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Subject: Anyone play Civilization 5?
Recently got this and started playing(still learning).

Played a few Single Player games, only managed to win one :P

Can never seem to find a Multiplayer game though, probably because they go for hours.

If anyone here plays and is up for a game sometime, I'd like to have a go at it.

Also if you are pretty good at it I could use some more advanced tips. I think I got the basics down mostly.

 

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advanced tips: trading post on every tile when you're big enough to be stagnant! :P

 

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Subject: Anyone play Civilization 5?
Bought it, played it for all of 10 days. Grew to hate it with a passion. Will never even look at a Civ product again.

A month before Cata came out I canceled WoW and bought Civ 5 expecting that even if it was not that good I could live with playing it for a month. 10 days later I wrote my "Civ 5 sucks, farewell" speech on the Civ forums. What a waste of effort.

I won't waste any more of my time by explaining in detail all the problems but being forced to install Stream was a BIG part of my dis-satisfaction.

If you have not bought it yet do not waste your money. Their good days are WAY in the past.

 

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I played few weeks. It's not as good a Civ IV BtS. In fact you should lurk on Civ Fanatics Forum to learn more about this game.

It's a great franchise but some thinks it's going down. The new 1upt (one unit per tile) is not such a great idea and the engine needs work (marathon game on huge map are extremely laggy at end game).

It is also way to easy. I can win without difficulty at Prince level while I needed a lot of practice in the former incarnation of Civ to beat the AI.

I really hope they will fix all the issues but some basic design decisions might not be fixable; a good read about this could be found here.

They lost the lead designer few weeks ago so could the current staff fix the game? We shall see.

 

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from what I've read the AI doesn't have a clue how to take advantage of the one unit per tile thing, so basically they messed up the franchise with it.

I love 4 but 5 has not enticed me at all so far from reading it over.

 

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I just ordered 4, read about 5 and it has gotten terribad reviews.

 

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I find Civ 5 to be a step forward from Civ 4 but still not up to the level of Civ 2.

 

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I dislike Civ 5. I am a peaceful researcher, laying low and paying for peace until i break out and slaughter everyone. I played that way since Civ2 and that is not a way to play in Civ 5. Worst game of the franchise.

 

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Ya, installing Steam sucks. I never wanted to touch it, ever. But wanted to try out Civ 5, so meh.

I'm new to the series, as I prefer RTS games like Company of Heroes and Starcraft. So I don't know what the older ones were like.

Can't seem to find anyone to play multi with though, so will probably end up not playing it anymore soon :o

 

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Subject: Anyone play Civilization 5?
Nope. Didn't even know Civ V was out. Love Civ IV. Absolutely love it.


We have Civ forums?

 

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Baah!!

 

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Funny, for me a game being on/having steamplay is a bonus xD

 

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Bought it, played it a little bit, and now I've shelved it in the hopes that they make it actually function properly at some point. Kinda like Cataclysm =P

 

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It is very much inferior to Civ4.

But i can't play Civ4 anymore, since i found the ctrl+w command to open the editor and cheat. I like to play higher diff to have better AI ( because it sucks so bad omg ) but i hate their cheating bonus included with higher difficulty.

 

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I'm still playing Civ Revolution on PS3....love that game so hard plain

 

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+1 on the not as good as 4 comments.

 

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Racines posted:
I played few weeks. It's not as good a Civ IV BtS. In fact you should lurk on Civ Fanatics Forum to learn more about this game.

It's a great franchise but some thinks it's going down. The new 1upt (one unit per tile) is not such a great idea and the engine needs work (marathon game on huge map are extremely laggy at end game).




The one unit per tile adds more strategic placement.

I actually like Civ V as much as Civ IV but, in a different way. Civ V does not replace Civ IV, just adds a different way of playing.

 

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Ya, installing Steam sucks. I never wanted to touch it, ever. But wanted to try out Civ 5, so meh.

I'm new to the series, as I prefer RTS games like Company of Heroes and Starcraft. So I don't know what the older ones were like.

