Recent content by Khaldore

I keep everything ramped down as far as it'll go, *and* I play in Strategic View. It certainly isn't pretty, but it runs smoothly, and that's just the way I like it.

Lately, the main Civ videos I've been watching are FilthyRobot's NQ multiplayer games, I enjoy watching and listening to him work out his process turn by turn. The other videos I watch fairly regularly are xSubTownerx's LPs, for much the same reason.

Definitely a Standard speed player... Quick is *too* quick, and Epic/Marathon are just... ugh.

My last game (emperor Venice OCC, small archipelago) finished at turn 372 (diplomatic victory for yours truly), but I played on until around turn 480. Two of the other civs denounced me about 2/3s of the way through the game, so I just sat back to see if they'd DoW me. I was dead last in...

I play exclusively on Emperor. It's just difficult enough that when I win a game, it feels appropriately hard-fought, which I appreciate.

I've gotta second the Pathfinder as my favorite early unit, for all the reasons listed above. Warrior-strength scout that upgrades to a Comp Bow? Yes please. The fact you can choose your ruin reward is just icing on the cake. As for a least favorite... can't say I have one, but I've never...

I'd posted over on YouTube about my games with these settings, but I figured I'd pop over here and elaborate a bit. Bear in mind, I'm not a very good Civ player, but I enjoy the game nonetheless. :) Game 1 went smooth, if not as quickly as your LP did (turn 350 diplo victory). Don't recall...

Greetings fellow Civ fanatics! Short-term lurker here, but since I recently picked Civ V back up on my Mac, I thought I'd join up and hopefully become a proper part of the community.