CyclopsRock
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Could it be a Steam cloud issue?
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Civilization V Brave New World |OT| More than Content Tourism
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Could it be a Steam cloud issue?
I highly doubt it, have never made a save to the cloud with this or any game on steam.
0 bytes of 100mb in the properties for Civ5.
CyclopsRock
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I actually stopped playing with the real world map precisely because I'd always go and settle a city in the middle east, even if I were in the Americas or Australia or something, purely because I knew that, in 200 turns time, I'd have bucket loads of oil and no one else will. The predictability became a bit boring.
Weird, I've never had an issue playing a steam game online or off. I've certainly never been kicked to the main menu.
Something I recommend everyone so though is to gointo option and set auto save to every turn. CIv V used to crash a lot for me and that simple option saved me a lot of stress.
There isn't a civ in the game that can touch England at naval combat if they get to Ships of the Line. One of the flat out best units in the game combined with the best naval ability in the game = happy happy fun times.
It's a shame the AI is coded to play England so terribly - they are one of the top warmongers in the game, and should be a renaissance --> industrial war monster in the same way Greece, Attila and the Aztecs are in the early game. But for some reason Eizabeth just likes to expand slowly and get pissy with everyone because they touched a city state - think she has the highest AI score in the game for getting pissed if you touch another civ or city state.
Architechnophile
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Got a little bored of my Shoshone playthrough (it's too peaceful, and turns were taking unusually long), so I jumped over to a new one with Venice.
Started on a desert tile, in an area that's 1/3 ocean, 1/3 desert, and 1/3 plains. 3 Gold within 2 tiles, (and one that's 4 tiles away *grumbles*), 1 Gems. 2 Wheat, 2 Fish, 1 Horses. Got the Petra.
Yeah.
Started on a desert tile, in an area that's 1/3 ocean, 1/3 desert, and 1/3 plains. 3 Gold within 2 tiles, (and one that's 4 tiles away *grumbles*), 1 Gems. 2 Wheat, 2 Fish, 1 Horses. Got the Petra.
Yeah.
Venice is coded to get the literal best starting position in the game on a coast. You a always actively put the spot the designers consider the best possible, so you should have tons of extra resources on top of your two luxuries.
If you manage to get Petra in that spot you outline that's going to be one utterly monstrous civ, especially if you get Desert Folklore as well.
If you manage to get Petra in that spot you outline that's going to be one utterly monstrous civ, especially if you get Desert Folklore as well.
Fragamemnon
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Always online DRM = whatever Steam is doing, but I've played CIv during an Internet outage just fine in my region (NA).
I hear there is this "Petra" thing but in my games it always goes by turn 60-65. I enjoy the beautiful savagery of Deity but I do miss some of fun things other people get to play with (read: most ancient and classical wonders).
I did have a game recently where no one went tradition and I got Hanging Gardens at like turn 70. That was pretty neat.
I hear there is this "Petra" thing but in my games it always goes by turn 60-65. I enjoy the beautiful savagery of Deity but I do miss some of fun things other people get to play with (read: most ancient and classical wonders).
I did have a game recently where no one went tradition and I got Hanging Gardens at like turn 70. That was pretty neat.
Architechnophile
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I went with Religious Idols (+1 Faith, +1 Culture on Gold/Silver resources), which has been paying real nice early dividends. I guess desert folklore might prove more useful a little later on, but I wanted the early bonus on tiles I'd definitely be using.
Unfortunately, I'm sandwiched between Montezuma and Genghis Khan....
...and they both love me! Everything's coming up Milhouse.
Won my first BNW game with Portugal; Space victory. I love how I didn't have to fight anyone really but just maintain a nice standing army
i'm surprised that your golden age counter is at 1295 at year 2031. how is it possible? mine goes to 1800 after like 4 golden ages.
what are steam cards?
once i didn't have iron, coal, aluminum
Fragamemnon
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I can deal w/o Iron, not having Coal is a huge pain but bearable since those that do have coal have tons, but no aluminum is the damn worst. The only thing worse is no oil.
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I keep reading about about AIs not being aggressive enough. I haven't found that to be the case. Anyone opening up - and sticking with - Honor is going to go bashing heads, and it will likely be your head unless you bait them to go beat on someone else.
