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Continents game as Poland on Emperor. My neighbors? Atilla, Genghis, Askia, Elizabeth. Might as well have been OCC because I was on the coast with city-states perfectly placed on either side to make nearby coastal cities mostly worthless, and going inland became non-viable after Attila forward settled as close as he could to me. Eventually I planted one city on an island just offshore and that was it. Despite begging for trouble with a skeleton army (I had nothing but a Warrior-turned-Spearman, a Scout, and later a Trireme until somewhere around the late Renaissance when I had a Military CS gifting me stuff) nobody wanted to fight me. I had a pile of Wonders because I like living dangerously. My first war was when I declared on Attila in the Information Era because I was bored with Diplomatic Victory in the bag and still had piles of cash left over. I really have no idea how I got away with all that. Genghis pissed people off by conquering city-states and got eaten up by Attila pretty quick, but I should have been the obvious target after that with no army to speak of. Maybe he really loved those land trade routes pointed towards me or something?
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Is there an easy way too change the music in game? I love playing as england but I really want to hear music from different civs?
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Jan 19, 2014 10:40
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I wish that there was a way to fix enemy war music being overwritten by loving William or someone asking to trade his 4 iron for my luxury for the tenth time.
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Jan 19, 2014 11:26
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I've wondered this myself, and I've tried messing with the music files in game, but I haven't found a way to randomize the music. I've tried asking about it but I haven't really gotten a response or anything, and I'm not aware of any mods that do it either. I wish there was a way to randomize or change the music in the game but so far I've found none. I really like the Greek theme, but I think their civ is incredibly boring to play so I don't get to hear it very often!
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Jan 19, 2014 11:27
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steinrokkan posted:Because it's the AI being clever and sneaky!
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Jan 19, 2014 11:47
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Simple. 1. All the music in the game exists in .mp3 format. Find it (it's kind of all over the place within Steam\steamapps\common, in three different folders if you have BNW and then within a couple different DLC subfolders within those; on my machine the original vanilla civs' themes are in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\Assets\Sounds\Streamed\Music\Leader Music) and throw the .mp3's into a playlist. (There's even a HUGE amount of ambience music, hundreds of tracks, some of which is awesome, some of which sucks and most of which is meh.) 2. Fire up the playlist before firing up Civ V, and set it to random. 3. Turn in-game music off. (4. If you just threw everything into the playlist as I did, feel free to cull it of tracks you don't like as you go.) For best results play in a window. This is all on Windows, of course. I also have a separate playlist exclusively for wartime 
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Jan 19, 2014 12:13
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Best part of playing MSF is when you go to war with someone and Snake Eater comes on. What a thriiill...
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Jan 19, 2014 14:45
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So I recently had been having trouble winning matches at King (still learning) whereupon fuckit, I roll Inca on a random map(resulting in fractal) with raging barbs, no diplomatic victory, one city challenge at normal speed. Figuring that I should give going super tall with non-venice a go. As I felt I needed to work specifically on my city management. It is amazingly easier to play, you never want for happiness issues, you don't have to build duplicate buildings and you can totally focus on making your one city absolutely massive to insane production, gold and science. The only problem being low supply limits for your army, but you should have enough to handle anything that the AI throws at you. I had to move my settler for a turn to get the city next to a mountain, but the +50% to sci from that is really worth it. The only "dangerous" wars I had was early on surprise attacks from my neighbors Sweden and Assyria which were defeated by comp-bows. After that Assyria was basically out of the game until Sweden put them out of their misery much later. Somebody killed China before they could do anything. RIP. Early on the big worry was Napoleon, who had already wiped out the Moroccans and was threatening to take over the Buffer between us, Sweden. So I quickly join on Sweden's side to save their asses despite me being in war with them recently and burning one of their cities to the ground. On that point, one city only challenge is great because if you take a city it is just vaporized, even an enemy capital. That's what happened to France, I skirmished with Napoleon until I got Volunteer Army to give me a nice body to my army and then rushed out 3 Artillery units. Burned one of the cities down on the way to Paris and then that too, effectively knocking Napoleon out of the game, as his center of Science and Culture was now gone and he certainly wasn't going to get a domination victory. Venice I then notice, was going balls-out on a culture victory, so I bribe Monty and Napoleon multiple times to take him out but all they manage to do is slow him down many times. The real thing that Knocked him out was to force through a trade embargo on him which basically ruined his tourism output as it