Custom Game?

[Charles 22]

Can anyone explain this to me, at least to the extent of my one problem which follows? It looks to me as though the custom game is trying to allow you to make more of a CIV3 structure out of the game, where you can control barbs and the number of enemies, etc. My problem with this, and I couldn't see how they allowed for it, is the main thing missing, and that's picking the silly civ I want to play. I started one thinking it 'might' just start with the civ I had played so far from other games, but instead it gave me a completely different one (Salladin).

 

[niffweed17]

no, in the custom game option you have the opportunity to pick your civ. at the top of the dialog it should have your username and a couple of boxes initially set to random. the first to the right of your username is the civ.

 

[Charles 22]

no, in the custom game option you have the opportunity to pick your civ. at the top of the dialog it should have your username and a couple of boxes initially set to random. the first to the right of your username is the civ.

I'll have to watch for that then, because I saw the name of my computer up there, as it's assuming that's what I want to be called, but it didn't look as though I could change it. I did, however, manage to delete some of the numbers of civs I would have encountered. I guess the box showing my civ was set to random too, otherwise I would've known what the civ coming out was.

 

[S.SubZero]

There's a little icon next to the player name, click on that to change it. Took me a while to figure that out too 8)

As far as the civ, you don't pick the civ so much as the leader. One of the drop-downs has all the leader names, and whoever you pick, you get that nation. Like I pick the japanese guy and I am Japan. The other slots feel like they are always the same civs.. If I play with players 2-6, there's always the same other 5 civs. If I close those slots and pick say, 8-12, I get different ones.

 

[Charles 22]

There's a little icon next to the player name, click on that to change it. Took me a while to figure that out too 8)

As far as the civ, you don't pick the civ so much as the leader. One of the drop-downs has all the leader names, and whoever you pick, you get that nation. Like I pick the japanese guy and I am Japan. The other slots feel like they are always the same civs.. If I play with players 2-6, there's always the same other 5 civs. If I close those slots and pick say, 8-12, I get different ones.

Same civs? What a rip. I have noticed there's at least three civs I've seen in every single basic epic game I've started, though i have played with three different nations. I hate it when the Aztec guy moves his face closer to the screen. I like watching the Egyptian lady though, her expressions are sort of cute.