What was your first time like?

[Valdy]

Seeing how that other thread is going, i thought I'd start a new one just for your first-time experiences!

My very first game was strange - I had one city and waited many years with very little happening.

Then another Civilization came over and went to war with me.

It wasn't a good 1st time....

 

[Håkan Eriksson]

The ifrst tim ewent pretty well. Besides that I did some stupid mistakes. I thought that if people could get to my sity easy then they would move in more frecventy! I boulid a lot of roads. And when I say a lot I mean over the entier world! Roads, roads, roads, railroads, roads..........

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[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

I played as the Greek Civilization, I didn't win, and I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it!

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[SlowwHand]

Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy.

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[Warlord56]

I was stupid. I got so happy when I got into peace woth the French and took over 1 Egyptian city. Then I got my city taken over and didn't know how it was taken over so quickly. Then I learned you have to have units to defend.

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

Originally posted by SlowwHand:
Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/avatar.gif" border=0>

This is the ON-TOPIC forum, flyboy.

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[BlueMonday]

I can't remeber, it was too long ago.

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[Lefty Scaevola]

My Aztecs took over a (mostly one continent) world, Kept a pet Celt, and built a spaceship.

 

[stormerne]

I still remember the first time... I remember I didn't win, but I survived but came second. I remember being very pleased with that.

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[VanillaCube]

I remember I was on a Illand that was small and most of my cities kept starving becauses I would build a settler and make a city like 2 spaces away but other that that I surrvived and it was a good game (I think it was the funnest game I ever played!)
My capital city was named hell and I kept using the auto move and saying "GO TO HELL"!
I had like shoved 11 cities on that small peace of land that today I would of only put like 4 or 5 and had a war with some body to the west of me and I never took there land I had been at war with them since the first time I met them!
but I had never been at war with anyone else and I had a huge millitary but most of them were just people walking around on my land waiting to kill barbarians and any other Intruder who might land on my coast so I never lost any cities! and my country was pretty stable!

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[Pedro]

I started to play civilization when colonization came out. My friends told me colonization was a great game, and that if I wanted to learn the game I'd better first play civ...
I know I played the Egyptians and that I made *a lot* of units. I didn't understand everything so I guess I progressed really slow, but I've got this picture in my head of a continent full of militia... I wonder how I payed the upkeep costs for all those units?
I guess I played like a Zulu

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[R]

The first time was a long time ago... I don't remember exactly, but I somehow figured out that the catapults and the triremes were good, so I built lots of them, and had them see the world and destroy it. My few, poorly defenced cities didn't grow very well, because I didn't irrigate. And I didn't even know about the taxrate...

Poor people living in that universe...

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[GenghisK]

Quite brutal, in fact. As I was used to play action/fighting games before discovering strategy, I didn't know I had to discover tech. So I build a hord (approximately 135 warriors) and conquered everything. Oh, wasn't difficult, since I only played against 3 other civ... Ok, I was stupid but it was my first strategy game. Brutal, did you say?

But surprisingly, it was not my shortest civ game. My shortest one, was last wednesday. 2minutes30. Don't ask me how I did it, just read the Civ1 forum post

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[HIEROPHANT]

i won my first game i played it was on playstation civ2

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Small map, 5 civs total. I mostly just cranked out units, 'cuz I didn't understand what the improvements did. Sometimes I would build an improvement because it seemed like a good thing to have in a city. It was on chieftain, so I rarely got unhappy, but when I did, I would look at the manual and it would say stuff like "build marketplaces" to get rid of disorder.

...Of course I had my luxuries at 0, so a marketplace wasn't going to solve the problem. I'm not sure exactly how I got out of that.

Somehow I ended up winning anyway, mostly by producing overwhelming numbers of troops. I somehow got to Alpine troops and just had them running willy-nilly through the countryside trying to kill things.

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[Archbob]

My first time, I thought the city "wounded knee" meant that the units in that city had a wounded knee, I've learned much in the last 6 years!

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[goodbye_mr_bond]

I don't remember my first Civ 1 game, but I got Civ 2 about a year after it came out (my computer wasn't good enough for it at the time, so it was a loooong year of waiting).

Anyway, for my first Civ 2 game I thought I'd take it easy and go for King level on large continents. I wiped everyone out, but there was a pesky French continent too far away to reach by bombers. They were about level with me on tech, but had 1/3 the number of cities. Piece of cake.

Flushed with cool new Civ 2 units and a desire to use them, I built a HUGE fleet of carriers with bombers and helicopters, as well as battleships, subs with nukes, transports full of tanks, etc. I was all ready.

Oh it hurts to think of it, even today. I didn't even know what a cruise missile WAS!

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally posted by Fallen Angel Lord:
My first time, I thought the city "wounded knee" meant that the units in that city had a wounded knee, I've learned much in the last 6 years!

I wonder what you thought when you came across the city of "Little Bighorn"!!!

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[Hell-Raiser]

My first game I don't now how it really was but I Know this:

I Was in war with every one! (even didn't now you could allies) and I never build more than 5 city's! First until I discovered mobile warfare, I was only building city improvements (city size about 29/30) and I loved trade!

But when I had my tanks I just kept building them and sending them to the enemy!
And I still didn't know if I won the game!

And I to didn't now about the tax rate!
I just kept saying: You're running low on tax! Dude I hated that message every turn!

And not to Forget: City can't maintain tank; Unit disbanded, and City can't maintain barrack or some thing like that!

But it was funny any how!
And expectably when I Discover the cheat menu!
I just kept nuking to those city's! every unit I saw, got nuked!

Loved doing that!

 

[Az]

By first time was on the demo version of Civ2 for the mac where you could play only utill 1000 BC ! I only remember that I lost after having built too cities Athens and Sparta. As soon as I became good enough and made it easily to 1000 BC I decided to order the game A.S.A.P. !!

But I had problems with my internet connection so I had to wait three months!!!!!!!!

Can you imagine and I was already FANATIC!

Originaly posted by Alcibiaties of Athenae

SlowwHand Oh, rats. You're talking Civ.
I was hoping for something juicy.

Originaly posted by TimTheEnchanter

I wonder what you thought when you came across the city of "Little Bighorn"!!!

You got a great sense of humour...