Recent content by Von Falkenheyn

A few more comments after more hours spent on the game: Builders and Infrastracture The limited charges builder idea seems like a good thing but in reality, it's a nightmarish task in micromanagement. At the start of the game it seems really quick and easy but later on it becomes tedious...

Having logged more than eighty hours in the base game so far, I would like to offer a few ideas about what I would like to see materialize within future content. Unit Customization - Army Research - Weapon Research The concept of corps and armies is, in my view, an excellent way forward. I...

After 46 hours of the game: Building Cues in cities...Please? We need an indicator, just like in CIV V in how many turns is a city going to acquire a tile due to culture. And if possible which is the most likely one. Why spend precious cash on acquiring a tile if you're going to get it in say...

After calming down a bit from the initial "one-more-round" frenzy over the weekend, I'd like to offer my two cents about the game as it is. Minor Issues The UI could use some tweaking. As it is I find it rather bothersome when I have to assign specific places to my citizens. It would also be...

It might be an interesting idea to have a poll on this. I'll list the civilizations which I'll miss on release and I'd like to see in future DLC or expansions. Persia: Hugely infuential civilization over hundreads of years. People tend to think of the ancient empire under Cyrus, Darius and...

Started with CIV II when I was 17 on my father's laptop (didn't have my own PC back then). Went on to III and its expansions and then fell in love with Civilization IV (best in the series for me so far). Played briefly with CIV IV Colonization and then clocked about 900 hours in CIV V plus all...

Even before this game was officially released, I had mixed feelings based upon the video previews and the various information gathered from the Civilization Analyst. Now, having played some hours on this game I've come to some conclusions based on my experience. I've been with the series since...

Great review, I can't agree more with some of the points here. Beyond Earth feels very very sloppy and certainly doesn't deserve the hefty price tag it comes with. There's a ton of 4X games out there that do a superb job, why couldn't they take a look at that? Why couldn't they have done...

Thank you all for the time you took to read and comment upon such a lengthy text. Yes I understand the reasoning behind simple solutions and that this is a game and not a historical simulation such as the Europa Universalis series is. I'm certainly not looking for such a level of complexity in...

As has been said before, it's not that it's impossible, it's just that the cost of opportunity in order to wage war (especially an early war) has risen. As has been said above, you either go all out, keep raising/puppeting cities in one great push, or you try to consolidate at least on one...

I'll concede the point that you don't necessarily have to force a war if you're the Byzantine or any other civilization for that matter. It's just that other civs have it so much easier when it comes to setting up a religion. Apart from the obvious choices of Ethiopia, the Maya and the Celts...

About the piety opening and Byzantium. I usually play King difficulty but have scaled down to Prince in order to get a feel for the new mechanisms BNW introduces. Byzantium has always confounded me as a civilization and this feeling has only grown with BNW. I've tried 4 separate openings with...

Disclaimer: I am brand new to this forum (although I have been reading stuff from here for quite a few years now) and English isn't my mother tongue so please be gentle. With the recent installment (Brave New World) of the latest expansion for Civilization V, the game feels nicely polished...

Hello all, My love affair with the Civilization series started way back, when I was high school student with civilization II. I was already infatuated with the other legendary Sid Meier tittle "Pirates" and so I decided to give it a try. That was it! I was hooked! To the dismay of my parents...