Playing Denmark, I plundered neighbors Russia and England. Discovered America but ignored them. And won a decisive cultural victory.
So I would have to agree with you! Realistic social game as well.
May I be the first to welcome my new Danish overlords?
Well, it was just a cultural victory, so basically the overlords just make you read a lot of Hamlet (King Hamlet is a Dane) and Beowulf (same).
HOLY SHIT WHAT
Anyway, can someone help me figure out why the AI is so goddamn good at playing Genghis? I mean, every time I get the Mongols in my game they are literally twice the size of any other empire and just stone-cold badasses.
Now, that didn’t help them when they tried to invade against a freaking wall of Landsknechts (they only cost 50! Holy crap!). But still.
Oh, oops - dumb. I got that off Joystiq just this morning, they must have been late to the party, and so was I! :)
As much as I love Civ5, sometimes the AI can be so pitiful. Recently, I’ve been playing on Prince as I hate giving the AI bonuses and I’ve seen a noticeable increase in difficulty from the previous patches, but I’ve been trying to make it as hard on myself as I can. Randomize everything and…turn on enraged barbarians.
My god does the AI fail when barbarians are tearing up the place. I just conquered Rome and it was in a pitiful state. Not ONE tile of their two cities were worked and I captured at least three of their workers from barbarians. They had one archer defending everything. We were almost hitting the Renaissance age. Massive fail.
Yeah, the AI can’t handle barbarians at all, whether nations or city states.
Another thing the AI still can’t handle are naval invasions. If I’m on the same continent as an AI player I can expect a pretty hefty invasion force at some point, even on Prince. On an island map, nobody ever declares war on me, and the wars that the AI players occasionally wage on each other never seem to get any results. The difference is easily greater than a full difficulty level.
I don’t know; Prince Hamlet might have been Danish, but Beowulf was more Swedish, and the ones who wrote their stories down were English.
I would suggest H. C. Andersen or maybe something involving Legoland!
Playing on immortal now, the AI can’t fight itself out of a shoebox still, only very rarely does he ever threaten me despite tons of early wardecs now. I can hold a city with a single archer and the city attack…
However, deity is just too hard, the AI spreads and techs like mad, I just don’t get it , immortal could easily have been harder, instead its like there is such a gap between those difficulty levels.
datter
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I have owned Civ5 since release but never tried it, and reading through this thread the other day prompted me to give it a shot last night.
Like the hexes (I’m one of those hexes>squares guys)
Like the non-stacking thing
Like the pretty graphics
Despite that, I played 300 something turns as England on King difficulty and found it rather lacking. Aside from fighting some barbarians, there was no combat to speak of the entire time. That is admittedly fine mind you as I typically try to avoid war in Civ games, but I was surprised it turned out so non-confrontational. Someone on the other side of the map did declare war on me, but I asked Catherine to help me out and she took care of that without my firing a shot. The rest of the game was basically me clicking “next turn” over and over, until I realized I could automate that. Then it was mostly a lot of sitting.
You know how you sometimes play one game and because it’s not quite what you want, it makes you want to play another? Well strangely playing this game last night made me want to play… Civ.
I think I’ll reinstall Civ4 this evening.
JasonM
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If you rarely interact with the other Civs and don’t do things (like buy land near them or found cities near them) that upset them then yea you won’t run into much conflict. Myself, on the other, I have a tendency to be very aggressive for land and, more specifically, strategic resources and so I tend to anger nearly everyone.
Plus, I prefer the Domination style game with no time-limit so I mostly run afoul of just about everyone as I start warring with my neighbors. Coal, aluminum, uranium and oil are all great reasons to kill another Civ for. Hahah.
When I do the game setup I also tend to choose map styles that are bound to generate conflict. Like Pangaea and Inland Sea. Also, on Huge maps I tend to add at least 2 extra Civs and max out the City-States so that the map is more crowded.
Is it just me or is Civ V really lacking in terms of mods? There were always lots of projects on Civfanatics but I just browsed it and it seems… kinda… dead.
rezaf
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That’s because Civ5 modding is still partially broken.
By partially I mean … if it has anything to do with 3D graphics, chances are it’s not moddable. Not being able to create custom unit- leaderhead- and building-graphics kinda limits the creative possibilities.
Creating small to medium scale rulebased mods is relatively easy in Civ5, large scale mods and everything involving graphics is impossible.
This means the best ambitious modders can do right now is sit and wait.
Some hope a DLL release like it happened for Civ4 will awaken/save Civ5 modding, and maybe it will/would, but there hasn’t been any news about such DLL release and they’re already half a year behind schedule compared to Civ5.
I tried not to let my personal stance on this spoil this post and wanted it to be strictly informative. I hope I succeeded.
rezaf
Yep, it’s all about game setup in Civ5. The inland sea map has become my favorite map because, not only does it generate a lot of conflict, but it puts a huge emphasis on navies. I also like setting resources to sparse because anything else and you always have an over-abundance of everything. Key resources like coal, aluminum, and uranium become especially rare too.
Creating and then fully publishing the mod to the mod browser is a pain. I made some great mods for myself in Civ IV, but doing the same thing in V is way more difficult than it needed to be. I like what they attempted to do, but it left a lot of us idiot modders out in the cold.
I really wish it was more accessible, I’d love to do a King of Dragon Pass and/or Dune mod(s).
You don’t have to use the mod browser, you can simply put your mod up for download and tell people to place it in their mod directory. Just like in Civ4.
So, I’m playing as Egypt on Immortal difficulty level. The game had been pretty uneventful: A few wars, but nothing I couldn’t keep off my turf. My neighbor to the south is Polynesia, and while we appear to be getting along just fine, I secretly resent him for finding and grabbing up a Marble deposit before I noticed it early on in the game.
So, Polynesia has an Open Borders agreement with me, as well as with Genghis Khan, my northern neighbor. This is a good thing for him, as he’s just declared war against Japan, who’s on the north side of Khan. He starts moving his troops through my territory, passing by my technologically superior units, who are, I’m guessing, whistling to themselves and staring off into space, trying to look innocent.
As soon as the majority of his troops are in Khan’s territory, I call him up on the phone, and with a couple of bags of sugar and some bales of cotton, I’ve convinced him to declare war on Polynesia. My troops move into Samoa’s territory, and I take it in 2 turns. I look back north, when I’m done, and I see nothing left of his troops, so I move on to Honolulu. This is early on enough in the game that he’s still trying to take me on with spears and archers. As soon as my riflemen and cannon show up at Honolulu’s door, he formally requests peace, offering up cash, cash per turn, a few cities, and some resources.
Decided to fire this game up again, when I noticed that I don’t see the game updating. My current version is 1.0.1.275. Is this the most current version? If not how do I get steam to manually update? Where do I look look on steam to find the version number of a game? Please understand I don’t use steam very much, only when I have to in order to play a game I like and can’t get it else where.
Civ 5 is extremely odd in that it is objectively a very mediocre game wrapped forced into the well worn game rule path of the Civilization series… but i still enjoy it. I still enjoy it despite having some game balance or issue annoying me almost the entire game. Even more remarkably i have apparently played it more than Team Fortress 2, something that seems… inconceivable, especially since i used to play TF2 for years, and i can barely remember the times i’ve played Civ V. Only Empire Total War and Civ IV have it beat in terms of hours played (Empire by a 50+ hour margin).
