Civilization V

Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:36 am

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9481/caesar.jpg :celebration:
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JUDY FIGHTS
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:48 pm

Meh, achievements are pointless on PC games, outside of roleplaying games.

Why are RPGs an exception? I like to keep track, no matter what game. ^_^
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Naomi Lastname
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:33 pm

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9481/caesar.jpg :celebration:

O_o
Did you accept?
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Josh Sabatini
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:42 am

O_o
Did you accept?

Yup, but I ended up taking the rest of his cities once the peace treaty ended.
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Rik Douglas
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:23 pm

What diffiduclty level was that on?

Just played on "2" and "3" myself on 2 they were making the big offers, but on 3, I've taken 90% of their empire and they still wont offer more than unconditional peace.
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Jerry Cox
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:02 pm

What diffiduclty level was that on?

Just played on "2" and "3" myself on 2 they were making the big offers, but on 3, I've taken 90% of their empire and they still wont offer more than unconditional peace.

It's 2, it's only my first game so far. I'm gonna try 3 or 4 next.
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Multi Multi
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:48 pm

Enjoying this very much, would like to be able to stack units in cities at least but its no big deal.
Can't wait to see all the new mods appearing, I'm already trying out the celt civilization.
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Cameron Wood
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:53 am

I now understand that "just one more turn" effect... Should've left home an hour ago, and I finally decided to set an alarm. Played 15 additional minutes after that alarm as well...

My biggest frustration is that there seems to be so much that needs to be done. I always feel like I'm doing heavy prioritizing, choosing away so much vital stuff. Barely built a building in my city yet, haven't trained more than an archer military-wise, feeling like I have too few Workers... Anyone has some rudimentary tips on how to begin, what to prioritize initially and such?
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biiibi
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:23 pm

My world map game reached a point where i got frigates and caravels. I liked them so much that i started a new archipelago map game with England, Ship of the Line is one badass battleship :ooo: And it's so much fun to use them to sink barbarian trireme's.

I never really like naval combat in Rise of Nation or Empire Earth (the first), but it seems more fun in this game. Of course i'm a devout follower of "Death from Above", and eagerly waiting to get my hands on airplanes (and carriers). Playing a passive aggressive economical might with plausible self-defense force i have to try too.

BTW, is nuke use limited? RoN had the Nuclear Winter counter, so you couldn't get too wild with them.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:47 am

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9481/caesar.jpg :celebration:

You have a very good screenshot there, because when I see it you more I want to buy Civ V. ;)
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Emmi Coolahan
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:14 am

Only played the demo but combat seems better than Civ 4 to me. Was also surprised it ran at all on my piece of crap integrated gpu.
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Tracey Duncan
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:32 am

The game is definitely fun someone said something about the "Just one more turn!" effect, its so true. Expanding territory gives such a cool feel.
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Fam Mughal
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:29 am

Won my first game on prince. It had 2 continents, after I destroyed all the civilizations on my continent I explored to find the other continent with 2 people on it. Once I found this I payed off one of them to declare war on the other, while they were busy fighting each other I embarked all my land units and back doored their capitols (they were both close to the shore) to win the game. I have to say I really like the Japanese empires ability, and the samurai is really good as well.

Side note: Does anyone else think Bismark has the most useless ability of all the civilizations? Past the first hour or so it is completely useless, unlike other civ's abilities.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:56 am

Won my first game on prince. It had 2 continents, after I destroyed all the civilizations on my continent I explored to find the other continent with 2 people on it. Once I found this I payed off one of them to declare war on the other, while they were busy fighting each other I embarked all my land units and back doored their capitols (they were both close to the shore) to win the game. I have to say I really like the Japanese empires ability, and the samurai is really good as well.

Side note: Does anyone else think Bismark has the most useless ability of all the civilizations? Past the first hour or so it is completely useless, unlike other civ's abilities.

I love the Bushido ability. Japan is the first civ I'm playing the game as, but I think it's going to be my favorite.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:20 am

I love the Bushido ability. Japan is the first civ I'm playing the game as, but I think it's going to be my favorite.

If you're going for all-out warfare it is indeed the best. The other kind of overpowered civ is Babylon. The double scientist rate really makes a science victory a breeze. Currently I'm experimenting with Montezuma on higher difficulty levels for a cultural victory. Might join those ones, too.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:31 pm

Started another world map game on Prince difficulty with China. Wiped out the France, then got a war declaration from Siamese. Damn their war elephants are lethal to swordmen and knight, even pikemen have trouble against them, once i upgraded to riflemen they were litle threat, though. Currently a peacetreaty with them, they recognized the stalemate since they offered it without offering or demanding anything. So a cold war it is. However there isn't an ocean between us (i haven't yet even found america, africa or europe :D), only a few hexes of trees. Forts should prove useful.

I might even be interested in multiplayer, as this game is about planning and execution more than reaction speed. I'll see if i can figure out how to setup the Steam ID.

