Civilization V - Civ: causing all nighters since 1991 - Games

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;36317421]I once had a copy of civ 3, I was too young to understand how to play, so my 2 cities were always starving and in anarchy.[/QUOTE] At least you had cites. I could never figure out how to get my settlers to settle :v:

[QUOTE=Zackin5;36318179]At least you had cites. I could never figure out how to get my settlers to settle :v:[/QUOTE] Yeah. When I was little every game except shooters were over my head. I tried to play splinter cell as a run-n-gun once.

I had the idea that I should build settlers to get larger, but resources and such always went over my head, any war I got into was quickly lost, it would take me 999+ turns to build wonders because thats all I ever tried building.

On the topic of the AI always waging war. I've had Rome pull a diplomatic victory out of their ass. Which is weird because everyone was allied with me

In my current civ everyone hates me but they're forced to love me as I could crush everyone of them.

I just won a cultural victory with India, Everything was going well with my two cities until Siam went to war with me, but I out teched him, so my 5 unit army could beat his massive army of elephants, sadly, I had to take the capital, unlike all his other cities which I razed. Then in the final fifty turns, I was racing for as much culture as I could, (About 450 CPT) And waited on the last policy tree to unlock, all the while Polynesia, the major military power was settling the empty lands from the razed cities, and he went straight from friendly to hostile. I paid him off to destroy Russia and distract him while I waited the final 9 turns for the utopia project to finish.

[QUOTE=dookster;36313719]New G&Ks trailer. Nothing new to talk about, but some gameplay: [video=youtube;wGGj46fxgxY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGGj46fxgxY[/video] [editline]13th June 2012[/editline] I always turn off Time Victory :v:[/QUOTE] holy shit, carthage's mountain ability

I want to play my Civ II but my computer says its unsupported because its too old :( I own other Civ games but they always crash after a while. Plus Civilization II has a fuck load of nostalgia

Just started playing this game as Bismarck. Fukken barbarians.

So I was exploring the Indonesian Islands and I suddenly discovered an ancient ruin that contained technology to give me my first Infantry unit. My civilization has perfected the Military-Industrial-Complex and I reached the Industrial Era by 1685 with the help of Great Scientists spawning in my capital. [img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540678343316009747/37FDC7E538965651977CC54912E77039DC378375/[/img] Now I can showcase to the rest of the world my artillery units and modern infantry and take out my old enemy of Florence. These fuckers facilitated Roman soldiers during a massive war a few decade ago and allowed them to invade my northern borders, thus preventing me to push any further into Roman Africa. Now I get to shell the shit out of their city! [img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540678343316015633/815D4F3E4BA9A2E573A234AE2931C7D779C4820A/[/img] Now, Mongolia has taken all of North America and my bros from across the pond decided to declare war on third-world Askia (notice that they still had pikemen and archers for their army. Arabia has managed to drastically stunt their development in a war many centuries ago. So I joined with my Mongol-Bros. Funny enough, Arabia has declared war on Songhai and so for a moment it became a 3-way war. [img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540678343316129131/3B12CA0A2BF91AF145290FD90F996C1A777143C7/[/img] Funny thing was that Arabia's city was in the way of this borderline barbarian's capital so I simply bombed the shit out of it and razed it to the ground. And now Askia is throwing his numbers at me while I start marching towards his capital. [img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540678343316234977/2B69D155BD5B37FCEA9483580288AE36D33859D0/[/img] And as the Iron Cross extends it's arms over the old continent, I begin to plan my next move on a very, very old enemy. So far, I have made a naval jumping point on Madagascar and I will start setting up colonies in South Africa because three of my cities want dyes. I still have a foothold in Northern Africa and I have three Roman cities with in sight from that point. Rome has the two largest cities in the game from my knowledge. I have the most powerful navy in the world which consists of fully-leveled frigates. Now I can either encircle the Roman Empire or I can do one, massive, decisive invasion at the very heart of their capital. Also. What should I pick!? [img_thumb]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/540678343316287866/31DABA8EFA11EC292D29F14F5A631C8A5A8BE3F7/[/img_thumb] I kind of grazed upon Scientific Revolution and Commerce primarily because I needed money and I wanted a little boost from the massive amounts of research that I have been doing as of late. I do however want a massive kickstart to my military, but I also need to sustain a rapidly-growing Empire whose half of the population was conquered in the past. Too late, picked Autocracy.