was being carried forward with trade routes to everyone. From then on he was neutered and actively loosing influence on a few other civs. I then had a nice time of just building my way to a science victory occasionally weeding the garden by taking actions against Napoleon to protect Sweden(tanks pillaging the poo poo out of an entire country are great) or scheming against Venice. of which after letting Monty batter it down to finally take it after 100's of years of trying on and off, I drop an X-COM squad in and then proceed to  it down into nothing before he can capture it because  This of course, takes Venice out of the game by default completely as they are left with some lovely puppets on some islands.Sweden was basically my bros for life after I saved him from Napoleon, however after I got Atomic Bombs(6) and Nukes(2) while everyone else was still in the Industrial age he was permanently afraid of me. My City was 10 tiles away from his capital, so I guess he had... Stockholm Syndrome  I also pushed through non-proliferation before anyone else even had the Manhattan project so the military power graph looked like this:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=218433333 He even went Freedom too! So no cold-war relation reversals as happens so often. Towards the end Monty made a vain attempt to beat me into space, but all he made as a Booster about 2 turns before my final component. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=218434051 By the end Cusco had 52 citizens and was still growing without any internal trades routs to it either. My Pantheon of Fertility rights that was then expanded with Plows/Papal and then Feed the World/Defenders of the Faith combined with all of my happiness, meant that in peacetime I had some absolutely massive growth. I Really liked the removal of Diplomatic victory as it made the congress something that can be used to help you win, but isn't going to win the game for by itself. It really helped mine along as embargoing each civilization that was causing me problems or banning all the luxuries that they had and nobody else (gently caress you France!), forcing through favorable policies for myself like science funding. Speaking of which, it's the best when an enemy puts forward a suggestion that would piss off everyone else if you were to suggest it, but stand to benefit from it. You can vote for it and have it pass with no diplomatic penalty to yourself. Like +culture from wonders 2 turns before I burn wonder-Filled Venice to the ground, leaving me practically the sole beneficiary of the policy.  Also, Inca is a very cool Civ to play, I'm glad i gave them a go. I think next I'll try with the FoSho' or China in a 4 city Traditional Tall. Xerxes17 fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Jan 19, 2014 15:05
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King is just about the right difficulty for me if I want things to be exciting but not a kick in the nuts. I'm not guaranteed to win but the odds are not unreasonable. (Hence that LP where I lost 2 of four campaigns.) And yes, the Inca rock. I love playing as them.
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Playing as poland on emperor, and something confusing just happened. Shaka has been a terror, and pissing people off all game. I've already fought him off twice. A few turns ago I saw a bunch of barbarian knights coming from his city north of me, which I just killed with great war bombers. A few turns later it said I had pillaged one of his cities, and it is giving me the choice to raze/puppet/take over. I hadn't attacked him. We weren't even at war the time. What is going on? http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3387005951096202824/F5BC2AA1C554FF936AAF72D3E560F3C7BC33D557/
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Jan 19, 2014 23:22
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Was he following a different ideology with massive unhappiness? Sounds like he had a rebellion followed by a city-flip to the ideology with the greatest influence (yours).
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Jan 19, 2014 23:38
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the blue background white Exclamation point should say that the city swapped to you because of unhappiness, the Barbarian Knights were probably Rebels from his unhappiness. You don't get Gold from flipped cities because you literally just get the entire city, you don't lose buildings or pop.
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Jan 19, 2014 23:46
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Yeah, I suppose that is probably what happened. He has been pissing everybody off all game, and was attacking me with massive swarms of impi. A quick volenteer army social policy helped reinforce my army enough to beat him back. It seems like he ran into problems, and his empire is crumbling now. Now Austria and the Ottomans, on either side of him, are eating his face has his empire crumbles. Can't say I'll miss him. My plan is to silently chug along, going for a tourism victory again. Just finished the exploration tree, for the hidden antiquities sites. Edit: I've been keeping a couple of city states happy to fuel my bombers, but I just found out my four cities are plunked on a uranium motherlode. Nice to see five "you have discovered a source of uranium messages", showing all 4 quantity deposits. Sure I can find something to do with 20 uranium. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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Jan 19, 2014 23:48
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I don't know when the game decides to play what music, but i just declared war on the Zulus because they wont leave Jerusalem and Malacca alone, and as i ship my soldiers off my small island, some sad piano/string music begins to play. And here i sit now, questioning my decision to send all those young men to die in a country they never heard of before. I really like BNW. This game is really good now i think.