This button...?
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Trey Johnson
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:18 am

I might even be interested in multiplayer, as this game is about planning and execution more than reaction speed. I'll see if i can figure out how to setup the Steam ID.

I'm game for that. I svck though....
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:28 am

Will this computer run Civ V? :

OS: Windows Vista
Model: HP Pavilion dv7
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-70 ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3836MB RAM
Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200
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Fiori Pra
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:13 pm

Will this computer run Civ V? :

OS: Windows Vista
Model: HP Pavilion dv7
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-70 ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3836MB RAM
Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:59 pm

Hmm, anyone know how to end a Peace Treaty? I've had one for probably 60 years/turns now... it just wont end! I have enough military power to take 4+ cities in just a few turns and they're sitting there doin nothin :(
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Krystal Wilson
 
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:55 pm

Hmm, anyone know how to end a Peace Treaty? I've had one for probably 60 years/turns now... it just wont end! I have enough military power to take 4+ cities in just a few turns and they're sitting there doin nothin :(


If you can break it I would assume it would in in one of the ongoing deals listings in one of the menus in the top right, was it a peace treaty indefinitely or for a set number of turns? If it was for a set number of turns I think you are stuck with it till then, it's not a "peace until we feel like war treaty".

I might even be interested in multiplayer, as this game is about planning and execution more than reaction speed. I'll see if i can figure out how to setup the Steam ID.


How exactly are you having trouble setting up a Steam ID? All you do is press the login button in the upper right and press the 'join Steam' button when you get to the login screen.

That wasn't meant to sound condescending.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:12 pm

If you can break it I would assume it would in in one of the ongoing deals listings in one of the menus in the top right, was it a peace treaty indefinitely or for a set number of turns? If it was for a set number of turns I think you are stuck with it till then, it's not a "peace until we feel like war treaty".

haha, I know, I accepted peace because both sides had pretty heavy loses.. I had full intentions for it to be temporary and to serve out some payback.

How can I tell what kind of treaty it was? I never saw anything about days in effect when i was given the option... Also, declaring war is not an option I can select.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationv/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-56468456&pid=938528

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1155328
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:16 pm

haha, I know, I accepted peace because both sides had pretty heavy loses.. I had full intentions for it to be temporary and to serve out some payback.

How can I tell what kind of treaty it was? I never saw anything about days in effect when i was given the option... Also, declaring war is not an option I can select.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationv/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-56468456&pid=938528

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1155328


I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bug, I haven't seen a peace treaty that lasts past 10 turns. If you want me to give you the exact location of where the 'on-going deals menu' is let me know, I don't remember the exact location at this point and would have to look. I do know it is in one of the categories in the top right.

Side notes:

Does anyone know if the military advisor is 'all-knowing' or not? For example when he says something like "The Arabs barely have an army at all!" is he talking about the Arabs units from what I have seen, or does he have access to information I don't?

Just a word of advice to people too, if you are friends with a city state you can use their roads as trade-routes, however when you are no longer friends with them you stop using their roads for trading so your supply lines between cities breaks. I had this happen to me and half of my empire lost its trade route to my capitol crippling my economy for a number of turns. Also I would recommend people to go through and look at the filters the 2D map lets you use, it is very useful for seeing where your trade routes are or seeing where your army is without missing units.

And finally does anyone know how diplomacy works? It seems to me if you go back on your word or declare war on a friend other civilizations get made at you, has anyone else noticed this? For example if an empire calls you out on having units near their borders and you say you're just passing through and then in a few turns declare war on them they say something along the lines of "Everyone will know of your treachery", is this the reason why the other nations start referring to you as 'the blood thirsty one'? It also seems like if you declare war on someone who likes you other nations get mad at you while if you declare war on someone who dislikes you other nations don't seem to have a problem. This theory would also make sense for the 2 options in the comments, one being a nice one and one acting negatively.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:58 pm

Hostility in the AI is kind of weird atm, my current game I only had one ally, open borders, I gave him stuff, we were in cooperation...

Then I accidentally bought land next to him. Big mistake apparently cause he broke all ties with me like 3 turns later. I didnt even have any units near him, Heck I didnt have the line of sight to see he was there untill after I bought the land. When I talked with him to try and get our borders open again, ect ect he was like "Ohh the bloodthirsty one/..." I was like o.O I havnt killed a single unit of anyones in about 70 turns as I was waiting for the peace treaty to end!!

I havnt got diplomacy down quite yet, my current game has me and one other as the major powers, I cant get anyone to side with me against him cause im guessing hes too powerful? Maybe I need to give them more crap ahead of time... though I wish you could see your standings of favor with other countries like you can with the city states.
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Post » Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:46 pm

I bought it and am really enjoying it. Although i would have to say Civ 3 is still my favorite.

Did they get rid of the map trading in this one?
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