to me that expansion only hinders you while all the other civs can expand with no penalty.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #194 on:** September 25, 2010, 01:58:43 PM »

Quote from: Zero Hero on September 25, 2010, 01:40:05 PM

Quote from: JayDubya on September 25, 2010, 07:14:43 AM
Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on September 24, 2010, 11:20:39 PM
Also is there any way to permantly disbale that intro movie? My PC refuses to skip it every. time.

Yup.

Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini

Played til 2am last night. $:-\$

It seems to me that expansion only hinders you while all the other civs can expand with no penalty.

DID YOU SEE WHERE I PLAYED CIV 4 UNTIL 6 AM?!?!?!?!

I don't want to imagine what would happen if I bought 5...

Brehvolution · « **Reply #195 on:** September 25, 2010, 02:51:07 PM »

If you were playing 5, you would have accomplished half as much in the same amount of time on the quick setting. $:-\$

DJ_Tet · « **Reply #196 on:** September 25, 2010, 03:57:57 PM »

I didn't expect to see Sunk-Henge reposted here

archie4208 · « **Reply #197 on:** September 26, 2010, 01:30:27 AM »

I believe I am going to bump the difficulty up to king next time if I can easily pull out a conquest victory with China. I just dominated the Iroquois.

archie4208 · « **Reply #198 on:** September 26, 2010, 06:07:12 PM »

Have you done any games on King yet? I'm gonna bump up the difficulty when I'm done with my current game. As of my Prince game right now, I have ran every civ except Rome off the map and I'm keeping them around so I can get a space win.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #199 on:** September 26, 2010, 06:41:50 PM »

I'm storming to a victory on Chieftan. I'm loving that I can storm the map with around a dozen units but I need more of a challenge.

archie4208 · « **Reply #200 on:** September 27, 2010, 07:58:40 PM »

Grab some siege weapons and go to town. The AI is pretty dumb right now and you shouldn't have too much of a problem outplaying them. Try to sweet talk Rome into going to war and let Napoleon fight that front while you come in from the other side.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #201 on:** September 27, 2010, 08:24:12 PM »

I may be getting a new computer in a few days if a few things fall into place so I may be able to play this soon.

archie4208 · « **Reply #202 on:** September 27, 2010, 08:43:10 PM »

Cool.

Also: reading Civfanatics is hilarious. There is so much hate for this game.

It is by no means perfect (the AI needs an overhaul badly) but some posters over there act like it is the worst game ever made.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #203 on:** September 27, 2010, 08:49:51 PM »

I wanted to read Civfanatics today, but it's blocked at work.

cool breeze · « **Reply #204 on:** September 27, 2010, 08:58:23 PM »

what are their complaints?

archie4208 · « **Reply #205 on:** September 27, 2010, 09:03:13 PM »

AI sucks (agree)
Dumbed down from Civ4 (re: No civis or religion)
Hate the new UI (

the UI is incredible and let's be honest: Civ4 was a jumbled mess)
Hate Steam (some posters call it spyware)

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #206 on:** September 27, 2010, 09:45:37 PM »

Maybe I'll wait until the inevitable expansions that fix the AI and diplomacy. Civ IV obviously still satisfies me (mostly because I got it only a couple of years ago and haven't played it nearly enough).

archie4208 · « **Reply #207 on:** September 27, 2010, 10:01:14 PM »

If you were to compare Civ4 in its current state to Civ5, I would recommend Civ4, but I feel that Civ5 has a better foundation to work with compared to its prequel and will end up being a better game in a few years.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #208 on:** September 27, 2010, 10:21:08 PM »

Civ V is just so pretty.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #209 on:** September 29, 2010, 09:14:31 AM »

Got my new computer. Still don't have a really good videocard. I just replaced my old one with the same model. I'll probably get a new one next year or something. But at least now I can play and the game should look decent to pretty good. Can't wait to try it out this evening.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #210 on:** September 29, 2010, 11:30:51 AM »

I quit what probably would have been a Japan Domination victory on Emperor. It was basically a rush build to Samurai on a 4 player map and I took out 1 faction and was just too lazy to finish the game. Instead, I started a new Emperor game as India (8 or 10 players, can't remember) and won a social victory. 1 city, I held off Napoleon twice in the first 150 turns until he finally gave me fair peace conditions and then dropped my military completely and gave him all my strategic resources to keep him happy which worked, was still in the Industrial era on turn 492 when I built my Utopia.

Over the weekend I played as Egypt on the Earth map (largest size) on King difficulty and basically could have won a Social, Tech, or Diplomacy victory but finished the Space Race first (2017 maybe). The turn lengths near the end were nearly unbearable, though.

archie4208 · « **Reply #211 on:** September 29, 2010, 11:33:44 AM »

Yeah the game slows to a crawl near the end. During my last game, it was getting to the point that I could do some household chores in between turns.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #212 on:** September 29, 2010, 12:19:48 PM »

Which is the most even difficulty level? I mean the one where the CPU isn't being given assists or handicaps? I always play on that level but I forgot which one it is.

archie4208 · « **Reply #213 on:** September 29, 2010, 12:23:54 PM »

Prince

Mandark · « **Reply #214 on:** September 29, 2010, 03:43:32 PM »

Hopefully someone will come up with a custom AI like with Civ 4. It's a lot more fun playing a good opponent with no cheese than playing a dumb opponent with a bunch of bonuses.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #215 on:** September 29, 2010, 03:48:38 PM »

I'm sure it's a question of when, not if.

archie4208 · « **Reply #216 on:** September 29, 2010, 03:51:18 PM »

Yeah, that is inevitable. I'm also hoping Kael is working on Fall From Heaven 3.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #217 on:** September 29, 2010, 04:22:48 PM »

I really want to play some multi with you guys, but they are going to have to patch it first. The current iteration is awful.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #218 on:** September 29, 2010, 07:18:56 PM »

NO custom music folder is starting to piss me off.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #219 on:** September 29, 2010, 07:32:40 PM »

I just play shit in iTunes and turn off the game music...

pilonv1 · « **Reply #220 on:** September 29, 2010, 07:42:44 PM »

Quote from: archie4208 on September 29, 2010, 11:33:44 AM

Yeah the game slows to a crawl near the end. During my last game, it was getting to the point that I could do some household chores in between turns.

