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400 Turns of Civilization V
Wes found a preview of one of the most anticipated upcoming releases by the inhabitants of my office: Civ V. It starts "This preview of Civilization V is incomplete. It takes more than nine Earth hours, you see, for the great Arabian empire — land of Mecca, Rio De Janeiro and Beijing — to assume dominance of the globe."
"alternatehistory" - really?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
"The biggest change in Civ V is that the Civilization world is no longer sliced into squares. It is composed of hexagons."
This change is about 15 years late... but most welcome
He did say it was a small map on standard w/ Chieftain difficulty, and he was probably rushing so he could write up a review.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
You had completely the wrong solution to this situation: Better would be to sell your Civ game to a jerk with higher grades than you for $45. Still cheaper than the full $50 for him, recovers your grades, ruins his, and means you only lost $5.
Oh, and if you play real life like you would Civ, then club him over the head and take the game back, then repeat the process with another person you don't like.
I am officially gone from
I actually found CivIII to be the most annoying of the franchise. I just couldn't get into it at all. Civ II and IV, while having some failing points, are superior to III IMO.
"But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,..." - Nancy Pelosi
but I think the consensus was that Civ IV was a flop
Source?
Anecdotal, obviously, but I don't know anyone who doesn't think 4 is the best one. I'm still playing it regularly (some single player, some multi with wife + friends) and if 5 isn't great I probably won't stop.
Positional notation is unarguably better for doing mathematics, particularly on paper. For communications purposes, however, any arbitrary system for representing numbers is fine, and there is no advantage of one over the other for communication purposes save familiarity with the system by the intended reader. It is often assumed that any reasonably literate person can at least read from I to XII as easily in roman numerals as in arabic numerals, as these are the twelve numbers you see written on a clock face. It's also assumed that people can read clocks. I know in modern times there are a lot of particularly dull people who can't do either, but that's another issue entirely. In any case, I object to the notion that communications should always be dumbed-down for the sake of the semi-literate.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
You have to have a steam account to install it on your computer. Major turn off.