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Post by Kaez on Jun 18, 2012 22:33:29 GMT -5
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Post by Sekot on Jun 19, 2012 10:24:56 GMT -5
182 hours played for Civ V pre-expansion.
Shooting for 250 post expansion. WOOOOOO!!!!!
/suicide
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 19, 2012 20:22:38 GMT -5
Civ V is calling me... The people of Mumbai are starving! I must get home and rectify Gandhi's misdeeds.
I never should have purchased that game.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 19, 2012 20:37:57 GMT -5
Civ V is calling me... The people of Mumbai are starving! I must get home and rectify Gandhi's misdeeds. I never should have purchased that game. Join CivAnon, man.
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Jun 19, 2012 20:43:08 GMT -5
Civ V is calling me... The people of Mumbai are starving! I must get home and rectify Gandhi's misdeeds. I never should have purchased that game. It's addictive as crack, right?! I just started a new game as Arabia while I'm waiting to get gods and kings (Australian release date woes) and I've already spent something like 7 hours on it. Suleiman be all up in my grill but I cut off his route of expansion with a series of cities and a mountain range I've dubbed THE WALL. I had a few wars with Genghis because he was jealous about my economy so I razed all the towns he had near me and built my own so he's boxed in to his own little corner of the continent. Now I'm just happily expanding and getting more port cities for when I start to explore further abroad.
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 0:05:27 GMT -5
This new change to health and siege mechanics is asinine as fuck.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 20, 2012 0:18:46 GMT -5
Civ V is calling me... The people of Mumbai are starving! I must get home and rectify Gandhi's misdeeds. I never should have purchased that game. It's addictive as crack, right?! I just started a new game as Arabia while I'm waiting to get gods and kings (Australian release date woes) and I've already spent something like 7 hours on it. Suleiman be all up in my grill but I cut off his route of expansion with a series of cities and a mountain range I've dubbed THE WALL. I had a few wars with Genghis because he was jealous about my economy so I razed all the towns he had near me and built my own so he's boxed in to his own little corner of the continent. Now I'm just happily expanding and getting more port cities for when I start to explore further abroad. What difficulty level do you play on? I'm still involved in, literally, my first game; so I've only played on Beginner so far. No real conflict with neighboring civilizations, and I've sort of just been left to build and grow and tinker. Suleiman gave me some shit early on, but quickly realized he'd bitten off more than he could chew and sued for peace. Later Darius did the same thing while my efforts were concentrated on annexing Hanoi (they were sharing a small island with me and I wanted the whole island). Had Darius been a human player, I'd like to think he would have been surprised at how quickly Polynesians can move forces across open ocean. I drove his ass out to. It wasn't until I started expanding and gandhi interfered with my trade routes (which I rely on because I'm rich as fuuuuck) that I started getting agressive. He tried to beg me to stop whoopin' on him with an even Open Borders peace treaty. I said no to that, and three turns later he offered me damn near every trade they could make as well as two cities to get me to back off. I accepted that, but I wish I'd looked at it a little closer before accepting. They saddled me with the starving city of Mumbai which is just drainng resources as I try to get it back to functional. Passive aggressive asshole, that's what Gandhi is.
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Jun 20, 2012 5:29:27 GMT -5
It's addictive as crack, right?! I just started a new game as Arabia while I'm waiting to get gods and kings (Australian release date woes) and I've already spent something like 7 hours on it. Suleiman be all up in my grill but I cut off his route of expansion with a series of cities and a mountain range I've dubbed THE WALL. I had a few wars with Genghis because he was jealous about my economy so I razed all the towns he had near me and built my own so he's boxed in to his own little corner of the continent. Now I'm just happily expanding and getting more port cities for when I start to explore further abroad. What difficulty level do you play on? I'm still involved in, literally, my first game; so I've only played on Beginner so far. No real conflict with neighboring civilizations, and I've sort of just been left to build and grow and tinker. Suleiman gave me some shit early on, but quickly realized he'd bitten off more than he could chew and sued for peace. Later Darius did the same thing while my efforts were concentrated on annexing Hanoi (they were sharing a small island with me and I wanted the whole island). Had Darius been a human player, I'd like to think he would have been surprised at how quickly Polynesians can move forces across open ocean. I drove his ass out to. It wasn't until I started expanding and gandhi interfered with my trade routes (which I rely on because I'm rich as fuuuuck) that I started getting agressive. He tried to beg me to stop whoopin' on him with an even Open Borders peace treaty. I said no to that, and three turns later he offered me damn near every trade they could make as well as two cities to get me to back off. I accepted that, but I wish I'd looked at it a little closer before accepting. They saddled me with the starving city of Mumbai which is just drainng resources as I try to get it back to functional. Passive aggressive asshole, that's what Gandhi is.Lol'd But yeah, I'm playing as Arabia on Prince or King (can't remember) on marathon and Scrooge Mcducking in to pools of money. Extra gold from trade routes and Bazaars that give me extra luxuries to trade is lovely, so is the natural wonder that is essentially a mountain of gold. My GDP is something like 145 to the average 45 in the demographics window. At the moment I'm set up to be the ruler of my continent, which I should screenshot because I feel it's the best looking continent I've gotten from the world seeds.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 11:15:30 GMT -5
What difficulty level do you play on? I'm still involved in, literally, my first game; so I've only played on Beginner so far. No real conflict with neighboring civilizations, and I've sort of just been left to build and grow and tinker. On Settler, Chieftain, and Warlord difficulty levels, you get bonus happiness, lower maintenance costs, better results from Ancient Ruins, barbarians are less aggressive, and AI is less smart and less likely to attack you (on Settler and Chieftain, they basically -never- will pre-1900). Prince is 'normal' difficulty. Everything above Prince, and the AI gets all the kinds of bonuses that -you- get on Settler/Chieftain/Warlord. 1. Don't plan on being rich as fuck most of the time you play. Once you move up to Prince/King (the most common difficulty levels -- and the most fun, IMO), you're going to have plenty of games where you're using every dime you get to keep yourself afloat. Though, yeah, you'll have games with Arabian trade routes like Dragon's got where you're rollin' in money. 2. Never trust Gandhi. 3. We need a goddamn Civ thread.