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Ended up winning, but not via tourism like I had planned. Was emperor, pangaea, standard size. Korea was the only stubborn holdout, as they ended up building the great firewall sooner than expected. Probably would have won via tourism if I had set my theming bonuses up correctly from the get go. Ended up just beating them to the space race. I also turned their coast into a nuclear wasteland for making my life difficult. http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3387005951099514823/BB5374C1123B94354A759385B19DAAE3E646E244/2048x1152.resizedimage Also managed to get more social policies than I think I ever had before. Hard to go wrong with poland. http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/3387005951099622449/F4D2DB763BF78245D943871A0EDBE22A61F71518/
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Jan 20, 2014 02:22
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Yeah, if Poland was in a version of the game that won by the old rules, get five policy tracks filled, they'd SO win culture victory every time.
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Jan 20, 2014 06:49
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Filthy Monkey posted:Ended up winning, but not via tourism like I had planned. Was emperor, pangaea, standard size. Korea was the only stubborn holdout, as they ended up building the great firewall sooner than expected. Probably would have won via tourism if I had set my theming bonuses up correctly from the get go. Ended up just beating them to the space race. I also turned their coast into a nuclear wasteland for making my life difficult. Hah can I get a better shot of Wroclaw, your unassailable mountain fortress? How many workable tiles did it even have?
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Jan 20, 2014 11:13
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Eric the Mauve posted:Simple.
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Jan 20, 2014 12:40
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NZAmoeba posted:Hah can I get a better shot of Wroclaw, your unassailable mountain fortress? How many workable tiles did it even have? Seconding this. A natural wonder in there too. That looks absolutely glorious. How did you feed it to a population of 26?
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So, I didn't see a thread on the forums for it - has anyone tried Pandora: First Contact? I am itching for a modern day sci-fi SMAC clone, it looks good but I don't want to drop the money on it if it has problems. Basically just want SMAC + Hex and nice graphics, is that so much to ask?
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Gyshall posted:So, I didn't see a thread on the forums for it - has anyone tried Pandora: First Contact? I am itching for a modern day sci-fi SMAC clone, it looks good but I don't want to drop the money on it if it has problems. It has a thread. It's pretty good as well - feels rock solid in MP compared to Civ5, too.
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Jan 20, 2014 17:05
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Couldn't pass on the opportunity to post this Now that we know Dong Island is real, someone please mod it in as a natural wonder (+happiness?)
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Jan 20, 2014 17:22
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Cowcatcher posted:Couldn't pass on the opportunity to post this I don't understand why Hiawatha hasn't built a city on it already.
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Jan 20, 2014 22:10
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Does the AI not give a gently caress about unhappiness (on King)? I got rolled in a game where the most powerful players had like a dozen cities. I mean I'm still pretty new and sloppy so I probably just suck, but I'm curious about how much the AI is kneecapping itself by taking all those cities.
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Jan 21, 2014 00:44
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Does the AI not give a gently caress about unhappiness
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I've been playing with 2 of my friends and 5 ai on prince. For the life of me I can't win. I'm always behind early game and it just snowballs until I'm 5+ tech behind my friends and many buildings and cities behind. Is there any way to get off to a strong start in brave new world? Should I just rush a worker first thing and then a settler? Someone always seems to build everything faster. Oh and what are the best tiles to look for when building? Prioritize rivers, or ocean, or jungles/forest.
