Recent content by waytofailself

I originally posted this on reddit but got no response. So I thought I'd come here. Here is a picture of my start after retrograde thrusters whiffed on me. I had a few questions given the start: Other start noteables: Went with 10 sponsors on a standard Fungal Terran map just to...

Herein Lies a Brief Summary of the First 50 Turns (contained in Videos 1 and 2) This is for those of you who may be interested in the more "traditional" Civfanatics form of storytelling that has faded away a little bit from this site. Of all of the sponsors in the game, I found the...

I promised pictures and summaries and write ups (or I did in my mind) and those are soon to come. In the meantime, here is episode #2. #3 will be up on the playlist later today but I want to put some love into this thread too. xi4cNgTK2dw

Having some trouble getting the first video to show up on CivFanatics. I'll try later today, but for now you can see it in the playlist. Will edit this post when fixed. edit: fixed!

While I do think it is valuable to send creative minds to the new world, I don't want to sit here and say that people in the sciences or those who are skilled at conducting research are not creative. Quite the contrary actually -- it's the creative minds that drive humanity forward. But there...

If you read up on the Great Mistake you'll see that central and northern Europe and a lot of Asia were hit hard and set back significantly. That isn't to say they were wiped off the the Earth entirely. The opening splash screen of the game indicates otherweise. But it is also possible that...

Hey everyone, excited to be posting in the story forum again. Last time I did this was before the advent of youtube lets plays, so while I will be posting videos in this thread I will also stick to my roots and post some screenshot summaries as well. Hope you all enjoy! Settings: Difficulty...

It could be. It's all very open ended, which I like. I do have a few questions based on trailers of what the Great Mistake could be. But at least it's justifiable or defensible that current powers of today are not represented in the future. Also, I like how the backgrounds reflect that...

Has anyone seen any follow up information on the Cultural Burden quest if you decide to recover the probe?

Whenever someone brings up something akind to an Anglo-Central Europe faction, I always think of what Bloivar says in his speech that was part of the Brasilia preview. I'll put the quote here (bold for emphasis): At least in terms of filling in the gaps for the information that has been...

You get chosen for events like this not for comparative skill in a game but for the number of viewers you can reach. Northernlion has been a very popular youtuber for a long while now. He has never called himself the best player of anything. His unfamiliarity with Civ (which he admitted to...

I've been doing some CivV practice to try and work my way up into Deity. And I'm there. I'm late in a Deity game not dead and with the tech lead. There is hope. But I'll probably start with the immortal equivalent because hard is fun.

I went into Civ 5 with eyes open to the fact that the game could be a buggy mess. My complaints with the game ended up being more about the design itself then bug and stability issues. I don't expect a whole Sim City issue where not only was networking not working, but the game itself was also...

I'm not going to be sitting around trying to min-max the first time through, so just based off of the backstore and lore for each faction I'll probably roll with the Peoples' African Union first and possibly shoot for a Harmony victory. That feels most appropriate. Other ones I really like...

I'm glad that I'm still undecided. I was thinking about Brasilia and going a military conquest route. But the Harmony route sounds very interesting...I think I'll kind of just go with the flow the first time win or lose.