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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Aug 1, 2012 17:18:32 GMT -5
Is that unusual? I got the impression that that's how most of you guys played... World Conquest that is. Is it impressive, this thing that I'm doing? One of the things I love about this game is the way that it gets simultaneously bigger and smaller. Like, as you progress (especially on a huge map) the world just seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger, but your units can cover more and more distance more quickly, so this world expansion is sort of controlled by your capabilities. And not just physically, but time spans grow and shrink as well. In the ancient era small things take centuries to achieve, multiple years fly by per turn; but as you progress, turns become shorter and shorter (by the game clock) and huge achievements are completed in comparatively small periods of time thanks to the advance of technology. It's a -great- simulation of how any society's world-view changes as time progresses and how technology has made this great big huge world seem very small and accessible. There are just so many levels of goodness in this game. Well, yeah. But I've never really played a game past the industrial era. Any longer past that and my laptop starts to struggle to decide what happens between turns. Hehe, my brand new comp is beginning to sputter a little between turns just processing everything (too many workers). I've had one CTD, yay for autosaves. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Aug 1, 2012 17:38:19 GMT -5
Well, yeah. But I've never really played a game past the industrial era. Any longer past that and my laptop starts to struggle to decide what happens between turns. Hehe, my brand new comp is beginning to sputter a little between turns just processing everything (too many workers). I've had one CTD, yay for autosaves. It's part of why I basically stopped playing. I can't do it with the hardware I have access to right now. Maybe once I get my tower back. |
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Post by Kaez on Aug 1, 2012 19:57:37 GMT -5
Just looking at the world map at the bottom there... So much orange. Is that unusual? I got the impression that that's how most of you guys played... World Conquest that is. Is it impressive, this thing that I'm doing? One of the things I love about this game is the way that it gets simultaneously bigger and smaller. Like, as you progress (especially on a huge map) the world just seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger, but your units can cover more and more distance more quickly, so this world expansion is sort of controlled by your capabilities. And not just physically, but time spans grow and shrink as well. In the ancient era small things take centuries to achieve, multiple years fly by per turn; but as you progress, turns become shorter and shorter (by the game clock) and huge achievements are completed in comparatively small periods of time thanks to the advance of technology. It's a -great- simulation of how any society's world-view changes as time progresses and how technology has made this great big huge world seem very small and accessible. There are just so many levels of goodness in this game. Yeah, the people who make Civ are -passionate as hell- about it. The leaps and bounds they've made between the Civ games are absolutely incredible. Civ V is the culmination of all of the previous games, all of the fan feedback, all of the successful mods, etc. They really know how to make videogames over there are Firaxis. Civ V is probably the greatest videogame I've ever played. It's hard to compare it to, say, Skyrim or WoW, because they're so drastically different. But Civ V is the only game I've ever played that I consider to be basically without flaws. If you were to give all games a perfect 10.0 to start with and detract for faults, I don't think I could take anything away from Civ V. 1) I love this story. 2) Play 'Empire of the Smoky Skies' next, please. Take SS's along the way, too. I promise you'll enjoy it. 3) Yeah, I've had a bit of slowdown in the end-game too. There's just -so much- going on. What size map did you use for this one, anyway? And how did you go about making your own, exactly? |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Aug 1, 2012 20:22:11 GMT -5
This game is on a "Huge" sized map, set to marathon, of course.
It's also a randomly generated map, but I'm assuming when you ask how I made my own you're referring to the Hawaii map I did, yes?
I might do the Empire of the Smoky Skies thing, I'm usually not big on scenarios, but I'll check it out.
