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It's pretty overpowered in the early game. If you can get a free upgrade out of a ruins, you can easily knock out another civ before they even have a chance to build anything.

Haha. I'm actually buying a second copy of G&K for a friend as a gift since he can't afford it right now. That should more than make up the difference. :)

I was skeptical about getting it, but I managed to find it on sale for 22 dollars opening day. After playing it, I would definitely pay 30 for it.

Austria. No doubt in my mind. I think a lot of the new civs are really overpowered, but most of them require specific conditions. Austria's UA is crazy good no matter what.

Seriously though, what a great UA.

I got it for like 22 bucks today. http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/strategy/sid-meiers-civilization-v-gods-kings/ They give you the voucher code right on the site.

Yay diplomacy.

Eh, I strongly believe that city states are better to have on your side than taken over. I play mostly on Prince though, don't know if it stays the same at higher levels.

Obviously sitting at max frame rate isn't going to give me any advantages in civ compared to an fps or rts, but I really like everything to move fluidly. When things start to stutter even a little bit I start to get distracted. I have a slightly overclocked amd phenom ii x4 955 at 3.62ghz. I...

I guess crap is subjective then :p I'd rather run at 60FPS and take a barely noticeable loss in Graphics than play around 25-30FPS. Lag kills my desire to play games. Honestly, after switching back and forth between the two versions, DX9 actually looks BETTER to me than DX11. The menus also...

Not sure if you mean it's nonsense that it runs poorly, or that the game doesn't run in DX10 without DX11? There is no DX10 only mode. The game runs like utter crap on my 275GTX in DX10/DX11 mode, and I feel like it's a common issue for most people with DX10 cards from what I've seen on...

1. Agreed 2. Agreed 3. Agreed 4. Agreed 5. Agreed I think anyone who thinks Civ 5 is subpar would agree with all of those. In fact, you could turn around everything you put in that section and make it completely negative with little trouble. To me the game feels too focused on warfare...

The thing is DX10 isn't enough to run this game in DX10/11. There isn't a DX10 only option, it uses BOTH DX10 and DX11 together. So if your card has no DX11 support, even if it's DX10, there is no reason to run it DX10/11 because the game will run like crap.

Thanks for looking into this, Kael. I'll be keeping an eye out for it :)

I'm not sure about ATI, but that's exactly how it is in Nvidia's control panel. You select .exe of the game and change the settings by game. There are global options, but obviously you already figured out why that would be a bad idea. Here's a pic of what it looks like: