Bibor
Doomsday Machine
No Brian, Spearman got it right.
Ultimately what seems to have happened, is that Firaxis was pushed into making and releasing a game with rigid deadlines. Decisions were rushed. The game isn't messed up because any of the specific features are fundamentally flawed as some have suggested. It's messed up because ideas are still being thrown around as to how to fix the basic design.
"Good" gaming companies already have most of these issues resolved before the game even has a release date set. The problem is, IMO, that 2k is pushing Firaxis around. "Good" games get patched because things come up that weren't obvious after much testing. Most of Civ Vs flaws were blatantly obvious. So many "easy to catch" bugs were in the game upon release. That right there just proves the game wasn't ready to come out yet. When the game came out, it felt like an Alpha model. With all the patches so far, it feels like it's in mid-beta stage.
The complexity of a game is totally irrelevant to whether it's a good game, and also irrelevant to the depth of its strategy.
They have already started planning for the next generation of players ... by using the next generation of players themselves ...How do you proceed?
Yep. I have said all along that 2K Games should get a lion's share of the blame for this debacle.
The game was released way, way, way too early. At least a year too early if not 2 years.
That's not likely.
Even worse if they're owned by Activision. Then we could expect a "new" civilization every year! With brand-spanking new maps!!!!
You like them, but have to admit you don't need them for any pratical propose in game, and if you really wanted to know them IMHO those would probably fit better in the Civilopedia than in the diplo window, suposing OFC you have the resons stated fully in the diplo window, just not the numbers.
No Brian, Spearman got it right.
Well then, why does the poll you posted (and nearly every post you put up on the issues for that matter)prove him wrong? Well this is the last I'll say on your issue. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
imo I dislike elements x,y,z of civ5 design/implementation
mistakes a,b,c resuling in h,j,k were made and doing l,m,n,o would have mitigated/avoided this
I like what such and such was aiming for but because of this and that it just doesn't quite work for me
the devs are complete morons who couldn't code their way out of wet paper bag, plus their evil and smell bad. Shafer is the anti-civ and all his ideas are rubish and he as ruined civ forever (plus he is evil and has a bad haircut) civ5 is a complete ruinious pile of stinking poo and every design decision was wrong and everything is coded wrong and there is absolutely nothing in it that any thinking person with an IQ above a cheese sandwich could remotely like and that it is so dumbed down that my senile cat could beat it on diety first game with one paw tied behind its back (provided he can stay awake because the game is so boring). Plus the publishes are $ hungry and perniciously evil and want to turn civ into farmville lite for more $ and steam and DLCs are naughty and kill little baby kittens just for fun.
The only way things are going to really change is if Firaxis escapes the gravity well of the black hole known as 2K Games.
Think, hard.
Again (sorry), but you still fail at Statistics.
Progress is made of innovations, not proportions.
Patented proverb, here today.
It's not that Money isn't spent wisely, it's that the sharp gaps between rich/poor are creating a weird balance that simply isn't honest.
WHO = World Health Organization... already exists, right?
HT = Hagues Tribunal for war criminals... does a pretty decent job for specific Justice, right?
Then...
FFMO = Fiscal & Financial Monitoring Organization. At the absolute top of the Pyramid -- above all Governments, all Social devices, all Banking interests, all Fortunes or Escape Paradises, all Population demands & offers, all Justice systems, all Economic issues, all other considerations for any & every rational reasons.
Until poverty is finally wiped out the face of this planet.