CoconutTank
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I think there was a game in which I managed to get Brandenburg Gate along with a bunch of training buildings and Heroic Epic on my capital. Every time I built a Ship of the Line out of the capital, I'd get enough exp for 2 bombardment or 2 targeting and 1 range. I'd basically have sea rocket arties rolling around with 7 movement. And I get to follow up with a bunch of Longbowmen for transitioned land sieges.
So glorious :O
IMO, naval warfare is more fun in Civ 5 than land warfare.
Cameron122
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Gals and Guys... I wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
I played from 1030PM to 6AM
Help me
I played from 1030PM to 6AM
Help me
BigJonsson
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Oops, I destroyed the other 2 Civs on my continent way too quickly, now I'm lonely trying to build up my cities in preparation of either another civ sailing over here or my army going over there
I got lucky with finding weapon and tech in ruins really early on lol, Alexander and Genghis were no match for Shaka!
I got lucky with finding weapon and tech in ruins really early on lol, Alexander and Genghis were no match for Shaka!
yog-sothot
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I want to buy this but my backlog will never forgive another 300 hours spent on Civ
LumpOfCole
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Shaka, when the walls fell
British Monsoon
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Really liking this so far. Won my first game; a cultural victory with Shoshone in 292 turns. I was mostly playing around with the new great works system and, later, archaeology, which is really what sped up my victory. I hadn't attacked anyone and only had to fend off Darius, plus, I was very lucky with coal and oil popping up in my territory once I got to the industrial era and because I got navigation early and was the first to research archaeology, after that it was just a matter of using archaeology to collect artefacts from other cultures to increase my cultural influence with them. I went from being influential with 1 other civ to having influence with all of them in about 20 turns. Shoshone's got some nice abilities that really help early on, as when founding cities the territory spreads out further towards luxury resources and, also, the pathfinder unit can select which bonus you get from exploring ruins, which was really useful early on in my game.
I always play a large map on marathon with domination or diplomacy as the only victory conditions. I like the lower speed and slightly more aimless focus; though with the World Congress addition makes getting a diplo victory is way easier. My games end much sooner now.
Architechnophile
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My usual routine was to do Huge/Marathon, but due to my persistent inability to finish a game, I'm stepping it back to Huge/Epic.
I'm a chronic Civ V restarter. I like the exploration part so much that once it's done, I tend to just want to regen the world to start exploring a new one.
Human_Shield
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Nope. Having multiple No Terrain Cost, Visibilty II, ranged combat units running around would probably unbalance the gameplay.
Lame
My pathfinders are useless now
Architechnophile
Member
Gotta get them ancient ruin upgrades for 'em - turns pathfinders into freakin' composite bowmen
Even without that, though, they're worth hanging onto for a little bit. With the defense/healing promotion (survivalism, IIRC) they're pretty strong defensive units. Couple that with the Shoshone bonus inside your territory and extra visibility, and they seem to make for great sentinel/guard units.
Human_Shield
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Depending on the type of map you're on, scouts can be useful for putting on those tiny one hex islands that sit just outside of you're territory so another civ can't drop a city near you, placing them on archaeological sites you can't get to right away, or even just outside a hostile civ's territory to monitor troop movement. Even obsolete, they can still be useful.
Crazymoogle
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It's useful...but not for much. Allowing them to graduate to archaeology or something at modern era wouldn't be a horrible idea - drops their military use but they would get annihilated by any standard unit of that era anyway...
Civ 4 had modern scouting units (Explorers) and apparently the stats showed they were completely and utterly useless to the vast majority of players, so they didn't put a more modern equivalent into civ 5.
BTW on the pathfinders - the fact they upgrade to composite bowmen, not normal archers, means that the weapon upgrade option is actually really really powerful for them. You can do some very, very effective and nasty early warfare with a few of them running around, and once upgraded to composite bows they can then be upgrade as normal to crossbows etc.
