I've played it twice now, on the 2nd and 3rd easiest settings, and just started a game on the 4th (of 7) settings.
The 2nd setting and 3rd and kinda braindead easy. I won by eliminating my opponents (3 others) by like 300 AD. Which was kinda nice.
Playing level 4, took out one of my opponents early, which put me in the lead, and let me intimidate the others for gold, then then the #2 player took out #3, and was bigger than me.
Lots of interesting changes I'll talk about later.
Civilization V
I did the same thing. On the 2nd playthough (3rd difficulty level), I saved it off at a certain point, and then played through for the cultural victory... it took FOREVER to get the cultural victory... like til almost 2000 AD.TPRJones wrote:I've been enjoying it. On setting 2 now for my second playthrough, and this one I'm trying for a Cultural Victory.
It's going to take ages to get all the Achievements for this one.
Have as few cities as possible. But enough to get the science you need for the best culture.
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I've been playing on small worlds (or whatever recommends 4 players), pangea. Makes it easy to wipe them out early. For my cultural victory, I wiped out the #2 and 3 players early, so #4 just fell further and further behind.TPRJones wrote:I'm going to have to try it again, it's gone all wrong. Darius got all up in my business and I had to expand and wipe him out. Along with all his allies.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Did you buy the game on steam?
If not how does it incorporate steam? Does it still do auto updates, unlimited installs, can you download the game from steam later on, need a disc, have achievements, say you are playing Civ 5 in your friends list? Or just it just use it to check to make sure it isn't a pirated copy and then nothing else?
If not how does it incorporate steam? Does it still do auto updates, unlimited installs, can you download the game from steam later on, need a disc, have achievements, say you are playing Civ 5 in your friends list? Or just it just use it to check to make sure it isn't a pirated copy and then nothing else?
I bought mine through Steam, so it does everything you mention as you would expect. Plus it also allows you to save up to 10 saved games on the cloud instead of your local computer.
I did by The Orange Box in a store way back when, and after entering the code I have full access to that stuff just as if I had bought it on Steam directly. Never even put the discs in a drive. But that's a Valve game, so it may be a different story.
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I did by The Orange Box in a store way back when, and after entering the code I have full access to that stuff just as if I had bought it on Steam directly. Never even put the discs in a drive. But that's a Valve game, so it may be a different story.
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Having a hard time getting used to the fact that I can't stack units. Having a really hard time attacking cities... my units keep blocking each other in bottlenecks.
When I have a military leader pop up, can you use them to stack units and build an army like you could in Civ 3?
Since every unit can swim now, is there any reason to use transport ships? Do transport ships even exist?
When you build spaceship parts, do you need to assemble them or something?
When I have a military leader pop up, can you use them to stack units and build an army like you could in Civ 3?
Since every unit can swim now, is there any reason to use transport ships? Do transport ships even exist?
When you build spaceship parts, do you need to assemble them or something?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
No stacking of units, although you can stack your general with a unit. Basically only one civilian and one military unit on each square (and the general is a civilian). But that still leaves you six direct attacks on a surrounded city and 12 ranged attacks. The hard part is getting them all into place without getting in each other's way. It all gets much easier when you get tanks.
No transport ships. And if you train an experienced unit to be amphibious they can attack from the water without penalty.
Ship all the spaceship parts to the capitol (or maybe to where you built the apollo wonder?) and they should come up with an option to launch them on their little side menu. When the last one is launched you win.
No transport ships. And if you train an experienced unit to be amphibious they can attack from the water without penalty.
Ship all the spaceship parts to the capitol (or maybe to where you built the apollo wonder?) and they should come up with an option to launch them on their little side menu. When the last one is launched you win.
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Not sure if I like "no stacking." Civ 3 was fun, for me, because I could play on the massive, epic landmass with 16 other civilizations and fight them... the only way that didn't drive me crazy was with railroads/instant movement, and stockpiling all my units in one city so I could wake 50 of them up and move them all with about 4 mouse clicks. This game actually seems to punish the large army mindset with the tedium of moving them individually. I guess we war mongers just gotta learn to be diplomatic, and like it.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Because the dude who wrote the video driver it uses is a dumb-ass?GORDON wrote:Why the fuck does this game black out my second monitor, if it doesn't have any features that use the second monitor?
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