That’s something I commented on to a friend of mine the day after it came out. He asked how it was, and I just told him that I didn’t see any realistic way to be a more passive civilization and to actually win. It seems that the other civs spend a ridiculous amount of their production on nothing but military units.
Whether that’s because they assume they’re going to have to gang-bang your civ, or they are so aggressive because those are the tools they spent all their production on, it’s always going to come down to a fight.
France: Come join us in a pact of secrecy against Elizabeth.
Me: Sure
England: Come join us in a pact of secrecy against Napoleon
Me: Never!
(Repeat above 10 times)
England: I’ve decided to wipe you out now. Prepare to die.
Me: Hey Napoleon. You know how we’ve been conspiring against Elizabeth for 2000 years? Time to join me in a kicking her ass.
France: I don’t see that as being practical at this time.
Me: What about if I offer you EVERYTHING I possibly can?
France: I don’t see that as being practical at this time.
“Civilization V has been updated with free DLC! The Civilization and Scenario Pack: Mongols (Genghis Khan) is now available.” says my Steam. Too busy playing Fallout to try it out, though.
You guys should give it a try. It’s pretty good. I wouldn’t say the AI is Napoleon, but The Black Prince has been getting a run for his money around Tours.
Anyone know if it’s possible to encourage a foreign unit out of your territory, short of declaring war or waiting for the Open Borders treat to expire? I have the annoying problem that several units are parked in spots that I want to upgrade.
How much does the computer cheat on king? Is it viable to do anything but pump out military units on it?
Just seems like everyone has a gigantic advantage over me. One country in particular had more and bigger cities than me, about 25-30 military units to my 5, had 1200 gold in the bank, and didn’t seem to be suffering in any significant way - yet they hadn’t done anything better than I had so far in the game.
It does cheat. It cheats on anything above Prince. The only way I’ve been able to win on king is to pump out units and take over the first two civs I meet. Even then that only keeps me an age behind the top person, as opposed to being 2 or 3.
There seem to be a lot more quotes from the Bible to go along with technologies in Civ 5 than the other Civs. Has anyone else noticed this. What do people make of it.
No, he really doesn’t. I think they picked him because he’s a staple of computer game voice overs, rather than because he fits the context of Civ particularly well or has specific gravitas.
Played my first multiplayer game. It went pretty smoothly, pretty fun. I might try to start organizing games. Playing on quick you can get a game done in 5-6 hours, but I think you can save/resume, so we could just schedule ourselves up and play it 2 hours at a time and use vent for voice chat.
If you’re interested in SDMB games of civ 5, add me (senorbeef) on steam and I’ll coordinate it.
Tried out the 100-turn Mongols scenario and beat it on King with almost 30 turns to spare. It was quite fun, if a bit easier than I expected. I even researched the wrong things - was aiming for Riflemen but didn’t even reach them before I won, and the Musketmen I did get were too slow to reach the battle. Should’ve just aimed for Lancers instead. :smack:
First game for me since the patch. Loved the changes I noticed, like puppet-states not building anything useless and city razing made a lot easier since you don’t take even a short-term happiness hit.
So, to go along with my laptop woes, I am now having Civ5 woes.
I can’t seem to load any of my cloud-games. When I click on them it just gives me the spinning globe thing forever.
When I try to start a new game it loads fairly quickly. The problem is that I can’t DO anything with my units. When I click on them I don’t get the rectangle that usually shows up on the lower left of the screen that has all of the build options and such.
Is this something that I can fix? Is it a known problem? I haven’t seen anything on the Steam Civ5 forums about it.
All I want to do is create one civ but this is, obviously, totally beyond me. Even reading the idiot’s guide, the XML or whatever the hell it is make my eyes crossed. Anyone wanna build a mod for me? I just want to add a few civilizations.
Whilst I have no issue at all with the Bible quotes, I find that, overall, the quotes in Civ V aren’t quite as… fitting? as the ones in Civ IV.
And Leonard Nimoy is a tough act to follow, definitely, but I think the actor they’ve got is fine for it. Personally I’d like to see Patrick Stewart providing the Narration, though:
Cheer up, Player! The “C” in Civilisation V doesn’t stand for “Crestfallen”… But what if it stood for “Cat”? Well, then you’d be playing as the Egyptians."
Anyone else bummed out at the totally underwhelming ending when (if) you win?
Last night I finished a Huge map and won the game with 6 turns to spare with a Tech Victory by launching my spaceship. Did I get to see the spaceship launch? Nope, not really. The game immediately overlaid the statistics panel and I got to see just a teeny bit of the launch, very dimmed out, as the rocket moved from under the stats screen. Pissed me off.
Plus the stats screen seems just lame. Barely any info in there.
And that is about it. No fanfare. No nothing really. Just the end.
After playing across days and many hours I want something more.
Oh, also got to use a nuke for my first time. That was gratifying and fun to watch. It was near the very end of the game though so had no real effect except as an “up yours” to Napoleon (he had it coming).
Beyond killing people in a city do nukes destroy any buildings in the city?
ETA: This narrator is good. People may have a preference for him or Nimoy but that is subjective. This guy does a very good job as well IMO.
