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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."
> 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.
Why do you hate the USA?
Stupid Roman numerals.
Time to say goodbye to the wife and kids...
...to tell my wife: "Just one more turn" 15 or 20 times in a row before...
...she just gives up and falls asleep.
Is everyone RTFA?
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
I'm actually looking forward to some of these changes now... paying upkeep for roads makes sense to me. They're more like interstate highways now, not the roads that go every-which-way. The new way to expand your cities and develop culture sound good, too.
Well, there goes part of my 2010 and all of my 2011... just need to get a machine that can handle 3D graphics to play it, now...
I had a long hiatus from Civ II to Civ IV, and when I finally tried the latter I found it dull. The updates don't seem to add anything interesting, and haven't been any more fun than the original, or FreeCiv.
Is there some reason we should expect more from V?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"alternatehistory" - really?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
But I always felt the need to conquer them two hours later.
... another installment of Civilazation. I already know I have the leadership skills of Dan Quayle. Do I have to be reminded again?
The nice thing about Civ4 and earlier was that the appearance of the land quickly and clearly conveyed information about what was there and its role in game terms. In an effort to make the landscape look more natural, I worry that this information might be more hidden. If so, that would be a bad decision.
I want to have sex with this game.
I want it to bear my kittens.
"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
Wow, that was just like the comment you made on your last turn.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Did you play Civ IV? There absolutely was no "one true path" in that game. Particularly with all the expansions and on the hardest difficulty, you absolutely had to play to your particular civs strength, and trying to get different victory conditions with each of the different civs was always a challenge. On top of that, playing the same civ with a different leader could be a very different experience.
Huh? Civilization was never released on the C64. Perhaps you're confusing it with the Amiga version.
Windows only at launch, OS X version may eventually be released at some point in the future. No Linux version mentioned.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
Why do so many people insist on using the roman numerals in casual conversation? The creators use them in the official titles for media because it looks "prettier" on a box or a poster or a movie screen, but roman numerals are unarguably inferior for actual communication. There's a reason we ditched that system for general use and went with arabic numerals a long time ago.
What's especially vexing is people who abbreviate the title but still insist on using the roman numerals. FF XIII, DQ IX, Civ V. If you're _already_ trying to simplify the name then using arabic numerals will always be more clear and will often save space/characters as well. FF 13, DQ 9, Civ 5.
Making things more difficult for yourself and for everyone else reading whatever you have to say in the name of a cheap marketing gimmick is just dumb!
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I would mod you +IV Interesting.
Wow, you've even lost a vowel.
Developers: We can use your help.
Per the CivIV Complete box: 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent, 512 MB RAM, 3.8 GB hard drive space, and DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB video card with Shader 1.1 support or better.
You have to have a steam account to install it on your computer. Major turn off.