I tought the multiplayer id stuff was a separate thing in the community section? I've never played any Steam game in multiplayer, so this is all new to me

Playing an Earth-based map, as Rome, spawned in Central Russia. Spread out to a degree, got attacked by my friendly Ottoman neighbors, conquered them. Hearing horror stories about Siam, I attacked them, took their two eastern cities, they sued for peace. At that point, Russia was getting a little feisty, so I began to remobilize my military to stop them from conquering half the city states in Asia, but Siam, seeing my western border was weakened, felt prime to attempt to retake their cities. My newly-upgraded-to-Rifleman military arrived (funds provided by a 15 turn Golden Age from Chichen Itza, then stacked on two turns in by ANOTEHR 15 turn Golden Age from completing the Taj Mahal) and pushed Siam out of France and Italy and to their last holdings in Africa. During this, Iroquois from Western Africa decided they wanted to tango, and I smacked them down three cities (ceded one of them back to make peace).

Rome's position as the greatest power in the world is unquestioned, even though the Persians are making a good push by conquering Greece and France.

So I have a mad expansionist Russia threatening from India, an unknown quantity in Persia to the East, and a vengeful Iroquois and shattered Siam to the south in Africa. I think this endgame is going to be fun. Hopefully they won't form a supercoalition and take me out en masse. That said, even if they do, my military is the second-largest in the world (and by far the most 'modern'), my conquest of the Ottomans, Siam, and one Iroquois city (the other was a city state I liberated) fueling my technological edge. In addition, over the sea, I have two friends (who hate each other) in America and Germany.

So, any hints on huge maps? I've tried two times, but both of them have ended up with me being holed up in my nation trying to defend against world conquering madman. This time it's George Washington, i have technologically superior army, but he owns africa, europe and most of asia, he can simply overwhelm me if (or rather when) he decides to attack.

I suppose the last free nations on asia; Russia, China and Greece should form an alliance to overthrow this world conquering madman :hehe:

Or i'll just use the backup plan; "I'm doing science and am still alive"

Not shure what your specs are, but mine is a dual core intel 2.0 ghz, 4 gigs of ram and a 9600M GT vide card. It says it has one gig of ram but i have no idea if that is true or not. I am on a lap top. I run wiht DX 9 with max settings and it runs ok. Do not try on DX 10/11 though, nothing but slowness and frustration.

I should hopefully be getting my copy of this tomorrow. I'm looking forward to trying out the new combat and doing some serious conquering. Nothing like a bit of Civ to waste away your day.

I just started a new game on what I think was Warlord difficulty, its number 4 or 'hard' i think.

Im playing as Japan and so far got the 33% combat while in my borders policy, Hijime Castle, which add another 25%, the great wall... and the one that adds 50% defense to defensive buildings. Fast wonder building ftw, BRING IT ON ARABIA!!

They turned hostile to me cause my military was almost non-existent, so now they just sit outside my borders with a huge military too afraid to attack! Im a small nation but my cities are strategically placed for maximum defense, I dont think anyone will win in an attack against me till nukes are invented :nuke:

Yeah... I spend my whole weekend playing almost non stop when I should have been studying...

In case anyone is wondering about specs and has read this, I have a core 2 duo at only 1.8gHz cpu and it runs great on almost max settings in dx10-11. My vid card (4870x1gb) and 4 gb's of ram must be pulling me through. But with such a 'slow' processor it runs rather well.

Just got "One-more-turned" last night for 2 hours. Was setting up for a perfect Culture victory, Had to deal with a few issues with a city state, starting building the UN, And then had to hang around for the vote... Bought myself a Diplomatic victory (Far too easy to do that with a golden age or two).

Mwuahahahaha. Decimated 9 other civilizations. Germany, Siam, Arabia, Songhai, America, Greece, Rome, Persia, and Japan.

Started off fast, played civ 4 tons. Germany started getting in my way, as the British I built longbow units and ships of the line and decimated all his coastal cities(as well as inland) took 2 cities then he gave me 2 more with the peace treaty. I continued until I had the entire continent. Siam and Germany were gone. I spread over seas, made some cities and sent my army over. Started attacking coastal cities and blockading cities with my ships. Taking and razing whatever I felt like. Made it through the entire tech tree all the way to "Future tech" I had TONS of mechanized infantry and Modern Armor, battleships and destroyers galore. Multiple golden ages, ended with 20,000 gold. My last target(after I won by destroying all their capitals) was Greece's last city it had been a city they took and made a puppet. I took 2 death robots and burned it to the ground.

The afore mentioned world map game ended with GWattacking me; "Your wanton aggreession cannot go unpunished!" :blink: MY wanton aggression?! I've only conquered one city state, razed few chinese cities that got too close and liberated Seoul from Greece and and americans.

Well, i knew he was coming so i had prepared forts and forces, by that time he had some modern era units too, but my fortifications proved impenetrable. Even had a nuke ready as a last ditch effort to keep him off. Ofcourse time ran out, and since he had conquered three continents he won. I guess i'll just have to play this like Command & Conquer to win, fear the wrath of Gandhi! :hehe:

I have a 2.6GHz C2D, GF9600GT (512MB) and 4GB DDR2 RAM. Standard map runs perfectly on high settings with 1080p resolution. I guess my 3 year old computer hasn't heard that i need to upgrade it every six months to keep playing new games on max settings :lmao:

Right now in an epic game, playing as China. Me and Songhai are in a huge war, the only other 2 people on the continent are the Japanese and Siam. Siam has no military power, and the Japanese had all their cities taken during a war with Songhai except for one. Now they are surrounded. Songhai attacked my allied city-state, so now I'm in war with them. My Chu-ko-nus are destroying their units. And I just sailed west and found the Persians all alone on an island. Still one more civ I have yet to discover.

