Recent content by CV-110

For me: mental fatigue, being burnt out on Civ for a while.

How about Persia? The increased happiness from fewer cities and extra happiness from Tradition (for obvious reasons) and Piety (to buff GAs even more) go well with a smaller, well-developed empire focused on taking maximum advantage of GAs.

I'm just a newb, but I tend to skip that. Like 120 production (on Epic) and maint. of 2 resources for a gain of 3? No thanks, I have better things to build early.

Having a unit completely destroyed when its win odds were 80%. Civ5's combat was long overdue. Also, as was mentioned, the cheesy early rush for religions.

Excellent, been looking for the titles.

It tells the AI where they and you stand in international politics. And it can be very influential. I was playing on Prince and didn't like the way Hiawatha was expanding (as always, very aggressively). In addition, he had that 'they covet your lands' thing, as always. So I denounced him. Next...

Low (familiar with civilization series) I feel like playing it sometimes and when I do, it's for hours and hours.

woops, misvoted. I think there'll be at least 1 proper expansion and later a collection of the DLC in retail. And later a complete edition with everything.

So the period of expansion is over, I have as many cities as I want, and there's not really any place left to go at least until the Renaissance. Cultural and Conquest victory are not an option, I'd rather go with diplomatic. Mind you, this is just after a series of wars with...

Haven't played much, have seen them grinding experience on barbs. Even Civ leaders are joining the MMO craze

Dunno what you're talking about, Black Ops and Civ5 are great, and I much appreciate the enhancements both have made to their formulae. Not gonna buy another Infinity Ward game after MW2, so that's right out the window.

I'd be interested in PBEM. I'm not a good player, and play too slowly for real-time multi.

How is a Total War game a substitute for a Civ game? They're almost different genres. I won't be getting Shogun 2 if it has the same or higher reqs than Empire.

It's from a pre-patch game.

The patch doesn't take account of what wonders have been built, at least in my game. I could build The Great Wall (which another civ built) or the Hagia Sophia again (though not in the same city).