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In the game I just finished, on Immortal difficulty, Atilla first had wiped away Spain, who had conquered Persia. After that, Attila came for me with his huge army of Knights crossbows and some trebuchets. I had caught up science-wise and was leading in production with a decent empire with 5...

Who knows?! I doubt it. I played a Kings Game (went for culture with my 5 cities but won a space race because for some reason the AI did threathen me but never attacked, nor did he build more then a single booster of his space ship.) and Hiawatha was running a large empire (15+ cities, through...

Not sure about the strength of the AI -- don't have the game yet, only played the demo. Perhaps though, instant turns and a good AI don't go well together. I'd prefer to wait 10 seconds if that results in the AI making better decisions. JaCa

Good post, OP. :goodjob:

If the size of that boat, which is clearly not a worker boat, is representative for any other militaristic vessel, then it may be that rivers, which flow along hexes, can be navigated, as stated in some German article http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=356916 Just feeding...

The preview said the last two words meaning, "[which got] usually accellerated" and referring to the modern age. I would therefore think it argued that the research and production rate being were usually much faster in the modern age, so fast you could indeed not benefit maximally from the...

I stumbled upon a Dutch preview of Civ 5 (http://www.insidegamer.nl/pc/civilizationv/impressies/29047) It did not have much news except maybe the suggestion that a unit will have an attack and defense value. Plus the preview suggests that after being damaged from an attacking move the unit...

Sounds like taken from the Advanced Start feature of CiV IV: bying tiles but this time applicable throughout the whole game with the use of a Settler. Interesting change! Curious about the drawbacks of founding new cities though. Sounds good! Curious whether growth is slowed down when building...

Excuse me for picking this particular item from your post but I feel your dissapointment of religion being out as the dominant diplomatic factor (in CiV V Vanilla at least) makes you search for (extra) arguments that aren't always there. Can you really say the developers are backing away from...

Seconded. Personally, I'm pretty confident the developers know what they are doing and I haven't seen a single thing that worries me, on the contrary. I'd like CiV V to be a different game then its predecessors. No point in buying it otherwise. Looking forward to more news. Jaca

If we get worried about chokepoint stalemates -- I can't tell since I don't know about the combat mechanics -- perhaps a good navy may may save the day...?! ;) Jaca

You wouldn't argue though that chess is a simple game to play, would you? It has a set of rather simple rules but a tremendous amount of interaction, even over the course of a few moves. I think it's that what makes a game complex, not the amount of units. Jaca

I must disagree diplomacy felt more *real*. It was certainly a step forward, yet, the only big modifier in diplomacy really was the religious one. Wether it was so historically accurate, I can't really say and even doubt it. Wouldn't it be better, Aussie_Lurker, to refrain from judgement and...

You put it a little strong, AlpsStranger, but you may very well also be quite right. Don't know about your 3rd point though. I wouldn't mind if they'd make the game a little leaner.

I thought the diplomatic penalty was the exact reason why religion was introduced into the game as a mechanic: it tried to create a few power blocks rather then loose civilizations.

Agreed. I was no ace and used to play on Monarch but those handicaps is what made me stop playing the game. No fun anymore. A bit disgusted with the huge stacks of units late game as well, I must say. If combat would be a tactical operation that the AI can compute or estimate rather well...

Agreed on the pissed off part ;) Hoping your last statements will be true as well.

I like this. It's a small addition but a nice one. As I proposed somewhere else, I would also borrow the idea of "hostile terrain" from the "Final Frontier" mod: some terrain types or features -- I'm thinking of jungle, desert, tundra, mountains,... -- would introduce a certain damage percentage...

1. Introduce "morale" and have a morale penalty the farther the units are from the homeland. Low morale would deduce strength. 2. Introduce suffering damage due to foreign terrain, something I would borrow from the "Final Frontier" mod. Desert, jungle, tundra and ice tiles would give, if not in...

I very much like the original poster's idea. It feels much more natural to me. It's worth polishing, in my opinion. Personally I'm one of these guys that do not like the shuffling around with units and tiles - but that's personal choice. I'm fully with dh_epic and his sudoku metaphor: once you...