So I spent 3 and a 1/2 hours playing the demo today (two full runs, I think it stops at 200 turns). I don't remember vanilla Civ5 being this fun, my goodness.
E: Just spent a solid 6 minutes Googling if this was a standalone expansion or not and came up empty (meaning, don't need to own Civ 5 to play). Any help? Thanks
What is a natural wonder?
That's not bad luck, the map generator code explicitly makes them so that natural wonders are placed far from the player. Unless you're playing with multiple humans, they won't be anywhere near your starting area.Spain can be immensly powerfull, imagine finding El Dorado early. 2 free settlers... That's a won game right here.
But, it's too random. In the 40 games I've finished and the hundreds I've rerolled, I've never gotten a natural wonder in the neighbourhood of my starting area. And maybe 2 or 3 instances where I got one in a city I settled myself. And that's the reason Spain isn't actually OP, there's a big chance their entire UA is useless. Except for like 600 gold or something on a standard map. Which isn't useless... It's a settler and change, but hardly really good.
But when you get a holy mountain in your starting position... man... Just go Holy War and finish up early.
That's not bad luck, the map generator code explicitly makes them so that natural wonders are placed far from the player. Unless you're playing with multiple humans, they won't be anywhere near your starting area.
Huge maps have 7 natural wonders, I believe. The code prevents them from being in workable space from the spot you start with your settler, but 7 tiles away is normal, just very lucky.Are you assuming a huge map size too? Because that's totally not my experience playing on standard map size, or even the one above that. Take this game I started today, Cerro De Potosi dropped 7 hexes away from my capital, prime ground for me to drop a second or third city next to it without it being too far away from my capital. And it's pretty typical for me to run into wonders in that type of proximity.
Still learning the game, but on continents maps it seems like its much easier to get a space win than a domination victory. I've now achieved every victory condition but domination and time based.
It's a tile that gives special yield bonuses based on historical landmarks. Think stuff like Mt. Fuji, the Rock of Gibraltar, The Great Barrier Reef, and so on. Here's a list of them with a detailed description if you're interested.
Wow, really? It seems like I have access to at least one natural wonder at some point in a significant percentage of my games. Even if it's one I don't particularly like, like Old Faithful. Do you usually play on a particular map type?
Maybe I just got lucky in these past couple games.
Edit: Also, how can I reduce the influence other civilizations ideologies have on my public opinion? I thought it was tourism but, I'm still getting -15 happiness from the Iroquois Ideology. Even though I have a higher tourism output than him.
Some map scripts don't have such settings, usually the more specific ones (Japan, British Isles, etc).A lot of the advanced map settings are missing for me (sea level, temperature, rainfall, resources etc.) Were they removed in this?
A lot of the advanced map settings are missing for me (sea level, temperature, rainfall, resources etc.) Were they removed in this?
Culture helps defend against opposing ideologies, but only so much. Any civ with decent tourism output will get to 10% ("exotic") influence w/ a one unit pressure on you. You kind of have to deal with it. Note that if you have a buddy in the same ideology putting on more tourism pressure than the other ideologies, then you'll be OK and content. Hence,
there is a strong benefit to "following" a cultural powerhouse into their ideology if you don't have sufficient cultural defense.
I feel like the way I enjoy playing Civ 5 is almost cheating I love the naval game so I almost always play on large islands, where my empire is surrounded by water and if anyone wants to attack you they have to send a fleet. the AI seems to completely suck at Navies, as it seems to almost outright ignore buildign subs. Soon as I get to refrigeration I'm churning out subs like crazy, declaring war and WASTING every single AI player no matter how strong they are. I want more challenge, but I also like having islands all to my self as I enjoy the empire management more than the war game. But then it seems no matter what difficulty you play on, if your empire is allowed to be on its own you are going to win. Its even worse now that trade is so heavily leaned toward the naval side.
Does the AI always choose an ideology different than you? I've never played a game where I wasn't the minority Ideology. I have always used Freedom, this game I am using Order.