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Order, which he AI really enjoys picking, makes large amounts of cities a rather trivial hit to happiness. +2 happiness from monuments is rather remarkable, especially with other happiness traits like the city connection one in liberty and the garrison bonus from honor. It's quite a viable build without risking major unhappiness issues. The real problem with wide these days is science- not even culture is impossible going wide these days. In other news, the girlfriend is officially better than me at the game, and I suspect witchcraft. Girl uses a hybrid social policy build; often opens up tradition followed by a hard liberty build, with maybe aristocracy if she's feeling wonder spammy and legalism later on for free culture buildings. She somehow manages to get great library reliably even on immortal/deity, and uses the tech leap to philosophy to absolutely leave her opponents in the dust for science. One novel strategy she seems fond of is using the oracle to finish up liberty , popping a great engineer, and using that for hanging gardens or chichen itza. I usually will only do that for Petra personally. Also crazy good at securing the leaning tower of Pisa leap- popping an engineer with the free GP and burning it on porcelain tower or Taj Mahal or something. We had our first 'gloves off' game where war and backstabbiness was on the table (she had trouble conceptually with war, having never played a turn based strategy before this one), and I spent the last 50 turns a Shaka dominating 60-75% of the planet and plinking away at her capital/cities. Unfortunately she was 10 literacy points ahead of second place, and her city defence was absurd, so as the world around her burned to the ground, she hopped in the spaceship and flew away. 'See ya, poo poo lords!' And I was just about to capture a city that would have got my aircraft in range of the capital 
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Jan 21, 2014 01:42
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What exactly does "literacy rate" represent, anyway?
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Jan 21, 2014 02:08
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kaschei posted:What exactly does "literacy rate" represent, anyway? The percentage (give or take) of techs you have researched, I believe. Someone probably has the exact formula.
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kaschei posted:What exactly does "literacy rate" represent, anyway? how much as a % you have filled out the Tech Tree.
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Also, I've never seen someone as sneaky about space victories. Going into the modern era she delayed building the Apollo project until she accumulated almost 20k gold, and within a half dozen turns after had the drat thing completed. The whole buying spaceship parts makes science victories a creeper strategy if you're not careful.
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Is the Scramble for Africa scenario bugged? I just played as Egypt (randomised) and was doing quite well, hit a golden age in the last 10 turns and was neck and neck with France when I noticed the Boers sneaking up the rankings. I paid my buddy France to go to war with the Boers in the hopes of curbing them and he graciously accepted - and then the game announced that I had declared war on France. I knew for sure that I hadn't so I reloaded to twenty turns before the end, worked more on better trade routes and spamming trading posts, sucked up to anyone who would have me, hit the golden age again, paid off everyone I could get to go to war with the Boers and trundled along on my merry way... and then three turns before the end the game announced that I had declared war on France again. And getting everyone to war with the Boers for 10+ turns didn't make a flipping dent in their win. Why was the game declaring war on France on my behalf? He wasn't even winning second time around.
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the Scramble Scenario is completely hosed because the Boers get score from their Culture, and it's worth a huge amount of it. You absolutely have to kill them and Moracco or they'll win on the back of having fifty thousand Culture.
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Oceanic oil deposits are supposed to have their own hex graphic, correct? If that's the case, they never display on my computer. Anyone know how to fix that?
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Jan 21, 2014 05:10
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Sarah Bellum posted:Is the Scramble for Africa scenario bugged? Did you have a defensive pact?
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Jan 21, 2014 05:52
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So, the Civilization wiki has been less than helpful for this: Could anyone point me towards a collection of recent patch notes? Just trying to see what's changed since I played.
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Jan 21, 2014 14:14
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Captain Oblivious posted:So, the Civilization wiki has been less than helpful for this: Could anyone point me towards a collection of recent patch notes? Just trying to see what's changed since I played.
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NZAmoeba posted:Did you have a defensive pact? ... well gently caress. I am ashamed and embarrassed. More so than that time I misclicked and nuked myself.
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Jan 21, 2014 19:37
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Lazarett posted:I don't know when the game decides to play what music, but i just declared war on the Zulus because they wont leave Jerusalem and Malacca alone, and as i ship my soldiers off my small island, some sad piano/string music begins to play. And here i sit now, questioning my decision to send all those young men to die in a country they never heard of before. Sounds like you got poppy'd, son. Most of the European war music is extremely samey, but sometimes it punches you right in the chest.
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brozozo posted:Oceanic oil deposits are supposed to have their own hex graphic, correct? If that's the case, they never display on my computer. Anyone know how to fix that?
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