i've got 80 dollars in my pocket and it's rainy af outside and this game isn't out for mac
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 21 October 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I've got two twenties and two tens in my wallet and I was afraid they'd be there til next April
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I followed a Dealzon link and got it for $48 USD from GMG. Here we go!
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Saturday, 22 October 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
i want to play this so bad
― Mordy, Saturday, 22 October 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
Hey, Sean Bean is the announcer in this one!
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Saturday, 22 October 2016 07:49 (seven years ago) link
I'm stuck waiting for the Mac version too. Apparently they're promising to roll it out quicker than they usually do.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 22 October 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
Will become increasingly more useful over time, no doubt:
https://m.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/58u6hp/civ_vi_fixes_megathread/
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
So Team Liquid has officially hired a pro Civ 6 player, I look forward to this because at least it isn't Hearthstone eSports
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
is team liquid moving into civ? does civ even have competitive multiplayer? why would a civ 6 player be useful for an LOL team?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
Well I didn't make it up
http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/23/13372408/civilization-6-pro-gaming-esports-team-liquid
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
oh don't misunderstand - i think competitive civ 6 is a fantastic idea. just had no idea it existed (and acc to that link apparently this will be the first tournament so kinda it doesn't yet)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
GUYS GUYS IT'S TIME
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
https://m.popkey.co/0c01b3/dZwYR.gif
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
link?
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
steam
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
https://www.aspyr.com/games/sid-meier-s-civilization-vi
shweet
should just leave work and play this all day
thanks man
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
dang, looks like it requires capitan or sierra.
it's for the best, i probably should not be allowed to play a new Civ until i get a job.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
this is the only game i have been fantasizing about playing
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
I can't even get into this until my move is done... And then...
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
The districts and housing mechanics take some getting used to.
There's an amusing variety of quote sources, as there always is, from Heinlein to NdG-T to Mark Twain to....uh...Scott Adams.
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
So should I continue to get used to the general concepts of this game via Civ V for a while before i get this? I'm stillgetting my head round it all.
First game ever and with not long to go (I'm up to 194something) I am in second place, trying to get a cultural victory. No idea what I'm doing.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
I just hope they've solved the endgame slowness on large maps.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 06:29 (seven years ago) link
spotted courtney cox being quoted too. finished my first game, sumerians on mars in 1993. looked like I was going to win a science victory from about 1750, although there was a fun moment of panic when I realised that the Japanese focus on religion (which Iβd ignored) might pay off and I had to use all my units to surround the last Hindu city I had to block their apostles (during a war as well) and rush a holy site so I could spam enough apostles to counter them. Going to try a religion game next.
AI turns are a lot faster if you turn on quick movement and combat. itβs quicker than V, but it still gets slower as the game goes on. I would probably dive into VI rather than practice on V. although it is a bit more complicated there are quite a lot of things that function differently so youβd have to unlearn a lot of habits
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 09:10 (seven years ago) link
bought it and downloaded it
have yet to play it
hoping for a quick session tonight!
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
fuckin lorne michaels is the quote when you discover the wheel
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 27 October 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
xxxp: if you like the idea of civ but are into space and scifi, try out galactic civilizations (II or III). i played II for a bit and it was entertaining. smaller compared to civ, though... civ's learning curve isn't as steep as, say, europa universalis
For a more refined take on gal civ, try Stellaris, which is Paradox Games's (Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings) entry into the space 4x genre. It borrows many ideas from Gal Civ, which in turn borrowed them from MOO, but presents them in a real-time with pause format. The third update which dramatically improved combat came out this week, and if anything like past Paradox games, they're continue supporting and fleshing out the game for years til the game is radically remade.