It's getting ridiculous in my game. Make all my moves, come back in 6-7 minutes and it's still not done.

Going to do the Tiny Map 1 city challenge next

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #221 on:** September 29, 2010, 09:19:22 PM »

Played for a number of hours this evening. Enjoyable.

It's interesting. It's both very user friendly and also a bit confusing to a civ veteran at the same time. I like how there are lots of prompts for things and instruction but its also a bit hard to find out exactly how the numbers work on certain game mechanics which is always a big part of civ. I'm still trying to figure some of that out.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #222 on:** September 29, 2010, 10:48:07 PM »

I don't try to play a certain way to win. I like to let it come to me and figure it out. That is what makes it so re-playable....no 2 games are the same.

archie4208 · « **Reply #223 on:** September 30, 2010, 09:06:05 AM »

I always set out to have a master plan before I start any game. I just started a naval conquest campaign with Elizabeth and am trying to synergize my strategy around buildings and wonders that deal with the navy.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #224 on:** September 30, 2010, 01:37:21 PM »

Playing on Epic length is way more satisfying then normal.

Beezy · « **Reply #225 on:** September 30, 2010, 01:38:44 PM »

That's what she said.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #226 on:** September 30, 2010, 08:20:40 PM »

Real talk. Epic is the best way to play.

I think I'm going to move to smaller map types though. There seems to be too much dead space on the largest map

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #227 on:** September 30, 2010, 08:35:35 PM »

Shit, now I have to try an epic game (in Civ 4)

pilonv1 · « **Reply #228 on:** September 30, 2010, 08:48:13 PM »

It's awesome to be in 1100 and have gunpowder units.

TripleA · « **Reply #229 on:** September 30, 2010, 09:31:23 PM »

How do you change the controls in this game?

Brehvolution · « **Reply #230 on:** October 01, 2010, 09:18:51 AM »

King don't fuck around. I had a decent army and was unexpectedly double teamed by the Egyptians and Sumerian on opposite fronts. I held off Egypt but couldn't get reinforcements to the other side fast enough. I wouldn't have rage quit(first time) if the city that was taken didn't have my prized 6 iron resource. My other 2 iron sources were only 2 a piece.
Rage quit 252 turns in.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #231 on:** October 01, 2010, 09:48:58 AM »

Russians are great to combat low strategic resources.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #232 on:** October 01, 2010, 12:53:56 PM »

I still haven't finished a game yet. I have a dozen saved games but nothing compelling enough to come back to. $:-\$

I must finish one this weekend.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #233 on:** October 01, 2010, 09:54:41 PM »

Played through most of a tutorial game just to learn some basics. Ready to tackle the real game now.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #234 on:** October 02, 2010, 09:32:17 AM »

Tiny map 1 city challenge on Earth Map is easy so far except for the ridiculous number of barbarians. Problem is that all 4 civs settled in Africa/Asia so everywhere else , especially SE Asia and North America is teaming with Barbarians. They seem to have an endless supply of ships too, it's fucking annoying.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #235 on:** October 02, 2010, 10:59:15 PM »

Lost my 1 city challenge, Montezuma had a military score of like 4000+, mine was 800 and Siam was 600

pilonv1 · « **Reply #236 on:** October 03, 2010, 07:51:20 AM »

Got my 1 city tiny map cultural victory with 3 turns to spare.

I initially had the Utopia project available to me in 2021, which said it would take 39 turns to complete. I got lucky with some great people (one local, one from a city state) that had me down to 15 in 15, but once it ended I was back to 19 from 15 turns.

I ended up completing it by going into starvation and losing 2-3 population to get me back to 9 turns with 10 years to go. Somehow it ended up being faster than that.

archie4208 · « **Reply #237 on:** October 03, 2010, 02:26:20 PM »

Aarbia just offered me two cities while negotiating for peace, in a war I was losing. This is on king difficulty, btw. $:-\$

DJ_Tet · « **Reply #238 on:** October 03, 2010, 03:12:39 PM »

The AI for stopping wars is ridiculously out of whack right now. I had a situation similar where I was at 'war' with someone but hadn't attacked them in probably 50 turns, and in fact had turned my armies against another country who was at war with them (and closer, and had done more damage.)

In the midst of this war that Egypt had very little to do with they offered me a city, nearly all their gold and five resources to quit the genocide I had waged against their people.

I took it, but I mean, it can't be making that decision. Left Egypt with two cities too lol.

In my last game as I'm clearly wiping civ after civ off the map, I would offer peace for one resource. It would be denied and they faced certain death.

I'm sure it will get better, right?

The game is so much fun otherwise.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #239 on:** October 03, 2010, 10:34:03 PM »

Quote from: archie4208 on October 03, 2010, 02:26:20 PM

Aarbia just offered me two cities while negotiating for peace, in a war I was losing. This is on king difficulty, btw. $:-\$

I had Elizabeth offer me all her gold + luxury resources to stop a war, when all I did was defend my one city from her army. She still had 5 other cities on the continent.

If you want to see how poor the AI is, go into trade, select a city and ask what they want for it. Usually you can get any sub 3 pop city for 100 gold + a random resource.

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Author Topic: Civilization V this fall (Read 20041 times)