I don't get it - what is the goal of this game?

[DocRock]

Hi there,

I tried playing some CivWorld in the past days when I was able to login. Please be aware that I am not trying to flame anyone. I am just wondering if I understand this game correctly.

It seems that I joined someone/thing/whatever, because I already invented everything up to Factories (which is funny cause I didn't do anything). But now I am asking myself - what am I supposed to do in this game?

You know in regular Civ, everything you build is for one purpose - WARFARE. You grab the best positions on the map, build a growing empire with lots of happy citizens and when you encounter Mr. Shaka Zulu on your northern front, you command your chariots to attack him immediately. After that you have a blast inventing better weapons than your enemies on and dream on to one day invade their country with tanks while he defends with Musketeers.

This is what Civ for me is about. Fighting wars, inventing stuff, chosing the best build positions for your cities.

In CivWorld my game advanced to 2100 AD while I logged in 4 times. I build up my food production, my work force and my scientists (the good part) trying to get the best possible placements. Well.. ok... after that, I just logged in, click X times on harvest and put down some more pastures, factories and lumber mills. I don't like minigames and trying to focus on the main game. And I will definately not chase any bubbles on the screen.

But I am just wondering what I am supposed to do now? Log in every day, build stuff for like 5 minutes and log in again on the next day? Especially because there are only like 10 buildings the only thing I can do is build more farms, more lumber mills and more factories. Oh and military units. But there is no one next to my borders that I would be able to attack (preferably in the good old fashioned way including the stack of doom )

What do I miss here?

Cheers,
DocRock

 

[starrywisdom]

You know in regular Civ, everything you build is for one purpose - WARFARE.

No it's not, which is what made Civ good in the first place

That being said, I know what you mean about CivWorld. The objective is to 'win' but everything seems so far removed from victory conditions that it just seems almost 'dreamy' when you do something. There's no real clear focus on anything in the game, which I think can be attributed a lot to the lack of a decent tutorial.

 

[zbgayumn]

The ways you win are essentially the same ideas as previous Civ games (except economic victory). I think you are having a disconnect because of two things:

1. It sounds like you joined a game that was already more than half over
2. You can't expect to win an era all by yourself (unless you are phenomenally good), so you need your Civ to work as a team

A third issue might be that you are a warmonger. Nothing wrong with that from my perspective, but the battle system in CivWorld is the lamest of all its features, so the part that would interest you the most happens to be the worst part of the game.

 

[LarryCiv]

The ways you win are essentially the same ideas as previous Civ games (except economic victory). I think you are having a disconnect because of two things:

1. It sounds like you joined a game that was already more than half over
2. You can't expect to win an era all by yourself (unless you are phenomenally good), so you need your Civ to work as a team

A third issue might be that you are a warmonger. Nothing wrong with that from my perspective, but the battle system in CivWorld is the lamest of all its features, so the part that would interest you the most happens to be the worst part of the game.

I really hope they fix the battle system. It makes for some lopsided battles on somewhat close-ish numbers, making it useless to at least make it a game of attrition (for when you counter attack, perhaps).

For me, it's a market simulator with some Civ-like mechanics thrown in..

 

[DocRock]

Alright, thanks for the hints. Maybe I am just to focused on strategic warfare in Civ. Although I really like chosing the best placement for my city in traditional Civ, I wasn't that much into optimizing the city afterwards.

That was perfectly possible in Civ 1, 2 and 4. I guess I'll stick to Panzer Corps then instead of playing CivWorld.

Cheers,
DocRock