What e8400 is pretty much the best dual core you could ever get esp if you oc

lol
: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
You Have: 3.60 GHz
It's not reading the E8400 right which is a intel core 2 duo at 3ghz well above the requirements
Upgrade Suggested: Unfortunately, your CPU Speed does not meet this requirement. Click here to see some recommendations.

Video RAM 256 MB 4.0 GB ofc it also says i have 4gb of video ram which is not true lol

jfourz

Ireland421 Posts

September 20 2010 14:47 GMT

#204

so me and my friend have plans for a 14ish hour long civ5 marathon on saturday...
2v2v2v2v2v2 style, large map... lots of fun. we used to do it on emperor in civ4 and could never consistently win, and it was always big long epic games. can't wait for the weekend!

any of you with similar plans? or am i one of one nerds with no life who love civ :D

brn4meplz

Canada98 Posts

September 20 2010 15:11 GMT

#205

Me and some buddies did 18 hours straight of Civ4 a few times. Was intense, All techs researched and 1 turn unit production, railroad on every tile. You just couldn't break anyone open, it was just doom stacks back and forth with no actual territory gain. The system Civ5 opts for hopefully does away with most of that, we'll see.

I plan on playing the shit out of it

GGTeMpLaR

United States7226 Posts

September 20 2010 15:34 GMT

#206

this looks 100x better than civ4 lol

catamorphist

United States297 Posts

September 20 2010 16:19 GMT

#207

I'm really excited, and I like a lot of the changes (combat, social policies, the city-states mechanic) but I'm worried about the suitability of the economic changes to competitive MP. To wit:

- It seems like that with less "snowball" percentage-based modifier buildings and traits, more empire-wide effects (happiness, culture) and less extremely useful tile improvements (e.g. 5 gold from towns) city specialization is a lot less important; so I'm worried that great city planning won't give you as much of an advantage.

- Workers take a long time to build and improvements seem less effective, meaning that perfect worker control won't give you as much of an advantage.

- The tech tree is narrower, so there are maybe less crazy tech beelines available.

We'll see how it goes.

semantics

10040 Posts

September 20 2010 16:38 GMT

#208

On September 21 2010 00:34 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
this looks 100x better than civ4 lol

i like the removal of stack of death which made taking cities some time such a hard task.

Caphe

Vietnam10817 Posts

September 20 2010 16:47 GMT

#209

Bought it on steam, too bad for Asia, we only get the game on 24th. What worse is I have a three holidays from 21st to 23rd T_T....

Yurebis

United States1452 Posts

September 20 2010 16:49 GMT

#210

I'm gonna miss being able to switch political systems...

semantics

10040 Posts

September 20 2010 16:52 GMT

#211

On September 21 2010 01:49 Yurebis wrote:
I'm gonna miss being able to switch political systems...

i always thought it was funny, because it's like oh hey everyone we have a king now. okay sure, oh key everyone freedom of speech for all and liberty now okay sure. Naws fuck that let's have a dictatorship oh okay 5 days of anarchy is all it takes.

catamorphist

United States297 Posts

September 20 2010 16:53 GMT

#212

On September 21 2010 01:52 semantics wrote:

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Hey, 5 turns is like 50 years, or 10 years in the late game! That's a lot of fucking anarchy!

FaCE_1

Canada6184 Posts

September 20 2010 17:16 GMT

#213

i never palyed a Civ game but this one look really nice. I'll give it a shoot. I need something to wait until fallout 3 vegas

zZygote

Canada898 Posts

September 20 2010 20:02 GMT

#214

Buying it then playing the tutorial, going for 1 campaign mission, then off to 3v3 with my buddies I go. They plan a similar route, and theres capabilities of a 6v6, fucking epic!

P.S. what do you guys think about the simultaneous turns system? to avoid those super long games where people afk for 15 minutes lol.

Mazer

Canada1086 Posts

September 20 2010 20:08 GMT

#215

So I caved in and pre-installed it on Steam so I can play it as soon it's available. I even paid the $10 extra for the Babylonians and other bonus stuff. The original Civ was probably the first game I played. I was like 6-7 at the time so these games have been a part of me for longer than SC.

Hopefully (or maybe not, I'm in school) this game holds my attention a little better than SC2. I'd say I put 100+ hours into III and IV each, and then a bunch into I and II back in the day. It probably should.

catamorphist

United States297 Posts

September 20 2010 20:45 GMT

#216

On September 21 2010 05:02 zZygote wrote:
P.S. what do you guys think about the simultaneous turns system? to avoid those super long games where people afk for 15 minutes lol.

Well, it's hardly new -- I don't think I've ever played a multiplayer game of Civilization without simultaneous turns. I know it was around in Alpha Centauri and Civ 3 & 4.