Seeing how that other thread is going, i thought I'd start a new one just for your first-time experiences!

My very first game was strange - I had one city and waited many years with very little happening.

Then another Civilization came over and went to war with me.

It wasn't a good 1st time....

The ifrst tim ewent pretty well. Besides that I did some stupid mistakes. I thought that if people could get to my sity easy then they would move in more frecventy! I boulid a lot of roads. And when I say a lot I mean over the entier world! Roads, roads, roads, railroads, roads..........

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I played as the Greek Civilization, I didn't win, and I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/avatar.gif

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I still remember the first time... I remember I didn't win, but I survived but came second. I remember being very pleased with that.

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I remember I was on a Illand that was small and most of my cities kept starving becauses I would build a settler and make a city like 2 spaces away but other that that I surrvived and it was a good game (I think it was the funnest game I ever played!)
My capital city was named hell and I kept using the auto move and saying "GO TO HELL"!
I had like shoved 11 cities on that small peace of land that today I would of only put like 4 or 5 and had a war with some body to the west of me and I never took there land I had been at war with them since the first time I met them!
but I had never been at war with anyone else and I had a huge millitary but most of them were just people walking around on my land waiting to kill barbarians and any other Intruder who might land on my coast so I never lost any cities! and my country was pretty stable!

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1.Square meals often make round people.
2.You Cant Argue With Stupitity!
3.an Eye for and Eye(and while your at it take 2)

I started to play civilization when colonization came out. My friends told me colonization was a great game, and that if I wanted to learn the game I'd better first play civ...
I know I played the Egyptians and that I made *a lot* of units. I didn't understand everything so I guess I progressed really slow, but I've got this picture in my head of a continent full of militia... I wonder how I payed the upkeep costs for all those units?
I guess I played like a Zulu http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

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I was stupid. I got so happy when I got into peace woth the French and took over 1 Egyptian city. Then I got my city taken over and didn't know how it was taken over so quickly. Then I learned you have to have units to defend.

Originally posted by SlowwHand:
Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/avatar.gif" border=0>

This is the ON-TOPIC forum, flyboy. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/tongue.gif


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I can't remeber, it was too long ago.

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My Aztecs took over a (mostly one continent) world, Kept a pet Celt, and built a spaceship.

The first time was a long time ago... I don't remember exactly, but I somehow figured out that the catapults and the triremes were good, so I built lots of them, and had them see the world and destroy it. My few, poorly defenced cities didn't grow very well, because I didn't irrigate. And I didn't even know about the taxrate...

Poor people living in that universe...

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Quite brutal, in fact. As I was used to play action/fighting games before discovering strategy, I didn't know I had to discover tech. So I build a hord (approximately 135 warriors) and conquered everything. Oh, wasn't difficult, since I only played against 3 other civ... Ok, I was stupid but it was my first strategy game. Brutal, did you say? http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif
But surprisingly, it was not my shortest civ game. My shortest one, was last wednesday. 2minutes30. Don't ask me how I did it, just read the Civ1 forum post http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif

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i won my first game i played it was on playstation civ2

Small map, 5 civs total. I mostly just cranked out units, 'cuz I didn't understand what the improvements did. Sometimes I would build an improvement because it seemed like a good thing to have in a city. It was on chieftain, so I rarely got unhappy, but when I did, I would look at the manual and it would say stuff like "build marketplaces" to get rid of disorder.

...Of course I had my luxuries at 0, so a marketplace wasn't going to solve the problem. I'm not sure exactly how I got out of that.

Somehow I ended up winning anyway, mostly by producing overwhelming numbers of troops. I somehow got to Alpine troops and just had them running willy-nilly through the countryside trying to kill things.

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My first time, I thought the city "wounded knee" meant that the units in that city had a wounded knee, I've learned much in the last 6 years!

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I don't remember my first Civ 1 game, but I got Civ 2 about a year after it came out (my computer wasn't good enough for it at the time, so it was a loooong year of waiting).

Anyway, for my first Civ 2 game I thought I'd take it easy and go for King level on large continents. I wiped everyone out, but there was a pesky French continent too far away to reach by bombers. They were about level with me on tech, but had 1/3 the number of cities. Piece of cake.

Flushed with cool new Civ 2 units and a desire to use them, I built a HUGE fleet of carriers with bombers and helicopters, as well as battleships, subs with nukes, transports full of tanks, etc. I was all ready.

Oh it hurts to think of it, even today. I didn't even know what a cruise missile WAS!
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Originally posted by Fallen Angel Lord:
My first time, I thought the city "wounded knee" meant that the units in that city had a wounded knee, I've learned much in the last 6 years!


I wonder what you thought when you came across the city of "Little Bighorn"!!!
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DEATH awaits you all...with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

My first game I don't now how it really was but I Know this:

I Was in war with every one! (even didn't now you could allies) and I never build more than 5 city's! First until I discovered mobile warfare, I was only building city improvements (city size about 29/30) and I loved trade!

But when I had my tanks I just kept building them and sending them to the enemy!
And I still didn't know if I won the game!

And I to didn't now about the tax rate!
I just kept saying: You're running low on tax! Dude I hated that message every turn!

And not to Forget: City can't maintain tank; Unit disbanded, and City can't maintain barrack or some thing like that!

But it was funny any how!
And expectably when I Discover the cheat menu!
I just kept nuking to those city's! every unit I saw, got nuked!

Loved doing that!

By first time was on the demo version of Civ2 for the mac where you could play only utill 1000 BC ! I only remember that I lost after having built too cities Athens and Sparta. As soon as I became good enough and made it easily to 1000 BC I decided to order the game A.S.A.P. !!

