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All I know is if I play random I feel free to setup a game any way I want with the map settings and number of civs/city states. But when I pick Spain outright I feel kind of guilty lowering those numbers to up my chances... But I always justify it with "well my computer will run the game better...

Once I have tried out every civ in the game/expansion I go to playing either random or picking Spain. They are the only civ I ever feel like playing enough to actually pick them outright. Mainly because of the equalization the doubling provides on the higher difficulties as you said. I just...

877. When you encourage people to friend you on steam to be amazed out how many hours you have invested in the game and claim it as a badge of honor. 878. When you have to find new friends because they can't believe how many hours you've spent in the game.

I've dropped from regularly winning on emperor back to king. I had enjoyed winning once in a while on Immortal, but not often. Deity has always amused me because it really requires you to develop really good singularly focused plans to work for that early lead, now I figure that applies to the...

So I just finished my first game with Elizabeth in G&K... wow Brtiish ironclads are sickening... grab the Great Lighthouse and they keep pace with every ship out there... get a few promotions on some privateers first and those coastal cities are toast as soon as you upgrade. I love it, it almost...

Yeah if we need a special extra discount it should be for having over 1500 hours played since vanilla... A compensation for all of the growing pains :P haha I'm just looking forward to having the extra things to worry about as far as religion and espionage back in the mix. So I think the...

I want to know if I can anticipate spending anywhere close to the 1600 hours I've sunk in Civ5 already so I can know this will be the second best purchase I've made in the last few years. That's all I'm hoping for at least, the game itself already has me hooked, just want to know how much...

Lurker Comment: So I like to see my comrades from the last one going strong. I like that second city placement, I would have argued that settling so far away from happiness resources was ill advised. But you guys will make it work, of that I have no doubt. My piece of advise is to keep an eye...

yeah I've since broken free of MMO's thankfully but I had no trouble confirming that 15 dollars a month was better for me per hour then anything else by comparison with the hundreds of hours I put in to them. I believe with my original Everquest character I had a year of game time over the...

who in there right mind wouldn't buy this? Just to reinforce everyone else so far is that the money to time ratio for any Civ product has made every purchase worth it for most of us. That is the reward for our loyalty, each release and update is for us, to ensure we enjoy their games for as...

Hey guys, wanted to come by and say thanks for the invite. I'll have to pass but I'll definitely sink into lurker mode and enjoy the ride. I haven't played the game in 2 months roughly so I'd not want to shake the rust off in here. I may fire it up to get sharp for the expansion though...

not sure if it works truly or it was my perception of what was actually occuring but... switching to strategic view before ending my turns seemed to help when I went for the huge map win waaaay back when. My poor machine was taking well over 90 seconds to get to my next turn, I was able to make...

The best I have done towards MP was Civ net was it? the Civ1 scam to buy the entire game over to play it multiplayer haha... I will play hotseat games but that is because its turn based. I'd never play online as I'm not even willing to watch a click fest war take place. I'll keep my base...

Yeah, I worked my way up from Prince to Emperor fairly easily but for a while Emperor gave me headaches. After one of the patches Emperor wasn't nearly as awful but Immortal gives me fits still to this day. I believe with all the rash of tips that have come out it is quite easy to move up a...

okay, I've lived with one thing I want patched now that I am tired of it. The AI can take my worker and disband/kill it that very instant whereas if I capture one I have to wait till the next turn. I can't stand it anymore!!! Okay now on the topic. An expansion should have basically a...

Well Spain has probably moved to number 1 for me, but for the sake of not voting "other" I'm going with the civ I got on my first game. Randomed the USA and had so much fun fighting the crazy Iroquois for hundreds of years using my sight bonus to set up cannon shots on his dozens of cities...

haha i wish my AI partners had more gold, i was buying open borders and resources all game and still couldn't get RA's up with them all... but I'm happy with 349. Maybe I'll give it a go with a different start set up, I was in the middle of everybody and land locked...

I've never tried one of the gauntlets so I fired this up last night to try out some fun with you guys. I've enjoyed scouring for tips on getting better at other (then science, my most common) victory types or good policy choices to speed up certain victory conditions. I forgot how easy it is...

Yeah I crossed 1k hours of this game in its 1st year, and I own the civ DLC's with scenarios but not map packs. I'm down with dlc's here and there and, hopefully, a few more regular patches to keep refining as stated above. I'd rather drop 5 bucks on more content for a game I enjoy then 60...

I find myself playing on Terra more and more, I like to load it up with 12-16AI on tiny or duel and play on Emperor/Immortal and see if I can hang. If you survive for a while all of the AI tend to get an emp/Imm sized army with out the empire and go broke. Anyways typically I see one of all of...