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The Official Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution Thread
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Aurelius
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besada said:
Did you have to build the boat that can go into deeper water to do this? I don't know if the location of Atlantis changes every time you start a new game or what. I skewed all of my efforts towards getting navigation the game after I noticed it (Atlantis), then couldn't find it.
This game is so much fun. It's nice to have a break from shooting people for once. I'm finding it much more fun building up tech/culture as opposed to taking cities by force. Any other strategies etc would be welcomed.
When you switch between the gold and the beaker when building shit, does that mean you are producing more science as opposed to gold?
Fragamemnon
Member
Zzoram said:
The demo is a fixed map, which makes perfect sense for a demo-it would suck if someone new to Civ got a map with a terrible starting point and found the game too hard because of it.
Danj said:
Nope, from now on I think that there are going to be a parallel Civ universe with two paths: one for the traditional PC episodes and one for the further console iterations. Or i hope so.
Theoretical question: how can you capture a city with a defense rate of 26 if your strongest legion / catapult can only produce a damage of 15? I've successfully conquered a city but after moving to an other one (lvl. 6) i was not able to capture it, not even with a huge army.
Danj said:
Sid Meier's games are very good at porting their games to other consoles well, at least I've heard so when they ported Pirates to the PSP very well... PSP
Pre-ordered this bugger with MGS4.
For £30 on PS3 & Xbox 360 at play.com
I'm gonna go out on a little bit of a limb here, but if you never played CivIV, and you like the Civ Rev demo, you should try Civ IV out.. I think a lot of people who like Rev (though not all..) would also like the PC games. I'm sure there's a Civ IV demo out there (?) and the requirements shouldn't be steep nowadays.
I so completely <3 Civ. In fact, there's a good chance I'll be playing this next Friday instead of MGS4.
I so completely <3 Civ. In fact, there's a good chance I'll be playing this next Friday instead of MGS4.
kbear
Member
Same question I have... how do you make two different units on the same tile attack together and not individually?alisdair said:
^ Also thishitoshi said:
Athens had a defense of ~30 and none of my units, even the armies, approached anywhere near that. Do you just wait till later in the game to take them down or do you just keep going in wave after wave until you slowly decrease their numbers?
edit, I just realized that if you wait till later in the game, of course their tech and forces will have improved as well... so how exactly do you take a city like that down? my catapult actually did take down a couple of their guys... just the one catapult, so maybe an army of catapults followed by legions to clean up the rest.
kbear said:
Use your armies and make sure to use the B button to retreat before you die. With enough waves you should be able to take down the defenses and only damage some of your units rather than kill them off. Also, build galleons and dock them next to the city you're attacking to get the naval support bonus on your attack. I had the same problem with Athens, but with a catapult army and a galleon fleet providing support, I attacked and retreated once they killed two of the three catapults, but at that point they were damaged enough that my legion army could finish the job.
The Librarian
Banned
No.ntb825 said:
EDIT: My favorite features of Civ Rev so far have to be retreat, and form an army. Of course, this is going by the demo. I am sure I will appreciate more new things come the full game.
The last Civ game I really got into was Civ2, so I've been a bit out of the loop with this series. I absolutely loved the demo though, and I'm really tempted to get the full game. When the demo ended I felt like I was just getting started.
Civ4 looks a bit too advanced for my tastes, but Revolutions feels just right judging by the demo.
The DS version looks pretty cool too..
Civ4 looks a bit too advanced for my tastes, but Revolutions feels just right judging by the demo.
The DS version looks pretty cool too..
MalevolentPanda
Member
Yeah, I've only played Civ 3 before and I much prefer this. All the stuff I like is there and there will be much less of the getting bogged down in tedious micromanagement in the middle to late stages. Probably the best demo I played on Live and it's convinced me I should buy it.
One thing I am disappointed by is that you apparently can't save online games, and have to finish them in one session. 3 hours is a long time to commit to an online game and I don't see why they couldn't have included this feature.
One thing I am disappointed by is that you apparently can't save online games, and have to finish them in one session. 3 hours is a long time to commit to an online game and I don't see why they couldn't have included this feature.
The Librarian
Banned
I love Baba Yetu. Probably my favorite videogame song.
Hearing all the positive review I am quite excited, never played a Civ game before want to try and get into it, waitin for the Gold thing to elapse so Silver members can download it.
