Sid Meier's Civilization V

"omg just one more round before I go to bed"

Im so tired now

Finished my first game on the next easiest difficulty yesterday, was waaay too easy.

Anyway, then I started a new one on Prince difficulty, with Earth formation and Standard sized map....getting quite a bit of challenge now. Also I played the Japanese in my first game with all their combat strength bonuses, but this time around I'm playing as Romans, and it sure is a lot harder to defeat those damn barbarians. Constantly retreating or healing my units. It's great though, I love it!

I find it's more fun to play the game speed on epic. On normal all of my medieval units end up getting upgraded before I use them in anything but minor battles.

It's a great game, better than any game I've played in the genre (I never really got into civ IV). Sometimes I wish the AI was tactically smarter but then again I've yet to win a game on prince so it can be forgiven.

Yea epic is the most balanced speed.

The difficulty between prince and king seems a bit steep. On prince i can dominate with any game styles. On king the only way to win the game seems to be radical expansion and conquest of the weaklings. It's a game style that i don't like. I prefer a small kingdom with high culture and science.

One thing i don't like about Civ 5 are the city states. It's way too expensive to deal with them. I prefer to start the game with more civilizations instead. Two days ago i played a game with 22 civilizations on a tiny duell map

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Finished my first game on the next easiest difficulty yesterday, was waaay too easy.Anyway, then I started a new one on Prince difficulty, with Earth formation and Standard sized map....getting quite a bit of challenge now. Also I played the Japanese in my first game with all their combat strength bonuses, but this time around I'm playing as Romans, and it sure is a lot harder to defeat those damn barbarians. Constantly retreating or healing my units. It's great though, I love it!

LOL, that is EXCACTLY what I've done. (except I havent restarted the game, still owning as japan)

Tip: The AI is pants on retarded when it comes to battles overseas. Units never embark across landmasses if it's more than one tile between them. If you control an entire continent, you are safe. The enemy will only ever attack with naval units on your cities, but if you have ranged units stationed there or a naval army, it's no problem. However, if the AI sends Settlers across the entire world and will only embark onto "your" continent if they have a city there.

By knowing this, I won with a Cultural Victory as Egypt (LOLWONDERS) without building more then some scouting units . Pick the mapstyle "Small Continents" and you'll see ... or even better: "Tiny Islands", and you'll sure be alone on an island, without a worry in the world.

How does diplomacy work in this game? There are times when I have 3 Giant Death Robots (or something) outside someone's last remaining capital when they ask for peace. I ask for a few gold extra so I have a reason to let them be, at which point they always decline and I end up destroying the capital. I've never successfully used diplomacy to do anything in my favor.

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How does diplomacy work in this game? There are times when I have 3 Giant Death Robots (or something) outside someone's last remaining capital when they ask for peace. I ask for a few gold extra so I have a reason to let them be, at which point they always decline and I end up destroying the capital. I've never successfully used diplomacy to do anything in my favor.

hah golden

Lol its true. While they have really perfected and streamlined alot, the AI isn't really up to par with the rest of the game... Once you go to war everyone hates you. I've never even been able to DEMAND anything from anyone yet, even if I own all cities and they are puny.

How the crap do you make boats? And how the crap do you make work boats? The help section is rather vague. My city is rather close to the coast, does it have be LITERALLY right next to the water?

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How the crap do you make boats? And how the crap do you make work boats? The help section is rather vague. My city is rather close to the coast, does it have be LITERALLY right next to the water?

Yeah, it has to be touching the coast, so that there's space for the boat to spawn when you build it.

It has to be right on the water to make a boat. If you want to build a watermill, you also have to be right on the river.

God damnit.

i just played singleplayer properly for the first time (as russia) and i basically handed it to them in wars. the great general buildings are insanely powerful in combination with artillery. and cossacks just plain kick ass with flanking, i took over 8 cities in a row using only 4 of them. i can't help but feel they made the game a bit too easy - im playing a pangaea map and nobody dares to attack me up until the 1600?

crank up the difficulty?

I've been cranking the difficulty up with each game I've played. Started on 2 (Chief?), then 4 (Prince) and now I'm on 5 (King). I dislike that they have to give the AI better stats to make them tougher foes, but my last two games were simply too easy as I fought my way through all other Civs. Planning on going for a culture or science victory this time around, although I'm sure the AI will try and arm wrestle with me at one point.

Oh and I'm not playing anything larger than small world maps again, at least not until they patch it or something. At the end of my last game on a Standard sized map, each AI turn took about 1 minute to finish, where most of that time it basically just froze the screen. Grotesquely unoptimized, this game is. Run perfect when it's your turn, but the AI.....FFFFUUUUUU

Haha yeah, that is excactly why I went from trying to just explore the world to killing what I found, because they took so long on their turns

War is the easiest and most boring way to win Civ imo. I found cultural or scientific win a real challenge on king difficulty. If you don't get in trouble with your neighbors who will force you to focus on military then there is at least one other civilization somewhere else that stays ahead of you due to aggressive conquering tactic.

i was never really a big fan of war in civ, in civ 4 i made more cultural victories than anything else. i just haven't gotten to the point where i have explored other winning conditions. although i would say timed victory is the most boring.

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I dislike that they have to give the AI better stats to make them tougher foes

Eeeeeeeevvvvvverrrrrryyyyyyyyy rts game does this. I honestly call it lazy programming.