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Flying Dice

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #390 on: September 11, 2011, 03:59:32 pm »

Yeah, I love the lack of stacking solely because of the misery of AI stacks in Civ III.


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« Reply #391 on: September 11, 2011, 04:17:34 pm »

Has anyone here tried Civ V NiGHTS? It sounds pretty awesome. Unfortunately I am on a Mac which means I can't even fricking use mods yet.

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Why, in a competitive game, would you play as Greece?

Hugs time with all the city-states and they give you whatever you need basically. Greece is boring (diplo wins are super dull in Civ 5) but very strong in my experience.
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« Reply #392 on: September 11, 2011, 05:45:57 pm »

I found civ V to be rather boring in comparison to IV, I think it is mostly the huge penalties for conquering other civs.
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« Reply #393 on: September 11, 2011, 07:01:50 pm »

I found civ V to be rather boring in comparison to IV, I think it is mostly the huge penalties for conquering other civs.

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« Reply #394 on: September 11, 2011, 07:26:24 pm »

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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #395 on: September 12, 2011, 02:35:17 am »

Except your 500 gold.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #396 on: September 12, 2011, 03:41:18 am »

Just picked this up today, so this might be shortsighted, but the happiness penalty for annexing really doesn't seem to be a big deal. I annexed two cities around the same time and only ended up at -2 happiness, and since that ended the war I had the opportunity to build some happiness buildings and courthouses.
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« Reply #397 on: September 12, 2011, 04:02:24 am »

Oh, and as far as Civ 5 vs. 4. I don't actually mind the new systems in 5. I think they're pretty decent. Civ 5 feels like a smaller game though, with its fewer units and archers shooting over swordsmen and NPCs, I mean city-states, that you do quests for. It'd be awesome to mod it as a much smaller-scale game, for that reason – Civ 5 seems like a better fit for imaginary hundreds of people doing stuff instead of imaginary thousands/millions.

The main problem with Civ 5 is that its endgames are the worst/slowest of any version of Civilization to date.

This was brought home for me about an hour ago, taking a Civ 4 BTS game to its final stages. Playing Japan, cruising to either a space or cultural win (dunno which will come first, kind of backed into the cultural trajectory with a couple of corporations), not really worried about anybody. On another continent, Gilgamesh DOWs Mansa, Mansa turns out to have been beelining Industrialism, punks Gilgamesh's riflemen with a stack of tanks (when does the AI ever use tanks?!), vassalizes both Sumer and its colony, Babylon, then starts to go completely apeshit on the really backward countries. He yells at one of them and gets a third vassal, then DOWs Genghis who is halfway around the world from him, and I realize, frickin' Mansa Musa is going for domination. With tanks. I buy peace from Mansa for Mass Media and Fascism, but see, now I have to deal with that, and I've never seen Civ 5's situations develop anywhere near as surprisingly.
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« Reply #398 on: September 12, 2011, 04:40:20 am »

I've found that every alternate release in the Civ series was what the previous game could and should have been - so Civ II was what the original Civ should have been, and Civ IV was what Civ III should have been.

Waiting hopefully for Civ VI...
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« Reply #399 on: September 12, 2011, 05:39:06 am »

In terms of the Civ 4 v. Civ 5 debate, I have but one thing to point out.

Civ 5
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« Reply #400 on: September 12, 2011, 05:49:32 am »

In terms of the Civ 4 v. Civ 5 debate, I have but one thing to point out.

Civ 5
Civ 4

Ahh yes, two websites! genius!

What exactly am I looking at?
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« Reply #401 on: September 12, 2011, 05:58:17 am »

Ahh yes, two websites! genius!

What exactly am I looking at?

The amount of mods, I reckon.
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« Reply #402 on: September 12, 2011, 06:30:02 am »

The amount of mods, I reckon.

Really? because that would seem an unreasonable comparison considering how much longer Civ 4 has been around.

Personally I like most of Civ 5 changes other than the lack of diplomacy options and the almost non-existence city building side of it, but then vanilla Civ 4 before the three huge expansions was missing a lot as well so we will see.
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« Reply #403 on: September 12, 2011, 10:38:02 am »

The amount of mods, I reckon.

Really? because that would seem an unreasonable comparison considering how much longer Civ 4 has been around.

Civ 5 has been out for a year. I would have expected at least a dozen mods by now.
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Re: Civilization V
« Reply #404 on: September 12, 2011, 10:40:53 am »

The amount of mods, I reckon.

Really? because that would seem an unreasonable comparison considering how much longer Civ 4 has been around.

Civ 5 has been out for a year. I would have expected at least a dozen mods by now.

There are absolutely loads of mods available for download within the ingame mod browser.
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