Civilization V

Uhtred said:
Yes and I think that is just showing your surplus? Ie you only need 1 of each luxury resource.
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It shows all your resources, not just surplus. So if you have Incense (1) and trade it, you're trading your last copy and will lose the happiness bonus unless you're the Dutch. This is also why the AI will ask for the moon and stars if you ask for a resource that they only have one copy of.
 
Never had a Civ game before, is it worth picking this up these days? (complete edition) and, more importantly, does it run fine on Windows 8.1 x64 as I've read conflicting reports whereby some have no problems and others have severe problems.

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ceemuk said:
Never had a Civ game before, is it worth picking this up these days? (complete edition) and, more importantly, does it run fine on Windows 8.1 x64 as I've read conflicting reports whereby some have no problems and others have severe problems.

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The complete edition is a very good game and this is coming from a Civ veteran with high expectations (vanilla was unplayable for me). I don't know anything about Win 8.1 compatibility, I'm on Win7.
 
It's been in Steam sales and the like for pretty cheap (around the ~£5 mark) so it's probably only a matter of time until it does again... I've seen it very cheap on GMG in the past as well (that's where I got it from if I remember rightly)
 
Started a One-City challenge the other day. Going for a culture victory. This is the first time playing it with either of the expansions and I love them both. They make a great game even greater. I very much like the tourism mechanic.

Yes, the AI can be a little patchy sometimes, but it is mostly very good. Trading is still off imo....I go to a very friendly opponent who has traded and fought wars with me for ages; "I need sugar, what do you want for it?"..."I want absolutely everything you have, and all of your gold, each turn"...Then 2 turns later they come back "Will you give me 700 gold for absolutely no reason?"!
 
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Played a game on emperor today. Barely managed to get any wonders, only Oxford University, International Space Station and a couple of other late game ones. Had an intense war with a neighbour for about 1000 years. Won it with just over 20 years left. It was a race against time to beat another player who was close to science victory. They were ahead of me when building space ship parts but I built up a stash of money to buy parts once I had that option on the Freedom ideology. I traded votes for cash and used cargo ships to help too. Towards the end I could see a couple of countries were building up to attack so I got one of my cities to build Manhattan Project and a nuclear missile to hold them back.
 
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Looks like I have left it a bit late in my One-city game for a Culture victory. It took me a while to get to grips with some of the new mechanics and other civs have gone way ahead of me. I started on a continent with a very aggressive player, who keeps starting wars with me, only for me to use my frigates and Privaterers wipe out their coastal towns...then they come grovelling trying to negotiate peace;)
Another Civ has sped ahead for a diplomatic victory too...won't catch them either.

Loving the game with the expansions!
 
delta0 said:
Played a game on emperor today. Barely managed to get any wonders, only Oxford University, International Space Station and a couple of other late game ones. Had an intense war with a neighbour for about 1000 years. Won it with just over 20 years left. It was a race against time to beat another player who was close to science victory. They were ahead of me when building space ship parts but I built up a stash of money to buy parts once I had that option on the Freedom ideology. I traded votes for cash and used cargo ships to help too. Towards the end I could see a couple of countries were building up to attack so I got one of my cities to build Manhattan Project and a nuclear missile to hold them back.
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National Wonder, everyone gets it :).
 
Well you can leave the National Wonders till late knowing no one else can get them. Although they build faster the fewer cities you have. If you want to get the early wonders you could play as Egypt for 20% boost, or there is a Tradition Social Policy for 15% I think. Also hope you start near some Marble.

I played a game as Spain, building 1 city near each Natural Wonder I found. Some of the tile yields you can get are mad (with religion and World Congress bonus too). +20 gold, +8 faith, + 10 culture from one tile. Or +28 faith, + 10 culture. I think by the end I had 5 cities each near a Natural Wonder :).
 
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Mate in work recently got me back into this again. Oh what a time suck this game is, it took so much will power to uninstall it last time!

Kudos to playing on emperor, King is my sweet spot at the moment.

Current game is now an all out war between Rome and myself for Domination win. (Only 1 other Civ left with 1 city that I let live). We are both now in information era with massive armies and techs. I'm slowly pushing him back after carving out a landing area on his continent. Nukes are now helping me slowly move forward as he likes to group up his army :D
 
I've always wanted to get Civ 5 as i love these style of games, having been playing them since i was like 5.

Reading through the comments has got me excited, think i might buy it!
 
TomProx said:
I've always wanted to get Civ 5 as i love these style of games, having been playing them since i was like 5.

Reading through the comments has got me excited, think i might buy it!
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All I can say is: Please think of the children!

All the children you will never have because Civ has sucked your time dry :D


Add in Mods and this game gets mega fun!

I have cities that can use resources up to five tile away :D
 
I've played a game with China in which the psycho Shaka (Zulu) wiped out Morocco, two city states and was plotting against me (Brazil warned me about it!). I rushed my tech to enable building my special crossbows and I attacked him after he declared war on another neighbour, Polynesia. I quickly took one of this 11 cities (!! I only had 4... ), fortified it with walls and turned two of my generals into that special fortification they make, around the captured city. He lost 40+ army units vs my 6 crossbows, 3 knights and 4 swordmen and now he's offering me the stars and the moon for peace, lol.
I will accept the peace after I send him back to the Stoneage.

Immortal difficulty.
 
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