Some map scripts don't have such settings, usually the more specific ones (Japan, British Isles, etc).
I tried all the standard maps (pangaea, continents, etc.) and none of those options are appearing for me in the advanced menuThey are still there, but it depends what map type you select. When you are in the advanced menu, if you choose small continents you will get all the options, but if you choose large islands you'll lose the ability to choose sea level.
Is there any way to turn off the leader videos that come up when your talking to them? They don't show in multiplayer, basically just the UI when interacting them comes up over the map which is awesome, but I don't see an option to do the same thing in a single player game. For whatever reason they basically lock up my computer for 5+ seconds at a time when loading each one, which is pretty annoying...
Order tends to be the most popular, in my experience. And I have had people follow me in ideology. But yeah, they tend to pick whatever you don't, for some reason.
It's terrible indeed, my advice is to turn autosave for each turn on, and remember to create Pitboss servers. Why can't you continue, by the way? What is the specific issue?Holy fuck I HATE the shitty menu music from BNW.
How can I remove it? Fucking infuriating.
edit: also, fuck multiplayer. Crashes. Disconnects. Glitches. Lag. Resetting settings. All of that and 300 turns into a great game and we hit a point where we can no longer continue. Game gets stuck at the end of a turn and that's it. Fucking shit devs
That really sucks to hear Send them your save game. maybe they can fix it for you!
Yea I have autosave turned on frequently because I heard about crap like this.It's terrible indeed, my advice is to turn autosave for each turn on, and remember to create Pitboss servers. Why can't you continue, by the way? What is the specific issue?
Holy fuck I HATE the shitty menu music from BNW.
How can I remove it? Fucking infuriating.
edit: also, fuck multiplayer. Crashes. Disconnects. Glitches. Lag. Resetting settings. All of that and 300 turns into a great game and we hit a point where we can no longer continue. Game gets stuck at the end of a turn and that's it. Fucking shit devs
I'm kind of disappointed how little military units the AI seems to build on prince. I really don't want to go to war, but when they maybe have two ships on Large Islands, what else am I going to do.
So how do you go about shedding the reputation of being a war monger? I've only participated in two short wars through 1650 ad, but every Civ on the map hates me since I took Babylon's capital. It's kind of weird since Rome and Indonesia have been fighting Netherlands for the last 500 years, yet nobody seems to care.
I'm kind of disappointed how little military units the AI seems to build on prince. I really don't want to go to war, but when they maybe have two ships on Large Islands, what else am I going to do.
You have to open the directory of the game version you have, find the 'openingmenuXXXXX.wav' file. You can replace it with whatever as long as you convert the song you want to be in the menu to .wav, and rename it to be the same as the file(XXX being the signifier for version). As always back up the file
Holy fuck I HATE the shitty menu music from BNW.
How can I remove it? Fucking infuriating.
edit: also, fuck multiplayer. Crashes. Disconnects. Glitches. Lag. Resetting settings. All of that and 300 turns into a great game and we hit a point where we can no longer continue. Game gets stuck at the end of a turn and that's it. Fucking shit devs
I have to let him convert my cities even thought he promised not to? I get the feeling if positions were reversed I'd get some negative diplomacy from pulling that move.thats why you gotta build up dat army, wait for the DoF to expire, and then throw him into a living hell.
Pretty much. Not sure if he gets a negative diplo hit from lying about his promise, but yep....I have to let him convert my cities even thought he promised not to? I get the feeling if positions were reversed I'd get some negative diplomacy from pulling that move.
Aww man, that's craaaaaaaaap.Pretty much. Not sure if he gets a negative diplo hit from lying about his promise, but yep....
Aww man, that's craaaaaaaaap.
There's a negative diplomatic hit for denouncing a friend, right? Seems crap since they can do the reverse. Aldo if they start warmongering or something I don't see why I should sit on the sidelines in silent support.