2nd game ever (of Civ 5)... and I set it up for Epic.

[Minifig]

I really never could get into 4, but 5 I'm enjoying a ton.. so I set up the Huge Earth map, on Epic.

I think I might have taken more cake than I can eat..

 

[JohnnyW]

Enjoy hitting next turn for 2 hours to get a worker.

 

[AfterShafter]

Minifig, glad you're enjoying the game - I play on marathon myself and am also enjoying. Try and ignore the particularly vocal audience in here... A lot of us are also enjoying the game, but there are a lot of very vocal people here who just ain't happy unless they are telling you why they think the game is terrible.

 

[Wyvernjack]

Minifig, glad you're enjoying the game - I play on marathon myself and am also enjoying. Try and ignore the particularly vocal audience in here... A lot of us are also enjoying the game, but there are a lot of very vocal people here who just ain't happy unless they are telling you why they think the game is terrible.

Agreed - the vocal group have many very valid opinions, but I've yet to run out of "fun" in this game, and I played quite a bit of cIV.

ps: has anyone ever pointed out that AfterShafter is awfully close to "After Shafer"

 

[lietkynes]

I really never could get into 4, but 5 I'm enjoying a ton.. so I set up the Huge Earth map, on Epic.

I think I might have taken more cake than I can eat..

Epic speed is well balanced, huge map on the other hand I am not sure, I hope you have a powerful rig

 

[AfterShafter]

Agreed - the vocal group have many very valid opinions, but I've yet to run out of "fun" in this game, and I played quite a bit of cIV.

ps: has anyone ever pointed out that AfterShafter is awfully close to "After Shafer"

Heh, no-one has pointed htat out yet... But I assure you, I started using the handle in the late 90's - it has very little to do with the man of the hour

 

[SuperJay]

Hey Minifig, welcome aboard. Hope you continue to enjoy Civ5 for months and years to come. I haven't played on Huge / Epic myself due to all the problems that Huge maps seem to entail, so I'll be interested to hear if you're able to complete a full game on a Huge map. Maybe I'll give that a shot myself.

Minifig, glad you're enjoying the game - I play on marathon myself and am also enjoying. Try and ignore the particularly vocal audience in here... A lot of us are also enjoying the game, but there are a lot of very vocal people here who just ain't happy unless they are telling you why they think the game is terrible.

Also, try and ignore the particularly vocal members here who pre-emptively insult their fellow Civ fans rather than keeping to constructive feedback.

 

[Stoklomolvi]

Huge marathon game is fun if you don't manage to piss off all your neighbours on turn 40.

 

[speegler]

I have played about 6 standard games and hope to try out Epic next with perhaps the Iroquois or French.

But there still is alot of fun left in this game for me.

 

[bryanw1995]

I really never could get into 4, but 5 I'm enjoying a ton.. so I set up the Huge Earth map, on Epic.

I think I might have taken more cake than I can eat..

I played cIV almost exclusively on marathon, but now I'm mostly standard with a few epic games thrown in. epic isn't that much longer than standard, but marathon is twice as long + as epic. however, the combo of a huge map + epic is bad news for any computer short of ORNL right now. I have an i7 @ 4.0 with a highly oc'd gtx 460 and I still either stick to large maps at standard speed or standard maps at epic speed as my most computationally intense games right now. Even a large/epic game in the past for me has just really bogged down in the later eras, though I haven't tried it post-patch yet.

What is your game rig? how is it dealing with everything so far?