Man, that almost exactly how my game was...Japan was conquered completely before I even discovered them, Siam never had an army and Songhai are pretty war driven.

I've played a standard cotinents map today. Started with Siam, Iroquis and Aztec on my continent. Started off with conquering Budapest, in order to save myslef the trouble of building a seaport city. Continued on to conquer Siam, they were too close for comfort, and that gave me two cities more. Iroquis were apparently the world conquering player this time, so me and Aztec wiped them out. After that i oblviously took over aztec, leaving me and half-a-dozen city states in control of my continent.

By the time i discovered the other continent, Napoleon had conquered all other civilization except Germany, which soon fell too. I staged a grand landing mission, liberated Copenhagen and captured Rome for my base of operations. There's now 50 turns left. I have to decide whether to nuke Paris and satrt a military campaign, or camp in Rome and wait until either time runs out or i achieve Scince victory, there propably isn't enough time left for that though :shrug:

I guess i should play with India next, have only a handful of cities and a self-defense force, and try to achieve a cultural or diplomatic victory. Propably ends up the same way the other games where i wasn't aggressive :shrug: Anyone here have success in other ways than a military campaign?

Finished my cultural victory last night. Being my first game I was somewhat inefficient in the beginning and finished at turn 378 or something (standard speed). Not too hard really, founded 3 cities (one too many I'd say), isolated myself, earned [censored]loads of gold and through that made sure to keep a defensive enough force to deter attackers. I DID conquer Rome and its cities though, keeping them as puppets to keep the social multiplier low, and whenever I needed cash, France or China was always willing to buy one of them for a dizzingly amount of money and resources.

Trying to play more military with Japan now, but I'm stuck in the "good foundation first"-mentality... Just can't get started =(

Im stuck in a stalemate with Arabia... I managed to grab two cities of theirs (all luck haha) but all I can do is defend them.. attacking, they kick my butt pretty bad, and when im defending I kick their butts. Im almost to the modern age and have been at war since the renaissance age...
He keeps offering me peace... if I pay him 1300 gold + open borders, so after 10 turns he can use the gold and [censored] me. LOL yeah right. My other two allies are too chicken to go to war with me

Im playing on a huge map, 10 civs I think? I've only found 3 so far hah, heck Egypt was conquered... and thats the first and last I've heard of them.

This game is too fun.. need to study >,<

ps. Oh i only have diplomatic and dominance victories on, so this will be a long long game.

I hear city states are essential in this game. Try to befriend militaristic ones, and maybe they'll help you out, or atleast provide a distraction. Also the AI only looks at the "Pointiest Sticks" number, try building a lot of cheap units and maybe he offers you a peace with more acceptable terms.

I had a small but intimidating army sitting in Rome (2 Modern amors, three Mechanised Infantry, MLRS, Carrier with 2 bombers and atomic bomber, a battleship, missile cruiser with two tactical missiles and a ICBM half a dozen destroyers). Napoleon's forces did buzz around my borders, but was too afraid to attack, despite having modern era units too. Even if he had destroyed them he would have not had enough time to assault my continent where i built the spaceship.

Just got the game today and was playing it there for a couple of hours. I'm liking the combat so far and the hexagonal tiles are nice too. It's been a slow start to my game though.

Military City States spawn units
Cultured city states give you extra culture
And the other one who's name I forget give you extra food.

You can get a social policies for them to also give you science and great leaders.

Maritime. Anyways, I had some city states give me some pretty sweet unites before but there was times where some city states just gave me scouts four times in a row.

I'm trying to go for a cultural victory this time, and cultural city states are essential in trying to gain it. I gain over 200 culture per turn, and about a third of it comes from city states. All cities wit all culture buildings, and still have a nice sizable army and cash income to pay the city states

I haven't burned or pillaged anything and it's already the 1700's, even when Egypt built three cities a trebuchet's throw away from my border (usually that gives me the "purge the unclean!" reaction ). Darius seems to be the world conquering madman this time, but apparently China, Iroquos and Egypt are giving him a run for his money.

I like how it seems in every game there seems to be one country that just takes off and starts pushing other countries around, only bad thing is, the other countries are all pansies and never wanna declare war on this world power to stop them.

I noticed that too, got to like 130 turns and I get the message another civ has already lots their capital.

Succesful cultural victory with no wars is succesful Now back to your regularly scheduled nuking :nuke:

Though late game the AI turns were taking forever, i clocked one at 90 seconds quite painful when you're just waiting for the Utopia Project to finish. Hopefully that is something that can and will be patched.

There might be some room for improvements, but judging from the scripts, it's not much. Maybe ten percent or so. The system requirements do state that it's better played on a multi-core machine for a reason. ^_^

Yup, according to official forums quad-core users only have to wait 70 seconds

For those who have had the chance to play this game, would you say is it the best Civilization game so far? I still haven't bought Civilization IV because I don't believe the computer I use can handle it, so I'm still playing Civilization III, but Civilization V might be yet another reason for me to try and get a better PC.