Recent content by DrewBledsoe

Agreed completely. I just have to state again, that when I heard there was no trade between nations, I just had to shake my head in partial (but not completely unexpected) disbelief, and realise Civ V wouldn't be for me. I won't go off on a long historical ramble, but suffice to say, most...

You have to remember that for reasons of its own, Civ V places great demands on your graphics card. See the manual, pg 286 para 2:- " For optimal cooling, the employment of a Punkawallah is recommended".... ;)

I'm in a positive frame of mind (mainly because I got Skyrim last week, and have been living there ever since ;)).......soo...... Let's hope CIV V is just shelved and forgotten about. I'm thinking Bond films here. There have been some stinkers, and whole periods of stinkers, but they've...

This is of course the longest sentence in recorded history (including Canadian literature) and deserves the first award of 2012 (even if its still 2011 Madden gets away with it).... Congrats!

Still playing last non-beta (1.75 is it?) and some observations about latish game (never normally get that far)..not sure if these still apply to the Beta but anyways..... On a huge continents map, 3 continents,Emperor, Marathon, Alex of Greece:- I own the majority of mine, have a decent...

Superb assessment as ever Psyringe :goodjob: I find the most ironic part of it, is the collective amnesia experienced upon release of a new franchise installment. Reviews will say things like "some of the obvious faults of the predecessor have been rectified, and then much improved...

It's a game of life, of the history of man, and it can't even be bothered to have international trade, which basically fuelled civilization. (How ever you want to represent it:- you have something that we want, we have something that you want, it's stone age)...so never mind espionage. Espionage...

I actually purchased it, and am having a great time. In fact I can't put it down. It's a proper wargame, with meaningful trade, alliances and diplomacy. The units are completely accurate, the maps pretty to look at, the research fun and meaningful. :) Oh I forgot to mention. It's called...

Maxi sumo, maxi, jeez maxi.....I thought I was getting fat at 40 EDIT : Warned myself for a drunken matter of fact,,,

Here's another example of amazingly bad city placement:= Rostov Ok, I'd constantly fought Russia and kept pushing them back, but what on earth is Rostov doing there, just built? The Ivory and Rice are already accounted for, and it's losing out on it's sea tiles, the fresh water lake...

I was wondering, if the city selection site code could be looked at. I still find myself razing at least 75% of ai founded cities, because they are in such annoying places (a classic example, is building just 1 tile away from the coast and thus rendering 6+ tiles useless. Here's a screenshot...

I still think you're missing, or not understanding the big picture. AI choices outside the players realm of control of course aren't on their own a bad thing, they are totally necessary. It's the game design that I think is wrong (as do many others). Exactly as Thormodr stated above, it's a...

Which bit of my post isn't true, if you wish to discuss it? I noted that you play as the leader of a single nation, but it's still (well it used to be) a god game. Trying to reduce Civ, which was all about the journey, to a simple win/lose mechanism, where the end result is really all that...

Civ used to be, and always should have been a God game. You are the God, and are basically getting the thrill from recreating man's alternative history, albeit from a single nation's point of view. This concept seemed to be entirely misunderstood by Civ V's creators. Someone mentioned the ais...

My first AND post was almost identical to that. You can only balance it for your own game prefs, because there are so many variables to be taken into acoount:- eg. Game Speed Map Size and Map type (early contact means faster teching generally) No. of Civs (again the more the faster the tech...