...because late game is sooooooo slow on my MacBook Air.
I think I'm out until I can get a faster computer. Steam tells me that somehow I have already played 128 hours, so I think I got my money's worth. (In my defense, I left it on in the background quite a bit while working on other things.)
I did, though, just play through a really big win on Emperor. I mean, I didn't technically win, but I was winning.
I had conquered my aggressive continent-mate Brazil after his second DoW and #!%#& slapped England when she roughed up my pet city state (it was funny because she was pounding on the poor city with all my frigates around her and I didn't want to declare war and take the warmonger penalty but then she stupidly declared war on me so I swooped in and saved Brussels and took her nice city with a natural wonder so I could finally build a national park).
I was 11 techs ahead of my nearest competition and pumping out almost twice the science as him, so I'm pretty sure I had breathing room on the space race.
I was way ahead in culture, too, but the little graph inside my circle was still barely showing anything so I have no idea how long it would've taken to win that way. Still, nobody was going to beat me to it.
I wasn't first in religion, but I had my cities defended against the apostle waves that periodically washed ashore and was pumping out enough faith to keep anyone else from winning that way, so...
I was going to win, but I cannot wait long enough to click through the last 75-100 turns to build my space ship. It would probably take a week at this rate.
But my (temporarily) final word on Civ VI is that it's pretty great. Yes, I know we need a lot of little fixes, but I still had a blast. It's way easier than V. I did not pop up to Emperor on my fourth or fifth game like this with that release, but that's not a big deal to me. Unlike with Civ V, I didn't have to set autosaves to every turn because of constant crashing. As a builder, Civ VI introduced enough wrinkles that it was genuinely challenging to get all my wonders built (it still feels weird to me that GL is not a priority anymore, but dang, if I missed Oxford, I'd pretty much call it a loss and start over).
I do think that build times in the late game are ridiculous. I was on quick speed and my spaceport was still going to take 20 turns in my capital that had killer production. Make the process more complex with mini-quests or something, guys. Don't just make the number of hammers required so high that it takes forever.
One other gripe: resources are scarce! I found like three aluminum on the entire map. Fortunately, two of them were next to each other and unclaimed so I'd dispatched a settler to grab it for myself.
Um, let's see, what else...oh, frigates, baby. You want an easy recipe for success: Rush to Square Rigging, Win Game. Three of these little f'ers conquered a whole country for me.
So, good communing with you all again, fellow Civ fanatics. I wish I could say you'd never see my sorry butt around these parts again, but there ain't enough will power in the universe to keep me away from this game for long.
I think I'm out until I can get a faster computer. Steam tells me that somehow I have already played 128 hours, so I think I got my money's worth. (In my defense, I left it on in the background quite a bit while working on other things.)
I did, though, just play through a really big win on Emperor. I mean, I didn't technically win, but I was winning.
I had conquered my aggressive continent-mate Brazil after his second DoW and #!%#& slapped England when she roughed up my pet city state (it was funny because she was pounding on the poor city with all my frigates around her and I didn't want to declare war and take the warmonger penalty but then she stupidly declared war on me so I swooped in and saved Brussels and took her nice city with a natural wonder so I could finally build a national park).
I was 11 techs ahead of my nearest competition and pumping out almost twice the science as him, so I'm pretty sure I had breathing room on the space race.
I was way ahead in culture, too, but the little graph inside my circle was still barely showing anything so I have no idea how long it would've taken to win that way. Still, nobody was going to beat me to it.
I wasn't first in religion, but I had my cities defended against the apostle waves that periodically washed ashore and was pumping out enough faith to keep anyone else from winning that way, so...
I was going to win, but I cannot wait long enough to click through the last 75-100 turns to build my space ship. It would probably take a week at this rate.
But my (temporarily) final word on Civ VI is that it's pretty great. Yes, I know we need a lot of little fixes, but I still had a blast. It's way easier than V. I did not pop up to Emperor on my fourth or fifth game like this with that release, but that's not a big deal to me. Unlike with Civ V, I didn't have to set autosaves to every turn because of constant crashing. As a builder, Civ VI introduced enough wrinkles that it was genuinely challenging to get all my wonders built (it still feels weird to me that GL is not a priority anymore, but dang, if I missed Oxford, I'd pretty much call it a loss and start over).
I do think that build times in the late game are ridiculous. I was on quick speed and my spaceport was still going to take 20 turns in my capital that had killer production. Make the process more complex with mini-quests or something, guys. Don't just make the number of hammers required so high that it takes forever.
One other gripe: resources are scarce! I found like three aluminum on the entire map. Fortunately, two of them were next to each other and unclaimed so I'd dispatched a settler to grab it for myself.
Um, let's see, what else...oh, frigates, baby. You want an easy recipe for success: Rush to Square Rigging, Win Game. Three of these little f'ers conquered a whole country for me.
So, good communing with you all again, fellow Civ fanatics. I wish I could say you'd never see my sorry butt around these parts again, but there ain't enough will power in the universe to keep me away from this game for long.