But I had problems with my internet connection so I had to wait three months!!!!!!!! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/mad.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/cry.gif
Can you imagine and I was already FANATIC!


Originaly posted by Alcibiaties of Athenae

SlowwHand Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy.





Originaly posted by TimTheEnchanter

I wonder what you thought when you came across the city of "Little Bighorn"!!!



You got a great sense of humour... http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

The first game I can recall playing was the tutorial, Chieftan level, playing the Americans. I tried to go by the book, but one goody hut I hit gave me a military tech as opposed to cash. So then, I just declared war on the Sioux, instead of making peace with them like the manual suggests, and just steamrollered all over 'em.
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Amazing what a difference one little change makes, eh? (Sounds like a lecture on messing with the space-time continuum, but whatever...http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif)

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Originally posted by SlowwHand:
Flyboy. How did you know that?

You think somebody else just stole my sig, airdale? Who else would want it? http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif


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My sister brought a hacked russian version of civ1 from her girlfriend when I was 10.


My only expirience with shomehow similar games was Warcraft, so I placed my militias around the city. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif
I thought that Legion is the best unit, and I was amazed when I saw AI Knights destroy my empire.

The thing I loved the most was waiting for the palace to be built... http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

I never really understood the concept until I got civ2, couple years later. But even then, I played in a very stupid way.

I became very good at this when I came to Apolyton, and only then I discovered the full possibilities and fun in this game.

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My first time... hmmmmm... it was long time ago and I renember only that I survived to 1000 BC as a Russians on world map and the Barbarians conquered me http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

I started off playing the tutorial as the Americans as well and then decided to continue to see what everything was like. I remember several things from that failed experiment:
- I had no idea that a city in disorder was not producing anything. I just kept saying to myself "Ah, who cares about that mayor anyway - let him flee".
- I had no clue what any of the wonders did. I thought I should try to build some and ended up being first to Leonardo's Workshop. I had no clue what was happening to all of my units. Very confusing.
- Ships? Why do I need ships? What the hell is a trireme anyway??
- I kept approaching barbarians in hopes of talking to them. They weren't very talkative.
- I think I was in despotism the whole time.

Ah well, I learned by doing and that helped in the long run.

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Originally posted by Alcibiaties of Athenae:
Originally posted by SlowwHand:
Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/avatar.gif" border=0>

This is the ON-TOPIC forum, flyboy. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/tongue.gif" border=0>




Flyboy. How did you know that?
My brother plays Civ like a sod buster.
Develops the HECK out of that land.
No, not later in time.
I'm talking build first city, build a settler, and irrigate like crazy.
I've taken some very nice cities away from him. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif



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The first time, let's see....I was playing Civ1 (abandonware). I had two militia, and I tried to move one, but it only moved one space! Dammit! Then suddenly the second one decided it was his turn to move! I was so mad! What the hell is this?

And I thought phalanxes were really strong with their big shields, so I sent dozens of them to attack the enemy.

Ahhh, my first game of Civ2... it was on the PSX. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/shakehead_ron.gif" border=0> All I can say is this:

I lined up a ton of units along my coast where I could see another continent beyond 1 tile of ocean.... and waited to discover 'Bridgebuilding' so I could cross the water. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif" border=0>

[This message has been edited by Field Marshal Klesh (edited April 16, 2001).]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh:
Ahhh, my first game of Civ2... it was on the PSX. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/shakehead_ron.gif" border=0> All I can say is this:

I lined up a ton of units along my coast where I could see another continent beyond 1 tile of ocean.... and waited to discover 'Bridgebuilding' so I could cross the water. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif" border=0>

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1.Square meals often make round people.
2.You Cant Argue With Stupitity!
3.an Eye for and Eye(and while your at it take 2)

The first time I played civ-2, I couldn't understand where all those partisans came from when I lost a city. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/confused.gif It was not untill my second game that I learned that they belonged to me! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/spanking.gif

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Played my first game at my cousin's. He didn't like it that much, and said all the time "Can't we play another game?". I played the Greek civilization, and was actually proud (!) of having five cities! FIVE CITIES! In my second game, I was proud of having 1 million population, didn't know how to erase pollution, didn't know why that bloody revolting city of Thermopylae never got to build that Temple, didn't know why I never got scientific discoveries...and was playing on Chieftain.

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My first time I was making roads all over the place (because I could) and became upset when an enemy unit rode right up and smacked my city, so I dcided to build fortresses EVERYWHERE, on every square, I figured that would stop them - little did I know, fortresses needed to be occupied...

Also I never changed governments, and attacked everybody, even peaceful neighbors, when another Civ gave me money or tech to do so - and then I couldn't understand why everybody hated me.

My first game I followed the tutorial game and kept on playing as the Americans. IIRC I wiped out the Sioux eventually and I did go on to win by spaceship, but of course I had no clue how many structurals I needed or anything, so that took like forever. "Still not ready to launch? Damn, have to spend 5 turns building another structural to see if its enough" http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif I do remember losing a Trireme with a Vet Dragoon on it because I thought once I had discovered Navigation that ALL ships could leave the shore.

my first game of Civ. I or II or CtP?? well all were generally the same.

Civ I
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Civ CtP
after learning from Civ I I had a good start. I created a rather ok empire, and made it last untill EOG {End Of Game}

Civ II
my most recent purchase in summer of 99. I was the russians and was sucessful in creating the Soviet Union, or its geographical equalvient. of course by 1800 I was overrun by having no money, and hostile armies. I had avout 2/3rds of my cities and about half of them were in revolt, and only Moscow was a city that was any good.

now I am just waiting for Civ III...

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