Recent content by j_buckingham80

I have been playing Civ 5 now for the past 6 days, and Saturday and Sunday, really got into the game. I enjoy it, and think it is quite a bit of fun. At the same time, I think there should be room to appreciate a great number of opinions on the game. I don't regret purchasing Civ 5 and...

There's no doubt that pillaging and tank killing are what gunships are "good at," like Dragon, I think the pillaging for the gunships is way overpowered. Normally, I tend to have a good jungle or forest buffer between the enemies and me, or even hills, but gunships all just move right over all...

Mass Media isn't a bad pick, maybe that or Radio since both have that "communicative" effect. I understand that Civ 4 is about alternate realities and the like to some degree. I suppose if we get into the future and all the other civs are slavery enacting police states with different...

Hey All, I know some of you have suggested that part of pillaging is part of Total War, and pillaging has a long history. I understand this point, and is much why I suggested the pillaging penalty would only kick in with industrialism or something similar (maybe even plastics). This is mainly...

I don't know if it's just me, but one thing I really hate about the game is when the computer attacks pillaging my stuff. It just bugs me to see my civilization and towns undermined, even though there's no way in heck the computer could take a city. This seems like terrorism to me...

Sisiutil- I pretty much agree completely, if you're going to cheat, especially in Civ, you for the most part are only cheating yourself. But, as you agree, there's some aspect of the game that is just micromanagement intense. Especially at the higher levels. Is it wrong to reload back once...

This is actually an interesting point, but it almost leads me to the opposite conclusion. Part of the problem with Civ, is that it was originally and still is to a large degree a single player game. So to some extent cheating feels like it's "cheating" the computer. But how does one cheat...

Gam- I think you're point is exactly why Israel needs to be in the game, Take2Games, should not let a variety of anti-semitic individuals govern the mechanics of the game, imagine if they had kicked Judaism out as a religion because it would offend people. If people are going to get offended...

Israel. Israel...Israel. I have been thoroughly amazed that through 4 games of Civ, 2 expansions to civ 3, and 1 expansion to Civ 4, Israel continues to get left out of Civ. In fact, as far as it goes, no country in the world has had a greater impact on all of "Civilization" than Israel...

A good description of Fahrenheit's system can be found at Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit Granted, there are multiple opinions as to how Fahrenheit came about his scale but the most prominent is "There are several competing versions of the story of how Fahrenheit...

King- I'll readily concede that SI is better for scientific purposes than US. But to say that SI is better for a particular purpose is not say that it is better in all. The perfect example of this is fahrenheit v. Celsius. In science celsius can be more useful because the graident is larger...

Ah King Flevance, now it gets interesting... I will concede that there is perhaps some benefit in seeing the harder to remember day first, however this benefit I think is neglegible given the effort required in looking one number over. However, I think having the written language match the...

Aye yay yay... Dates and the Metric system, there's a topic for discussion. First off, we'll see when Warlords comes out, I'm expecting late July. June, I'd be surprised. Now, for the controversal stuff. MM/DD/YYYY, makes sense, because at least in the English I speak, it is more common...

I usually go for one, mainly that's because I'll probably get 3 Great Prophets or so throughout the game (at least one from Stonehenge), but I'll usually only start one or two religions, sense Great Prophets are pretty worthless towards the end of the game, if I get one then, I'll use up an...

Thanks for keeping this thread going while I was away, I really appreciate what a lot of you have said. I agree that the outpost thing was a problem, which is why some of the suggestions that people had about limiting it to major cities would be a good idea. Also, I think MOO2's system did...