I absolutely loved the demo, but it also prompted me to reinstall Civ IV and I find myself wondering if the upgrade is really worth it at this price. The visual leap isn't THAT big, and Civ IV still plays fine, and has better music and narration to boot...
Don't get me wrong, I'll get this eventually, but I do recommend people who are on the fence at launch pricing to reinstall Civ IV and see if you can't wait a bit too.
I was crushed by the far superior Ottomon military forces. I defeat him in a war, and think i'm in good shape defensively...and then all of a sudden he has cannons and riflemen and I'm still happy with my crossbows!
Now I know what it feels like to be an AI in a previous Civ game...
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I assume if you use a Great Artist to Culture bomb an area of the map, you can't take over actual cities that way, can you? Only all their land surrounding it?
Yeah, cities no longer flip from culture. You're going to have to invade it.
Man, I cannot wait for Pitboss. I yearn for it in ways that are not appropriate for a married man. I desperately want to call in sick (with the Civpox) but we have a new guy starting and I have to do the orientation thing.
I guess he's probably going to learn a lot about Pax Romana and the importance of letting far-flung settlements govern themselves while consolidating power around Rome.
Persia started attacking one of my Allied City-States, so I secretly fed him a few units, but the CPU is stupid and looked like it wasn't going to hold out so I declared war myself. Which then also set off a bunch of lateral treaty declarations of war between like 3 other city-states and Persia.
Sadly I made a mistake and lost my L3 Trebuchet with a General on it
Hmm, late game could use a bit of optimizing as far as turn ending and saving and loading goes. Also finally got my first crash after Civ5 started using 2.8gb of memory.
The only reason I stopped playing is because the game crashed....
I am so screwed
Also, if the Ottoman's touch Oslo again I will go ape shit. I am only taking one city from them for now but if they touch a city state under Roman protection again....
To Disable the Intro Videos
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4) Change the 0 to 1
Enjoy.
Unskippable intros are the worst intros.
You can skip the intros after the game finishes loading. If you disable videos you just stare at a blank screen until the game loads
Hope the irrationally aggressive AI is just a bug or something. I really hated that in Civ Rev as well. You were just counting down the turns until someone declared war on you for no reason.
I guess someone can probably mod it up.
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China is a powerhouse. Easy and better great generals? Yes please! The difference is 45% instead of 25% for regular great generals. Which means I got my first general near the start of my first war, and then I was able to take over cities with just 2-3 melee units, especially after they get some healing upgrades, because I can damage and heal faster than their cities can.
I've wiped out every civ that thought it was smart to fight me, and then I decided to take over the one who thought he was allowed to be Hostile to me. Now I finally found Japan in the Americas, but he has like 2/5 my score so I'm not really concerned about him as long as he doesn't build any wonders. If he does, he dies.
Puppet states are pretty nice for reducing the micromanaging. I only annex cities if I suddenly need to build a unit for defense or if it looks like it can be a good wonder city.
Oh god it's five AM! What happened? lol, looks like that's what's happening to everyone else, too. I just finished my first ever game of Civ. Didn't get too far tech wise, apparently I won via domination the first enemy city I destroyed... must it have been his capitol? It took a long time and was quite fun though.
Nobunaga just gave me a city for 200 gold and the promise of some luxury items for a short time.
The city is treated like any other captured city - raze, annex, puppet.
This is probably the first thing that I am actually disappointed in.
Maybe Nobunaga had a problem with unhappyness and the reduced population and extra happiness from the luxuries worked for him. Still, which difficulty are you playing on? I noticed the demo is set to chieftain which is super cheesy.
Nobunaga just gave me a city for 200 gold and the promise of some luxury items for a short time.
The city is treated like any other captured city - raze, annex, puppet.
This is probably the first thing that I am actually disappointed in.
lol, so evil.
"Grant me gold and I will give unto you this fine city, with which you can do as you please."
then you murder the population and burn the fucking city to the ground and then Oda Nobunaga swims in his pile of gold
Seriously, how can you be dissapointed with this? This is fantastic.
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This game wrecks my face. It also wrecks my laptop holy shit. I would've never even suspected a TBS of all things to require the power of my desktop for a smooth and pleasant experience, goddamn.
Nobunaga just gave me a city for 200 gold and the promise of some luxury items for a short time.
The city is treated like any other captured city - raze, annex, puppet.
This is probably the first thing that I am actually disappointed in.
lol, so evil.
