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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #180 on: September 24, 2010, 06:04:10 pm »

Not necessarily civ v, but still an awesome civ-related video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6wlTDPiPU&feature=sub
That... was terrible.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #181 on: September 24, 2010, 09:39:09 pm »

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« Reply #182 on: September 24, 2010, 09:45:00 pm »

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #183 on: September 24, 2010, 09:45:46 pm »

Is there ANYWAY around the long turn times?

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #184 on: September 24, 2010, 09:50:01 pm »

In terms of waiting for the AI, or how long the turns take you to finish?
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #185 on: September 24, 2010, 10:25:41 pm »

How long the turns take to process

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #186 on: September 24, 2010, 10:35:48 pm »

In terms of waiting for the AI, or how long it takes you to process all your actions?

If it's the former, the solution is to upgrade your computer. Sorry, bro, but this has always been an issue with Civ games: turn rollover takes processing power.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #187 on: September 24, 2010, 10:41:56 pm »

Be sure to have a defragmenter go over your civ5 install.

That fixes some loading time issues.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #188 on: September 24, 2010, 11:05:26 pm »

so is there an elvis cameo in civ5?

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #189 on: September 25, 2010, 12:34:09 am »

Be sure to have a defragmenter go over your civ5 install.

That fixes some loading time issues.
Are you talking about the steam 'Defragment local files' option?
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #190 on: September 25, 2010, 12:35:57 am »

Be sure to have a defragmenter go over your civ5 install.

That fixes some loading time issues.
Are you talking about the steam 'Defragment local files' option?
That thing is awful.
Awful.
No no, use an actual defragmenter.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #191 on: September 25, 2010, 12:41:44 am »

Be sure to have a defragmenter go over your civ5 install.

That fixes some loading time issues.
Are you talking about the steam 'Defragment local files' option?
That thing is awful.
Awful.
No no, use an actual defragmenter.
I was curious if I actually need to do this, as I stopped doing regular defrags a few years ago when the HDD seek times generally rose so much that I saw no performance gain. I checked my HDD fragmentation and it was at 3%, did a quick defrag and I see no difference. I'm guessing this only helps if you have a very high fragmentation rate, which only really happens if your drive is near capacity and/or you constantly delete data and write new data like with video editing. It's also pretty rough on your drive.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #192 on: September 25, 2010, 02:34:15 am »

I just tried the demo, and found it... well, a little boring. By turn 75 I had one city still, and so did everyone else, and the entire first 75 turns had consisted of building two or three buildings, building three units total, a worker, a scout, and an archer - my initial warrior or whatever upgraded into a pikeman through ancient ruins and then ran around killing barbarians with either the scout or archer assisting at any given time. And that was about it. That was about two hours of hitting 'next turn' because it takes 5-12 turns to build anything.

(I used to play Civ IV, but I haven't played it in something like 3 years, having eventually gotten quite bored of it as well. Pretty much the only 4X games I play anymore are things like Sword of the Stars.)

I was a little surprised. I expected to run out of turns in the demo and end up wanting to keep playing. Instead I ended up exiting around turn 75 because I wasn't enjoying it at all.  :o
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #193 on: September 25, 2010, 02:45:18 am »

So try a faster pace, if the demo has it. IIRC there are 4 speeds the game can be played at. I like the longer ones personally.
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« Reply #194 on: September 25, 2010, 03:57:11 am »

The demo has "standard," and standard is what the demo has. Standard you shall play, no less and no more. To try it on a quicker speed I would have to either buy it or pirate it, and I don't intend to pirate it in order to try it on a quicker speed. As for buying it, from what I've seen I wouldn't get my money's worth of fun.
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