EPTOn April 16 2014 05:41 Boblion wrote:
Looks like something between Pandora and the SMAC mod for Civ IV.
Looks like something between Pandora and the SMAC mod for Civ IV.
pandora was shocking
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bo1b
Australia12814 Posts
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digmouse
China6327 Posts
On April 16 2014 04:37 deth2munkies wrote: Honestly, if you play the low difficulties on AC, you can turn governor on every base and still win  That kinda took out of the fun eh? (But I don't play games on high difficulties anyway). | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On April 16 2014 04:31 digmouse wrote: lol probably not, I'm simply bad at managing anything. And you will become better once you spend a few hours playing games like Civ. | ||
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GENerateSAYing
United States103 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
On April 16 2014 19:01 GENerateSAYing wrote: I just want more information on the AI. Civ5 was a great game, but I couldn't get past the AI had to cheat at even the lowest difficulties. Thankfully the MP was there to use and my friends and I are waiting with bated breath. you need a cheating AI to really have a fair game ... to be honest ... programm a good ai and you get rich ^^ | ||
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GENerateSAYing
United States103 Posts
On April 16 2014 19:14 Drake wrote: civ5 was amazing or still IS amazing so it cant be rly bad ^^ you need a cheating AI to really have a fair game ... to be honest ... programm a good ai and you get rich ^^ Don't get me wrong, I know why it cheats but it does rub me the wrong way. I wish I could program a better AI--you're right I'd be rich  .With technology ever advancing and the team having more experience with the 1U/T perhaps the AI can get more advance with this go around. It's probably too early in the process to get good answers about it though. I'll just have to be patient. | ||
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Iplaythings
Denmark9110 Posts
yes please, yes please indeed! | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
There is also always the option to make the gameplay assymetric in a singleplayer game. Examples of an asymetric game that is still a great strategy game is AI War. | ||
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digmouse
China6327 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On April 17 2014 00:04 digmouse wrote: Plus I only have vanilla Civ and have no idea about how to upgrade it to something like Gold Edition, don't really want to buy all the DLCs. If you have Steam, you can go to the Civ 5 shop page and purchase upgrades. The price will be the difference between what vanilla is selling for right now and what the gold edition is selling for right now. | ||
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digmouse
China6327 Posts
On April 17 2014 00:40 andrewlt wrote: If you have Steam, you can go to the Civ 5 shop page and purchase upgrades. The price will be the difference between what vanilla is selling for right now and what the gold edition is selling for right now. Yeah I know what you mean, but GnK and BNW cost 60$ together let alone all the smaller packs and they don't offer upgrade options to Gold or Complete, guess I'll wait till there is a price drop on Complete (and dust it since I can't really find an incentive to play it despite everyone is praising it). | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On April 17 2014 01:22 digmouse wrote: Yeah I know what you mean, but GnK and BNW cost 60$ together let alone all the smaller packs and they don't offer upgrade options to Gold or Complete, guess I'll wait till there is a price drop on Complete (and dust it since I can't really find an incentive to play it despite everyone is praising it). Wait for a sale. You should be able to pick up both of them for maybe $15 | ||
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Rayeth
United States883 Posts
On April 17 2014 01:22 digmouse wrote: Yeah I know what you mean, but GnK and BNW cost 60$ together let alone all the smaller packs and they don't offer upgrade options to Gold or Complete, guess I'll wait till there is a price drop on Complete (and dust it since I can't really find an incentive to play it despite everyone is praising it). Civ is one of those weird games that I have no motivation to play until I boot it up randomly out of boredom and then spend 4 hours glued to my computer "next-turn"-ing until my enemies are ground beneath my iron boot (or my iron handshake of peace, as the case may be). With the addition of GnK and BNW at the same time, having never played either, the game will be pretty different for you. So much of the tech tree and the buildings have been changed (especially the early ones), that all of your strategies from the base game are probably out the window. And since all the culture stuff is totally different in BNW, you will have that whole system to learn, along with all of the faith systems. It should be pretty interesting for you to get back into if you can find them at a decent price. | ||
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digmouse
China6327 Posts
On April 17 2014 01:39 Rayeth wrote: Civ is one of those weird games that I have no motivation to play until I boot it up randomly out of boredom and then spend 4 hours glued to my computer "next-turn"-ing until my enemies are ground beneath my iron boot (or my iron handshake of peace, as the case may be). With the addition of GnK and BNW at the same time, having never played either, the game will be pretty different for you. So much of the tech tree and the buildings have been changed (especially the early ones), that all of your strategies from the base game are probably out the window. And since all the culture stuff is totally different in BNW, you will have that whole system to learn, along with all of the faith systems. It should be pretty interesting for you to get back into if you can find them at a decent price. Not "back into" haha, I never played a single minute of Civ, just because the new Civ will be a sci-fi thing that kinda interests me. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
In the announcement presentation, Firaxis had explained that Civilization’s tech tree was gone, in favor of a “tech web” that allowed for more lateral movement. That naturally raised the question of how pre-requisite technologies work with this new system. “There are no pre-requisites,” David explained. In Beyond Earth you really WILL have the freedom to move laterally through the tech web however you like, though technologies that are further out from your starting point in the center will cost more to research. Source | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
soft pre-reqs are still pre-reqs. If there is a tech that costs 5 turns to develop that increases your research speed by 50% then going for that and then a tech that costs 30 turns to develop is better than to just go for the 30 turn tech... | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On April 17 2014 01:56 Sub40APM wrote: soft pre-reqs are still pre-reqs. If there is a tech that costs 5 turns to develop that increases your research speed by 50% then going for that and then a tech that costs 30 turns to develop is better than to just go for the 30 turn tech... Turn 1 start researching Ascent to Transcendence. Takes 100 turns, but you'll sure get it first. But yeah, that's an interesting system and I like it. It allows you to forego the strict progression in situations where it makes sense. | ||
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On April 17 2014 08:25 screamingpalm wrote: Not sure if I like the tech tree idea (seems to be the extreme opposite design philosophy of SMAC). I really enjoyed the random tech in AC, but I'm probably in the minority that actually likes random elements in strategy games- to an extent anyway (not too random, I mean). what was random about AC, that you pick the different themes? But it still was a linear progression. | ||
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
On April 17 2014 08:33 Sub40APM wrote: what was random about AC, that you pick the different themes? But it still was a linear progression. Actually random tech was a toggle option iirc. You're right that it was still a linear progression though. I like random elements like that which make you develop strategy on the fly, rather than having a set "build order" or mathematically beating the game before even playing it... :D I guess it's still better than the linear tech of civ, but really hope they keep random research in as an option at least. | ||
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