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 11:37:25 GMT -5
I really wish they'd implement joint domination victories and vasal states. While vasal states aren't really all that great, I'd like to make buddies with at least someone every once in awhile instead of stabbing them in the back with a nuke to their capital.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 11:42:14 GMT -5
I really wish they'd implement joint domination victories and vasal states. While vasal states aren't really all that great, I'd like to make buddies with at least someone every once in awhile instead of stabbing them in the back with a nuke to their capital. You can have city states as allies or you can bully them. That's as vasal as it gets.
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 11:46:19 GMT -5
I really wish they'd implement joint domination victories and vasal states. While vasal states aren't really all that great, I'd like to make buddies with at least someone every once in awhile instead of stabbing them in the back with a nuke to their capital. You can have city states as allies or you can bully them. That's as vasal as it gets. I mean like allies with actual nations. I've got this awesome relationship with Korea who waffles between adoration and scared as shit and doesn't give no fucks that I'm swallowing every other nation on the continent. I guess I'm just a little too attached to my AI partners.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2012 12:23:26 GMT -5
You can have city states as allies or you can bully them. That's as vasal as it gets. I mean like allies with actual nations. I've got this awesome relationship with Korea who waffles between adoration and scared as shit and doesn't give no fucks that I'm swallowing every other nation on the continent. I guess I'm just a little too attached to my AI partners. Happens to me all the time in Civ games. Hell, sometimes I even respect my adversaries enough that I don't want to wipe them out.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 13:25:12 GMT -5
You can have city states as allies or you can bully them. That's as vasal as it gets. I mean like allies with actual nations. I've got this awesome relationship with Korea who waffles between adoration and scared as shit and doesn't give no fucks that I'm swallowing every other nation on the continent. I guess I'm just a little too attached to my AI partners. Which makes me think online multiplayer Civ would have to be fucking -awesome-. So, started up my first G&K game. I'm 150 turns in on Marathon/Huge/Prince with Boudicca. It's 2000 BC. Thanks to the Celtic faith bonus, two turns ago I got a Great Prophet and founded the world's first religion, Druidism. Edinburgh's got a population of 5 that's increasing every 15 to 20 turns. You can see the little star and crescent logo next to it -- that's my religion. I've got ivory and deer waiting to be trapped, two fish and a pearl (which is being worked), built Stonehenge (I'm raking in +10 faith per turn), and am currently building the Great Library. I've explored the whole continent save what appears to be a very small section blocked off by Gandhi. Jerusalem is very nearby and I immediately pledged to protect them and have since killed some barbs for them. They're giving me faith each turn. Despite doing really well with faith and culture, I'm fairly broke at the moment. Within a few turns I should be able to afford buying a worker to start getting some improvements built on the deer and the ivory. After that, hopefully a settler. I'm eyeing up the tile that the cursor's over -- it's surrounded by at least three forest tiles, which means it garners +2 faith per turn, it's got some good resources, and it's between me and Jerusalem -- who are definitely going to be my allies for the long game. Even if the +2 they offer isn't much, there's a part of me that automatically roleplays when I play Civ. If I'm playing the Mongols, fuck yeah I'm going to tear shit up. If I'm playing as America, I'm manifesting destiny. If I'm playing as the Celts, I figure I should be full-on religiously dedicated and take real and literal advantage of surrounding my cities by forest, even if it's a statistical disadvantage. The only thing I'm not perfectly sure about is when they say the Celts get +2 faith if a city is surrounded by forest, do they mean the city's -borders- or the -city tile itself-? I might quickly start up a few new games just to immediately settle in a place that will unveil that information to me. So yeah. Having a ton of fun. India to my east and the Mongols to the south are going to inevitably provide some conflict sooner or later, but for now I'm just building up my sole city and worshiping the hell out of some religion.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 20, 2012 15:03:23 GMT -5
Fucking Gandhi.
I imagine it'd be just the tile; otherwise you'd essentially be discouraged from growing your city. There just aren't that many -big- forests.
Also, your hexes are very hexy... ew.
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