Civilization V

The Steam Page for Sid Meier's Civilization V - Gods and Kings now offers a playable demo for this expansion for Firaxis' turn-based strategy sequel . There are no details on the demo, so it's not clear if this supports OS X, as the expansion and game itself offer SteamPlay Mac support. Here's word on the add-on:
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings is the first expansion pack for Civilization V - the critically acclaimed 2010 PC Game of the Year. This robust expansion covers the entire scope of time from founding your first Pantheon of the Gods and spreading religion across the world, to deploying your spies in enemy cities in order to steal information and technology.

As you move through the ages, you’ll interact with new types of city-states, engage in new city-state quests and global competitions, and master exciting new systems for land and naval combat. Civilization V: Gods and Kings will also include nine new civilizations, nine new wonders, three original scenarios, and dozens of new units, buildings, and techs that will offer even more ways for players to expand their empire and dominate the world.
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I'm playing a Carthage in a new a game and I'm doing a better job then I was before thanks in no small part to the advice I've been given (thank you!) but it seems odd to play as Carthage yet end up starting in some god forsaken part of Russia when I should be placed in North Africa.

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Old peace loving Gandhi isn't so peace loving in a video game!
 
pingwing said:
My copy FINALLY came, with a little note saying "not high grove" meaning RM made a right boob of it all and tried to deliver it on the other side of town all week :(

On the plus :D

Couple of hours into a Carthage game and my old spam culture tactic doesn't work as well as things make faith instead! Need a game where I'm not invaded in the first hour by an aggressive alexander to work out what happens with religion.
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Culture spam still works, and faith makes it stronger. Temple produce faith now, but their previous culture boost has been added to the new Ampitheatre. The free buildings you get from Tradition also no longer cost maintenance, so your economy wont crash anymore if you pick up 4 free Ampitheatres from Legalism.

People used to save Legalism for Opera Houses or Museums as they are a lot more expensive, but now you get 4 free aqueducts too with the Tradition finisher. It still feels wrong to me to waste Legalism on Monuments, expecially now that it removes the upkeep cost and monuments only cost 1 gold each, while Ampitheatres and Opera Houses are 2 gold each, so I grab 4 free Ampitheatres and save 8 GPT, then finish of Tradition for the free Aqueducts.

Thats 16 GPT saved, plus extra GPT from Monarchy which makes Tradition awesome now. I currently open my games with Tradition > Liberty > Republic > Collective rule > 4 cities with Monuments built > Legalism. With Carthage this would mean a Harbor, Ampitheatre and Aqueduct for free in your first 4 cities which is just awesome and loads of production turns saved.

My game isnt working though, I keep getting DX11 render errors. Reinstalling my drivers and turning off my second monitor worked at first, but now its not and DX9 mode is just fugly.

Freddie1980 said:
Old peace loving Gandhi isn't so peace loving in a video game!
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This is a long standing joke from Firaxis in just about every Civ game, Gandhi is a nuke crazy lunatic lol.
 
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I currently open my games with Tradition > Liberty > Republic > Collective rule > 4 cities with Monuments built > Legalism. With Carthage this would mean a Harbor, Ampitheatre and Aqueduct for free in your first 4 cities which is just awesome and loads of production turns saved.
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Interesting, I must try that in my next game. I generally prefer to open with the expansionist non-combat tree (I forget its name) and go for the free Worker followed by the free Settler. I do this because strategic resources are invisible until the relevant tech is researched; having as much territory as I can grab in the Ancient Era maximises my chances of getting Iron, Oil and Aluminium without having to start a war for them. This is extra-important on higher difficulty levels when the AI civs are keeping pace with you for tech and can use them themselves - if they have Swordsmen or Longswordsmen while you're stuck with Spearmen, you're done.

I'm also having DX11 render crashes, by the way, so it's not just you.
 
Free Worker / Free Settler is nerfed, the settler was moved down a policy. Its often better to open tradition before liberty for the larger culture boost, the first 3 policies are acquired faster this way, but then it stagnates.

I really want to play a couple of Carthage + England games, but it doesnt want to work in DX11 mode :(
 
downloaded the demo of the gods and kings expansion and played a game for 2 hours (120 turns).

coming from a civ4 background its seems that after taking out one civ (2 cities) and founding 3 of my own, the game slows down a lot due to combating the lack of happiness and workers take ages to build roads/improve resources. There is also a massive gap of land between my puppet cities and the next civ, which I'd like to expand to before my next conquest. In civ4 I only get to this problem once I conquer 2 civs of 3 cities each.