Can't seem to find anyone to play multi with though, so will probably end up not playing it anymore soon :o


Don't know why everyone is so ANTI Steam... it's not like people don't have internet connections. I bought The Witcher for a whopping $6 on there and have put over 40 hours into it (not done yet). Best money spent.

 

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Ya, installing Steam sucks. I never wanted to touch it, ever. But wanted to try out Civ 5, so meh.

I'm new to the series, as I prefer RTS games like Company of Heroes and Starcraft. So I don't know what the older ones were like.

Can't seem to find anyone to play multi with though, so will probably end up not playing it anymore soon :o


Don't know why everyone is so ANTI Steam... it's not like people don't have internet connections. I bought The Witcher for a whopping $6 on there and have put over 40 hours into it (not done yet). Best money spent.

Yeah, I got some good deals on Steam too. My only concern is if my computer crashes, I have like 50 games to reinstall on it lol.

 

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The tactical aspects of CiV 5 make it superior to the previous games. The hex and 1 unit per tile were brilliant design decisions. It's also not as hard to win the non-militaristic routes as people make it out to be.

Having said that, the AI at the medium and upper medium difficulties is awful. It doesn't know (at least before the last patch) how to seige, defend or use horses correctly. It's city placement is also bad to atrocious depending on who the opponent is. It's also very easy to speed tech key units in order to crush AI opponents.

Second, the MP is unplayable. There is no combat log and no game replays, so it's next to impossible to both play the game or figure out what you've done right or wrong after the fact. The simultaneous turns also ruin the experience. You basically end up in a "who can click faster" match whenever your units are near the enemy. It's also impossible to tell what's happening when there are no unit animations or a combat log to parse. Lastly, the MP is unstable (to put it nicely) over the internet. It constantly drops players or crashes the game all together. I was only able to complete MP over a LAN because the friend I was playing with lived a block away.

Civ V could have been a 5/5, but it was only 50%-60% complete when it was released. I've played about 5 full SP matches at King difficulty and up. I also played 2 complete MP matches with a friend and then threw the game in the trash. It would take another year of patches before the game was both feature complete and bug free.

If you want to play the game and learn the hard way how bad it is, these are the best free game and strategy resources that I've found online:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=372188
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6279243/p-2.html
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?93620-Civ-V-Handbook-for-Despots-amp-Dictators
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?92952-The-Ever-Adaptable-Strategy-Archive

edit: I think the best indicator that the game was released half done was when community members found the half complete game replay files and began creating an open source project to read and show them over the internet. You're telling me the developers couldn't do this better and in a much shorter period of time?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=388160

/rant off and I'm still only this angry because the game could have been epic, especially in MP.

 

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Thanks for saving me the time/money. Seems Civ is on a power of 2 success path. 1 was good, 2 was better, 4 was good... Civ 8 should be fantastic! tongue

 

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Well Civ5 is good if you are a military player. If not, you are screwed.

 

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nah, didnt play Civ 5, but I heard it was critizied (sp).

Man, I`d like to see a new SD Alpha Centauri. I know it wasn`t favorable but it had depth (sorta ^^).

 

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Oooooh yeah, i WANT a remake of Alpha Centauri. I still play the game every few months. Still one of the best games Sid ever did. Units customization and diplomacy is awesome.
Damn i gotta re-install now.

 

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I love 1 UPT....How else do you keep the Aztecs out of Texas.

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I want a remake of MOO2. I have CIV5 (both PC and Mac versions, the later was free as I had the PC version). It does bog down, regardless if I am under Windows 7 or OS X, in the late game. It just plays too slow for the most part; progression that is.

 

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Oooooh yeah, i WANT a remake of Alpha Centauri. I still play the game every few months. Still one of the best games Sid ever did. Units customization and diplomacy is awesome.
Damn i gotta re-install now.


The quotes from researching things were also great.

 

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Yeah if you want some randomness. I always check the option to be able to research what i want. I know the tech tree by heart. There are so many game-breaking projects(wonders) and technology in this game hehe.

 

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