"Grant me gold and I will give unto you this fine city, with which you can do as you please."
then you murder the population and burn the fucking city to the ground and then Oda Nobunaga swims in his pile of gold
Seriously, how can you be dissapointed with this? This is fantastic.
It's more he settled a city on my continent, and I'm not having any of that. As soon as I noticed, I opened a dialogue and asked him for the city. I was hoping I would have immediate access to the city, and not have to suffer through the building of a courthouse and such.
I'm still recovering from a major war wherein I wiped out Arabia and the Iroquois nations and made puppets of all their cities. Slowly annexing them as I have the funds for colosseums.
I cant get used to not being able to stack units at all. Its kind of annoying when a city is built beside like 6 mountains and theres only one square you can attack it from. And not being able to buy units if theres already a unit in the city? What the hell. Weird design choices, but i kinda understand why they did it (unit stacks would be crazy powerful against cities this time around).
Lack of unit stacking is GLORIOUS. It makes combat actually fun and achievable rather than the mind numbing slog of previous Civs.
And why shouldnt a city built beside 6 mountains have a strong defensive benefit?
So now that I've played through for quite a few hours, I've got a couple questions:
What makes you progress in Era/Age faster?
Are there any disadvantages to telling your workers to "automatically" do their thing?
Is there any point to telling your cities to "focus" on one thing more than others?
What makes some productions faster in some cities, but not others? Is that based on anything specific?
Is there an easy way to break a peace treaty? I played with an AI ally last night that kept making a 10-turn treaty with the only remaining enemy, and this just kept delaying my progress.
So now that I've played through for quite a few hours, I've got a couple questions:
What makes you progress in Era/Age faster?
Are there any disadvantages to telling your workers to "automatically" do their thing?
Is there any point to telling your cities to "focus" on one thing more than others?
What makes some productions faster in some cities, but not others? Is that based on anything specific?
Is there an easy way to break a peace treaty? I played with an AI ally last night that kept making a 10-turn treaty with the only remaining enemy, and this just kept delaying my progress.
1) The tech tree is divided into eras; researching the first tech of a given era grants you that era. To research better, you need to increase the number of beakers you get; this is in the upper-left hand corner, a little blue orb-looking thing. Probably a sum of all the beakers produced per city; probably based on gold and population along with buildings like the library. Don't know if there are intrinsic benefits to progressing in era.
2) Maintenance fees. Still not quite sure how they work, though
3) Telling the governor to focus on, say, Production will make it auto-assign workers to the appropriate tiles.
4) Every tile has a yield; the hammer is the production. More hammers, the stuff builds faster. There are also some buildings that make a hammer go farther.
5) Not that I've seen.
This game wrecks my face. It also wrecks my laptop holy shit. I would've never even suspected a TBS of all things to require the power of my desktop for a smooth and pleasant experience, goddamn.
This is my worry. My desktop is currently out of commission, and my laptop runs most things well, and teh demo runs great on this thing, but I'm worried about late-game. So, I'm holding off on the purchase.
Is anyone else having the rivers look like textureless blue lines with graphic glitches where they connect to the ocean?
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My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
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Don't get me wrong, I'll get this eventually, but I do recommend people who are on the fence at launch pricing to reinstall Civ IV and see if you can't wait a bit too.
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I was crushed by the far superior Ottomon military forces. I defeat him in a war, and think i'm in good shape defensively...and then all of a sudden he has cannons and riflemen and I'm still happy with my crossbows!
Now I know what it feels like to be an AI in a previous Civ game...
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To Disable the Intro Videos
1) Goto Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization V/
2) Open Usersettings.ini
3) Look for SkipIntroVideo = 0 (it shouldnt be far down)
4) Change the 0 to 1
Enjoy.
Unskippable intros are the worst intros.
Yeah, cities no longer flip from culture. You're going to have to invade it.
we eiffel towered that bro.
high five, george!
I've been playing the demo, because I'm so broke and in debt that I simply cannot afford to buy this game
but anyways
I scouted a ruin, and it turned my scouts into archers
I was like "SHIT I really wanted to scout with them"
But then I noticed they still ignore terrain cost, so they're basically super scouts. Wonderful.
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yeah I was playing alex the great and my scouts got turned into hoplites
was wonderful
Man, I cannot wait for Pitboss. I yearn for it in ways that are not appropriate for a married man. I desperately want to call in sick (with the Civpox) but we have a new guy starting and I have to do the orientation thing.
