One month on i've rounded down the issues that make Civ 5 unenjoyable for me, i write here only the parts of the game that have disappointed me enough to stop me playing for now, and what i personally would like to see implemented in this or any future Civ title.
1. When playing a Civilization game, i'd like to play with opponents that act like nations and not like boardgame players, I'd like AI leaders to show appreciation for kind gestures and not just anger for any slight thing that does'nt go their way, interaction with Ai leaders is currently all stick and no carrot.
2. I'd like diplomacy that makes sense, i don't want to see a nation which my own advisor says is militarily stronger than me, be "afraid" of me for example, i don't want to see a leader call me a warmonger after helping him in a war, neither do i want to cultivate 400 turns of goodwill with a friendly ally just to have them declare war on me because they randomly decide to go for a domination win, it may be correct "winning" AI, but it's not fun AI.
3. I'd like the medium difficulty level to be me versus the Ai with no benefits or bonuses to either party, this means no help for the AI at all, not 10%, not 1%, nothing, just an AI that plays against me using the same rules of the game as i do.
4. I dislike the arbitrary domination victory condition of having to hold each capital city, it leads to some cities being razable and others not, to ask a player to believe that some cities are made of magical indestructable bricks is a step too far, it's illogical, contradictory and has the repeated effect of breaking what i consider to be a reasonable standard of player immersion.
5 .having one AI almost always dominate an entire continent and wipe out everything else is frustratingly depressing, what are you left with at that point? the prospect of warring away for years and years with the same opponent till the game ends, no spies, no political intrigue, at that point my interest in the world is effectively dead because there is almost no one else left on the map to talk to, just that one boring enemy.
Well thats it, i realise of course that all these points are subjective but i wanted to give my opinion on the game, thank you for reading.
I agree with you on alot of those issues: the military advisor can be very unhelpful to a civ v noob(like I was not too long ago) I had beaten someone who apparently could "wipe me off the face of the planet" in about 20 turns. The warmongering bs is just rediculous sometimes, especially when the enemy is the one who's pretty much conquered the continent. The ai is basically a barbarian with cities right now.