Anyone else having this problem or am I not playing the game right? (difficulty is prince by default)
 
bhavv said:
Culture spam still works, and faith makes it stronger. Temple produce faith now, but their previous culture boost has been added to the new Ampitheatre. The free buildings you get from Tradition also no longer cost maintenance, so your economy wont crash anymore if you pick up 4 free Ampitheatres from Legalism.

People used to save Legalism for Opera Houses or Museums as they are a lot more expensive, but now you get 4 free aqueducts too with the Tradition finisher. It still feels wrong to me to waste Legalism on Monuments, expecially now that it removes the upkeep cost and monuments only cost 1 gold each, while Ampitheatres and Opera Houses are 2 gold each, so I grab 4 free Ampitheatres and save 8 GPT, then finish of Tradition for the free Aqueducts.

Thats 16 GPT saved, plus extra GPT from Monarchy which makes Tradition awesome now. I currently open my games with Tradition > Liberty > Republic > Collective rule > 4 cities with Monuments built > Legalism. With Carthage this would mean a Harbor, Ampitheatre and Aqueduct for free in your first 4 cities which is just awesome and loads of production turns saved.

My game isnt working though, I keep getting DX11 render errors. Reinstalling my drivers and turning off my second monitor worked at first, but now its not and DX9 mode is just fugly.
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Good god! I never end up paying that much attention to some sections of the policy tree, does seem a decent way to go nuts for culture.

My first game (as Austria) has landed me in a position of being the world super power at 1100AD with a massive religion. Turns out different combinations of religion can make really big bonuses for the empire without really having to do very much. My current combination is +1 faith for a dessert hex (most cities have about 4), +1 happiness for every city in the faith, +1% production per citizen with the faith in the city, +33% spread of the faith and +1 happiness per shrine.

This has lead to my empire having something like +40 happiness after the first 100 turns and getting more golden ages than I know what to do with...

Either way I really like the expansion, makes the game a lot more interesting (despite being a little easier)
 
Also for culture games you can add cathedrals to your religion - +3 culture plus an artist slot.

I got my game working without crashing on DX11 mode medium settings (still looks better than DX9 mode max settings), and rolled up a rather godly map for Carthage:

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Not much space though, so I'm gonna have to Quinquireme rush Constantinople. Those free harbors from turn 1 are just nuts on a map like that, as is the Quinquireme :D

Bah, still getting DX11 failures, and the Quinquireme rush failed because Byzantium only had a single adjacent water tile :(
 
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It seems that my render error was happening after installing the latest afterburner and having it open in the background. It only happens when afterburner is opened, and stops when I close it :)

So heres a reattempt at my Carthage map (yes I'm a reload whore :D).

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I have my warrior strategically placed in the only place Theodora can build a city, so she cant steal my resources ... unless she finds her way to my red hex :x ... Wait if I capture her settler I think it turns into 2 workers!

I could have had 4 cities up by then, but needed those workboats first instead. I can take Arisocracy and the free worker before Legalism if I dont get my 4th city + monument built in time, and you dont need to tech Drama for the free Ampitheatres either, you get them retroactively after you tech Drama :). Commerce tree will be a must have too.

So 4 x free harbors, ampitheatres and aqueducts, and uber seafood tiles in the BCs with God of the Sea :D
 
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Hehe I love watching the ai go nuts when you sit on the hex THEY WANT, it's very amusing to see how long it takes them to push for war.

There should be a meme picture of that seal who shouts things for reload whore too :p
 
I just captured her settler and got a free worker. 3 turns later she offers peace and I resell a whale, and also find suleiman and sell my other whale > purchase settler for fourth city :D

And now my Capital is excessively OP:

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4 turn Quinqriremes, though I'm only building 2 for defense then getting the Colossus built (grabbed iron working with the Glib).

Not sure if I'll be able to also grab the hanging gardens, but its only on Prince difficulty for an easy fun game so I might manage.

:D Cult of Cthulhu:

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Got this on steam last night. Was playing til 4am without noticing the time... Oops

Just playing settler difficulty to get to grips with it. Playing as England on the Earth map. OK it put me in South America but ihave already colorized the falklands and am about to build forces and invade another nation for its oil.

Question. Can I chose my own city names?
 
I'm not sure if it's a good idea admitting this but in all these games I always name the cities after my friends and see which "friends" become the most important to me. But it's perfectly normal thing to do though isn't it guys.... guys!?
 
Hostile17 said:
I'm not sure if it's a good idea admitting this but in all these games I always name the cities after my friends and see which "friends" become the most important to me. But it's perfectly normal thing to do though isn't it guys.... guys!?
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Yes! My capital is usually named after me, Martintopia. Then theres Fort Jason, Kellington and Jillingham.
 
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