I guess he's probably going to learn a lot about Pax Romana and the importance of letting far-flung settlements govern themselves while consolidating power around Rome.
Fuuuuuck.
why did I buy this game in the middle of a semester
Persia started attacking one of my Allied City-States, so I secretly fed him a few units, but the CPU is stupid and looked like it wasn't going to hold out so I declared war myself. Which then also set off a bunch of lateral treaty declarations of war between like 3 other city-states and Persia.
Sadly I made a mistake and lost my L3 Trebuchet with a General on it
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I started playing at 11 figuring I'd go for an hour and then hit the sack
4 hours later I am going to bed
I did crush Montezuma under the mighty boot of the Russian empire though 8-)
It is 4:10 AM
I wanted to sleep tonight
The only reason I stopped playing is because the game crashed....
I am so screwed
You can skip the intros after the game finishes loading. If you disable videos you just stare at a blank screen until the game loads
I guess someone can probably mod it up.
Want me some Panzers, dammit.
Yes, surprisingly.
Oh hey, it's 4:10 for me as well, an hour later.
China is a powerhouse. Easy and better great generals? Yes please! The difference is 45% instead of 25% for regular great generals. Which means I got my first general near the start of my first war, and then I was able to take over cities with just 2-3 melee units, especially after they get some healing upgrades, because I can damage and heal faster than their cities can.
I've wiped out every civ that thought it was smart to fight me, and then I decided to take over the one who thought he was allowed to be Hostile to me. Now I finally found Japan in the Americas, but he has like 2/5 my score so I'm not really concerned about him as long as he doesn't build any wonders. If he does, he dies.
Puppet states are pretty nice for reducing the micromanaging. I only annex cities if I suddenly need to build a unit for defense or if it looks like it can be a good wonder city.
This is on Prince difficulty.
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The city is treated like any other captured city - raze, annex, puppet.
This is probably the first thing that I am actually disappointed in.
Needless to say; I'm enjoying this game!
lol, so evil.
"Grant me gold and I will give unto you this fine city, with which you can do as you please."
then you murder the population and burn the fucking city to the ground and then Oda Nobunaga swims in his pile of gold
Maybe Nobunaga had a problem with unhappyness and the reduced population and extra happiness from the luxuries worked for him. Still, which difficulty are you playing on? I noticed the demo is set to chieftain which is super cheesy.
Seriously, how can you be dissapointed with this? This is fantastic.
It's more he settled a city on my continent, and I'm not having any of that. As soon as I noticed, I opened a dialogue and asked him for the city. I was hoping I would have immediate access to the city, and not have to suffer through the building of a courthouse and such.
I'm still recovering from a major war wherein I wiped out Arabia and the Iroquois nations and made puppets of all their cities. Slowly annexing them as I have the funds for colosseums.
Lack of unit stacking is GLORIOUS. It makes combat actually fun and achievable rather than the mind numbing slog of previous Civs.
And why shouldnt a city built beside 6 mountains have a strong defensive benefit?
What makes you progress in Era/Age faster?
Are there any disadvantages to telling your workers to "automatically" do their thing?
Is there any point to telling your cities to "focus" on one thing more than others?
What makes some productions faster in some cities, but not others? Is that based on anything specific?
Is there an easy way to break a peace treaty? I played with an AI ally last night that kept making a 10-turn treaty with the only remaining enemy, and this just kept delaying my progress.
Can't say I'd use it myself, but the option's there for those that would. It's heartening to see modders moving so fast on Civ5.
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1) The tech tree is divided into eras; researching the first tech of a given era grants you that era. To research better, you need to increase the number of beakers you get; this is in the upper-left hand corner, a little blue orb-looking thing. Probably a sum of all the beakers produced per city; probably based on gold and population along with buildings like the library. Don't know if there are intrinsic benefits to progressing in era.
2) Maintenance fees. Still not quite sure how they work, though
3) Telling the governor to focus on, say, Production will make it auto-assign workers to the appropriate tiles.
4) Every tile has a yield; the hammer is the production. More hammers, the stuff builds faster. There are also some buildings that make a hammer go farther.
5) Not that I've seen.
This is my worry. My desktop is currently out of commission, and my laptop runs most things well, and teh demo runs great on this thing, but I'm worried about late-game. So, I'm holding off on the purchase.
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And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
I have that problem.