― publicity hungry, opportunistic, disgruntled former employee (Sanpaku), Thursday, 27 October 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
played my first civ6 game last night. trajan, small map, quick speed, prince level
thoughts:
*graphics/illustrations are not too cartoony, so i could get used to them
*using a macbook pro 2015. graphics were set to high, but didn't like the excessive fan spinning/noise, so i turned the graphics to low. graphics didn't suffer much, fan was slightly less quieter but not by much
*kind of easy to win a war. mvemba was settling near to me, then i blocked him from expanding by settling right next to him. could already tell this dude wanted to destroy me so i focused on army/war traits (civics, units, etc). even after killing about 10 of his units, i couldn't figure out how to offer him a deal, til he finally did. it was a sweet deal too
*victoria loves me. sending envoys left, right and centre to la venta (city state), not sure what this does yet
*founded a religion -- pretty neat because you can make your own or choose a preexisting one. was gonna go with catholicism as i'm rome, and do the whole holy war/jesuit thing but decided on a more practical approach and chose buddhism. you can modify what your religion does and how you benefit from it, which is pretty cool
*i'm in either second or third place depending on the type of victory. not sure which way to go as i'm figuring everything out for now, but i might beef up my army and take over mvemba's cities
*districts are neat, helping with amenities
*overall i seem to be cruising at a fun pace in prince level. not too exciting/hard, but not too dull/easy
*i have the opportunity to increase my culture, which i will probably end up doing. i have so much gold, but that's just my style (i tend to sometimes focus too much on gold), but i'll need it as i grow my army. might go for a world dom victory, but want to see how it goes after i take over mvemba's cities, as he is currently winning culturally
anyway, cool first game
for newcomers/beginners, i would definitely jump right in to civ6 because there is a bit of a learning curve
some things are the same, like my cheap archers do well to destroy early horseback units. and spearmen are better at fighting chariots
but generally, it is different enough that you'll want to start learning the new civ6 system instead of picking up previous ones (unless you don't want to transfer over to civ6)
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
prince is v easy. clobbered rome + paris last night bc they both kept picking wars w/ me (that they couldn't win). they begged every turn for a peace deal for all their assets but i was rolling (had knights, crossbowmen + samurais and their legacy armies still had flingers or whatever the early archers are called) so i rejected the deals and now have conquered my entire continent. they have apparently gotten rid of the "too many cities" negatives which is good bc there's nothing i like more than having a thousand cities all over the place. also essential for grabbing needed resources. only competition is saladin has the second biggest religion (buddhism vs. my native judaism) and he keeps trying to missionary spam my cities - luckily my acolytes can pretty easily destroy them. thinking after this game i'll probably move up to a higher difficulty level bc i was barely paying attention and certainly not employing any micro strategies and i'm dominating.
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
ya getting that feeling too
i kinda rushed through it and i'm only on turn 100 or something
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
I'm amazed people are able to play "quick" installments of this game!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 October 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
o i'm not done with it
quick games usually take me about 20-24 hours i believe
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Thursday, 27 October 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
they have done away with expansion penalties? as frustrating as those have been to play with they have seemed essential after spamming cities being way op in early civ versions
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 27 October 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
it seems like it?
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 October 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
the cost of districts, science and culture all scale I think. the diplomacy seems like the clunkiest area so far but the underlying mechanics behind it are more interesting/sophisticated
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
Come on, dammit, where's that patch
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Saturday, 5 November 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah -- u have any specific complaints?
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Balancing and AI bits, mainly. As a game, this far exceeds what vanilla Civ V was right out of the gate.
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Sunday, 6 November 2016 06:25 (seven years ago) link
I'm right on the border conditions of Civ VI's hardware requirements. Is Civ VI manageable in some minimal graphics mode?
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 November 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
as long as you don't mind missing out on the leader animations I think you'll be fine
I'm not sure what I'd change balance-wise yet. some of the civs seem obviously better/worse but that's always the case. some of the AI diplomacy decisions/warmonger stuff esp with joint wars maybe
― ogmor, Sunday, 6 November 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
I'm playing on a technically unsupported machine (2012 pre-Retina MBP), but it's been perfectly playable on low settings. Very stable, very little lag.
― Millsner, Sunday, 6 November 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
i like the idea of scout barbarians alerting camp barbarians to attack but in practice it just becomes busy work. i still think there shd be a late-game version of barbarians where u have to protect them in the way ppl leave the deep amazon tribes alone
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
Love that idea
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
ya that is a pretty cool idea
and if you kill them you get minus foreign policy points or your relationship with other leaders goes down
anyway, still haven't finished the first game i started
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Monday, 7 November 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
(only played it the one time sadly)
Is this a good starting version of Civ for someone who's never played before?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah- it's a really good version and it's not like they're canonical so you don't need to know what happened in the first 5 games. i think most ppl consider IV the gold standard tho by the end of the expansions V was excellent and II and III both probably seem a little outdated but were fantastic in their day. even 1 was a great game.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
I love this alternate universe where the Civ games are canonical, like Fallout or something
Newbies to the series just go "oh huh chariots, are these any good"
Veterans who remember Civ XX say "OH SHIT THE CHARIOTS ARE BACK IN THIS ONE"
Serious fans jump on the Internet to explain to each other how the chariots mean Gandhi is the Demiurge
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
plot of alpha centauri def makes no sense if u don't know what happened in civ
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
https://civilization.com/news/entries/civilization-vi-fall-2016-update-now-live
'bout fuckin' time
Also, found a bug/exploit where I can con any leader into giving me dosh for any resource I offer, even if they initially don't want it.
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Friday, 18 November 2016 08:28 (seven years ago) link
Two acquaintances became very close friends a decade ago when we collectively found out we all play civ. Videogame nukes bring blokes together
― H.P, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:28 (nine months ago) link
Ha nice. I'd like to give multiplayer a try some day but I need to git way more gud before I can even consider it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 December 2023 00:49 (nine months ago) link
yeah, the technology quotations in civ 6 are bad, they seem a lot worse than the ones in 4 and 5. I know theyβre all from 2016, but they have one from fuckin scott adams for christssakes!
