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Post by James on Jun 20, 2012 15:04:17 GMT -5
You fuckers are going to get me to go out and buy Civ V... again.
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 15:09:34 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. If you change temperature and rainfall you can get a whole lotta forests. Production cities everywhere! Turns out I'm going to turn on Korea a bit earlier than I expected. He's grown a lot more than I think he should and he's amassed an army that's moving around my borders. Poor Korea. If only you weren't between the two halves of my civilization. |
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 15:17:21 GMT -5
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. That's what I'm thinking. And by 'hexes', you mean the Fog of War? I set mine to the lowest setting -- I like the look of the black more than the white-grey clouds. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 20, 2012 15:18:33 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. If you change temperature and rainfall you can get a whole lotta forests. Production cities everywhere! Turns out I'm going to turn on Korea a bit earlier than I expected. He's grown a lot more than I think he should and he's amassed an army that's moving around my borders. Poor Korea. If only you weren't between the two halves of my civilization. Yeah, that was India's mistake in my game, cutting my empire in half. Had to put 'em down. Snuffed out India last night, ran the Ottoman's out of town. Only one left on my shit-list is the Persians. Then Rome to finish off the continent, then a quick naval voyage to the other continent to work on japan, Mongolia, and a few other guys I haven't met yet. As much as I'm having fun, I think I might start a new game on a higher difficulty level. Am at a point where I could trounce any of the competition, so it's more time consuming than fun at this point. |
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 15:23:27 GMT -5
If you change temperature and rainfall you can get a whole lotta forests. Production cities everywhere! Turns out I'm going to turn on Korea a bit earlier than I expected. He's grown a lot more than I think he should and he's amassed an army that's moving around my borders. Poor Korea. If only you weren't between the two halves of my civilization. Yeah, that was India's mistake in my game, cutting my empire in half. Had to put 'em down. Snuffed out India last night, ran the Ottoman's out of town. Only one left on my shit-list is the Persians. Then Rome to finish off the continent, then a quick naval voyage to the other continent to work on japan, Mongolia, and a few other guys I haven't met yet. As much as I'm having fun, I think I might start a new game on a higher difficulty level. Am at a point where I could trounce any of the competition, so it's more time consuming than fun at this point. Yeah, that's the thing about Civ games. Map size, game length, difficulty, civ choices, in-game strategies -- every little thing has a major impact. It's got nothing hardwired in it. Everything's customizable. Every game has the potentially to be radically different. So you've got to find your own sweet spot(s). |
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 15:32:05 GMT -5
I do really love the Earth map. It is by far my favorite. Either that or continents. I love building navies, even though they're only marginally useful and a pain to move around. There are so many map variants that I do and don't want to play them all. I tried archipelago and it was fuckin' awful.
I love some of the new units too. Calvary is useful. Privateers are weak as hell but a good concept, and the changes to ranged units are pretty nice too. Every tech actually has something useful in it instead of just being a stepping stone to some rush.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 20, 2012 15:36:59 GMT -5
I do really love the Earth map. It is by far my favorite. Either that or continents. I love building navies, even though they're only marginally useful and a pain to move around. There are so many map variants that I do and don't want to play them all. I tried archipelago and it was fuckin' awful. I love some of the new units too. Calvary is useful. Privateers are weak as hell but a good concept, and the changes to ranged units are pretty nice too. Every tech actually has something useful in it instead of just being a stepping stone to some rush. Earth is my favorite map for end-game, but it doesn't allow me that sense of exploration in the early game. It takes like, two or three moves of my warrior to know exactly where I am and exactly where everything else is. It robs early-game of that real sense of exploring a vast, wild, mysterious beyond -- something that seems vital to really roleplaying Civ. But once you get to the point where you've got the whole map explored, yeah, nothing's better than saying, "I conquered Europe" or the like. Archipelago's not a bad map -if- you play as Polynesia. Otherwise, agreed. I live navies, too. And navies are more useful now than they were before G&K. Which helps. |
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Post by Sekot on Jun 20, 2012 15:39:24 GMT -5
