The last panel was genius. I haven’t LOL’d that hard in a while.
The real Gandhi didn’t have ICBM’s. Who needs passive resistance when you have nukes. 
Just got the game last night and installed it this morning. It took some doing, at first my DVD ROM wouldn’t read the disk, and then my PC had an issue with Steam. (well, Windows did). It was very laggy using the direct X 11 settings but ran fine it seemed with DX9.
I only played a few minutes of the tutorial. I’m actually afraid that if I start playing in earnest I’ll stay up too late.
I haven’t gotten to sleep earlier than midnight since I got the game. 
And with the Steam Cloud saves, I’ve been playing a few turns even from work, since my laptop is set up to be a 3rd terminal.
-XT
I don’t suppose anyone knows how to restore the original XML files? I decided to play around with some modding to see how it works, and apparently I’m an Idiot and overwrote my originals with the modded crap versions.
I got steam, and can’t figure out how to only download a few files.
Delete the modified files and then do a integrity check. I think that’ll do it. If that doesn’t work, I’m sure someone here can e-mail originals to you.
I am currently in a marathon pangaea standard size playing Songhai.
I am finally renaissance, in game year 1180. The differences between this and the previous versions are interesting. I still have problems not wanting to make a huge network of roads 
I have found the best strategy [and moneymaker since I get triple the gold for barb kills] is to actually station a grid of my killers on the whole world so that there is someone 5 of so moves from anywhere, and not sitting in someone else’s turf. I pretty much get any barb camp within a few turns of it starting - which also gives me brownie points with the other city states. I am up to using all the specialized mounted units Songhai has, and they are fairly effective. I did have to take out 1 city state that had one of my best units blocked so he couldn’t get out to the rest of the world [silly reason I suppose =( but he had every upgrade available at the time].
I actually probably have enough units that I could roll up the world, but I am sort of seeing if I can do a peaceful win.
Though I am really tired of the damn intro movie, how do I disable the damned thing?
My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini
Change
SkipIntroVideo=0
to
SkipIntroVideo=1
Is the music better than Civ4? Any favorite pieces?
Okay, I have been playing for several days now and I have tried to like it. I really have.
But it is so slow- it is like playing a game on a Commodore 64. On my desktop (borderline meeting requirements) everything is slow and the graphics are hardly a knockout. On the laptop which is a quad core it is hardly any faster and is so buggy and it crashes frequently.
I do like some of the concepts but I think I will be playing the Bug version of BTS for a long while yet.
So really…you don’t like your obsolete computer. :dubious:
thanks!
Did you bother to read the second part about the new computer?
Did you think simply the word ‘quad core’ means state of the art in 2010?
Cherry pick all you like. This post is about Civ V, not what computers I have.
Firaxis fan boys can ignore any faults if they wish.
Love too, next time you complain about a recently released game running slow quote your specs.
A) I’ve never had any sort of slowdown whatsoever playing civ 5. My system is pretty good but I’m surprised such problems seem widespread.
B) I can’t see what in the game justifies such high requirements and why mid-range machines would be slow on occasion. It’s pretty, but it’s not like it’s doing ray tracing or something. It’s still a very nice looking simulated board game. Why it needs so much more horsepower than Civ 4 is somewhat mysterious to me.
I tried a short bout again to get used to the game…is there an optimal number of cities? I ask, because I have to fight the urge to REX.
This game definitely has higher penalties than previous games for expanding your empire. I don’t really like that because I love to play in a super expansionist way, stretching my empire as fast as practical. I played my first game that way (the one I won in 200ish turns) and while I did with a big military victory, I think I was able to unlock like 3-4 social policies all game and my cities didn’t grow very much because despite owning all but one luxury item I was constantly battling unhappiness.
Actually the game runs pretty slow for me too, as I noted earlier. I know I have an older system, so it’s not surprising. It’s playable, barely, when I run it on the DirectX 9 settings, with the graphics medium to low. I wish there was some way to make the game run better, but around 1500 AD it slows to a crawl, taking up to 5 minutes per turn and moving slow even on my turn when I click on a unit or go into a cities production. The one game I played to the 20th century basically crashes when I load it and try and go to the next turn.
I’m still enjoying the game, however.
-XT