Civilization V

Pighardia · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:18

I also just got this in the sale. I have to say, i'm not loving the AI so far. And i need to properly read some sort of manual, as i'm not completely sure fo the function of City States.

Could someone kindly give me a general build order tip for early on in the game, because i always end up starting with a worker which takes ages to build and then jsut waiting for it to finish. Can be very boring early on in the game.

Smokey Deza · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:30

Shame I've had to wait nearly a year to get any enjoyment from this game, but I must admit it's a lot of fun now since the latest patch.

Social trees much better. Better AI. Actually does amphibious landings and uses air units/nukes. Haven't had much experience in naval combat and still to this day neglect my navy.

Turns speeds much faster. Even towards end of game standard map there's only seconds in it.

Diplomacy is still a disastor though. As others have said AIs will just wage war on you just because everyone else has. I am branded a 'warmongering menance to the world' by every civiliasation yet my expansion has purely been through self defense and never ever declared war on nobody, not even through aid to another civ.

They also need to disable animations. You still can't turn spam at the start of games when you're exploring because you have to wait for your units animation to finish, and it's quite tedious on large maps/marathon games.

me227 · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:50

Still disappointed with the AI. While there are improvements they are still quite unstable. It never feels like you make any actual allies in the game.

cosmos55 · 23 Jul 2011 at 20:37

How big is the download.? I need something to pass the time until the epic games are released.

Pighardia · 23 Jul 2011 at 20:39

Steam dl was only 4.5gb for me. Thought that was fairly reasonable

Biohazard · 23 Jul 2011 at 22:27

I've not touched it since december according to steam.

I'll give it one more go tonight..

I gave up on ever getting my mod to work with it again either, ******* patches.

Pighardia · 23 Jul 2011 at 22:33

i'm going to give it a go tonight. So far it seems much harder to get in to than iv.

Pighardia · 24 Jul 2011 at 02:09

How much notice to people take of the advisors?

So far, i have generally followed thier advice(not always though). But i have 3 cities early on in my game and it makes sense to me to research The Wheel so that i can build roads, because atm i have them all unconnected, If i listen to them though i would probably be waiting ages for them

Killerkebab · 24 Jul 2011 at 14:03

Remember the advisers just look at what you're doing and pick out one thing you're not paying attention to every now and then - if you think you need to connect your cities, then you need to connect your cities whether the adviser tells you to or not

j.col · 24 Jul 2011 at 20:57

Also, retried this today with all the new patches.
It does seem much smoother, and i will defo be playing more regularly in future.
What are your starting strategies? ie. what order do you research the techs.?
I also usually train, a scout, worker and then a warrior and then a settler.
Do you do anything different?

mejobloggs · 25 Jul 2011 at 00:59

What's multiplayer like on Civ 5?

I've always shied away from Civ multiplayer since I've imagined it been like GrandMaster Chess or something, with 2 hour turn times

dante6491 · 25 Jul 2011 at 01:34

I assume all the patches haven't been incorporated into the demo? Tried that during the summer sale and thought it was alright, if a game I needed to spend days getting into.

meths · 1 Aug 2011 at 09:42

I bought this from Greenman Gaming the other day and am still on my first game. I was up to 3.30am playing it last night and am sitting in work just now extremely tired.

I was gonna go to bed about 12.30am as I was cruising towards the diplomatic victory but then my neighbour started trash talking, denouncing me and moving units up next to our common border so I had to go and wipe him out.

Can't wait to get home and finish my game tonight though.

Only minor gripe for me so far is that you can't see the diplomacy screen when other civs offer you friendship/war or other deals. I keep refusing until I've had a chance to go out and have a look at relationship between me and the other civs.

Peter Tsang · 1 Aug 2011 at 09:56

You should not play it after your normal bed time ~~

I normally go to bed once I feel like it...at around 12:00am one of these days.

I play games on Friday night and weekends but also other entertainment.

Civ 5 is GPU hungry, the GPU gets very hot is it improved?

thedude23 · 1 Aug 2011 at 13:03

me227 said:
Still disappointed with the AI. While there are improvements they are still quite unstable. It never feels like you make any actual allies in the game.

they turn on you in an instant,which is really annoying?

Anon-e-mouse · 2 Aug 2011 at 00:53

Brought this in the recent steam sale, and what got me, was when trading with the computer AI is so full of **** it's unreal.

I was beating on Alexander (the Greek), he was down to 2 cites, he offers me a peace treaty.. Ok.. I think I have a city or 3 that needs sugar.. and look he has some, so I drag Sugar into the trade, and ask what he'd like in trade for the sugar and the peace treaty...

30 gold for 10 turns
30 silver
blah
blah
blah..

about 9 different items.. oh and the treaty.. I looked at the list and thought **** it.. and rofl-stomped him 2 turns later..

Should have traded when you had the chance ******. If you'd been more logical in your choices I might have let you stay alive.

Jono8 · 2 Aug 2011 at 01:06

Bought this whilst it was on for £6 at green man gaming. Any tips anyone can give me before is start?

Used to love Civ IV.

Howitzer · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:23

Anon-e-mouse said:
Brought this in the recent steam sale, and what got me, was when trading with the computer AI is so full of **** it's unreal.

I was beating on Alexander (the Greek), he was down to 2 cites, he offers me a peace treaty.. Ok.. I think I have a city or 3 that needs sugar.. and look he has some, so I drag Sugar into the trade, and ask what he'd like in trade for the sugar and the peace treaty...

30 gold for 10 turns
30 silver
blah
blah
blah..

about 9 different items.. oh and the treaty.. I looked at the list and thought **** it.. and rofl-stomped him 2 turns later..

Should have traded when you had the chance ******. If you'd been more logical in your choices I might have let you stay alive.

This is the exact point that has really put me off this game. I had fun the first couple of run throughs. Building cities and armies and such. But as soon as I decide I want a deeper, imersive game of diplomacy and trade this game fell straight on it's backside!!! -_-

The other thing I hate is armies no longer travel in ships, but along side them. How is that realistic!? I wanna sink a few ships and decimate an enemy with my navy! not have a spearman scoot round my armada.

If I could get it to work in Win7 I'd go back to Civ 4, even wtih its stacks of doom.

meths · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:27

Anon-e-mouse said:
Brought this in the recent steam sale, and what got me, was when trading with the computer AI is so full of **** it's unreal.

I was beating on Alexander (the Greek), he was down to 2 cites, he offers me a peace treaty.. Ok.. I think I have a city or 3 that needs sugar.. and look he has some, so I drag Sugar into the trade, and ask what he'd like in trade for the sugar and the peace treaty...

30 gold for 10 turns
30 silver
blah
blah
blah..

about 9 different items.. oh and the treaty.. I looked at the list and thought **** it.. and rofl-stomped him 2 turns later..

Should have traded when you had the chance ******. If you'd been more logical in your choices I might have let you stay alive.

I know exactly what you mean. I'm just finishing off my first game found the same thing happening.

I'd almost wiped out a rival civ and they came to me asking for peace. I asked them for dyes in exchange for the treaty and they wanted loads of stuff so I knocked the treaty back and took the dyes by force. Idiots.

Also, I don't get why all the other civs think I'm a war monger because I was going for the diplomatic victory and only started fighting after they declared war on me. :rolleyes:

topgun06 · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:29

Got to agree with the diplomacy thing. Whenever you try and trade something none of the offers are ever fair. Everything seems completely unreasonable despite whatever situation the trading Civilization may be in.