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I've put probably close to ten thousand hours into the Civ franchise from Civ 2-5. I've been playing Civ since I was 14 (I'm 34 now). I own Civ 6 but I've only put about 10 hours into it, enough to play one game and beat it (on Immortal, I think it was. The only Civ 6 game I ever played. As...

Back when I was new to Civ5 I had this habit - I would open Tradition even in games where I planned on going Liberty, simply for the enhanced border growth. I concluded this was a bad noob habit of mine and stopped doing it, for years. Just yesterday I played a game as Rome and, as usual with...

Whelp, I just got chastised for critisizing Civ 6 in the Civ 6 forum, and told to take my thread to the Civ 4 forum... as if we are different sports teams. I figured that we were all Civ players but I guess that's not the case. I figured some people would empathize with my frustration but I...

I've been playing since Civ2. Civ2 was fun but lacking in depth and, oddly, overly complex at the same time (many different unit types and buildings). Civ3 was a large improvement in combat and added culture. Civ4 was an enormous improvement. Then comes Civ5. Civ5 did a lot of interesting...

I have this problem with Civ, and I've had it since at least Civ3 - I lose interest in a game if it drags on for days. Ideally I would play a game in one sitting, and I used to do that with Civ3. I'd literally get up, have breakfast, and play all day, because I was an undergrad and I could...

I've pondered the idea of making Civ more MP friendly, but this runs into many problems. I play Dota and enjoy it, but the fact that I can only play it online gives it certain limitations. I can't play Dota if I only have 45 minutes to spare. I can't play it if I'm expecting a call, or...

I can beat the game with my eyes closed on immortal by playing a 4 city Tradition empire, and simultaneously playing a game of table tennis against my brother. Then I sit down and try to play the game using a different strategy cuz, you know, replay value? I've tried and tried and tried to...

I'm currently working on a mod with the single purpose of rebalancing Civ traits/UU's/UB's/UI's I got to thinking... why is it that in the Civ franchise Egypt has always been the wonder building civ? Even according to the game's own logic, if any civ should be a wonder builder, it would be...

I decided to start modding on my own, to make a civ balancing mod, but I have no idea how to get anything to work. I've looked into the game's XML files and also the XML files of various mods, and I still don't understand what I'm doing wrong. First question - if I'm making a mod to...

Long time lurker and poster, and massive Civ fan here. I hate re-rolling and I like to improve on my game, but I've never posted any of my games because I play with mods. Well, CiV's been out for a while now, and the mods I play with are just balance-tweaking ones. For now, this is...

Hey everyone. I got into the habit of opening Tradition ALWAYS, no matter what, for the faster border expansion, regardless of whether I planned on actually taking any policies from tradition or my game strategy. I recently decided this was a bad habit and forced myself not to... but when I...

What is the best way to prevent generating isolated starts? I think they break the game. For a builder, like Egypt or Korea, it's an auto-win, and for a warmonger it's a major set-back. Keep in mind I want more than 1 continent in the game. I was playing with continents and rolled isolated...

I've been a big civ fan since Civ2, I played thousands and thousands of hours of Civ4 (and a lot of Civ3). When Civ 5 came out my comp couldn't handle it so I didn't start playing it until after BNW had been released, I thus never played Civ5 vanilla or G&K I'm a hybrid player, sometimes I...

The first few games I played of Civ 5 that went to the late game were cultural and science victories (or attempts) and even that was slow enough. On standard speed, standard sized map, a Civ4 game would last anywhere from 3(super fast culture victory) to about 10 hours for me (late game...

So I made an earlier thread about the barbs in this game... I was shocked when I saw armies of 4-5 barbarians attacking my cities at turn 30 and pillaging improvements because in Civ4 you have a lot longer than 30 turns before that stuff happens on that massive a scale. Anyway, I managed to...

So I just tried out the Spanish. I got a decent start in that I found 2 natural wonders before turn 25, for 1000 gold in the early game. I used that gold to rush purchase workers, settlers, and units to expand rapidly, and went up the liberty tree as well. I ended up with 8 cities by 0 AD, twice...

So, new player to Civ 5 here, but long veteran of the franchise. I won my first game on Civ5 on prince, cultural victory. For my second game I'm bumping it up to emperor and going to try a warmongering strategy. I'm used to Civ 4, where early war could be very profitable so long as you had...

So I played Civ 4 for about 7 years or something... I'll probably regret the thousands of hours invested in it when I'm old and grey, but whatever, it was the best game I ever played. I finally made the jump to Civ 5... and I'm a little worried. I dabbled and "practiced" a few times, playing...

This isn't a troll thread. I played Civ 3 right up until BTS was released for Civ 4. I hesitated to get Civ 4 because of the mixed reviews it got and because I thought it would run slow on my comp. Once BTS had come out I jumped on the bandwagon and started playing Civ 4. I've been playing...

I have been playing Civ with random leaders for years now, I never ever choose a leader. However, the whole 'random' thing doesn't seem random. I know, I know, you're going to tell me there is confirmation bias, observation bias, small sample size, etc. But I'm just curious if anyone else has...