Civilization V

snowdog said:
Just a recommendation to you guys who played civ4 a lot, don't jump in at any difficulty lower than prince, it'll be too easy :).
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Totally agree. Yet I like to start at lower levels anyway until I understand things a little better. Things are quite different to Civ4. Third time through the demo last night and I'd already learnt so much. I'll generally go up a level at a time until I find the right challenge :)

Can someone tell me if there is an equivalent to technology trading with other civs. The closest thing I found in the demo was a "technological agreement" which I didn't try.
 
~I started at Chieftan .... it sucked. I went straight in at Prince from my second game ....

And its still too easy, except for the happiness management, I need to get better at that.

I'm good with city states now, I still need lots more practice with this new happiness system and expanding.

In Civ IV, Monarch / Emperor was my comfort zone, and Immortal for an absolute thrashing, but I managed to win a few games going Great Lighthouse rexing on water maps with Hannibal.

Babylon are just superb though, all those great scientists, get new wonder techs before anyone else, and build stuff. They make Ramesses look crap for wonder whoring, although at just 3 cities, I have huge unhappiness due more to population.

India would be awesome to try next for a culture win with 3 cities, which is also a Steam achievement.
 
Did I mention that research pacts suck? Gold is much better spent on Cultural and Maritime city states once you have the top two policies in that line.

Then the third one gives you +33% of allied city states research points, which is significantly more under Patronage than what a research pact gets you.
 
bhavv said:
Did I mention that research pacts suck? Gold is much better spent on Cultural and Maritime city states once you have the top two policies in that line.

Then the third one gives you +33% of allied city states research points, which is significantly more under Patronage than what a research pact gets you.
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Depends if you have the gold or not though, I have had a game where I started with 2x fish 2x whale tiles on my coast and 2 ivory plantations, my income was disgustingly high, had thousands I couldn't spend quick enough, so had several city states on my side AND research pacts with every civ (was even giving civs the gold so they could afford research pacts)

I think finding a good gold farm is going to be my #1 tactic in this game.
 
Yea, I'm struggling with making a gold farm, I cant specialize cities at all. You need to dothat in Civ V though, one gold farm, one science farm, and then production in other cities.

I'm working 3 gold resources and 1 gems and I cant even make thousands yet :(

Play as Babylon and you dont need research pacts :p
 
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You can download the manual and see for yourself :p

Theres an Atomic Bomb, and an ICBM. I dont know what the differences are though.
 
bhavv said:
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You can download the manual and see for yourself :p

Theres an Atomic Bomb, and an ICBM. I dont know what the differences are though.
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Seems ICBM = Uber badass nuke that can be loaded onto Missile Cruisers and Nuclear Subs, does more damage and can wipe cities out (except the original capital) completely.
A Bomb can also be loaded onto Aircraft Carriers, does less damage and can't completely destroy a city.
 
Game has arrived installing now Kudos to Amazon for fast delivery, doubt I will ever use Game again.... anyone played online yet?
 
Are nukes worth it overall? I remember in Civ4 using them a couple of times and it just makes every other Civ (even the ones you dont nuke, and are completely unaffiliated with) hate you.
 
I think I should've bought the steam version, I might have got more stuff with it. ;)

I also get the feeling that my poor triple cored 720BE is going to be struggling sooner rather than later with this. I did have the CPU upgrade twitch, but couldn't justify burning more cash, it until now... :(
 
I'm so crap at this game, on the demo I couldn't beat the 2nd easiest difficulty level (aka ran out of turns).
 
MooMoo444 said:
Are nukes worth it overall? I remember in Civ4 using them a couple of times and it just makes every other Civ (even the ones you dont nuke, and are completely unaffiliated with) hate you.
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Well why wouldn't it? Nukes are the ultimate evil, launching 1 either makes everyone hate you or everyone start launching there own. They are supposed to be a deterrent after all and only something to be used when tensions go too far.

Klo said:
I'm so crap at this game, on the demo I couldn't beat the 2nd easiest difficulty level (aka ran out of turns).
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Huh? How could you not run out of turns, its ends at 100 where theres barely time to do anything :confused:
 
Think I'm gonna be the first to say, First impression after half a game ( had 6 cities) not overly impressed, find th game chunky, land mass seems to be 2 small, lack of stacking is a tad bit silly, still got to learn the menus, but the seem hard to use so far, small thing when you have a troop garrisoned, you don't really know its there, so easy to forget it.

this is just the first quick take on the game in a day/week/month or so may feel totally different ... will see
 
Just unlocked mine and started it up, first thoughts...the guy doing the voice of the father on the intro movie is surely the same guy who did the voice of Marius (was it Marius?) in the Diablo 2 cut scenes :)
 
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