Anyone playing Civilization 5?
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Demaio
I'm New Here
Okay, so I'm gathering people have played once or twice and then never again. Well, if you decide to give it another go I strongly suggest making sure you've at least upgraded to Civ5 gold which gets you all the DLC and the first expansion. Gods and Kings (the first expansion) VASTLY improved the game.
Also, once you've learned the basics the game speed improves significantly. I can play a full game on the normal speed in about 2.5 hours, faster or slower depending on map size and the victory conditions. If I could completely avoid war I could probably do a whole game in an hour.
Also, once you've learned the basics the game speed improves significantly. I can play a full game on the normal speed in about 2.5 hours, faster or slower depending on map size and the victory conditions. If I could completely avoid war I could probably do a whole game in an hour.
Leroy
2012 Troll of the Year
So, can you "fly" bombers?
The last civ I played, you would just target a city and it would animate the bombers.
NOT COOL MOTHER FUCKER.
I want to fly my bombers around the indian phalanx, I earned it, I want to scare to piss those stupid fuckers in a tireme.
Plus, it was strategy to move bombers and fighters in groups, so the enemy AI wouldn't plaster them, and you would have to be careful crossing continents.
The last civ I played, you would just target a city and it would animate the bombers.
NOT COOL MOTHER FUCKER.
I want to fly my bombers around the indian phalanx, I earned it, I want to scare to piss those stupid fuckers in a tireme.
Plus, it was strategy to move bombers and fighters in groups, so the enemy AI wouldn't plaster them, and you would have to be careful crossing continents.
Gatherix
Death by Darkly
That's still pretty much what you do, unless they changed that in Brave New Worlds, which you can disable whenever.
4 sucked. 3 was awesome, especially with the Complete pack.
Gatherix
Death by Darkly
Brave New Worlds is supposed to fix a lot of that.
Demaio
I'm New Here
It really doesn't.
It expands the Freedom, Order and Autocracy social policies into much larger and more important trees but absolutely fails to capture the differences between each. It would honestly be more accurate to describe the ideologies as Communism, Fascism and AMERICA FUCK YEAH. Can you guess which one is completely overpowered?
And it's a flawed concept to begin with because it treats politics and economics as the exact same thing.
But enough on why civ5's social policies make absolutely no sense as a real world parallel, it works well as a game and that seems to have been the only consideration given over what to update for Civ5.
It expands the Freedom, Order and Autocracy social policies into much larger and more important trees but absolutely fails to capture the differences between each. It would honestly be more accurate to describe the ideologies as Communism, Fascism and AMERICA FUCK YEAH. Can you guess which one is completely overpowered?
And it's a flawed concept to begin with because it treats politics and economics as the exact same thing.
But enough on why civ5's social policies make absolutely no sense as a real world parallel, it works well as a game and that seems to have been the only consideration given over what to update for Civ5.
Ghett0
DARKLY Regular
Apparently Civ5 has a workshop mod called Civ Nights that rocks the kazbah on multiple levels, although people complain it makes the game ROYALLY hard.
Civ 2 ruled. It had a little bit of everything boss, from the hilarious advisors (military roid machine was a lolercoaster) to bitchin Wonder cinematics.
As righteous as the game is, though, shit takes forever. George R R Martin will come out with a new book before you finish a game.
Civ 2 ruled. It had a little bit of everything boss, from the hilarious advisors (military roid machine was a lolercoaster) to bitchin Wonder cinematics.
As righteous as the game is, though, shit takes forever. George R R Martin will come out with a new book before you finish a game.