Derpy Hooves
Grand Inquisitor
After having installed and deinstalled this game 3 times since it was released I'm giving it a last shot, after having tried one or two mods downloaded directly from Firaxis (laggy) download service, but after finding out about their tendency to crash every 10 minutes I gave up (I do actually have a good computer, 10ghz core, 2 month old videocard and more then enough RAM).
Due to the combat system and its tactical posibilities I really want to make this game work, but until now at every turn the AI makes me just want to quit.
Whether it's them ignoring every other AI's warmongering, 5 people declaring war on you at the same time for not having a high enough 'army value' (despite it practically always being enough to hold them all off without loss of a city or unit), getting diplo hits because they covet your lands from their continent on the other side of the map or are vaguely going for the same winning objective (often times I'm not even sure myself till later in the game, where it generally becomes domination because the entire world acts like a bunch of a'holes).
Then there's the constant denouncements, the pointlessness of DoF's, the fact that the AI still thinks this is CIV as far as unit tactics go, and the absurd spamming of said units.
It just makes me feel like I'm playing against computers programmed to hate me and single me out instead of other vicious leaders like in the previous incarnation.
I thought progressing from Prince to King would solve some of these problems, at least make things a bit more realistic and make the AI look less like a toddler with a gun.
Ofcourse all it did was making the game more like playing against cheating toddlers with more guns.
I've never even finished a Culture or Science victory properly, inbetween the DoW's flying around, the need for a standing army to defend that can easily be turned into a attacking force with the addition of 1 or 2 extra units and an AI that does'nt care about it's own survival, just your demise, every non Domination victory (barring Diplomacy because it's a joke and I turn it off, along with half the 'recommended' city states) for me has turned into one simply because it was more practical and faster.
I'm not too familiar with the Civ series, CIV being the only other one I've played but there I felt like I was making a nation, engaging in Diplomacy to keep my allies happy and that the game was just fine with any victory condition I felt like going for.
Yet here I feel like war is the only option I got unless I want to stretch out time and go for another victory condition while I already control so much of the map I've already won.
To get to some semblance of a point that is not me just venting:
Are there any mods that make the AI less psychotic and bent on my destruction?
And what mods do you use that truly enrich the gameplay, as I've concluded that the way it is for me now (latest patches, all DLC's 'cept for Korea and the Wonders) gives me far more frustration then fun.
So, will mods make my day or will I have to wait until they (if ever) release an expansion to make this into a Civ game instead of Sid Meier's Warring for retards.
Edit: Cat stood on the enter button, more text incomming.
Edit2: Indeed.
Due to the combat system and its tactical posibilities I really want to make this game work, but until now at every turn the AI makes me just want to quit.
Whether it's them ignoring every other AI's warmongering, 5 people declaring war on you at the same time for not having a high enough 'army value' (despite it practically always being enough to hold them all off without loss of a city or unit), getting diplo hits because they covet your lands from their continent on the other side of the map or are vaguely going for the same winning objective (often times I'm not even sure myself till later in the game, where it generally becomes domination because the entire world acts like a bunch of a'holes).
Then there's the constant denouncements, the pointlessness of DoF's, the fact that the AI still thinks this is CIV as far as unit tactics go, and the absurd spamming of said units.
It just makes me feel like I'm playing against computers programmed to hate me and single me out instead of other vicious leaders like in the previous incarnation.
I thought progressing from Prince to King would solve some of these problems, at least make things a bit more realistic and make the AI look less like a toddler with a gun.
Ofcourse all it did was making the game more like playing against cheating toddlers with more guns.
I've never even finished a Culture or Science victory properly, inbetween the DoW's flying around, the need for a standing army to defend that can easily be turned into a attacking force with the addition of 1 or 2 extra units and an AI that does'nt care about it's own survival, just your demise, every non Domination victory (barring Diplomacy because it's a joke and I turn it off, along with half the 'recommended' city states) for me has turned into one simply because it was more practical and faster.
I'm not too familiar with the Civ series, CIV being the only other one I've played but there I felt like I was making a nation, engaging in Diplomacy to keep my allies happy and that the game was just fine with any victory condition I felt like going for.
Yet here I feel like war is the only option I got unless I want to stretch out time and go for another victory condition while I already control so much of the map I've already won.
To get to some semblance of a point that is not me just venting:
Are there any mods that make the AI less psychotic and bent on my destruction?
And what mods do you use that truly enrich the gameplay, as I've concluded that the way it is for me now (latest patches, all DLC's 'cept for Korea and the Wonders) gives me far more frustration then fun.
So, will mods make my day or will I have to wait until they (if ever) release an expansion to make this into a Civ game instead of Sid Meier's Warring for retards.
Edit: Cat stood on the enter button, more text incomming.
Edit2: Indeed.
At least I play the god damn game! 