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Post by Kaez on Aug 1, 2012 22:16:49 GMT -5
This game is on a "Huge" sized map, set to marathon, of course. It's also a randomly generated map, but I'm assuming when you ask how I made my own you're referring to the Hawaii map I did, yes? I might do the Empire of the Smoky Skies thing, I'm usually not big on scenarios, but I'll check it out. 1. Yeah, is it the 'WorldBuilder' tool Google's telling me about? 2. I'm not either, but this one is full-on. All the Civs, trees, units, and everything are unique to the scenario and they're all Steampunk. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Aug 1, 2012 22:26:50 GMT -5
This game is on a "Huge" sized map, set to marathon, of course. It's also a randomly generated map, but I'm assuming when you ask how I made my own you're referring to the Hawaii map I did, yes? I might do the Empire of the Smoky Skies thing, I'm usually not big on scenarios, but I'll check it out. 1. Yeah, is it the 'WorldBuilder' tool Google's telling me about? 2. I'm not either, but this one is full-on. All the Civs, trees, units, and everything are unique to the scenario and they're all Steampunk. I could maybe do a small one of those over the weekend. Playing that scenario on Marathon isn't really required, as the tech difference doesn't even go for that long. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Aug 2, 2012 0:18:55 GMT -5
This game is on a "Huge" sized map, set to marathon, of course. It's also a randomly generated map, but I'm assuming when you ask how I made my own you're referring to the Hawaii map I did, yes? I might do the Empire of the Smoky Skies thing, I'm usually not big on scenarios, but I'll check it out. 1. Yeah, is it the 'WorldBuilder' tool Google's telling me about? Go to Steam --> View --> Tools --> Sid Meier's Civilization v SDK --> Download. The go to this handy little link: www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/13/how-to-make-a-map-in-civilization-v/Interesting. . . |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Aug 2, 2012 4:34:42 GMT -5
Picking up where I left off last night, the remaining Roman territories were split to the North and to the West. Appropriately I split my army (concentrated at Adrianople) west and north as well.   In typical kick-em-while-they're-down fashion, following the fall of Adrianople and Rome's subsequent relocation of it's capital (again), all three remaining empires declared war on the Roman fractions simultaneously. There was only one problem with that. . . This was -my- party.   My artillery made short work of Ethiopia since for some reason their capital city only had a defense of 29 (twenty-fucking-nine). It went down in one barrage from one unit and was the same turn.  The Iriquois posed a slightly diferent problem, they'r remaining city was behind a Roman city which I had to fight through first.  Once I captured the Iriquois capital, I didn't get the, "Oh, man, you beat us." screen. Somewhere on the map the little bastaards had founded yet another city I wasn't aware of. I made frowny faces but put it on the backburner while I concentrated on Romes final city.  It didn't take long and finally my conquest of Rome was comlplete.  All that was left was the tedious clean up work, locating the Austrian capital and finishing off that last Iriquois settlement (though I didn't realize til later that I could have just ignored that). So I set my ships and various miscellaneous units to capturing and raising all the minor Austrian colonies I could locate while my army pushed toward thier capital. I did eventually locate the Iriquois city, hiding in the far north. It was on my way, so I finished them off.   Eventually it ended the way it was expected. Overwhelming frces marching into the final remaining capital city and victory was mine.  My gripe, though, is that I didn't realize I would achieve victory simply by capturing the Austrian capital. As every other nation had thus far, I expected them to simply relocate and relocate and relocate until I had conquered every city on the map, which they didn't as the victory condition is to be the last player still controlling thier -original- capital. So, in reality, I could have just ended this game a loooong time ago by hunting down capital cities rather than stomping the shit out of Rome. Whatever the case; Victory by Conquest. Policy choices, in case anyone is curious were Liberty, Piety, Commerce and Autocracy. I didn't have enough time to get into a fifth. Victory stats are as follows.    29 hours and 17 minutes played to total world domination. |
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Post by Kaez on Aug 2, 2012 9:25:42 GMT -5
Fuckin' A.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Aug 2, 2012 11:51:20 GMT -5
Also, just noticed, I made it before the year 2000. Looks like 1998.
In 1998, the world fell to Zovo. Rawr.
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