Just played the demo. The game sure is great. The graphics are awesome even on Medium(I could probably try High). Brings back memories from Civ4.

I definitely like the new tile shapes, and the new combat.

Quite a few of my work colleagues are raving about this game. I'm starting to succumb to peer group pressure, lol. Never played any of the earlier Civs, which, apparently, is an advantage, or so I've been told.

Might have to pull the trigger on this one...

I would agree that not playing Civ 1-4 is probably an advantage to playing CIV 5. I am on my fifth game of Civ5 and it is starting to grow on me. :yep:

Most of the problem is un-learning all the good tricks of Civ4 .. they don't work in Civ 5. :damn:

Although I hate it, I also like the fact that Civ 5 does not have the "airlift exploitation" that Civ 4 had. It was a fun but very unrealistic exploit.

I am liking Civ 5. Do I like it as well as Civ4BTS? not yet, but then, there was a steep "like curve" with CIV 4 also.

The real question is: Have I gotten my money's worth ($50.00) in terms of entertainment? I would have to say, that after a week, yes. :yeah:

However, the Civ games are kinda like subsim games. They are not for everyone. :nope: Nor can there be any expectation that anyone who likes subsim games will like the Civ games. :nope: They are two completely different genres.

As a matter of fact, anyone who plays subsim games will probably hate the way submarines are modeled in Civ 5 :har::har::har::har::har:

Has anyone experienced problems with cannon/arty sometimes not being able to attack a city?

This happens as what appears to be random times. I set up my weapon (2 hexes for cannon and 3 for arty) and sometimes I can bombard and other turns I can't. It does not seem to matter how long I have the weapon set up.

Anyone else have this problem?

Haven't used them yet. You sure you have line of sight? They can't fire over hills or forest unless they have "indirect fire" promotion.

I don't think that is my problem with arty, but it does explain my problems with archers. Thanks, I never thought about hills/jungle affecting archers, but it makes sense. :salute:

My problem with arty is that without moving the weapon (and with the assumption that the city does not move), that sometimes I can fire and other times I can't. It is weird and only happens just enough times to make it annoying.

I've had it, but I think only when I tried to set it up and fire it on the same turn.

I do sometimes have that a ranged unit won't fire by right-clicking an enemy, but it does work if you select the "ranged attack" option in the order bar and then left-click the target hex. Very rare though.

That's good to know. Thanks

Very addictive game! Quite enjoyable, even for a noob like me, lol.

I won! I actually won a Civ game! :o


Kinda waiting for the universe to implode...

It's not so hard, I mean, I did it while only ever owning a single city in my last game.

Seems a lot easier than it was in IV, though it probably isn't...

It's a first for me anyway. :shifty:


Was right on course for a tech victory, but Songhai started getting rather big and catching up. I ended up using my technological advantage to secure a Dom victory. Only had to take the Songhai capital and my neighbors, Ghandi's. After taking the Songhai capital I tried being peacefull and continue on for tech victory, but Ghandi declared war on me. :lol:

Man I'm succumbing to the pressure to grab Civ 5. Guess I'm off to my local gameshop at lunch to get it. That makes 4 games I'm going to have on the go at the same time. God help me.

Fallout 3 - Still have to run through Point Lookout/Main Quest/Broken Steel.
Empire Total War - Building Prussia into a mighty nation is proving to be harder than I thought, which is great.
Silent Hunter 3 - Just got GWX 3.0 back (Downloading 1.3 gig takes me a while, damn Australia and its crappy broadband) so new career going to start in that.
Now Civ 5, joy. I'm screwed for the next couple of months.

Meh, 4 games at a time is nothing, not unless you have one of these so-called...err...ah, 'lives'.

Must say, I've often heard that the AI randomly declares war on the player a lot, but I haven't seen that at all. In my first completed game, I was only declared war on once by the Aztecs, with which I quickly mopped the floor using my much smaller but technologically advanced army (Watching a group of swordsmen being slaughtered by a Musketeer unit is quite awesome). In my last game, as a city-state with practically no army, I had not entered a single war, despite Siam taking over 80% of Eurasia and Africa (On a Terra map, where all players start in Eurasia or Africa) and destroying everyone but me and the Arabians...