Just for fun, I did an Earth map on Settler level, as rome, which reminded me of my tutorial game.

For every one that play on harder levels, what was your first game of civ like?
(not just civ iv, but 1st game ever)

Civ I, played in a computer lab at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
No docs, so I just wandered the map with my Settler exploring until it was killed.
Kept at it, until I bought the game and read the manual.

I was over at my friend's house when I was a kid, and he had a modded version of Civilization 1 so you could play it hotseat.

Didn't know what I was doing so my cities had poor irrigation and such, so I built lots of crappy quality cities and was pretty successful with this strategy. I built a spaceship and launched it. That's when my friend nuked my capital city, conquered it, my empire split in two and my spaceship was recalled.

Now that I think of it, I have no idea how we managed to finish an entire Civilization session in only one night. I guess we just didn't care about micromanaging back then.

I was really young with Civ 1, was in like a corner (if i remember correctly) and make a diaginal line of knights to protect by city and fortified them! Woot I was well hard :P

I don't specifically remember my first Civ II game (would have been some time between my first and third years) but I had someone to show me how it worked so I avoided anything like Supr49r's games. I got quite good but I cheated a lot; now I get so absorbed in the game it just doesn't occur to me to cheat at all, and in Civ III I don't know the codes :).

I think I always played the Russians (long-standing interest in Eastern Europe and I speak fluent Polish; Michael is a Russian-speaker so he is teaching me russkiy yazyk at last), now I hardly ever do. At the moment I seem to play some kind of ancient/classical civ as that is the most authentic civ experience.

Ah I remember my first time was with Civ III on a Mac iBook...
Just like now I could never get past the midgame, since I had a thing for rerolling alot.

In Civ 3, I remember getting swamped until I finally had a good run the day before I got Civ 4.

My first game was on the tutorial on the original civ 4. Almost immediatly after it finished the tutorial and let me play on my own i attacked Gandhi and won a domination victory around 1800.

Way back in the dark ages, I spent an entire night at a friends house playing this utterly facinating game Civilization. It was like nothing else. And, to send me home he lent me 4 3.5 inch discs so I could play at home on my 486DX. Nothing has been the same since.

I remember I played as the Americans and had no idea what the hell I was doing. I was trying to fit in as many cities as possible for every 2 tiles, and I went to war with Mongolia and lost Boston, won it back, and spent like 500 years trying to stop it from revolting.

I think I won a Time victory, settler level. :D

play at home on my 486DX. Nothing has been the same since.

Yeah I came across Civ on my gf old computer. I then realized that my calling in life was to become an armchair general!

I don't remember specifically my first civ game, or even if it was on Civ I or II. I just remember a lot of different games on the first two levels of difficulty. I remember one game where I only made 3 cities the whole game. I think the AI (probably the Russians, I remember those SoBs always giving me trouble) covered the whole map in cities and conquered everyone else then won the space race. But hell, I was like, 7 at the time, that was a long time ago.

Now, my first Civ IV game, I played a quick/small warlord difficulty great plains map. No aluminum on the entire map. God that sucked. You need aluminum for just about all the modern stuff.I finally won a space race and took 2 of the other civs out, but Gilgamesh gave me some trouble after Tokugawa ran to him for protection after I steamrolled the other civs.

Welll, it looks that I'm the only one with a traumatic experience in entering Civ world ;)

I started played strat games with AOE and SMAC. I think that most of you can imagine the bitter disapointement a person can have passing from SMAC to Civ III... no unit workshop? No terraforming? No heights? No deformable terrain ? :suicide: :lol:

Anyway it looks like I survided to it ( but still miss the terraforming :( )

i do remember my first game of civ1 on the super nintendo :D i had just build a nice road from my first city to my second city which was nearly on the other side of my island which i was alone at (didnt read ther manual) so i thought it was a builder game with barbs :D, then suddenyl an AI shows up and attacks me with tanks vs my spears.... it wasnt pretty. i did get instant addicted :D

I think it was Chieftain level. I was very confused by all the techs, units, concepts, and most of the time I just clicked the next best thing. I still won, imho it's impossible to lose on that level even if you try.

My first game was on a CP/M, it must have been around 1976, I think it was an iteration of "adventure", text-based. still one of the best games I have played.

civ 1

most likely to have lost that game but gained an addiction :)

My first game was on a CP/M, it must have been around 1976, I think it was an iteration of "adventure", text-based. still one of the best games I have played.

My first ever game experience was in the very early 80's playing Defender at the local bowling alley while my mom was bowling. I remember not being tall enough to reach the joystick and having to stand on a chair. Some nice lady (I have no idea if she was a friend of my mom's or just some anonymous stranger) gave me a few dollars in quarters too. It was pretty sweet.