Cheapest I found it is 28pound but never shopped from them before
http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=dettagli&codart=XB2SI02
Cheapest I found it is 28pound but never shopped from them before
http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=dettagli&codart=XB2SI02
Do the Aztecs get a free warrior starting off?
Do they get a special ability to heal units, from even say 1 out of 3 warriors to 3 out of 3, in the space of one turn?
Cos I've noticed some strange behaviour, that momentarily had me wondering if the AI was cheating..
Do they get a special ability to heal units, from even say 1 out of 3 warriors to 3 out of 3, in the space of one turn?
Cos I've noticed some strange behaviour, that momentarily had me wondering if the AI was cheating..
MalevolentPanda
Member
Aztec units heal automatically after winning a battle.gofreak said:
The Librarian
Banned
The demo is good and this game has the potential to be the best console RTS ever.Hootie said:
MalevolentPanda said:
Thanks, that explains that..
Though still wondering how an Aztec warrior managed to make it all the way down to my city (practically) in the space of two turns.. I'm guessing they get a warrior starting out? There's no way they'd be able to build a warrior and send it that far otherwise.
MightyHedgehog
Member
The demo was pretty nice...love the actiony battles. However, I'm not buying it, but I do hope for a mod for Civ IV that emulates it. I wonder if Firaxis has any plans to bring it to PC as an optional expansion.
Shit I just started out the demo again and it put me in a horrible position. Right at the bottom of a peninsula with the Aztecs right above me. I only founded Rome until they expanded their borders and attacked me. I have a few questions though: How can I expand my borders and how can I see how much production and food I have? Also how do I get more workers?
I actually really enjoyed the demo on XBL. I had one question I was hoping someone could answer; is there any way to send multiple units to attack a civ at once? In the demo i went after Zimbabwe and got destroyed! I even sent in my most advanced unit and all that happened was the freaking city guards had like 7+ more hit points than all of my units and I just wasted them all.
blindrocket
Member
I posted this in the demo thread but since this is the official thread I will post here too.
I really enjoyed the demo!
Something I was surprised it didn't have was keyboard support. The PS3 easily supports mouse/keyboard so not even allowing me to type the name of my city with the keyboard was dissapointing.
I hope the PS3 version supports voice chat in online multiplayer. I didn't buy Capcom's Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix until they patched in voice chat. I won't buy Hot Shots Golf PS3 at full price until they patch in voice chat either.
Other than some small issues like that I really enjoyed the demo and look forward to eventually owning it.
I really enjoyed the demo!
Something I was surprised it didn't have was keyboard support. The PS3 easily supports mouse/keyboard so not even allowing me to type the name of my city with the keyboard was dissapointing.
I hope the PS3 version supports voice chat in online multiplayer. I didn't buy Capcom's Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix until they patched in voice chat. I won't buy Hot Shots Golf PS3 at full price until they patch in voice chat either.
Other than some small issues like that I really enjoyed the demo and look forward to eventually owning it.
This is true for most games, but if it has a BBFC rating in the UK, they will ship you a UK edition (as they're required to by law).Kweh said:They will get the game to you earlier (generally day before the official release date), only problem is they don't sell actual UK games, they have "NOT FOR SALE IN THE UK" on the back, so if that doesn't bother you, go for it - I have used them plenty of times
I find them pretty good, and I run most of my pre-orders through them these days. And I really enjoyed the demo, so I went and pre-ordered a copy. I probably won't play this until after I'm done with MGS4... but I might as well have something to do after I'm done with that and this'll probably be a nice change of pace for me.
Speaking of keyboards, the on screen keyboard is quite nice (360 version). It's like the standard 360 keyboard done better.
Anyone know if that mini-controller keyboard thingy for the 360 works?
I'm not usually grammar nazi or anything like that but people keep calling this an RTS when it is, in fact, a TBS. This is why, I suspect, it works so well on a console.
Anyone know if that mini-controller keyboard thingy for the 360 works?
Dax01 said:
I'm not usually grammar nazi or anything like that but people keep calling this an RTS when it is, in fact, a TBS. This is why, I suspect, it works so well on a console.
Acid08 said:
Expanding your culture expands your borders. Build wonders or building that give culture bonuses to expand borders. And I don't think you can specifically set values for food and production, but in the city screen you can go to the manage workers option at the bottom and tell them to focus on food, focus on production, or do it balanced.