So I was never able to really get into this game because I missed Civ4's complexity, and because I hated the new UI and tech tree (seriously, combustion [i]only[/i] gives you a new unit?) But I want to play it because it looks like Civ5 offers a lot of nice and fleshy gameplay late-game. Are there any good complexity-increasing mods like Rise of Mankind for Civ4? (tripled the number of units and technologies, made civics affect dozens of different things, etc) Or should I just be playing the game differently? Or should I just wait for a couple expansion packs?

A couple? Gods and Kings is only the first?

[QUOTE=Eeshton;36321620]A couple? Gods and Kings is only the first?[/QUOTE] I am a patient man.

6 days left.

Fascist! I always go with Order :v:

i remember in civ 4 i would always set my government type as Fascism and i would hunt down and detroy any civilizations that had Judaism as their religion help

I got Panzers rolling in Africa in 1865

[QUOTE=TheStateTrooper;36321882]i remember in civ 4 i would always set my government type as Fascism and i would hunt down and detroy any civilizations that had Judaism as their religion help[/QUOTE] That's fucking hilarious.

Autocracy > Order

So it's turn of the century (1901) I blitzed the shit out of Rome, taken the Ottoman's capital which Rome had as a puppet for centuries. Still has the most powerful navy in the world. Gengis Khan is now starting to get try to get a head with me on technology by doing research agreements with my former enemies. Songhai and Arabia are warring with each other with spears still and I have destroyers roaming the seas bombing barbarians in Australia.

Fuck yes, I will get my gamer rig back at saturday. I still wonder if I shoud get that expansion. I never really played Civ5 that much because of my exams. Now I have some time, wondering if the expansion improves a lot.

[QUOTE=IrishBandit;36321745]6 days left.[/QUOTE] 9 for us Brits :saddowns:

I feel bad for Brits and countries that have to wait and get bullshit steam money conversions to.

What difficulty do you guys normally play on? I'm just getting my feet wet with prince(normal), but I just can't help myself from bringing every game down to systematic city destruction. It doesn't help that diplomacy goes out the window when an AI will invite me to war a country and on the very next turn denounce me for my evil & bloodthirsty nature. +random personality +no start bias

[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;36316595]They're going Baroque for Gods and Kings, sorry bro.[/QUOTE] What's wrong with them? If it ain't baroque, don't fix it .

[QUOTE=redBadger;36325564]What's wrong with them? If it ain't baroque, don't fix it .[/QUOTE] Hurr. But when I looked at the new screens, I didn't even notice the new baroque theme until it was pointed out. It's not a huge difference IMO

I really like the idea of the Netherland's special tile improvements. I hope more of those sneak in from the new civilizations because I have a feeling those could be more interesting than new units.

I always play as Arabia just turtling for most of the game building up my trade networks and gold income then in the late game just buy enough nukes and soldiers to wipe out everyone who insulted me throughout the game

You know what would be cool? If every civ got 3 slots or so for unique improvements, buildings or units, and every civ gets a potential pool of 6 or so of them, and as you play, you can choose yourself which Unique Units, improvements or buildings you want. So, for example, Carthage might have Numidian Cavalry, Quinqueremes, African Elephants, a special port replacement and a unique, cheaper swordsmen unit, and the player himself can go "Well, there aren't a lot of seas in my area, so I'll pick the cavalry, swordsmen and elephants and roll with those" or on an archipelago map he might go "Well, lots of water, so I'll take the special ports, the quinqueremes and the cheaper infantry". It'd make the game less linear and allow you to mix and match things. Germany might get Gothic knights, stukas, vandals and so on so you can pick which timeframe you want to focus your civ on.

[QUOTE=Indyclone77;36326066]I always play as Arabia just turtling for most of the game building up my trade networks and gold income then in the late game just buy enough nukes and soldiers to wipe out everyone who insulted me throughout the game[/QUOTE] I love how you do nothing the entire game, then out of nowhere: "I notice your army is on the small side. I'm surprised you have not succumb to barbarian invasions yet." I'm just like, fuck off man. Edit: Wow, three page kings in a row. I have no life.