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TheFuriousWombat:
Ok, so I know this might be a contentious issue but I'm looking for honest/helpful feedback on this matter. I haven't ever played a Civ game extensively enough to know what I like and don't like about the series as a whole but I do have a pretty deep strategy game background so I'm not wholly new to the idea of the game by any means. I've seen a ton of debate on this issue on the tubes but it's mostly flame wars and thus useless. Anyone have a solid recommendation either way? I'm definitely leaning toward nabbing IV and all expansions rather than V because A) I've heard it's a better, more nuanced option and B) it's almost half as much as V with the expansions. But I'm open to being swayed in the other direction. Anyone?

Scandanavian War Machine:
they are both spectacular games, in my opinion, though rather different

Civ IV can be gotten cheap, as you said, so that's a good option. it's a little unbalanced in certain ways, but i never noticed it much. Civ V is something i've spent considerably less time playing, but i can say that it's just just as good as Civ IV (maybe better, but I don't want to say one way or the other, there).

Civ V is certainly prettier.


ok, after thinking about it, i think i'm gonna side with V, even though i've spent way less time with it since i only recently got it (compared to IV, which i've had forever).

i definitely prefer the hex map, though i'm not sure why, exactly. it feels more natural i guess. also, the fact that you can no longer stack units on top of each other helps with this.
those two changes alone could be enough to completely ruin the game for some people, but i actually really liked them.

it really boils down to personal preference, so hopefully some other people  can give you some more to think about

Near Lurker:
I've heard they've done away with corruption, which kind of sounds like it'd wreck the game to me...

How do you build without stacking units?  Can you at least keep multiples in cities?

Scandanavian War Machine:
actually, now that i think about it, i've hardly spent any time with Civ V at all, so maybe that says something about it's quality?

near as i could tell, most things worked the same way. i think you can stack units in a city, but maybe not. you might just have to fill any available nearby hexes with dudes, instead of putting them all on one square. cities take up several hexes so you can cover an entire city in units if you want, but it's usually safer to place them around a little more strategically unless you got units to burn.

i don't remember anything from previous games about corruption so i can't say how that's different


all things considered i'm probably the wrong person to ask about most things

Near Lurker:
Corruption is the mechanism that screws up cities that are too far from the palace until you start building airports.

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