Just One More Turn and I Swear I'm Done for the Night
Dragon — Tue, 09/21/2010 - 06:32
Did you pick up Civ 5 or plan on picking it up? If so add your name to this forum (adding your preferred leader is just bonus points) and we will see if we can setup some guild free for alls against each other.
So far:
KogNuts (Canada fuck ya?)
Shihli (Otto Van Bismarkin')
Garreth
Dragon (Nobunaga or George Washington)
Cindy's Husband who's toon name I can't remember (it's Delirium -Quis)
Jayel
Epatrick
Failstalker (aka Starstalker)
silentalarm here
Grussles — Sat, 10/23/2010 - 06:26I like to play as elizabeth or the al rashid...my steam id is grussles and ybloc and I have had about 100 total hours of playing together...I gotta say we're hardcare and only play naval maps and marathon games...I'll defend marathon to my last breath
The AI is so bad at naval
Shihli — Sat, 10/23/2010 - 15:20The AI is so bad at naval maps in this game it's ridiculous.
I bought it but I'm having a
Ewiges — Sun, 10/24/2010 - 13:03I bought it but I'm having a huge problem playing it. For some reason it doesn't grab me like 2-4 did. It feels like something is missing, something is just not right.
Give it a little time, it'll
Shihli — Sun, 10/24/2010 - 23:12Give it a little time, it'll grow on you. You just have to play it with a fresh mindset - you can't approach it like you did Civ2 or Civ4.
Yeah plus in 2-4 you had a
Grussles — Mon, 10/25/2010 - 04:57Yeah plus in 2-4 you had a system and you knew the game inside and out...the more familiar you are with the game and as you get used to the tricks so to speak you'll like it more...also about the naval maps I know...I had a scout sail around and pick up all the ruins...I had mech infantry by the year 1300 and I dominated the conflicts I had with the ai...I saw a screenshot of someone who was researching philosophy in the year 600ish ad and he had panzer tanks
Me, Pat, and Jayel started
Shihli — Wed, 09/29/2010 - 22:12Me, Pat, and Jayel started our first multiplayer game tonite. Good times! Need to do more downie games.
If you'd like send me a
Dragon — Thu, 09/30/2010 - 06:34If you'd like send me a message here or on facebook and I'll give you my phone number so you can text me when you wanna setup games.
You can add Epatrick and
Shihli — Tue, 09/28/2010 - 02:01You can add Epatrick and Jayel to the mix in here.
I also recently got a cultural victory as the Indians. Only had three cities, too. This victory led me to realize the great strength that city-states can actually offer - that is, if they are militaristic they give you free guys, and in any situation they will go to war against your opponents so long as you've been nice to them.
They made for my "deterrent" so I could easily pursue a cultural victory without investing in a large army.
I have found the City-States
Jayel — Tue, 09/28/2010 - 12:45I have found the City-States to be one of my favorite new things. I've still only completed 1 game so far but I was able to completely dominate a small map with the Romans so I'm going to up the level when I start up my next game.
They're also pretty much
Dragon — Tue, 09/28/2010 - 12:23They're also pretty much required for the Culture gains from the Culture states as well. Did you use the Iroquois or the actual Indians?
Actual Indians. I was
Shihli — Tue, 09/28/2010 - 12:49Actual Indians. I was Gandhi.
The culture gains that the cultured city-states gave me paled compared to the culture from my cities, but it was still nice to have. I also doubted the Indians' civ special (double unhappiness from number of cities, but only half unhappiness from population) ... doubt no longer. I didn't have to build a single happy-generating building to keep my people happy.
I just spent the past five
Shihli — Tue, 09/21/2010 - 14:30I just spent the past five hours playing. It's ... a bit different. Compared to Civ4, where you had to do IMMENSE micromanaging, this game's flow is quite a bit quicker. Workers tend to run out of things to do. Expansion isn't difficult either - *any* land unit can be a naval unit too; however, embarked land units move slowly and can't defend themselves on water.
Attacking cities is entirely different now - instead of having to rampantly fortify units in cities to defend them, cities can defend themselves - even being able to bombard distant units. Fortifying units in cities increase their defensive abilities as well as increase the city's overall defense.
Diplomacy is enhanced quite a bit. More options, more possibilities (including the ability to make secret pacts with other civs), etc.
Lastly, the graphics and such. My system runs the game just fine at its lowest graphics settings, and the game still looks great.
Overall, great game, imo.
Mine should finally be
Dragon — Tue, 09/21/2010 - 15:56Mine should finally be finished downloading so im going to go play :)
Oh and I'm HurrikanEagle on steam
i may pick this up in a
Grasen — Tue, 09/21/2010 - 11:10i may pick this up in a couple weeks.
I will be eventually picking
Jayel — Tue, 09/21/2010 - 09:52I will be eventually picking this us. I know Eluda will be as well once he finds some time.
Eluda and I both bought it this past week.
Jayel — Mon, 09/27/2010 - 15:55send me a message on the site for my steam ID if you dont have it already.
I'm horrible at the
Epatrick — Fri, 09/24/2010 - 20:57I'm horrible at the micromanagement and barely ever win on anything beyond prince, but I'm Epatr1ck on steam.