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To newcomers to Civ, this latest one will be fun because it will be a challenge. To us who played Civ1, this one is far too easy. CivIV was already easy, but this one is brutally easy. The AI has not improved. The game has mutated and become more complex and unmanageable for the computer...

Yup. Sid was the innovator, but Reynolds was the genius. Civ2 + SMAC is the best game ever. Period.

I think Sid is a very smart guy and he's moving Civ in a different direction. In order to achieve that, the game must be simplified significantly. That makes it more accessible, and eventually faster. My hunch is that he sees the future of TBS games in online play. The genre itself is not as...

AI is the core issue, and explaining why would take a book. Just two examples: 1. The computer never learned to use stacks properly before. In Civ4, all you needed was some espionage to know what they had and where, and then build a stack that would be undefeatable by their available units...

My problem with Civ5 is simple: it's just not fun. Similar or completely different to Civ4, the one thing I demand from a game is for it to be fun. But this one is tedious. So, back to Civ2 and Civ4.

I voted no. Of course everything is possible. A mutation could give wings to pigs next week. But when something is so improbable as to make the chances of it happening a miracle, then I prefer to be brief and say it is impossible. Semantics aside, the fundamentals of this game are not what...

Thing is us, old hands, have played so much Civ I, Civ 2, Civ 3 and Civ IV that, by now, we have memorized the computer's moves, trends and strategies, and can easily defeat it even in the highest difficulty level. I already noticed it with Civ IV, when I started at Prince and the game seemed...

It's possible too that Civ has run its course. As a fan since the first one, when Civ II came out I tought it could never be matched. Civ III was a disappointment because of that: Civ II ranks among the top games in the history of PC games, up there with the likes of Doom II, Tetris and...

Back in the day kids got their sex ed from the animals in the farm and the explanations mom & dad gave when they asked. When people moved into cities and children ceased to be exposed to all sex-related stuff, then is when the problems arose. Parents had no occasion to take on the topic, and...

A society where everybody is allowed not just open carry but to actually aim at each other during each social interaction is a very, very polite society.

Certainly, the drug lords start it. But if the peasants were not so poor, helpless and lacking in education and resources, you wouldn't see a domino effect. Medieval times, we don't know for certain how it was in the details. When a nobleman's carriage turned over in the fields, there was a...

You'd be left with Colombia, basically. If you're a rich person, would you rather live in a society where you have to keep inside your palace with your private army around, and with bodyguards if you want to go out to enjoy an evening by the beach? Or would you rather make sure your society...

Another way to see it is that the rich are outnumbered, hence if they want to be left in peace they better pay enough. A sort of blackmail money. But that's fair, since it's a constant of human history and the majority can define what is fair and what is not fair to their hearts' content...

Any analysis will be simplistic, since there are many external factors. One of those is inheritance, and not only of financial assets, but of name recognition and contacts. It's much easier for the scion of a wealthy family to rebuild a fortune after a crash than it is for someone who starts...

As with everything, the line is drawn wherever those who have most power in that society want it drawn. Easy.