I do really love the Earth map. It is by far my favorite. Either that or continents. I love building navies, even though they're only marginally useful and a pain to move around. There are so many map variants that I do and don't want to play them all. I tried archipelago and it was fuckin' awful. I love some of the new units too. Calvary is useful. Privateers are weak as hell but a good concept, and the changes to ranged units are pretty nice too. Every tech actually has something useful in it instead of just being a stepping stone to some rush. Earth is my favorite map for end-game, but it doesn't allow me that sense of exploration in the early game. It takes like, two or three moves of my warrior to know exactly where I am and exactly where everything else is. It robs early-game of that real sense of exploring a vast, wild, mysterious beyond -- something that seems vital to really roleplaying Civ. But once you get to the point where you've got the whole map explored, yeah, nothing's better than saying, "I conquered Europe" or the like. Archipelago's not a bad map -if- you play as Polynesia. Otherwise, agreed. I live navies, too. And navies are more useful now than they were before G&K. Which helps. I like the idea of roleplaying "What if {blank} started here!?" and then going from there. Same with Total War. For me its all about what it'll look like at the end. Nothing like a tide of black crawling all over the map. And there's also nothing like rolling up with a couple of carriers full of bombers, a few battleships and a few destroyers, and demolishing anything and everything. Especially now that ships can take coastal cities. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 20, 2012 16:10:35 GMT -5
I do really love the Earth map. It is by far my favorite. Either that or continents. I love building navies, even though they're only marginally useful and a pain to move around. Are you kidding me? Naval units are fantastic! I love sitting off-shore and bombarding enemy cities to make 'em nice and soft for my infantry to move in. Couple upgrades and you get an extra hex of range and can blast away without fear of retaliation. really minimizes the casualties of your land units when they don't even have to get in range of the city until it's at like 5% health to capture. Yeah, I'm the damned scourge of the high seas. Don't fuck with my navy. |
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Post by Injin on Jun 20, 2012 16:36:22 GMT -5
Last night I started a game on the second lowest difficulty (I have to get back used to the higher ones as I get more used to Civ V again) and in the Europe/Huge map. I, as Dido and the Phonecians, started in the center of Russia of all places. So far I've expanded southwards, towards the sea, and recently creamed the Japanese, who were to my south, in a total war. By which I mean I conquered two of their cities, both capitals, and forced them to give me one more. They are underutilized, so I will have fun with the new wealth it will eventually give to me.
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jun 20, 2012 19:20:42 GMT -5
Next Friday cannot come too soon.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 20, 2012 19:31:35 GMT -5
What's next friday?
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jun 20, 2012 23:00:44 GMT -5
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Jun 21, 2012 1:32:05 GMT -5
 My capital, Mecca. Pretty simple really, had a good start next to cotton and silk with some horses and wheat. It's not particularly industrious, which is a problem for my civ in general. Most of my gold goes straight in to buildings, so I rarely get over 1k in the treasury. Science is flourishing though, you can see my academy in the left hand corner.  My first expansion was in to the fertile river valley to my east with Medina being my second city and probably most likely going to my most populous after Mecca. Damascus is my slowest growing city, but it's gold generation is legendary. It's also my highest culture generating city at the moment. Baghdad is more of a general all-around city, though like the others it lacks production. It's also still a bit of a border town and lacks many of the main facilities the bigger cites have. Khurasan is one of my newer cities, but it's position has helped it flourish. It was originally built after I razed the cities of Mongolia that were close to my lands. It's main purpose is to stop further expansion from them, but it may be turned towards culture to take advantage of its wine.  This the Mongolian lands and my most eastern city, Kufah. I founded the port city to deny the Mongolians any expansion there and as a second port city to aid naval dominance on the continent. I like to roleplay that it's where my trade with the Romans (who are further east) flourishes. It's again one of my newer cities but I'm putting some money in to getting it up to speed.  The Wall! This is my most westerly expansion, I'm roleplaying that Turkish and I signed a treaty that neither of us will expand past this point after I took the port city of Diyarbakir. Basra is going to become the bases for my military on this front while Najran is my Glorious Jewel upon the Sea.  The northern Turkish lands are fertile and green but ideal for my Camel Archers to raid as the Turks found out in our war. It's their most recent expansion since they were content to stay south so far.  Istanbul has probably the most spectacular bit of map geography going for it, so I'm glad they got the Colossus to stand there.  That's the southern seas and the other peninsula of the continent, opposite of the Turkish one.  My eastern neighbours are Rome and Germany, trade is flourishing between us. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 21, 2012 2:10:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm starting over tonight.
I wanna post screenshots I've what I've done so far, but with the game set on easy mode it doesn't feel like they count. Besides... lessons learned and such. Should be better second time around.
As soon as the expansion finishes installing.
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