Civ III... I can't remember it much. I was unlucky, getting one of the worst games in the Civ franchise... but I still loved it (I played peacefully on Settler, and didn't run into too many bugs, nor did I experiance the full brunt of corruption)

I remember my first game of Civ IV vividly, however. I don't remember the civ (or much of the actual game :P), but I remember finishing the install, and opening it, and hearing Baba Yetu. Our speakers were destroyed (previously), and as a result, I was wearing headphones, and was the only person to hear that beautiful music. Everyone else was annoyed that I wasn't doing anything for near 5 minutes until the song ended :P

Started with Civ IV Warlords and tried Rameses on Settler level knowing next to nothing about Civ. I built 3 cities in total and refused alot of trades but somehow I made it to about 1700s when I'd just about developed Musketmen when Roosevelt attacks me with Planes, Gunships, Tanks, Artillery and Navy Seals. Needless to say I was massacred.

My game has improved somewhat since then.

I think it was Chieftain level. I was very confused by all the techs, units, concepts, and most of the time I just clicked the next best thing. I still won, imho it's impossible to lose on that level even if you try.

If you mean Civ 3, HEY I LOST EVERYTIME THERE!
In Civ 4, its so easy its really just sad if you lose.

Me and a mate got Civ1 and loaded onto the mighty Amiga 500. He tried to jump right in and play; I sat back and began to read this huge thousand page manual. He's going stir crazy trying to figure out what this game is about; I'm soaking up the knowledge and basically in awe of the depth of this new strategy game.

He gives up and rage quits; I slip into the command seat and take over the reins........and here I am a lifetime later eagerly awaiting the manual for Civ5!

Someone gave me Civ II for Christmas and I played about 5 games. The minutae of city management and crummy graphics really turned me off and I threw the disks away and vowed never to play again. I even refused a free copy of Civ III for my birthday.
Then I began watching over the shoulder of someone playing Civ 4. Wow. What a difference. Soon I was playing when he wasn't. I was hooked. To get me off his computer, he gave me my own copy for Christmas. I liked it so much I bought BTS and I've never looked back.

The only problem is I don't get out much now...:p

First game ever was Civ II: Test of Time on a friend's computer. I thought the game was broken at first, because the Settler wasn't able to build a road or irrigate instantly :rolleyes: Played as the Greeks the first time, and they've been one of my favorites ever since.

It was Civ III

Reaching into my memory I made this very rough version of the map:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/Napoleon_02/7fbc1646.jpg

1. America (me)
2&3: Either Aztecs or Iroquois (I can't remember which one went where, but I think it is how it is colored on the map.
4. Persia
5. Babylon
6. Egypt
7. Russia (on its own archipelago)
8. I know Rome and Greece were in this area, but I can't remember which went where. I think was also a 4th civ on this continent, but I can't remember.

Description of the game, the first civ I met was Persia when our scouts were looking at each other over the sea. My starting continent remained at peace with each other the entire. I remember a some wars between Persia and Babylon. Persia had a significant advantage since I only let Persia travel through my territory. I think Persia took one or two Babylonian cities. In the Northeastern continent, Egypt ate away at all the other civs on the continent. Late in the game, I decided to get a taste of war, so I organized some alliances to attack small states already weakened by Egypt. The wars ended up being basically being "the world" vs. "Greece and Rome." Guess how those ended ;)

I hadn't really grasped how to win yet, so Egypt ended up winning a Space Race Victory.

Of all places, I was introduced to Civ at my parents' home. Keith Ferrell, a friend of my father's, wrote the first Civ guidebook and gave them a copy of the game. My folks could have cared less about the game, but showed it to me. I was instantly hooked.

Keith started me on my first game as Stalin on, iirc, an earth map. I placed my cities about 14 tiles apart (almost all of which seemed to be plains) but still won by whatever passed for a domination victory in the day. I'm sure it was on the easiest level of play, which I think was chieftain.

I was a broke student back then and couldn't afford a computer. By the time I could buy one Civ II was out. I spent many an hour at my 386 as lord and master of the infinite city sprawl. :king:

Civ III actually pushed me away from the game for several years, but Civ IV (particularly BTS) has renewed the addiction. And, no, I don't wanna go to rehab! :crazyeye:

Civ II was my start and it was a long time ago - I played as the Celts and I definitely lost. I wasn't aggressive at all.

First game of civ IV was on settler - quick game speed. Wound up with a culture win as george washington...turns out this is my least favorite victory type (kind of tied with space though) but on settler I kind of fell into that.

I first played a demo version of Civ (III, I was too young to play the previous two) at a computer store when I was 11. Unfortunately, I assumed I was playing some retarded version of Age of Empires and as such, had a very confusing time. The units hardly seemed to move at all, my town centre didn't work properly and loads of annoying pop-ups kept on appearing, sometimes featuring stuff to "research", sometimes featuring some weirdly dressed person.

When I bought Civ III a few years later however, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and continue to do so (though now it's with Civ IV).

I wasn't aggressive at all.

Me neither; I never really got into the habit of being aggressive until this year really. Probably explains why it took so long for me to get to Prince :blush:.

I got civ 1 from my sisters boyfriend many years ago.
i passed it on to all my friends and started a civ boom.

was great fun for weeks :)

dont remember the very first game, but i do remember some civ 1 games in general. i've been a civver ever since.

one of the things i remember clearly is moving up a diff lvl, eventually thinking: this game is going well. i have 10 knights, lets go kick some ass. then a transport came by and unloaded 8 tanks.

civ 1 was kinda... extreme... in some ways hehe.