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Civ4 for me is where the franchise peaked. I really wanted to like 5 and 6 but they never really did it for me even with expansions and mods. And I love how I can play Civ4 on a potato laptop. Been playing it since release and I fully expect to keep playing it during my retirement home years! I...

One thing I wished IV kept from III was the change of the leaders' appearance wit each passing era. You would get hilarious visuals like Caeser in a suit and tie or Abraham Lincoln in cave man clothes. It would also be great if IV adopted V's feature where land units could travel over water...

Ah, thanks, that makes sense. So basically he could have put any other unit on those caravels, meet the new civs, do all those trades and still be able to do the same Astronomy bulb? For a moment I thought the actual location of the GS affected the bulbing cost (kind of like how the Great...

Was watching LainCiv4Deity's play and he did something I had never seen before. He placed two Great Scientists on two different caravels and then waited until they were out at sea to bulb Astronomy. You can see him do it at 26:55 of this video. Can someone explain why he did that rather than...

I actually like civ3's graphics better. 2d just seems more appropriate for a turn-based strategy game. And in civ3 I can get a quick glance of the map and know instantly what is what. Civ4 required special icons pointing to resources to tell you what it was. Civ5 has just waaay to much clutter...

*edit* Argh, never mind. I didnt realize this one like a 1 day sale.

When I first started playing civ there was indeed a feeling of controlling and managing an empire. I would actually imagine how historians would write my civ's story, I gave names to certain mountain ranges, lakes, oceans, etc. The stories section of this site was a fav visit of mine; civ...

To be honest I'll just wait 4-5 years for civ6 to come out and play civ4 in the meantime. I like a complex game (not complicated, there is a difference), and civ5 just doesn't have it. Even with an improved war and diplomacy AI there are some game design choices that make the game boring at its...

True. I was one of the players back then that had problems running civ4. But to me the gameplay wasn't flawed, I didn't have an urge to go back to civ3. To me it definitely felt like a step up from the previous game. But Civ5? No technical problems running it on the first day, but after about...

When civ5 was first announced earlier this year the rivers in the screenshots looked exactly the same as they do now. So it looks as though they pretty much stopped all "progress" on them. Firaxis' art department must really be hurting after the layoffs.

To be quite honest my biggest gripe right now is the dumb AI. Adding more and more layers of complexity isn't going to help the game for me if there simply is no challenge.

Civ V is steppng into murky waters. The developers had ambitious ideas to bring some zest into the franchise but they really only had vague guesstimates on how they could achieve that. Hopefully they will learn from Civ V and in 5 or so years Civ VI will be a much better game for it (similar to...

I would choose Civ4. I don't want to say Civ5 is dumbed down, but it's just not "epic" enough for me. I like having lots of things to worry about (even though I stink at micromanagement), and all the little details that some would call tedious in Civ4 I find cool. I like worrying about...

Good tip but that eventually results in EVERYONE waiting for the turn timer to reach near the end before moving, prolonging the game even further. Simul moves was put in to speed up multiplayer and it in fact does the opposite once people wise up to timings. It's better just to have people take...

It took me a while to get used to strategic view but now I use it 98% of the time. The only time I don't is when one of my units gets stuck in a city (bug?), and clicking on it won't let me select it. I have to switch to 3D in order to get it out. I was never a big fan of 3D since civ4...