Are you sticking with civ4?

[Emperor_ofRome]

Agreed 100% with Wolfigor and Tredje. My favorite part of Civ 4 was making use of the different terrain I had available, whether it was good or bad land, and make the best use of it possible. I mean, in Civ 4 we have so called "economies" that focus on cottages, farms and mines, specialists ect.

Now there is one economy option: Trade Post economy. And this still doesn't affect research. Players can simply spam cities, which is too easy. My thoughts so far is it seriously lacks depth and caters mostly to newbies. For thought provoking games I'll stick with Civ 4.

 

[May Day 10]

I was hopeful about V on release. I tried to look at it in a positive light, but not now.

I'll take any free DLC that Firaxis decides to try to placate us with, but I won't be purchasing any, and I won't be playing it until it gets a pretty good overhaul. I'll be sticking to BTS, and I'll keep modding for it, so that I can help to make a really good game even better for those of us who have been left out in the cold.

x100

I was so hopeful despite some warning signs. I even tried to tell myself I really liked the game for the 1st day.

2 days after it came out, I closed it for good. It stinks and its not progress. Its not just bugs, etc. The whole feeling of the game is ruined with 1upt, city states, the graphics, over-simplification, etc.

So even if there is an expansion I wont buy it unless it completely alters the game, which wont happen.

I know I have many enjoyable games of Civ IV left in me.

 

[sherbz]

That's not unfinished. The AI in Civ3 cheated, just like in 1 & 2. Among other things it always knew the entire map. That's just how the game was. You could exploit its cheating. For example, leave a city without any defenders. The computer would invariably make a beeline for it allowing you to slaughter its troops along the way.

Yea, it always used to rile me when the AI founded a city in the middle of a desert when there were 100 better city locations on the map, then, when salt peter or oil were revealed, low and behold, its right next to that city of crap.

 

[winthrowe]

Let's do it! Let's make a modcomp for this very thing.

Has it been done already? I would be happy to help code dive for the mod, but unfortunately I'm not in the best position for compiling DLLs at the moment, so we'd need at least someone who can do that.

This is in A New Dawn, I don't know if it was backported to RevDCM. option for selectable stack maximums. AI has more trouble than civ 5 with 1UPT, players have found fun with 3-5 UPT, some going up to 15.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

x100

I was so hopeful despite some warning signs. I even tried to tell myself I really liked the game for the 1st day.

2 days after it came out, I closed it for good. It stinks and its not progress. Its not just bugs, etc. The whole feeling of the game is ruined with 1upt, city states, the graphics, over-simplification, etc.

So even if there is an expansion I wont buy it unless it completely alters the game, which wont happen.

I know I have many enjoyable games of Civ IV left in me.

I tried out the new patch for Civ5 the other night. It let me play just over 100 turns before giving me the BSOD.

To heck with it. My index finger is tired from pressing "Next turn..."

 

[Psyringe]

I agree that there are more enjoyable ways to get one's index finger sore than playing Civ5.

 

[Soro]

Civ V admittedly offers greater humorous value at this time, thanks to its suicidal F Troop combat AI, and its "you'll never guess what I'll do next" diplomacy. However, as I usually play Civ for reasons other than to laugh at the game, I'm sticking (for the time being; at least 6-12 months) with Civ IV. If they get rid of the humor and add in more depth, I may rethink that.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I agree that there are more enjoyable ways to get one's index finger sore than playing Civ5.

Yes! Putting it into a pencil sharpener is much more exciting than playing Civ5. And you get to have a car ride afterward... to the E.R.

Excitement, a car ride, meeting new friends... The social aspects alone make it worthwhile.

 

[Soro]

Yes! Putting it into a pencil sharpener is much more exciting than playing Civ5. And you get to have a car ride afterward... to the E.R.

Having been in an ER as a patient, I can testify to the fact that it is more entertaining than Civ V. Even when you're knocked out.

That's rather cruel, actually. True, but cruel. Given that some of my favorite modders have migrated to Civ V, I hope the game improves drastically. Or that those modders return to Civ IV.

 

[Le Sage]

I will have to wait with Civ5 until I see where things are going. Right now I'm pretty pizzed with it. Everything they said in the previews and interviews would be so bleedin' awesome in Civ5, turned out to be crap. The AI sucks more than in Tetris. The game map looks like Lego. The only thing I really like is the music.

I am creating a mod for Civ5 right now, called the Hundred Years' War, but as it looks now, it won't get finished, since the modding is heavily restricted and faulty too. I spent 50 Gold Marks on this game, and this was what I got. Back to Fairy Tale for me.

 

[bestbrian]

Yes! Putting it into a pencil sharpener is much more exciting than playing Civ5. And you get to have a car ride afterward... to the E.R.

Excitement, a car ride, meeting new friends... The social aspects alone make it worthwhile.

Hot nurses. I'm there.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I thought you were a policeman not a hot nurse brian.

 

[onemoreturnmike]

Kind of disappointed with the reviews Im reading so far. Many aspects of CIV V I thoight would be great...independant city states to ally with, better diplo with more choices, unique border expansions...but alas it doesnt appear the few things that sound nice, make the game a worthwhile successor. Having not bought or played it..I can only read and cant really criticize.

The curious part of me wonders why they couldn't have taken Civ IV and did slight alterations, taking the parts folks dislike out and adding the fun stuff...

*shrugs* guess Im doomed to wonder.

 

[frkhead]

I'm sticking with cIV... and other games as well of course.
reason #1 : I didn't like the Steam requirement at all (and still don't)
reason #2 : I had the chance to try the game for a few days and was bored out of my mind. I also found some of it's aspect completely stupid/broken.

So, in the end, reason #1 is not relevant anymore

 

[Hornet07]

After spending hours watching Civ V crash, I'm gonna stick with Civ IV

 

[Lemon Merchant]

After spending hours watching Civ V crash, I'm gonna stick with Civ IV

What? You don't like that pretty blue screen with the nifty white letters on it?

Boy, there's no pleasing some people.

Hmmm. Maybe I should make a Civ5 mod. I'll call it the BSOD mod. It should be easy, since Firaxis has done much of the groundwork for it already.

 

[Psyringe]

What? You don't like that pretty blue screen with the nifty white letters on it?

It's a clear sign that Firaxis missed the market's needs this time. Blue is totally out for fall 2010. Had they done their research, they would've known that a living coral screen with endive lettering was so much more en vogue!

 

[Dumanios]

Only in Civ IV can you play Babylon in RFC and have Longbows when you complete your UHV.

 

[Alvin Tostig]

Hmmm. Maybe I should make a Civ5 mod. I'll call it the BSOD mod. It should be easy, since Firaxis has done much of the groundwork for it already.

rofl - too true. it would be too easy.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

You need to be running in kernel mode to call KeBugCheckEx though. You'll need a device driver for that.