2D Forever!

[rickb]

So does anyone else *only* play in the 2D strategic view? I'm so happy that Firaxis made the game entirely playable in this mode. It's like they gave us two versions of the same game. Perhaps the people still playing Civ 2 will finally upgrade to a new version of Civ.

 

[mike_cf]

I LOVE the strategic view, I play half the game in it, much easier to understand the terrain, although it's still a bit confusing, but not as much as the default view.

 

[cj7loop]

Laptop limitations force me to play in Strategic view, but it is so much easier to see the terrain types.

 

[Footen]

Haven´t played much with strategic view, but I feel that it needs an option that show the maximum border of each city so that its easier to find a good place for your settler.

 

[Maniacal]

Sadly it looks nothing like Civ2, at least from the screenshots.

 

[Izmir Stinger]

It looks like Settlers of Catan is what it looks like.

 

[Lord_Azazel]

i find it harder to use strategic view, you have to look for the unit buttons instead of seeing the whole unit, makes it easy to miss where you have a unit. but i guess not everyone feels the same.

 

[aguds]

2D is brilliant. When my aging PC starts to choke and stutter, I switch to 2D for higher fps and shorter loading between turns. It is also good for overview, as it's nigh on impossible to overlook a resource in that view, whilst I can miss that Iron two tiles from my capital just fine in 3d

 

[troytheface]

Fact- 2d is the superior

the evidence is clear

but the graphics are tame compared to civ4

 

[Dark_MadMax]

Id love to, lol, but it crashes every time I use strategic overlay. A pity really cause its pretty useful

 

[shamsael]

I prefer to fight wars in 2d. It doesn't animate combat so you can finish your turns faster.

The only multiplayer game I've played, I wad in 2d the whole time so I never had a chance to lament the fact that nothing is animated in multiplayer.

 

[fermionorama]

Id love to, lol, but it crashes every time I use strategic overlay. A pity really cause its pretty useful

Same here, CTD every 10 turns if I play in strat view only. DX9 & 11, have updated directx and video card drivers. What's your system specs? I'm a C2D E6600, Win7 x64, 8800 GTS 512, 4 GB ram.

 

[Dark_MadMax]

Same here, CTD every 10 turns if I play in strat view only. DX9 & 11, have updated directx and video card drivers. What's your system specs? I'm a C2D E6600, Win7 x64, 8800 GTS 512, 4 GB ram.

Hmm i thought its RAM issue but you do have twice more RAM and still crash. My specs are c2d 4300, winxp x32, GTS 260, 2 GB ram

 

[Schuesseled]

i find it harder to use strategic view, you have to look for the unit buttons instead of seeing the whole unit, makes it easy to miss where you have a unit. but i guess not everyone feels the same.

You can increase the size of the unit icons, displaying nothing else, that makes it a lot easier.

 

[aguds]

Anyone have tips on what settings to turn down in order to get a higher performance/faster turn-loading? Does it matter most how large the map is - or how many civs/CS are on it?

 

[fermionorama]

Hmm i thought its RAM issue but you do have twice more RAM and still crash. My specs are c2d 4300, winxp x32, GTS 260, 2 GB ram

Do you have high detail strategic view on? I don't remember for sure, but I think the first day I played in strat-view only without high detail turned on, and I didn't get the crashes. They may have started when I turned it on ... I've been doing all sorts of tweaking the options in the UI and the usersettings.ini file over the last few days though, so it's hard to say.

Will experiment later when I get home from work. Doubt IT would look too kindly upon a steam/civ5 install

 

[rickb]

Yeah my only beef it that I wish it were a little "prettier" (I'm not a complete graphics Luddite ) with some blending of the hex boundaries in the tile graphics, but I'm sure someone will do a nice icon replacement mod at some point.

 

[Alyosh]

You can increase the size of the unit icons, displaying nothing else, that makes it a lot easier.

How do you increase the size of the unit icons?

 

[Louis XXIV]

Select the overlay to display only units, then they take up the whole tile.

Strategic view has a certain Civ1 quality to it. For me, I like using it for an overview of a situation. I can't really move units in it because it has a sort of alien feel to it that kills my immersion quite a bit.

 

[rickb]

I can't really move units in it because it has a sort of alien feel to it that kills my immersion quite a bit.

That's funny, I'm the opposite, I've always felt that iconic representations give your mind more room to fill in the blanks. Seeing 1000 ft tall units astride the terrain in 3D breaks the immersion for me. To each his on, I guess.