Civilization V - Civ: causing all nighters since 1991
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won by cultural and almost by domination and science
[I]woo[/I]
So is there anyway to make the game actually challenging, not plowing through your opponents or your opponents plowing through you, but just challenging, I mean fuck, I have yet to be in a game where it's a challenge or the my opponents were even strong. I'm playing on Emperor difficulty and I'm leading by like 100 points when we first meet, and they show no signs of catching up.
I'm just too good at war in Civ 5, it's destroying several friendships
My friend was smug about being 250 points ahead of me the whole game, even though we were technologically matched the whole time, he was busy strutting around the countries imperializing, setting up colonies, and starting wars.
I made myself busy with preparations for war, however. From the ground up, I built my civilization (The Dutch) to be both technologically superior and impossible to successfully invade in a war. I strategically placed my cities on hills and by mountains, set up citadels in similar strategic spots, maxed out my defense buildings for my main two cities, and built the Kremlin uncontested. This led to a situation where my secondary city, Rotterdam(Size 17) had 35 more defense than his capital Paris(size 38). Eventually I started to catch up, conquering the mayans, then the chinese, and finally the celts. I reached an impasse with the celtic war, taking edinburgh only for it to be retaken in a zerg rush of shitty renaissance units. I withdrew all my units from ex-china and the celtic lands, and geared up for war at home. I started placing units at both of our shared borders, modern artillery, great war infantry, and a great general at each front. Once he sneered at me for using GWI's when he already had infantry. I did not respond.
Once I hit plastics, I upgraded all my infantry to modern infantry, and deployed my fleet of four destroyers south of the border of one of his cities. He wasn't expecting a naval attack from two fronts, and I quickly captured two size 20 cities, leaving his remaining two home-continent cities trapped in a corner. It wasn't easy, but I eventually captured orleans and we were able to negotiate Paris's survival. It cost him 80 gpt, two of his colonies, and a city he had taken in the ex-celtic lands during the war, his only gain from there on out. He still has a chance to win, he has some nice cities other than Paris, but I think if I play my cards right I have this game in the bag.
This isn't the first time either. Eeshton whines like a bitch when I invade him in Civ.
I just got Gods and Kings
How do I enable religions?
I also played on the Ireland map and got my first science victory!
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;39286058]I'm just too good at war in Civ 5, it's destroying several friendships
My friend was smug about being 250 points ahead of me the whole game, even though we were technologically matched the whole time, he was busy strutting around the countries imperializing, setting up colonies, and starting wars.
I made myself busy with preparations for war, however. From the ground up, I built my civilization (The Dutch) to be both technologically superior and impossible to successfully invade in a war. I strategically placed my cities on hills and by mountains, set up citadels in similar strategic spots, maxed out my defense buildings for my main two cities, and built the Kremlin uncontested. This led to a situation where my secondary city, Rotterdam(Size 17) had 35 more defense than his capital Paris(size 38). Eventually I started to catch up, conquering the mayans, then the chinese, and finally the celts. I reached an impasse with the celtic war, taking edinburgh only for it to be retaken in a zerg rush of shitty renaissance units. I withdrew all my units from ex-china and the celtic lands, and geared up for war at home. I started placing units at both of our shared borders, modern artillery, great war infantry, and a great general at each front. Once he sneered at me for using GWI's when he already had infantry. I did not respond.
Once I hit plastics, I upgraded all my infantry to modern infantry, and deployed my fleet of four destroyers south of the border of one of his cities. He wasn't expecting a naval attack from two fronts, and I quickly captured two size 20 cities, leaving his remaining two home-continent cities trapped in a corner. It wasn't easy, but I eventually captured orleans and we were able to negotiate Paris's survival. It cost him 80 gpt, two of his colonies, and a city he had taken in the ex-celtic lands during the war, his only gain from there on out. He still has a chance to win, he has some nice cities other than Paris, but I think if I play my cards right I have this game in the bag.
This isn't the first time either. Eeshton whines like a bitch when I invade him in Civ.[/QUOTE]
I just don't like invading other people in multiplayer games, because like, what happens if they get eliminated, then you like, a) are an asshole to them and b) you're either stuck with yourself or the other people you're playing with and most of the time it'll end up with the rest teaming on you :V
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Found this and thought you guys may like it.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;39286774][IMG]http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/291/3/3/spearman_vs_tank_by_takfloyd-d4d7p3j.png[/IMG]
Found this and thought you guys may like it.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't this made for that one greentext story on /v/ involving a maxed out Hoplite and an entire army?
