Finding Ci5 tedious. So disappointed.

[uncletoby]

I know these points have been mentioned over various threads, but after yet another marathon game where I just got sick of playing and quit, I had to get this off my chest.

This game is plain TEDIOUS after the Renaissance or so, for many reasons:

- I spend more time watching the AI play out its battles in areas I have sight than I do making my own decisions. Barbarian trireme decides to attack a city state I am allied with? Every turn, I get to sit back as the game whips the screen to that city state, and I get to watch a glorious animation of the city state plinking the trireme for 1 HP. The trireme heals between turns, repeat maybe a hundred more times.

PLEASE when this game is updated

a) Have an option to TURN OFF ANIMATIONS!
and
b) For goodness' sake, please let the AI's game play work itself out *behind the scenes*. I really don't care to watch each and every one of its attacks!

- The diplomacy screen LAGS. It lags bad. Even set at the minimum requirements, there is a latency of several seconds between when the diplomacy screen loads and I can click on any options. I really don't care about the artistry of the leader heads. How interesting are these supposed to be the 100th time they are seen? And why would I want my system to slow down hundreds of times a game as these leader heads are loaded? If I could make these *text only* I would.

- All the various small menu problems people have already pointed out.

After having tried to play a single game to victory, and failing (sometimes to losing, more often to boredom) I am at a loss. I have a hard time believing the game designers actually played this game to completion on all the difficulty levels. Civ5 has an unplayable quality to its second half reminiscent of some of the inferior PC strategy games of my youth in the 90s. It lacks the strategic polish or punch game play of a classic like Alpha Centauri.

I am so disappointed. I splurged on my new MacBook Pro just so I could play this (a 15" i7 with 512mb video ram, 8 gig ram, a SSD with Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition). I plain just don't want to play any more.

The ancient and classical eras are very elegant and fun and I do enjoy the concepts behind most of the changes. But the game just flat-out grows a) tedious and b) unplayable.

 

[Scramble]

1. Make the suggestion to make it less tedious (the suggestion was to have options to turn off animations for computer players turns)
2. Go play another game,
3. Don't whine and complain. You said yourself that we have plenty of threads saying how disappointed they are. Post in one of those if you insist on blowing off some steam. We don't need ANOTHER thread saying the exact same thing that has been posted a million times.

 

[Zelig]

1. You can turn off animations, the problem is that you can only do so for new games, it's in the advanced options. ("Quick Combat", or something similar)

2. If you put the leader setting to minimum, there's no animation, and the screen pops up very quickly. (On my computer, which isn't nearly as good as yours.)

 

[shadowplay]

I think the combat system was definitely designed with the ancient era in mind, where it works quite nicely. Once the game goes renaissance or modern, it becomes such a pain in the butty moving all those troops around that it just isn't fun. Bad memories of Civ3 vanilla when all the units had to be moved one at a time. And this is even harder, since they can't occupy the same tile, they keep canceling each others pathfinding orders.