I got bored of one of my games crashing twice and all the workers...
Basically, when ordering some units halfway across the map while the engine is busy with something, the sound freezes, then goes on, then civ5 had to be closed down blah blah, had it twice now. The game also quite often locks up for me for a couple of seconds, then unlocks again. The game is fine for a 6 hr session one time, the other time it crashes within 10 minutes.
And I'm getting so sick with the lack of automation for workers. I want ''automate'' with '' automated workers leave old improvements'' and ''automated workers leave forests alone'' because from the moment you basically won and are just finishing the ai's or rushing to a domination, diplo or space victory, the last thing you want to do is sent 20 workers to work every turn
. Start of the game or games on small maps are fun. Standard or anything bigger from about renaissance becomes a chore, far more than civ4 did with the popups, simply because you can't move an army of 50+ units with 2 clicks and still have to bugger around with all the workers.
I can't imagine how it is on the largest maps, I'm already annoyed on a standard map with the ''chores'', let alone on the larger sizes. Civ4 worked better with it's stacks and automated units. The city popups were a non issue really if you simply queued stuff up ( or even had cities doing something ''non stop'' like spitting out military) for cities and started your turn by checking the domestic advisor, and queuing up the research was fine too. The more I play civ5 the more it feels like 1 step forward 2 steps back. Civ4 bts is superior in most ways after the initial wow effect has worn off and after perhaps the start ( the start is arguably, more interesting in civ 5), but civ5 feels like such a chore to finish a game when you're way ahead compared to the rest and simply racing to a victory.
Yeah there are things I like:
Culture not being useless except for borders.
City states.
Empire happiness.
And more little touches, but I can't help to feel they should have made another expansion for civ 4 instead which added at least as much as BTS did.
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- if you search for it in the mod library via the game you should find it.
