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Sure, why not.
I disliked the simultaneous turns on civ4 multiplayer, because you ended up having an advantage if you had fewer cities (fewer things to build, so you arrived at commanding your units quicker). But with a lot of players, turns after each other takes a lot of time..Quote:
Originally Posted by NGS
I'm probably not up for a multiplayer, it takes way too long :p
It seems co-op multiplayer vs. AI would be the better option. Takes less time, not as aggressive or favored to the vets.
Well, at least the crashes happen at consistent times, so I can mostly avoid them.
Trying to open the Civilopedia crashes the game, so that's a no-no.
Loading any previous savegame while the game is running is a no-no, always crashes.
But so long as I keep tinkering along without the Civilopedia and without resorting to saving and loading, it mostly runs ok.
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How's everyone else's crashes going?
EDIT: Oh - and tabbing out and back in crashes it too, I just discovered :mad:
Using Directx 9, the game only crashed once. Something to do with the gfx card. Thank Zod for autosave.
I never loaded a game ingame, but I have made several trips to Civilopedia. Alt-tabbed once, which took a lot of time to process, but didn't crash.
My crashes only happened when I hit enter to end my turn and had the screen listing my cities open.
Still haven't crashed, though you guys appear to be playing a hell of a lot more than I.
Just crashed 3 times in a row. Other people with NVidia card seem to have the same problem.
I was told Beta-drivers should solve that, so installing them now.
No crashes whatsoever.
Played an hour, no crashes yet.
No crashes, can alt-tab, open save files in game, everything. But I've only played about 15 hours.
Well, I'm done with it, for now, unless we do a multiplayer. I probably will hit it again at sometime.
Tried to start another game this morning, but couldn't really get into it
Nuke littlelolligagged the first chance you get, guys... I have a feeling she would be very dangerous in multiplayer. :X
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Done with it already?? Christ I've played 37 hours so far (according to Steam) and haven't got past muskets yet !
But then I play Huge maps on Marathon timescale. With only Domination and Space Race (or Science or whatevs) as victory options.
And keep restarting with new maps after several hours cos I'm not happy with how things're going, or with the nation I've chosen. I'm quite fussy I guess.
Yesterday I got quite far with Greece, only to have my arse handed to me by the fucking Siamese. I hardly had any units at all, just an arthritic archer unit and a geriatric pikeman.
Still loving it though. :up:
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Crashes - have lessened somewhat since I reduced some of the detail levels from high to medium.
Will give the nVidia betas a try though ...
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Multiplayer - dont wanna. Real people scare me.
Hardly. I imagine I'd be the first to lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by agamemnus
I started several games and couldn't make myself happy with any of them. It could have been my mood yesterday. I've won 4 games in 37 hours - the first was just the game from the tutorial though, so it was too fucking easy, so we'll make it 3 games. I think marathon would feel entirely too slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Real people are very scary. Conveniently, we're not real people, though.
Which Nividia vid-card do you have Timbu?
And I'm still having a ball with the game. Still making the mistake of playing ciV like cIV and expanding and letting my cities grow, so now in the Renaissance era, I'm having money/happiness issues. Next game, I should keep growth capped and gear towards production or specialists.
What level are you guys playing? I'm on Prince right now, which is a bit of a challenge but still not that hard, so I think King would be a nice challenge.
I'm playing Large/Epic. Will go Huge/Marathon after this. I like to have one tier of units to last at least one big war instead of upgrading warriors to swords to longswords in the scope of one war.
Hmmm. I like the slow build-up of the game - being able to plan things properly - layout - strategy - discovering new things on an gradual basis .Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Single Civ games are always weeks-long affairs for me ...
I guess it's no surprise I don't like frantic FPS type games. I'm too slow-witted. :)
Aye, but I don't think it's something I would enjoy. If I get pissed off I may reload to a previous save game or abandon the game altogether. Fine if it's just AI opponents, but real(ish) people would take issue with such unsportsman-like behaviour.Quote:
Real people are very scary. Conveniently, we're not real people, though.
Another question, is it my luck or are your "continent" maps also boring as fuck? Twice I picked continents, twice I get one huge slap of land without any chokepoints our otherwise tactically fun landscapes like this:
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7859/awaz0019.jpg
Have an ageing nVid 8800GTX with 768MB mammaries. It's probably the bottleneck in my 4 yr old set up - Q6600 Quad proc & 4GB RAM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
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Yep - think I need to rethink my strategy. I too go all out for expansion - tend to buy Settlers as gold isn't too hard to come by - and towns don't grow while youre building settlers.
So I expand and expand. But then I'm very widespread, exposed and weak, which is why I think the Siamese overran me so easily in my last game.
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Only tried Warlord difficutly so far - one down from Prince.
Will save higher difficulties for when I've got the subtleties of the game sussed.
Always play Pangaea, my fine friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
At least - I always used to cos having to embark/disembark masses of units onto ships was such a pain in Civ IV.
With land units being able to jump into boats willy-nilly in Civ V, I suspect continents wouldn't be such a pain ...
I have the 8600 GT, and it seemed to work for me. Beta is called 260.63. Not sure if it's my imagination but it seemed to run smoother as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
You will change your opinion on gold on the higher levels. Scraping the barrel myself.Quote:
Yep - think I need to rethink my strategy. I too go all out for expansion - tend to buy Settlers as gold isn't too hard to come by - and towns don't grow while youre building settlers.
Big fan of that as well :up:Quote:
Always play Pangaea, my fine friend.
At least - I always used to cos having to embark/disembark masses of units onto ships was such a pain in Civ IV.
With land units being able to jump into boats willy-nilly in Civ V, I suspect continents wouldn't be such a pain ...
I like not having to build a transport fleet. Big improvement.
Heh, you start out like I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
I started small and easy to gently climb the learning curve. Then I go for the big and difficult games when I'm more comfortable. I bet you could analyze a personality just knowing how one approaches a new strategy game.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
I think the fact that one plays strategy games at all tells you all you want to know about one's personality. :o
Hey! :(
I genuinely dislike people who love RTS games. :down:
And what, pray tell, is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Your luck, I think - the one game I played One of my opponents had three cities that could only be reached either over the sea or through a one-tile gap in a mountain ridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Restarted again. :headbang:
Got to about AD600 with the Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, on Huge map with Marathon time.
Each end of turn was taking around 40 seconds, which was getting ridiculous. Fed up waiting. Figured my creaking system just takes too long to process the turns of 8 other nations and 20 city-states on the Huge map.
Gawd I can't afford to upgrade again. :(
So trying another game, with the Russkies, but on Large rather than Huge map. Sticking to Marathon time.
Crashes seem to have resolved themselves totally - not sure if it's because of reduction of some of the gphx settings. No crashes on Civilopedia, on game load, or on alt-tabbing yesterday. Very odd.
Playing the rooskies as well. Was looking forward to use that double amount of horsies and iron for a large army just to find out that I couldn't afford it. Duhr! Oh well, the extra hammers are nice. And that Krepost (sp?) thingy is really handy.
edit: Although now I discovered banking, expanded the empire and building trade routes and built the Macho Picacho, I'm having some leeway and will finally be able to field some serious shit.
Did you upgrade them drivers?