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Bwana M'Kubwa
Thank you UknowsI for your extremely interesting guide.
I have been a Civ II and III player, scenario builder and modder for many years but have just been presented with Civ V.
Unlike any game I have ever purchased, it was surprising to find that the purchased DVD required an enormous update before registration or play could commence. Thankfully I installed the game late on Christmas Eve when my broadband gave me an excellent 330kb/sec download. Even so the ridiculous 4670MBupdate took four hours to download. Firaxis should have included such a huge update into a new disc.
However, like possibly other experienced Civ players, once it was installed (at 02h30) I climbed straight in. I found Civ V similar but also very different from Civ III.
I have only started playing one game but already I dont like a few of Civ V changes:
1. It takes far too many turns to produce each unit.
2. The ability to alter citizen deployment amongst its tiles seems to have been removed when viewing the city area.
3. The ability of cities to cause devastating bombard two tiles away when opposing units can only move one tile. They are taken out long before they can get near the city. No doubt your advice to have swordsmen and catapults should counter that?
4 The other irritating thing is that the introducing movie (excellent although it is) cannot be stopped by Esc, Right click, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It goes on and on before miraculously ending a few minutes after all of the above moves.
However, now that Ive found your useful guide, I will start a new game and try to improve my play.
I have been a Civ II and III player, scenario builder and modder for many years but have just been presented with Civ V.
Unlike any game I have ever purchased, it was surprising to find that the purchased DVD required an enormous update before registration or play could commence. Thankfully I installed the game late on Christmas Eve when my broadband gave me an excellent 330kb/sec download. Even so the ridiculous 4670MBupdate took four hours to download. Firaxis should have included such a huge update into a new disc.
However, like possibly other experienced Civ players, once it was installed (at 02h30) I climbed straight in. I found Civ V similar but also very different from Civ III.
I have only started playing one game but already I dont like a few of Civ V changes:
1. It takes far too many turns to produce each unit.
2. The ability to alter citizen deployment amongst its tiles seems to have been removed when viewing the city area.
3. The ability of cities to cause devastating bombard two tiles away when opposing units can only move one tile. They are taken out long before they can get near the city. No doubt your advice to have swordsmen and catapults should counter that?
4 The other irritating thing is that the introducing movie (excellent although it is) cannot be stopped by Esc, Right click, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It goes on and on before miraculously ending a few minutes after all of the above moves.
However, now that Ive found your useful guide, I will start a new game and try to improve my play.