― circles, Monday, 18 December 2023 02:34 (nine months ago) link
The qutes in 5 often seemed to be from rather obscure old poets and stuff from like Persia and India. The ones in 6 are frequently really silly. And why are so many Mark Twain?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 December 2023 03:28 (nine months ago) link
I barely had any military as I tend to play turtle/culture/diplomatic type games, I dont like war battles. WHich lol prob defeats the whole point of this bloody game but anyway.
Disagree! One of the things I love about Civ is that unlike most games of this nature it can grasp the idea that you could create an important civilization by means other than just pillaging and enslaving all your neighbours. I mostly play as a pacifist, with just some troops for defense if someone invades me (the fact that the game has no way to make peace with barbarians and basically you have to genocide them is...not great, of course).
I think the AI is most likely to attack you when it has placed too many civs on the same continent and so your presence impedes another civ's expansion.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 18 December 2023 11:24 (nine months ago) link
Civ VI is definitely more aggressive the V. Even just the barbarians at the start will absolutely mess you up if you only have two units. Can still play pacifist, but definitely have to give yourself a nice little protective military at the start, to deal with those pesky barbs at the very least
― H.P, Monday, 18 December 2023 13:25 (nine months ago) link
I got confused when at one point I coulnt buy more units because the game was telling me I had "too many of same type in the area" or something???
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 00:12 (nine months ago) link
I am interested to see how the climate change stuff works vis a vis coal vs windfarms etc later inthe game.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 00:13 (nine months ago) link
Ah you probably had a unit stationed in the city when you were trying to buy? there's gotta be room for the unit to spawn when you buy it and units can't be placed on top of each other
― H.P, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 00:42 (nine months ago) link
Ah bugger you might be right! I fell into the same trap in V.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 01:02 (nine months ago) link
lately for early game defense Iβve been gold purchasing slingers, which frees up production for builders/settlers/holy site if Iβm trying to get a religion. esp since killing a barb with a slinger gives you the archery boost, itβs only 60 gold to upgrade to archers, and 3 archers gets you the machinery boost. I also always go for the +5 combat bonus vs barbs card asap
― circles, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 07:14 (nine months ago) link
You get renewable energy via wind and solar power, also you can make a carbon recapture plant (think you need a canal?). There's a diplomacy mission where everyone competes to lower their emissions, you can convert your factories to renewable power during this (but annoyingly not otherwise, suggesting the only reason a civ would do that would be for clout which, gulp, maybe quite realistic?). What really annoys me about the climate change stuff is if it progresses too far before you build coastal defenses against it tiles get flooded and unsuable, so sometimes it'll tell you it'll take 500 turns or something crazy like that to build and basically that means those fields are donzo. Can understand a penalty but think there should at least be an option to abandon the city and bring your populations to other cities.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 10:53 (nine months ago) link
We did it again. Built up a nice little bit of science in the early game, had the two computer civβs declare war on me simultaneously, and then my βmateβ declared war as well a few turns later. The two computer civβs did literally nothing besides steal one of my builders and bate my mate into being an absolute jerk. Anyways, ended up pushing him all the way back to his capital and taking it because I knew it was coming by him having units on my borders for like 15 turns straight. My other friend joined in on the war halfway a show of solidarity that declaring war on someone that is already in a defensive war against two civβs isnβt the nicest thing to do (even if those civβs werenβt consequential).
Love this game
― H.P, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:00 (nine months ago) link
I dont rly like how punitive it is when you extend a war of defense to neuter an opponent. Like bitch dont attack me.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:56 (nine months ago) link
I have also thought that barbarian villages should go from something to be eliminated/managed to something to be protected/respected as the game goes on but idk
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:57 (nine months ago) link
what I always enjoyed most about this game was upgrading military tech/units and warmongering, am probably doing it wrong. It's sort of amusing, becoming a sprawling continent dominating, purely evil, high-tech nuclear warfare empire, with military robots of destruction, and you still have horseback cavalry units waiting for an upgrade. I feel like playing this again but it sucks with a PS controller and am not even sure if my crap pc is good enough to run it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:06 (nine months ago) link
nah calz I don't think that's "doing it wrong", I like that civ doesn't pitch that as the only option like many similar games do but it's certainly AN option
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:10 (nine months ago) link
look i love a good game of civ but talking about moral issues w/r/t it is kind of absurd. 4x games are literally imperialism. "explore, expand, exploit, exterminate". if you're going to treat civilization (small c) as a "game" to be "won" you might as well just kill everybody! i find it to be a great power fantasy, a great way to get out my aggressive urges towards the concept of post-westphalian nation-states.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:18 (nine months ago) link
That's a great deal. I wonder if the discounting is in advance of a Civ VII announcement sometime soon?β Elvis Telecom, Sunday, December 10, 2023 2:12 PM (five months ago)
β Elvis Telecom, Sunday, December 10, 2023 2:12 PM (five months ago)
And sure enough:
https://civilization.2k.com/seven/
Just the announcement for now. Gameplay trailer in August.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 June 2024 01:35 (three months ago) link
I'm heaps better at this now, Ive had a few culture and sci victories though havent played any harder than on Prince.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 10 June 2024 11:19 (three months ago) link