Recent content by lampshade

hmm minefield. * the british isles is a geographic term that includes ireland. that's all. some pedants don't like the term because it includes the word "british" but it shouldn't be a big deal. it doesn't mean that ireland is british politically, it just means it's british geographically...

i'm a fan of the 5/7/5 classic formation, but i also like to add a reference to a season, which is traditional, so i go with: chill wind and snow falls civ 5 abominable may as well go out

i think the game is utter rubbish. it has no depth, no subtlety, no strategy, no nuances. it is nothing compared to 4. i don't even think it's fixable because the poverty of the gameplay is such that they'd never be able to balance the game if they imported factors like religion, commerce...

baleur's post on the first page absolutely nails how i felt about this game before i uninstalled it.

princescamp, belated thanks for your help. much appreciated.

i gave up, uninstalled, and went back to 4. it's 1800, i'm stuck on the corner of a tectonics continent with 6 cities and everyone dogpiling me. i'm joao, and i managed to colonise the whole new world with carracks but fell behind doing it. if i can survive until my vassal gets off the...

how do i uninstall steam and civ 5, and presumably i can reinstall them at a later time from the disc and the code with no problems? ie. go to folder x and do y. i am really rubbish with computers. Thanks!

this is just depressing now. i miss most of those things. how can we have moved on 5 years and have a new game for more powerful pcs which has 10% of the complexity of the predecessor? apart from the graphics and sound this game could have been run on an amiga or an atari st. the thing...

do they owe you anything? no of course not. it's a game, you bought it. it does the things it said it was going to do. should you start another game? pfft probably not it's fairly rubbish we're all facing up to it sooner or later.

the entire diplomacy element is an utter abortion and you're cross about having to honour a fixed term open borders agreement?

i've been thinking about uninstalling for a while, basically because we're not going to get an upgrade for at least a year, and a significant upgrade (to add in religion, diplomacy, etc.) more than a year. all we'll get until 2012 is AI bug patches. but let's not get too angry with the...

i know but remember first playing and meeting monty and realising he was a psycho. wondering what he would do next and what you should do. remember getting to know mansa and zyakob and realising you could make friends and tech your way to permanent alliance victory. the leaders have no...

hey good point and i should remember that. the base is solid, i'll give them that. i hope they've planned this as a platform for the next 5 years. combat is better, cultural spread, 1UPT, and hex's are better. a lot of the core is improved. but all the toys are missing. yeah i loved...

... 5 years time? because i'm bored already. when you played IV, you were paying consideration to the immediate, the mid game, the long game, your potential victory conditions, what would be your prod., economic, science city. how you would develop and choose those cities (eg. economic...

no he means that alexander attacked in a wedge formation while hannibal famously used enveloping tactics. there's always sense in the insanity.