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[quote who="Himmelweiss" reply="335" id="2789387"]Didn't really read all pages here, but i'm really dissappointed with Civ V because of: - the UI, it feels very console-ish - alot less micromanagement is required - happiness is now global - no more cool & stimulating wonder movies (all you see now is just a picture) - no religion - no spionage - you don't have to connect the ressources anymore to your cities - all units can now water, exp

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="312" id="2787442"]You guys sure are bitter.[/quote]Of course we are a little bitter. We got screwed over. Sure they are gonna try and make it right in the long run. But until thats done its just words. And like another poster said we are 9 patches in with another probably at least that many to go before the games truelly good. At least I have civ 5 to tide me over till then. I learned my lesson about preordering though. I don't usually preorder period. Joke was on

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="93" id="2786780"]Hmm is it just me or are there no African nations at all to choose from? Zulus? The game is pretty good...very simplistic compared to the older versions it seems as well.[/quote]It isn't simpler really its just different. Besides concepts like corruption, and sickness and such are usually excessively micromanagement intensive. I like a bit of micro, but if a 500 turn game starts getting bogged down due to 4-5 minutes of

[quote who="louist" reply="54" id="2784346"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 53 I am not crashing or anything drastic, but I am pretty sure I am taking a performance hit of some kind, chugging like others have mentioned. It looks like Civ 5 is not exempt from memory leaks. I'm playing on a Huge Earth-type map, and after maybe 2-3 hours it starts getting bogged down pretty majorly. Stuff starts taking longer, the talking heads make the PC start to choke.. then I restart the game, and e

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="254" id="2783432"] Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 252Most of us here are familiar with Tom Chick's lukewarm review of Elemental: http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/08/elemental_the_review.php Here's where it gets interesting, he is apparently equally unimpressed with Civ V: http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?pager.offset=0&cId=3181540&p=1 "Some of these problems are minor, but they're the sorts of things I'd expect

Civ 5 is alot of fun for me so far. Only reason I am not playing right now is I just got home from grocery shopping and was poking my head in here to see if they had announced anything new. Since I still have hopes that elemental will be great eventually. Anyways off to finish conquering my game I left unfinished at 4am last night lol. I love Babylon this civ is so awesome! (only one I played as so far, but still on first game).

Heres how I view it. I own both. I will enjoy years of Civ 5, and hopefully after the 2 free expansions to Elemental I get with my purchase (as we all will thanks to the botched release) it will be enjoyable as well. If its not enjoyable by the 2nd free expansion...then I guess I will have learned my lesson about preordering. Normally I wait till reviews before I buy. I waited on Reviews for Sins of a Solar Empire, then felt silly for waiting. Oh well, life goes on. Off to bed so I can enjoy

I enjoyed the hell outta my day of playing civ 5. The pacing is feels alot slower then with Civ 4. But that could be my mind playing tricks on me. Spend most the day on a small 6 civ 12 city state earth map as Babylon on prince to get a feel for the game. I technically have the game won now. Need to take out the Iroquois capital and that will be domination. Just getting tired will finish it in morning. Hopefully as I get more familiar game will go faster. 10 hours and not done with my first g

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="205" id="2781326"]I was just over at the civfanatics forum to see what's going on, i will warn you now, don't say anything negative about Steam on that forum! They are surprisingly nasty about it as well, too many people that haven't been taught any good forum maners, but i just ignore those ones and only respond to the reasonable posts.[/quote]ROFLMAO Well if you think they are mean. Don't ever go to Apolyton, I don't think your sensitive little soul co

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="228" id="2780866"]Well the IGN review is out. They gave it a 9.0 which is lower than Civ 4 (9.4). This part makes me happy I'm not buying it: "I say Civilization V is only "good" -- and not "great," as I would have said about Civilization IV -- at crafting stories because I feel like the game's taken away some pretty important tools for customizing your society." This is the main reason why I will not buy

[quote who="Melamine" reply="197" id="2781073"] If a Steamworks game is updated, you cannot choose to play the old version. You must update the game. [/quote]Not 100% true. If your game is set up on offline mode it won't update until the next time you go to online mod. A small difference, yet it is there.

