Things I did today:
Install Civ IV for the first time since I got it, several years ago.
Play Civ IV
Lose horribly
You never win your first civ game. You might win your fifth though. :P
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on August 29, 2013, 03:20:41 PM
The third update for that should be out now actually.
Good; need to learn the rules, then learn the three updates, and then get my group going, and all in a week. :P
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on August 29, 2013, 03:36:16 PM
You never win your first civ game. You might win your fifth though. :P
My first game ended with me being rushed by the English... typical, they would attack the Scottish fellow.
They are planning to update every Wednesday.
Man, I haven't played a civilization game since like, the 3rd one. I should get back into it.
I like civilization revolution a lot...
Civ Rev is awesome. Not as good as Civ 5 though.
I like rev for it's simplicity and how easy it is to pickup for an afternoon of play
Until yesterday, I had never played a civ game. My second game was somewhat uneventful. I don't think there was a single war.
That's odd... very odd actually.
I think most of them hated me more than anyone else, but every land route to me was covered by the Persians, and I made sure they loved me. Which was good since I gave up on a military early on so other people had helicopters while I never bothered building anything more advanced than a couple of guys with clubs.
Civilization V is extremely good. After Civ 2, I tried 3 and 4 and just thought that they weren't for me anymore. Out of interest, worth picking up the two expansions, Gods and Kings and Brave New World?
Gods and Kings came with the Gold edition I picked up. Not played without it much, but it certainly seems to have been worthwhile.
Brave New World got lots of praise, I seem to recall. May be worth looking in to.
Played the Polynesian scenario yesterday. I managed to interrupt a war 10 turns in by not declaring war as I'd agreed to - after that, nobody attacked anybody. For the whole game. Might have been something to do with the fact the map was the most sketchy archipelago I've ever seen, but there you go.
Strange coincidence, but I installed CivII on my old creaky family PC last week and have played about 4 games to completion already! Just opened Steam try my hand at CivV again (I have CivIV on disc but recall preffering CivV...). All great games. CivII is almost impossible to play purely diplomatically though - even if you want to avoid war you have to be a military powerhouse to deter attackers.
I first played CivII on a family holiday to Berwick about 14 years ago...hard to believe it was that long ago!
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on August 29, 2013, 03:36:16 PM
You never win your first civ game. You might win your fifth though. :P
I won my third (time victory). I still only ranked as Dan Quayle though.
Also, computers always seem to burn down London in my games.
Quote from: Restayvien on August 31, 2013, 11:17:00 PM
Strange coincidence, but I installed CivII on my old creaky family PC last week and have played about 4 games to completion already! Just opened Steam try my hand at CivV again (I have CivIV on disc but recall preffering CivV...). All great games. CivII is almost impossible to play purely diplomatically though - even if you want to avoid war you have to be a military powerhouse to deter attackers.
I first played CivII on a family holiday to Berwick about 14 years ago...hard to believe it was that long ago!
Ah, I remember playing that, so old though.
I always won through building that bloody great space station and nuking anyone who looked at me funny, like a technologically competent North Korea.
Quote from: Mabbz on August 31, 2013, 11:32:21 PM
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on August 29, 2013, 03:36:16 PM
You never win your first civ game. You might win your fifth though. :P
I won my third (time victory). I still only ranked as Dan Quayle though.
Also, computers always seem to burn down London in my games.
London bridge is falling down...
I think I won my second game of CivRev.
So CivV won't run on my PC (sold my decent gaming PC about a year ago), will have to make do with CivIV!
What's the problem?
I made the mistake of not picking up Civ in the steam summer sale and I hate my life right now.
Well, the Christmas sale is coming?
Don't suppose anyone's up for an organised Civ V game?
I would be if I could get it downloaded on this PC. It's bigger then my download limit and didn't work last time I installed it.
How do you play a multiplayer Civ V game? It took 36 hours with just me and the computer.
It looks like you can take breaks, as if you're playing postal Civ or something. Which isn't much use when all but one player is on, but still.
Yeah, you can also email games. Where each person puts their email in and it lets each person know when it's their turn. Very slow way to play.
You know what I would also absolutely love, a new more in depth Alpha Centauri game. I loved those games.
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on September 03, 2013, 11:10:14 AM
Yeah, you can also email games. Where each person puts their email in and it lets each person know when it's their turn. Very slow way to play.
You know what? I'm up for that. If you chaps do it, I'll be happy to do horribly. I call China.
I would be up for it, but I only have Civ IV and I can't really afford to buy... anything really.
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on September 01, 2013, 11:19:43 AM
What's the problem?
I don't have a sufficient graphics card any more! Well...I don't have one at all, I'm using the on-board Intel graphics chip.
Quote from: Rarity Declis on September 03, 2013, 09:12:05 PM
Quote from: Tybalt Defet on September 03, 2013, 11:10:14 AM
Yeah, you can also email games. Where each person puts their email in and it lets each person know when it's their turn. Very slow way to play.
You know what? I'm up for that. If you chaps do it, I'll be happy to do horribly. I call China.
In that case, I call Carthage.
Ouch. That really sucks.