Is BtS addictive in late game?

[The Navy Seal]

I'm asking because they said late game inprovement and I normally stop after Rennasance (?) and quit because it gets boring.

 

[LordGek]

I'm asking because they said late game inprovement and I normally stop after Rennasance (?) and quit because it gets boring.

Always nice to have somebody who really doesnt have a direct clue to answer you first, eh (me, in this case)!

But from what I've heard most of these tweaks make for a much more interesting late game with one notable exception mentioned by Solver of Apolyton (possibly just his call on this) but here is what he said about the new way they are handling the space race:

Space race has been enhanced and changed, and this is actually a dubious change. You now win when your spaceship arrives at the destination, not when you launch it. You can launch it without some components, but it will have a chance of failure and be slower than a full spaceship. While there are situations where you might actually get a race with two civs launching a spaceship and the winner being decided after that, most of the time, you’ll still have one civ (hopefully you) launching the spaceship and winning, with the waiting period being tedious pushing of the End Turn button most of the time.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I'm asking because they said late game inprovement and I normally stop after Rennasance (?) and quit because it gets boring.

Yah i do the same thing aswell. Modern Age is so boring...

 

[Ego Terrorist]

Yes, previously by the time I'd gotten to the industrial era I was starting to get a little bored, now however the game is far more addictive in the late game.

 

[Lord_Azazel]

I rarely finish my games, I just get bored or attacked. I wish they would expand the Enlightenment period a bit more, good we have Privateers and Man-of-Wars back. Blockades is also good, but the age of sailing just lasts too short imho...

 

[DeadFish]

BTS is still addictive, no matter how late or early.

 

[Gaius Octavius]

I usually play into the modern era because I usually play as America, and I like to get all the real American wonders. Plus, I usually emerge from the dark ages to catapult my nation back to #1 then.

 

[Nitro_2985]

I usually play into the modern era because I usually play as America, and I like to get all the real American wonders. Plus, I usually emerge from the dark ages to catapult my nation back to #1 then.

I play pretty much the same way. Giant Earth map, America, Space race victory.

I get to the top of the tech race around the industrial ages or Middle Ages and start building up my military once I get tanks.

I pretty much slog my way through the first half of the game, just so I can play the Industrial and Modern ages.

Now I can skip them those boring ancient times, which is great.

 

[eric_]

Now I can skip them those boring ancient times, which is great.

This quote and your avatar present a kind of thematic incongruity...

 

[Rusty Edge]

I usually play into the modern era because I usually play as America, and I like to get all the real American wonders. Plus, I usually emerge from the dark ages to catapult my nation back to #1 then.

I thought you usually played as Rome.

 

[Tanktunker]

I thought you usually played as Rome.

He plays the Italian-American Civ.

 

[Gaius Octavius]

Rusty Edge: Yes, that too, but Rome is easy. America has no early UU and UB to work with, meaning you have to have a more subtle strategy.

Tanktunker: is it so hard to believe that I'm not really a Roman, but an American?

What is America but the modern Rome anyway...?

 

[grumbler]

What is America but the modern Rome anyway...?

I agree. The tricky question is: Which period of ancient Rome carries the most resemblance to the America of today?

 

[UnspokenRequest]

"I agree. The tricky question is: Which period of ancient Rome carries the most resemblance to the America of today"
I'd go with the end of the Antonines and/or the time of trouble following Commodus's reign.
Americans, more and more afraid of "incoming migrants/migrating barbarians; terrorists/violent barbarians"
The Hadrian/Limes/Mexican wall has been built.
America is still powerfull though. Like Rome was. It's often considered the height and the beginning of the long Decline of the Roman Empire.
Clinton would be the height, Bush the beginning of trouble.
In a way, they could mirror Marcus Aurelius (who's almost always seen in a positive light) and Commodus (often seen in a very negative light).

The end of the Antonines is also the time when Rome starts fighting mostly defensive wars. It's the end of expansion. From that time on, Rome is in reaction to events: arriving Barbarian, new religion, economic problems.

Of course, this is all ust for fun. Don't read too much into this comparison.

 

[Ashbery76]

The height went long before old Billy . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

 

[Quetz]

Clinton was the height of the US? That corrupt, lying POS?

Sorry but there is no comparison to a 1-city ancient era empire, half of which was never really under direct control, to a gigantic contiguous country like the US. USA is not going to "fall" like the Roman empire collapsed any more than Britain or France has "fallen."

If you Euro's would wake up and take a look at some population demographics, you might realize that something on that order is probably likelier to happen over there long before it does here, what with you being bred out by Muslims and all that. But hey, at least there won't be any big, scary bang, right?

And give us some credit - if we are fighting a cowardly war based on fear of aggression by barbarians, at least we are doing it so that they have to attack us halfway around the globe, rather than here at home.

 

[Ashbery76]

The USA is set to be New Mexico long before Europe becomes an Islamic state.

 

[Quetz]

possibly true, so why do people wonder why we want to build a fuggin fence ("the wall is built".. lol, i wish) so there is at least a marginal encouragement for them to come legally?

But the same thing is happening in Europe, especially in Britain and France. Seriously, check the demographics.

 

[de Mott]

Space race has been enhanced and changed, and this is actually a dubious change. You now win when your spaceship arrives at the destination, not when you launch it. You can launch it without some components, but it will have a chance of failure and be slower than a full spaceship. While there are situations where you might actually get a race with two civs launching a spaceship and the winner being decided after that, most of the time, you’ll still have one civ (hopefully you) launching the spaceship and winning, with the waiting period being tedious pushing of the End Turn button most of the time.

He somehow failed to realise that it's actually a return to a prior stage of civilization (Civ I or II), not something entirely new.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Clinton was the height of the US? That corrupt, lying POS?

If you Euro's would wake up and take a look at some population demographics, you might realize that something on that order is probably likelier to happen over there long before it does here, what with you being bred out by Muslims and all that. But hey, at least there won't be any big, scary bang, right?

And give us some credit - if we are fighting a cowardly war based on fear of aggression by barbarians, at least we are doing it so that they have to attack us halfway around the globe, rather than here at home.

At least we "Euro's" know how to spell. As for your racistic and badly informed "facts" about Muslim immgration and birth statistics, you should feel ashamed of yourself. Muslims are something like 3 % of Britain's population, 2 % of Germany's - and their birthrate tanks to European (or American) levels in less than one generation. For that matter, the birth rate is going down in Muslim countries too. By the way, in the United States, the only group that is increasing is Latinos, and that's only because you keep importing more of them to do the jobs you are to genteel to do yourself. Admittedly, the number of African and Asian immigrants increases too, which gives your country some much needed vitality and initiative. They do the work while you natives sit gorging yourself to death at the local fast food outlet. Even the U. S. Army is 20 % foreigners these days.

I bet your grandfather was very upset about "the Yellow Peril". As for your asinine war in Iraq, you should have the sense not to bring it up.

Sorry, Leroy (or is it Billy Bub?), but you should not have opined.