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="606" id="2779886"] Anyway, so i take it Civ5 will only be released on Steam?? That is rather odd? Surly they know games need on the shelf advertising in stores? Thats how i find half my games![/quote]No its available in stores as well, but it will install steam on your pc, and require steam to be running in the background to play.

Game informer review 9.75/10 http://gameinformer.com/games/civilization_v/b/pc/archive/2010/09/17/reforged-into-a-masterpiece.aspx G4TV Review 5/5 http://g4tv.com/games/pc/57652/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V/review/

[quote who="Maj-Grimmjack" reply="12" id="2778977"]Been playing up to date version all morning bows are still not hitting anything.[/quote]More important then the version question is this. The game saves the XML of whatever version you were playing in the Save games. So if you are playing a save game from BEFORE the hotfix on saturday then it wont' be fixed till you start a new game.

Seems to me the medium map seeds are messed up. Large maps still get a gold mine somewhere near my start. On the medium size maps sometimes not getting a gold mine where now there is always supposed to be one somewhere near your start.

TL;DR Who are you again? ;p

Pretty sure its just a bug at the moment. Other threads had froggie in them mentioning that the coders were working to fix the Bow problem and the no abilities problem. So I assume this is the no ability one mentioned at work.

Well look at it this way. This may also make the Dynasty system stronger, as I assume your children will still be born as magic. As such perhaps when they grow up they will add to the global mana pools regen? Obviously they shouldn't cost mana regen since they are a natural occurance. Unlike Imbued champions which are just your sovereign exerting his will essentially.

[quote who="Kalin" reply="88" id="2777773"]It's completely possible that the one outside your border was due to an AI researching the same tech and didn't have room in their territory to place it. Thus, the bee was spawned outside.[/quote]On a large map with the nearest AI city being well over 20 turns of marching away? riiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhht. More then likely its just another bug.

You can't explain away the fact that the game I played this morning I popped the food one and had one bee show up in my border AND one show up just north of me. Perhaps its not working properly though. I have had multiple gold mines show up from this tech as well...though I didn't know about the 0 option. I hadn't noticed it before so it could be an oversight. Oh well. 8am cst Tuesday morning my Predownload of Civ 5 unlocks and I probably won't be touching this for months so it won'

[quote who="ozzlok" reply="11" id="2777344"]I too noticed that in my current game someone gave birth to a boy after only about 20 turns. How is that possible. [/quote] thats cause AI civs start with a spouse.

Current priorities should be to eco boom your first few techs in Civilization, followed by a couple military techs, followed by going all the way down the adventuring resource techs. Then do what you want based on your style/resources. The game is still too easy.

[quote who="Kumu_Honua" reply="79" id="2776923"] Quoting Kadrium, reply 78 I actually prefer that it spawn them both inside and outside your influence. If it can only pop mines in your AoI and you research that tech while you have a dozen cities, you can spring up a bunch of gold mines. If you research it while you only have 1 city, you won't get nearly the return, and you kinda "have" to research the tech if you want to access anything past it. Sooo.... Spawning nodes outside

Get better? I personally have had no problems with the new pacing. If there is an AI even remotely close to me they get wiped out in the first 30 turns. Procipenee's learning of magic spells from turn one guarantees this. Combine it with infusing Jaskar (or whatever his name is, hes of no importance other then as a donor) and marrying him to begin mutant production. By turn 97 of my last game on a medium map with all 9 ai's I quit because my power rating was already over 170 with the nearest

So did the Friday update break this? I will assume it did and consider it a biohazard at the moment. hehe. We appreciate your work however. Guess I will go try the new friday updated version of the game.