If so, somebody needs to link that story.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;39286774][IMG]http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/291/3/3/spearman_vs_tank_by_takfloyd-d4d7p3j.png[/IMG]
Found this and thought you guys may like it.[/QUOTE]
[i]Fucking phalanx units[/i].
Just got a Win 8 laptop, should I launch the game under Direct X 11, or Windows 8 Touch Enabled? I don't have a touch screen but should I launch it under that regardless?
What? It wouldn't make sense to allow touch screen support when you don't have a touch screen.
[QUOTE=LobsterPastry;39287928]What? It wouldn't make sense to allow touch screen support when you don't have a touch screen.[/QUOTE]
Nah man win8 can turn regular screens into touchscreens via a software update didn't you hear
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;39287965]Nah man win8 can turn regular screens into touchscreens via a software update didn't you hear[/QUOTE]I better download some more ram to support the processing of this new update.
Been looking into getting into Civilization, anybody willing to point me in the right direction?
[QUOTE=Griffster26;39286275]I just got Gods and Kings
How do I enable religions?
I also played on the Ireland map and got my first science victory![/QUOTE]
It's enabled by default, just get faith to get a pantheon and then about 200 or 250 for a great prophet and blam.
[editline]20th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=itsthejayden;39287984]Been looking into getting into Civilization, anybody willing to point me in the right direction?[/QUOTE]
Civ IV is widely considered better than Civ V, but personally I've enjoyed Civ V a lot more. it was a bug-infested piece of beta when it came out, and everyone was butthurt at the things that were in civ IV and aren't in Civ V, but with Gods and Kings and all the DLC, I think CiV is a lot better, especially because the city-states are a great addition. If you get either of those two games, make sure to get it with all of its DLC/expansion packs. Get both games if you can/want to.
I prefer 5 over 4 simply because of the lack of stacks-o-death
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;39288237]I prefer 5 over 4 simply because of the lack of stacks-o-death[/QUOTE]Not to mention getting cities up-to-date included making both nuclear power plants and aqueducts.
You'd think a city founded in 1966 would have a library. :/
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;39288237]I prefer 5 over 4 simply because of the lack of stacks-o-death[/QUOTE]
That and combat isn't complete and utter bullshit. One warrior kills a stack of swordsmen my ASS FUCK YOU CIV III!
[QUOTE=Chickens!;39293089]You'd think a city founded in 1966 would have a library. :/[/QUOTE]
when I captured Greece's capital, it didn't even have a granary
[QUOTE=Chickens!;39293089]You'd think a city founded in 1966 would have a library. :/[/QUOTE]Fuck, man, it doesn't even have an [b][i] Aqueduct[/i][/b].
What's also weird, name one modern city that has walls
once I put walls around my capitol and never upgraded it past that, 400 turns later it was size 35-ish and guess what
the walls were still there, and they stretched all the way around,
just imagine a city the size of seoul with fucking walls all the way around
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;39295459]What's also weird, name one modern city that has walls
once I put walls around my capitol and never upgraded it past that, 400 turns later it was size 35-ish and guess what
the walls were still there, and they stretched all the way around,
just imagine a city the size of seoul with fucking walls all the way around[/QUOTE]
vatican
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;39295459]What's also weird, name one modern city that has walls[/QUOTE]
Well we could POSSIBLY count York.
It's got the old medieval walls almost completely intact, and has a city in and around it.
Ofc these days they are useless minus to generate money.
[QUOTE=Omilinon;39294089]when I captured Greece's capital, it didn't even have a granary[/QUOTE]
Aren't improvements burned down when you capture cities? I always assumed that was the case, because I couldn't imagine computers being that dumb.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;39295949]Aren't improvements burned down when you capture cities? I always assumed that was the case, because I couldn't imagine computers being that dumb.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I don't make granaries cause when I do my cities grow too fast and I get negative happiness. I swear every game I play, 30-60 minutes into the game I'm struggling to stay at 0 happiness and the AI's all have droves of it, don't know how they do it
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;39295949]Aren't improvements burned down when you capture cities? I always assumed that was the case, because I couldn't imagine computers being that dumb.[/QUOTE]
I'm honestly not sure, it looks like SOME buildings are destroyed but not others. One city I captured had a temple but no shrine, so it leads me to believe the shrine got destroyed.
I always end up playing 4X games like sim games and always have to have the most perfectly placed cities.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;39298112][IMG]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920126282392140347/ACFE067F27005A81524C317BBEEF082D66F87301/[/IMG]
that's racist.[/QUOTE]
Ever had Ethiopian food?
[sp]Neither have they![/sp]
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