I'm really liking the way its not all about stacking anymore and 5 units with 2 ranged, 2 melee and say 1 trebuchet/siege is really way more interesting.
Like Photon said the difficulty of taking cities is much more interesting, but I found myself just going after each city state one by one. After you take down 2 you pretty much are hated by the remaining ones anyhow.
I just picked standard for my speed, and yeah its taking a long time. Got used to playing the ps3 version so it was a bit of a shock at first. Be interesting to see the quicker games, how those feel in comparison.
Well time to watch house and get some sleep, hope no one stays up past their bedtime!
I really should not do this, but Futureshop in Deerfoot meadows is showing stock. I may just have to stop by and pick it up. This could be a decision I regret. If you guys never hear from me again, tell me mother i'm in heaven.
I really should not do this, but Futureshop in Deerfoot meadows is showing stock. I may just have to stop by and pick it up. This could be a decision I regret. If you guys never hear from me again, tell me mother i'm in heaven.
I thwarted my own plans. I left my wallet at home today. I now sit at home with no groceries, and no Civ 5.
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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I'm playing right now as England; so far it's all right. It looks pretty, and the combat is cool, but with the city-states the world feels crowded and small. I already found one bug, too - I have a city-state that is supposedly my ally, but I can't send a Great Merchant to their city without automatically declaring war, even though in the Diplomacy screen it specifically says I can move troops into their territory, never mind Great People.
I really don't like resource treaties now, which expire after 20 turns. In a game which seems aimed to remove a lot of the micro-management in older versions, it's perplexing. I do like that when you are asked to join in a war, there's an option "Give me 10 turns to prepare", though.
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I feel like Im going to have to flush everything I knew about Civ4 out of my mind.
My usual style is rapid expansion (settle lots of area, spread culture to gain territory, improve all lands) which doesn't play well in Civ5.
I mean, building new cities practically decimates your empire in a few ways, and not to mention the fact settlers, workers, and improvements take forever. Add on the fact that new cities seem to be utterly useless at producing anything, and it all adds up to me needing a rethink.
I have steam but thanks anyhow. I'm already spread thin on gaming time so its probably best to wait before taking on another huge time consumer.
It's a Steam-DRM game so no matter where you bought the game you will have to use Steam. That also means you'll be able to re-download from Steam even if you didn't buy it from them.
It seems to take a lot longer to build up an empire. The continent I am on has only 3 other players and several city-states, and we are approaching 1000ad without having populated 1/3 of the continent. The computer is taking it's time to build up cities as well...
Also, there are a few bugs like in finding a path for units over long distances.
Otherwise, I am starting to get used to the big changes, and there are a lot of things that I love about Civ5.
Can somebody explain to me the draw of Civilization? I've been playing PC games for forever, especially Microprose (too bad they are gone) games like Sid Meier's Pirates! But I have never really "got" why Civ was loved by so many. It's not like I don't like sims (I loved Railroad Tycoon and all those sims back in the day and I still play city building games) but Civilization has always escaped me. Maybe it's because I'm weird and don't like any alternate history type things (I hate Steampunk for one thing) and Civ is all about building an alternate history with cultures that should never exist together being neighboring states and the way it's all setup seems cartoony to me.
World domination, ruff putting your friend over the wan, taking pleasure in watching Catherine the Great beg for mercy, being perplexed how archers can take down migs, steam rolling through Japan with China, nuking the aztecs before they nuke you, starting a game on a Saturday morning before going out to get something to eat and then finding out that its 6pm and its time for supper.
I dont know if I can wait till the weekend to play this game. I hope there is a way to remove city states, they sound completely useless. According to the civ podcast there are 2 for every player.
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