BAStartGaming also mentioned the lack of iron. He asked a developer about it and was also told that's just an issue with this build and that the plan is that a little more than half of the players will have direct access to iron to hopefully encourage trading (obviously that's still subject to change at any time though).
Quils videos were a delight to watch. So informative! BAstartgaming for example had no idea what he was talking about, got so many things wrong (just for examplee, he kept saying how good America is on a pangea map cos of their bonus to home continent...)
Any other commentated full (100+ turns) gameplays? I can mostly find shorter snippets but want a "full" game to watch
What in the world that polygon guy is doing? It's like watching AI play. His shuffling of units around is bizarre and painful to watch. Absolutely nonsensical. At one point he shuffles a warrior back and forth just north of the capital because reasons. He also seemed to struggle bringing his units next to the french city, again shuffling them around pointlessly several times. Seriously, like watching AI play
Eh, they all have varying levels of no-idea-what-they're-talking-about style anecdotes. Quill for example seems to have no clue that the value of a campus is not solely restricted to it's adjacency bonuses. I mean libraries are available as soon as a campus is. He could have had a campus with a library for a total of 3 science output very early in that game yet he waits till turn 80 to get a campus in his capital and he doesn't even place it optimally.
He addresses this and shrugs it off to opportunity costs but there's no way around the fact that he lost over 100 science on that decision.
Keep in mind I'm not criticizing his play. Second time behind the wheel I don't expect mastercraft play. But at least don't pretend like you made an optimal decision.
Also, a very common theme between all of these playthroughs is that nobody seems to fully improve the tiles around their cities, even missing out on resource tiles too.
It seemed to be an overall lack of understanding of the game - He moved a worker onto a wheat resource that was just outside of his border and struggled to figure out why it couldn't be improved. After figuring that he couldn't do anything, he just put the builder to sleep - outside of his border.
Nothing wrong with this - not everyone just knows how to play civ - especially it's newest version; It's not like he's checking a forum everyday and has heard or seen things in how the game function repeatedly - but he really didn't seem like he knew what was going on; beyond just the movement mechanics.
Though yes, from the perspective of a civfanatic it was kind of hard to watch.
Fully commented 100+- turns games, so far i only saw bastartgaming, quil18 and marbozir. Any others?
sadly he played 3 short games instead of 1 or 2 long, so he does not play to 100 or more turns. Still very good and you are right I forgot to mention his videos!It seemed to be an overall lack of understanding of the game - He moved a worker onto a wheat resource that was just outside of his border and struggled to figure out why it couldn't be improved. After figuring that he couldn't do anything, he just put the builder to sleep - outside of his border.
Nothing wrong with this - not everyone just knows how to play civ - especially it's newest version; It's not like he's checking a forum everyday and has heard or seen things in how the game function repeatedly - but he really didn't seem like he knew what was going on; beyond just the movement mechanics.
Though yes, from the perspective of a civfanatic it was kind of hard to watch.