Fragamemnon
Member
Once the ruins start petering out I always try to get composite bow upgrades for my pathfinders. Honestly, it might be one of the best upgrades you can choose from, outside of :
population growth after hitting size 3 or more
culture ruin for the first ruin (automatic choice for me)
I find that the free techs aren't that big of a deal early on. You are gated by worker turns and city size, not tech speed.
population growth after hitting size 3 or more
culture ruin for the first ruin (automatic choice for me)
I find that the free techs aren't that big of a deal early on. You are gated by worker turns and city size, not tech speed.
Wiz
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Fragamemnon
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Do people prefer guides in video or screenshot+text form? I'm working on a Liberty opener strategy and a 2/3 city Tradition into National College plan and wanted to kick some of this stuff out there as formal content.
Screenshot and text - a good guide acts as a reference tool and you can't constantly watch and re-watch a video.
Tabernacles guide for traditions 4 city opener is a great example of a good guide - definitely prefer this style.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487
Tabernacles guide for traditions 4 city opener is a great example of a good guide - definitely prefer this style.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487
Slackbladder
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Played as Morroco and done pretty well. Got a shitload of money from trade and have good relations with nearly all other Civs (12 of them), never went to war, usually helped when asked.
Buying City-state alliances has given me a load of votes in the UN so a diplomacy win is on the cards. Already got my religion as the world religion and probably try to make my Ideology (Freedom) the world Ideology (at least 7 other Civs already follow Freedom). Really enjoying it but I think I'll start a game and aim for a military win. What's the best Civ for that?
Buying City-state alliances has given me a load of votes in the UN so a diplomacy win is on the cards. Already got my religion as the world religion and probably try to make my Ideology (Freedom) the world Ideology (at least 7 other Civs already follow Freedom). Really enjoying it but I think I'll start a game and aim for a military win. What's the best Civ for that?
IHaveCandy
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Shaka is good for war if you want to use the new ones.
StanTowers
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I like how you can switch to playboard visuals because I have to rely on that with my old laptop.
I like Oda and Japan's UA for conquest playthroughs.
Could someone explain how the Ideology approval stuff works? The game does a piss poor job of explaining this.
Right now I just adopted Freedom (going diplomatic Morocco), but my people are already discontent (giving me -23 fucking happiness) and want to switch to Order (the only other ideology at this point) just 2 turns after I adopted Freedom.
From what I can gather, it relates to tourism? I've been sort of ignoring tourism most of the game since I'm not going cultural. If a civ with another ideology has more tourism than you, do your people get discontent or something? That would seem pretty unbalanced and make ideologies fucking useless for anyone but cultural civs, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that. I really don't want to switch my ideology but -23 happiness is fucking killing me. I'm doing everything I can to remain at 1 net happiness right now.
Right now I just adopted Freedom (going diplomatic Morocco), but my people are already discontent (giving me -23 fucking happiness) and want to switch to Order (the only other ideology at this point) just 2 turns after I adopted Freedom.
From what I can gather, it relates to tourism? I've been sort of ignoring tourism most of the game since I'm not going cultural. If a civ with another ideology has more tourism than you, do your people get discontent or something? That would seem pretty unbalanced and make ideologies fucking useless for anyone but cultural civs, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that. I really don't want to switch my ideology but -23 happiness is fucking killing me. I'm doing everything I can to remain at 1 net happiness right now.
The much famed 4-city opener is dead, you need a DoF to trade up 240g <-> lux.
I'm still on my quest to win on Deity with Peaceful Wide, it seems impossible : (
I've done it with OCC science, 4-city science, and Wide conquest, but starting with Liberty really seems to slack up.
Anyway: Anyone has some practice with modding? i could use a hand, simply trying to swap the Roman Ballista for the civ IV Forum, and i'm failing hard-time at it.
Can i simply do a overwrite of the \gameplay .XMLs, or i do have to use the SDK?
I'm still on my quest to win on Deity with Peaceful Wide, it seems impossible : (
I've done it with OCC science, 4-city science, and Wide conquest, but starting with Liberty really seems to slack up.
Anyway: Anyone has some practice with modding? i could use a hand, simply trying to swap the Roman Ballista for the civ IV Forum, and i'm failing hard-time at it.
Can i simply do a overwrite of the \gameplay .XMLs, or i do have to use the SDK?
platypotamus
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Text please