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Civilization V
ackblom12:
Yeah, if there's no resource that hill gets a Trade Depot in my games.
ackblom12:
--- Quote from: benji on 30 Sep 2010, 06:25 ---ackblom, this was written about tabletop gaming but you might find reading it cathartic anyway.
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Forgot to say thank you for this. This really is almost as bad as the new edition releases at the D&D forums. I just can't imagine that any of these folks would seriously say that Civ IV was any better at release. Civ IV had a shit load of problems at release, especially with the AI, and it seems that Civ V is no different. I think it would be less irritating if not for the insistence from many of the complainers that people who like Civ can't like Civ V. It's doubly irritating because I just can't stop reading these threads.
The D&D threads and Civ Fanatics is also a good example of why I despise the term "dumbed down."
Continuing on, I've played an embarrassing amount more and I need to try a few higher difficulties with the current AI. I also don't understand why I can't grasp early expansion still. I've tried but it always seems to be about turn 70 - 80 before I can drop my 3rd city and it's very odd to me and I feel like I should have my 4th one by then. 50 should be seeing my 3rd one drop. Admittedly, fast expansion was never a specialty for me in Civ but it is a little frustrating to not be able to get this down when it is a fairly simple process.
The AI is definitely a bit of a bit mess with the AI just not comprehending how to use military, not being able to do warfare on other continents and diplomacy is a little rough to get down. The diplomacy is likely just due to the fact you don't get to see any info on your relationship with other Civs. I still think putting the numbers back in would be a mistake, but I would definitely appreciate some more details on why your relationship with a civ is the way it is.
The game also needs some definite optimization patching. On a standard map, starting at about mid game the turn end can take a good while. I'm frightened of playing a game on Huge since I'm sure it'll get a bit ridiculous and I'm playing on a 3.6 ghz Quad core with 4gigs of RAM. I'm expecting the eventual 64bit capable release to ease a lot of these issues, but it's still a bit silly for the time being.
tldr; It has a lot of the same issues that Vanilla Civ IV had at release and I expect it to greatly improve over the coming months and years. Still a ton of fun.
ackblom12:
Huge maps. Jesus fuck.
Ozymandias:
I'm not even gonna try for a few patches. Large made me weep.
DavidGrohl:
Waging war across a huge map is pointless. With the rate you can buy / create units, you can't field an invasion as fast as the defender can reproduce his defense.
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