Recent content by drachasor

I bought Civ V when it came out, but I quickly got disgusted with how stupid the AI was. I've read the diplomacy is a bit better now, but is its unit management any better? Before it would just send unit after unit at me with zero tactical ability. I enjoy a somewhat difficult game, but not...

Above all though, the extremely poor AI has been the major problem in my mind. While some of the other mechanics were a bit odd at times, none of them were game-breaking.

So I take it from this thread the AI is still extremely stupid?

Ahh, I was about to start a thread like this. So the game is still broken, essentially? I stopped playing in November or thereabouts.

The stupid grind in MMOs is a system designed to stretch out a little bit of fun as far as possible to make it so that developers don't have to make as much content and keep getting money rolling in. It's all about screwing the consumer over by manipulating their psychology. Achievements...

Achievements in games are pretty stupid anyway. They make people think about how to get these stupid points instead of actually having fun. Now the stupid grind of MMOs can be yours to treasure in all genres...ugh.

Ah, probably because the controlled territory changes and hence the mountain requirement for it disappears for a little bit.

I haven't tried the new patch, but before I told my worker to build a road from one square to a city and he built to the coast and then embarked. They are really stupid.

Yeah, from what I hear the new patch doesn't fix things. Perhaps the next patch, which is more aimed at the AI, will make it better.

Pretty much 100% sure that's not what is going on. Those "squares" you see are graphical anomalies where the texture for the hex isn't wrapped up properly around the hex's terrain. Instead it is just placed flat. Naturally these textures are stored as squares or rectangles. That's how it...

My brother had turn 0 start with his settler INSIDE the border of a City State.

I wouldn't buy a civ when it is just something that can be easily modded into the game.

Eh, I remember it being more about a combination of location-specific factors, including horse, resources, etc.

This. The game has major problems, but it doesn't come close to being a Bait and Switch.

There's no appropriate Civ map size for that, even huge is far, far too small. They should have gone with a strategic battle system for a strategic game. CTP2 had the right idea with combining units into armies that fought together (far, far superior to the later Civ3's version of armies)...