Meanwhile, Civ Rev still looks like a very good alternative. On my netbook, it's tolerable but leaves me twiddling my thumbs sometimes. If we ever upgrade our PC, maybe I'll install Civ5 on it and see if I can get it to load and run a little faster. Since then, I've learned to prepare by creating enough happiness-generating buildings along the way and later in the game I'll get into the Order tree to help mitigate the negative effects of expansion. In my first several games, I brought about bankruptcy and disorder by expanding too fast. Up to a point, that works in earlier versions (it works OK in Civ Rev, but there's not a lot of map to expand into), but it's tricky in Civ5. I try to play Civ the way one plays Risk I want the lion's share of territory, and I want to restrict everyone else's expansion. I've always been in the habit of expanding widely and rapidly. I have mixed feelings about one aspect of Civ5: expansion. But also, there's less that calls for micromanagement I can play the game at a reasonably high level without weakening my position too much. ![]() Mainly, war no longer spoils the game for me. And I like that even Deity level is not impossible (I've won a game or two on that level).Ĭiv5 is, to me, an improvement over earlier versions of the full game. I like the fact that all four kinds of victory are possible. I like searching for and discovering artifacts (lately I've been going for Navigation early so as to be able to find Atlantis sometimes I'll play as the Spanish for that reason). I like the small maps, the rapid pace of the game, the simplicity of building roads and such. In those fifteen minutes of play, I fought three or four battles and won them all. But because I knew they'd attack me before long, I got archers into my cities and started pumping out legions, forming them into armies. I blocked both from rapid expansion, as usual, claiming space for my own expansion. Last night, I found myself on a continent between America and Germany. ![]() I got into the habit of building armies of my own early on. But because that happened so predictably, for the first time I learned to deal with it. The AI players would start out friendly, but they'd almost all morph into dangerous, relentless enemies after a certain trigger point. And if I did manage to defend, or even conquer, it was such a long, agonizing process that it spoiled the game for me.Īt first, I hated Civ Rev because it seemed like the most vicious version of all. More often than not, it spelled doom for my lovingly built civilization. In all earlier versions of Civ, I dreaded war. One thing that happened was the inevitable-war. I only had time to play for fifteen minutes before I was called away, but they were a satisfying fifteen minutes, and quite a bit happened in that short time. Then I popped the cart into my DS last night and started a game (on King level, since I needed to brush up). I read a little about it and learned some things I hadn't known. And I thought, I haven't played that in a while. ![]() So yesterday, I stumbled up on a fan site for Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution. The game also takes long enough to load that I'll walk off and get a cup of tea while I'm waiting. On anything bigger than a tiny map, there's some significant downtime. I'm playing Civ5 on a netbook computer, though, and the CPU is a bit taxed. Early on, I even lost entire games to AI invasions. I'm sometimes that way myself, though and I've certainly lost some cities to AI attacks. Though I haven't tried it on higher levels, I have to admit the AI seems militarily wimpy and confused. I now know why others complain about the war-making capability of the AI. I suppose I could have won a domination victory a few times, but I didn't try I was enjoying my building and expanding too much. I keep wanting to win a cultural victory, but I never even get very close to that. ![]() And I've won a couple space-race victories in addition to the usual time-limit victories. Still playing at Prince level (which is a little embarrassing to me, but I'll take it step by step), but I'm winning pretty consistently. I've been playing Civilization V quite a bit, and I've finally caught on to it.
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