CIV just gets aesthetically ugly late game

[El Caballerion]

Am I the only one that feels that the game looks amazing when improvements are minimal (during first few early eras), but starts to look convoluted and confusing post-Industrial age? I find that part of my lack of interest in post-Industrial era games lies in the fact that everything has been developed and there's no real rural land in a CIV's borders. Even now, in our age, there are still PLENTY of rural untouched areas which are backdrops for epic conflicts (just think of the epic WW2 tank battle in the Kursk).


The world just looks like one heavy-duty mine. Battles become nothing more than a huge rush to take over cities late game. I want to meet an enemy army out in the wilderness and run amok with my tanks/copters!

Anyone else agree?

 

[Exterminas]

I can't agree on that.

In my games there usually are enough dense forests, deserts and tundras around to make a warmonger's life miserable, even right until the end.

 

[Glassmage]

you are the only one OP

 

[EricTheGreat12]

Am I the only one that feels that the game looks amazing when improvements are minimal (during first few early eras), but starts to look convoluted and confusing post-Industrial age? I find that part of my lack of interest in post-Industrial era games lies in the fact that everything has been developed and there's no real rural land in a CIV's borders. Even now, in our age, there are still PLENTY of rural untouched areas which are backdrops for epic conflicts (just think of the epic WW2 tank battle in the Kursk).


The world just looks like one heavy-duty mine. Battles become nothing more than a huge rush to take over cities late game. I want to meet an enemy army out in the wilderness and run amok with my tanks/copters!

Anyone else agree?

Yes ! This goes with the environment proposal of the WC that some people proposed for the Fall Patch: Workers can grow forests and forests give +3 production. Proposed when a civ discovers industrialization

I find that you're right. It seems that whenever I fight the Ai, I am sorrounded by farms and mines

 

[eewallace]

LOL not compared to the earlier Civ games. The late game in those was really awful--every space covered with tangled roads.

And what about the polders--they become better-looking as the game progresses!

 

[El Caballerion]

ErictheGreat has got my back, so I'm obviously not a loon.

It's just a fact. EVERYTHING in a CIV's borders will be developed. EVERYTHING. However, the uncolonized land will be undeveloped. I think that's also dumb how even at late game, most of the world is still unclaimed by any country. EVERY single corner of the globe should be claimed by Modern Era, BUT not all of it has to be developed.

 

[BroOfTheSun]

as with most of your posts, I have no clue what you're talking about. You just end up putting good titles that draw people into these threads. I can at least give you credit there.

 

[civvver]

Everything in my borders is always developed. AI it is hit or miss. It's actually not as bad as civ4- you have rampant expansion then, even into tundra areas by the time end game rolled around. I think that is one of the things a lot of players are suggesting for civ6, find some way to spread cities out more for more realism and implement population distribution outside urban areas only (ie farmland, countyside, small towns, suburbs)

 

[SnowKomodo]

I don't have a problem with the fact that there is a lot of development going on from an immersion standpoint but I do agree aesthetically that it looks less than beautiful.

However, my real gripe in terms of late game aesthetics and game speed is the units.

Workers, cargo ships, naval units, land units, planes, prophets, missionaries, archaeologists, concert tours, etc. Really just a side complaint though, so don't take this too seriously

 

[dexters]

The trading posts need 1 more graphical upgrade. Into malls or suburban sprawl.

 

[ehecatzin]

Some people have suggested before being able to turn some tiles into national parks to get better yields late game (and being easier to the eye).

However the game doesnt get really that ugly (not like previous civs)

 

[wilro85]

Battles become nothing more than a huge rush to take over cities late game.

War has always been about this. However we are only now converging on the technology that allows us to do this. For example in the Iraq War II the US invasion began on March 19th 2003 and the statue of Saddam was toppled over on April 9th.

Do you think America would have wanted to have all the little battles all over Europe WW2 if they had the technology to attack Berlin and capture/kill Hitler in less than 1 month?

 

[dexters]

Some people have suggested before being able to turn some tiles into national parks to get better yields late game (and being easier to the eye).

However the game doesnt get really that ugly (not like previous civs)

Yeah people quickly forget the spaghetti syndrome when it used to pay to build roads on every tile XD

 

[Scott Jegg]

Civ 1 was the worst when every tile round a city was railroaded

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Yes, the game doesn't look th at bad, and quite frankly I LOVE the look of the farms because of the fact that they join up together, it looks beautiful.

And think about ti, doesn't this happen in Real Life? Don't you just miss lushious forests everywhere? simple, non-foggy landscapes?

 

[El Caballerion]

as with most of your posts, I have no clue what you're talking about. You just end up putting good titles that draw people into these threads. I can at least give you credit there.

Don't worry. My threads will probably end in about a week, once the BNW fever goes through me and stop playing CIV V altogether. By then, you'll be missing my spiels, begging my divine wisdom return. They always do...

 

[EricTheGreat12]

most of the world is still unclaimed by any country.

The oceans aren't but the land is all taken by the civs in the game

 

[ToothedBomb]

... quite frankly I LOVE the look of the farms because of the fact that they join up together, it looks beautiful.

Me too. I just dislike the graphics for everything else.
They probably aim to make the improvements easy to spot for gameplay purposes, but it just looks weird to me to have lumber mill surrounded by 10 trees.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Me too. I just dislike the graphics for everything else.
They probably aim to make the improvements easy to spot for gameplay purposes, but it just looks weird to me to have lumber mill surrounded by 10 trees.

Haha.. the Lumbermills..

"Back in mah days, the great nations of the Zulu built the Stonehenge.. now a days the cities sprawl all over the world.."

"Yes.. but how many trees have you cut?"

"Ahh.. none.. we just built this lumber mill... never used it.."

xD

 

[CivilianSam]

I for one agree with you.

But like others on this thread say, it's true that previous Civ5 versions were worse. I'd love to see national parks or something...