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Civilization V |OT| of Losing My Religion, And I Feel Fine...
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Lonewolf_92
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So, while we wait, what Civ are you going to play as in your first game? I'm finding it difficult to chose between Songhai, China, Egypt, and Iroquois. I'm leaning towards Egypt just because of tradition, but the other three are very interesting...
Sblargh said:
The AI would vote for you in Civ IV if they like you and absolutely hated everyone else. Also not sure if this is true but I remember reading something awhile back that said if you recapture a defeated Civs capital you have the option of bringing them back. They better vote for you after that.
FleckSplat
Member
Cday said:
Is that main civs or just city-states? I've only seen it apply to city-states.
Sblargh said:
Sort of.
The Civ that built the UN gets 2 votes.
Civs will always vote for themselves unless liberated, where they vote for their liberator. To liberate a Civ you have to retake one of their cities after they have been eliminated and choose to liberate. (This is from the pdf manual, applies to city states AND proper civilizations.)
So if some people have been wiped out it's probably worth taking a city back and keeping them alive in a corner just to vote for you.
f0rk said:
That seems pretty correct, thank you.
I like how the diplomatic victory isn't the peaceful victory (that would be culture or scientific) as you will probably have to keep protecting city states (and capturing one or two that a rival city-state asks).
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I can see creating world wars in order to protect the little bastards.
During my first game of Civ III, after staying up 30 hours straight playing, I had steamrolled and completely conquered the "Eurasian" continent, and had 2 remaining civilizations to conquer that would've required a massive amphibious assault across a huge ocean. As I massed the largest army ever known to man I was also building every Wonder that I could get my hands on, and happened to build the UN without knowing what it did. I voted for myself, France voted for itself, and the third civ voted for me, and the game was over. I just sat there half-conscious, thinking about how anti-climactic that ending had been :lol
I will be none other than Haroun ibn Mohammed ibn Abdullah ibn Mohammed ibn Ali Ben Abdullah ibn Abbas called al Raschid. First among the faithful. Mine will be the glory and city of Baghdad, Pearl of Cities.Lonewolf_92 said:
Dreams-Visions
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I don't know who to buy from!!! halp.XiaNaphryz said:
Amazon - Exclusive Asia DLC
Steam - Exclusive Mesopotamia DLC
K-Mart - $20 toward some other game
*biggest sigh in the world*
maybe I'll just go to K-Mart and get the DLC when it becomes separately available for dirt cheap. idk.
Hmm, I was going to wait until Christmas or something, but $30 is tempting if there was another game I'd have bought anyway and I can get from K-mart. Unfortunately I need to order a game from Amazon in like the next 30 days or whatever to use my $20 discount THERE, so I have to figure out what game releases are coming up that I can order. :lol
Is there any way to verify if a local K-mart will be honoring the detail? I'm guessing that my local one will be clueless and if I don't get a coupon on the checkout I'll be sad!
Is there any way to verify if a local K-mart will be honoring the detail? I'm guessing that my local one will be clueless and if I don't get a coupon on the checkout I'll be sad!
Technosteve
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i don't want to buy this game, i have to many games to play but if i do buy this game will it be easy to mod? I want my alpha centauri on this CIV
Reluctant-Hero
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I'm curious to see if Civ V will run decently on my 1st gen Alienware m11x. It's C2D is overclocked to 1.6ghz. The demo comes out tomorrow, right?
Dreams-Visions
Member
hmmm... Direct2Drive seems to have the best pre-order deal. hmmm.
Guardian Bob
Member
Anyone know how I get the soundtrack from steam? Never got a Steam game with a soundtrack before.
Hari Seldon
Member
Technosteve said:
Yes this game ships with robust modding tools, the Civ IV modding community was tremendous with many fantasy and sci-fi mods.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
The min spec listed the manual is a core 2 duo 1.8 GHz, so you'll likely be fine until you get a bunch of stuff going on at the same time (late game, lots of civs and units on a big map, etc).Reluctant-Hero said:
Watching this to get hyped. I'm going to miss Baba Yetu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0p-8K7DSU&fmt=22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0p-8K7DSU&fmt=22
Soakedjunk
Member
Was gonna make the drive to Fry's tomorrow to pick this up then caved in and bought the D2D version to get the extra DLC. Preloading now.... can't wait!
Dreams-Visions
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so Direct2Drive is the best deal outside of the $20 K-Mart deal?
(I'm still vacillating)
(I'm still vacillating)
Soakedjunk
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With D2D you can use PAX as a promo code and get $5 off the price. They're offering Civ 3 for free plus some DLC when it gets released.
Dreams-Visions
Member
in that case, bought.Valru said:
what's the Pax code, btw? and thank you in advance.
sdornan said:But they won't.
They could use the engine like they remade Colonization with the Civ 4 engine, I think even Pirates have something to do with the Civ 4 engine (or was it the Civ 3 engine?).
Anyway, they use Civ engine to make non-civ games, since they did Pirates and Colonization already, a new Alpha Centauri is not implausible.
Dreams-Visions
Member
ty. regular edition is mine.dream said:
Technosteve
Banned
EA owns the IP, i just want a space civ again with build my own units, and spys and sabotage units that steal intelligences and destroy your enhancements and psionics and swarms that cover the sky so black your drones huddle in fear.