Just another turn…
I came out of my WoW battle pets daze last night to play some coop-multiplayer Civilization 5 with my buddy. We’ve had this standing Civ 5 date for a while now and I must admit it has been really entertaining, much more so then I expected, considering it is a turn based game. Then again I hardly ever find myself waiting due to my being the slowest of the participants. We also chat on vent, which makes coordinating and checking in easier.
But last night, after my buddy saved and left the game at a very reasonable hour, I decided to stick around and play a bit more. See my neighbor had just decided to attack me and I simply wanted to figure out if everything would be okay before I went to bed. Big mistake!
I ended up playing ‘just one more turn’ for another FOUR HOURS. Yup, I played seven hours of Civ 5 last night and finally went to bed at 3am. I’m shocked that I’m putting words together that form proper sentences. Its going to be an interesting day. =)
On the bright side, my empire is awesome! After the first attacker ran away and cowered behind a peace treaty, my other neighbor attacked me and I wiped them out, well took over their cities anyway. Then proceeded to expand as much as I could via settlers. Of course a great prophet showed up and I had to find out how far and wide I could spread my religion. In retrospect I’m shocked I managed to pull myself away at 3am.
My Civ is in light blue!
I was quite successful, just not at quitting. Though I took this screenshot because I thought I was going to log out, I ended up playing another half an hour; expanded south east of Trebizond and spread my religion to the far south.
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Tags: battle, civilization, cooperative, friends, map, medieval, multiplayer, pc, steam, strategy, turn-based, win
October 19th, 2012 at 8:10 am
Miss you two. Maybe I’ll see you this Wednesday :)
October 19th, 2012 at 11:47 am
Oh Jesus Christ.
That’s hilarious. You got a great map too. I told you that you had nothing to worry about. If you REALLY wanted to go crazy in that game, you would have enhanced Buddhism with the “Holy Warriors” trait and had the ability to spend your faith on soldiers and steam rolled even faster. I see Atilla got some cities on my land, I guess he was behind the mountains to the NW?
You really had a great map. I spend an hour in reload trying to get a start like that, I wanted to play as you!
October 19th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Oh hey so a few comments;
A) You have a spy that’s not being used. That’s a new feature in G&K, starting when the first player reaches the Renaissance Era, every Civ gets a spy. You get a new spy when the first player reaches each era afterwords. The espionage game isn’t too complicated, either, you direct your spy/spies to either sit in one of your cities and try to stop other spies from stealing from you, park one in an enemy city and steal from them, or send a spy to a city state to help maintain your influence.
At lower levels, it’s almost always better to put a spy in your capital because that’s where the AI will steal a lot of techs from you there. You’re not going to stop all the spies, but you’ll kill a fair amount and level your first spy up quickly. Plus it’s a diplomatic bonus to forgive someone for spying on you when you catch and kill their spies.
B) You’ve annexed Harar, but haven’t built a courthouse there. You also annexed Addis Ababa. It probably doesn’t matter at this point in that game, but you only want to annex cities if you can a) immediately rush buy a courthouse b) you want to direct what to build in that city and more so, c) the city is so good that you would have settled there to build stuff. If you’re just going to use the city to add gold/culture/science, then you’re better off making the city a puppet and building trading posts around it. There are few policies (I think Autocracy) that makes annexed cities more attractive.
October 22nd, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Spy? What spy?! Clearly I was a bit out of it. =D
Also I totally expect to keep playing from when we left off, but am happy to also start over. Either way is fine.
And Dev you are always welcome.
As for the Annexing, well I feel bad about razing cities and puppeting them seems so corporate. I just want to be one big happy family. Yeah so I dont always play the best strategy of all time, but I have fun!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:26 am
ROFL. You kill me. :D
Puppeting is nice because it will keep the city on “focus on gold” and not add to your policy cost. I guess it is corporate. Razing is mean, but consider this: how mean was the AI to give people a crappy city with no way of sustaining itself? Okay that’s not a great argument either. Be ruthless!
The spy: look at your screenshot, in the upper right hand corner, the left most “circle” with a number 1 on it (which means you have 1 spy awaiting orders). That’s your espionage menu.
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:44 am
I’m not so good at being ruthless. =(
Oh and looky there is a one on that circle thingy up there! Oooh are we playing this week?!