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Krazyface posted:Definitely pick Online speed, or whatever the fastest one is called. For map size, I would recommend you pick one a size smaller than what's intended for your playercount. I know it's not Civ V anymore, and you're supposed to have a big empire, but even taking that into account I find the maps in this a little too expansive. Tried it, loved it. We picked a Tiny map, no AI and I got an incredibly favorable position with Mansa Musa and basically ran away with it by the industrial age - the two other Empires were on the other half of the map and one was on a horrifically bad peninsula. I never really ran into the others though. We disabled the religious victory and I have a question about that - does it make all religious buildings/units obsolete? I never built any and can't say that I've felt it. I could also see that religion wasn't really taken into account for score victory. AG3 posted:It took me too many years to realise that the settler unit was a wagon, not a strange smiling creature of some kind. I still can't see the wagon unless I make a conscious effort. drat, I thought I was the only one. It took me from 1995 to mid-2010s to figure it out.
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# ? Apr 25, 2020 23:01 |
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Religion can feed into a lot of other resources and completely ignore the religious victory condition. Faith can be used to buy all sorts of things when you've got the right conditions to do so.
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# ? Apr 25, 2020 23:18 |
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I imagine this is old news for the people in this thread but I'm laughing my rear end off, just won my first Civ6 game with a diplo victory by voting to remove 3 diplo points from myself. Apparently it adds the points for being on the right vote first and if you hit the threshold you win even if you were about to drop back down?
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# ? Apr 27, 2020 12:38 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:I imagine this is old news for the people in this thread but I'm laughing my rear end off, just won my first Civ6 game with a diplo victory by voting to remove 3 diplo points from myself. Apparently it adds the points for being on the right vote first and if you hit the threshold you win even if you were about to drop back down? lol
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# ? Apr 27, 2020 12:59 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:I imagine this is old news for the people in this thread but I'm laughing my rear end off, just won my first Civ6 game with a diplo victory by voting to remove 3 diplo points from myself. Apparently it adds the points for being on the right vote first and if you hit the threshold you win even if you were about to drop back down? That's beautiful.
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A Sometimes Food posted:I imagine this is old news for the people in this thread but I'm laughing my rear end off, just won my first Civ6 game with a diplo victory by voting to remove 3 diplo points from myself. Apparently it adds the points for being on the right vote first and if you hit the threshold you win even if you were about to drop back down? Diplomatic victory is the most "rules lawyering" one so it seems appropriate
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That's sure something. The one best qualified to rule is the one who doesn't want to do so, I guess?
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# ? Apr 27, 2020 16:26 |
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John F Bennett posted:2086AD and you still haven't improved your lands or discovered the center of your empire? What are you, civ 6 AI? that was pretty much the end of the playthrough and that was not my original lands, I just conquered that from the Zulu's. This is my home continent. I killed Russia and England.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 00:17 |
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Serephina posted:Getting some intense flashbacks to DOS-era terrain there - they always looked so good for such low fidelity. One day I'll look up the name of "that game" that I played a demo of 30 years ago, I still dream of it. what do you mean by filter?
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 00:19 |
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you cant be telling me that's the font they used IN PC CIV 1 can you i'm with seraphina that font looks like it's been run through the wrong end of a 2xSAI filter lol
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 00:34 |
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The White Dragon posted:you cant be telling me that's the font they used IN PC CIV can you I'm pretty sure dosbox has those types of filters natively available. I haven't touched freeciv in a while, but I don't' remember it looking that.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 00:36 |
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Mortlock posted:that was pretty much the end of the playthrough and that was not my original lands, I just conquered that from the Zulu's. Needs more railroad I kinda miss the simplicity of Civ 1.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 09:30 |
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What's that thing below the mini map and above the population count?
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 10:28 |
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Isn't that the palace?
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 10:37 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What's that thing below the mini map and above the population count? It's the palace! Periodically in Civ 1 and Civ 3 you'd be asked to make an improvement to your palace, and it would slowly build up over the course of the game from a stone age cave to a huge sprawling complex. Civ 2 had a throne room instead.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 10:38 |
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Civ 1 has this cool bug that I used to exploit where you could build roads on the water by issuing the 'build road' command on a settler while it's in a boat. You couldn't walk on those roads but the trade yield of those tiles went up, so more money and science. Before the internet bugs stayed bugs forever. I think I'm going to play Civ 1 again, it's been decades.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 12:50 |
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I sometimes think of doing a Let's play for a Civ 2 Fellowship of the Ring scenario, it's crazy what one designer managed to achieve with the engine. Good memories!
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 13:43 |
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I periodically replay civ1 and every time end up using the speedy settler exploit, keep canceling and reissuing the same build command and any improvement can be built in one turn.
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Reveilled posted:Civ 2 had a throne room instead. holy poo poo yes i remember the throne room. it would get nicer and nicer until you're straight up balling
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 15:21 |
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The best part of the throne room was how it started, as a literal cave with a rock in it. I'd usually upgrade every other aspect of the throne room except the throne itself until the very end. IIRC how good your throne room looked correlated with your score/ranking at the end of the game.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 16:00 |
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:The best part of the throne room was how it started, as a literal cave with a rock in it. I'd usually upgrade every other aspect of the throne room except the throne itself until the very end. Wait, so you'd end up with a gleaming golden palace but with a grey, mis-shapen rock in the middle of it?
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:00 |
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Downloaded Civ1 and forgot how brutal it was. Just built my second city and suddenly a barbarian raiding party landed next to my capital from the sea and just destroyed my capital. There's nothing left of it, just a road leading to an empty tile while the barbarians are still there raiding my lands.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:03 |
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I miss the palace/throne room. Also which Civ had the leaders change clothes based on era? I get this is a lot harder with so many more leaders. But Lincoln in furs or Caesar in a snappy suit ruled.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:26 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:I miss the palace/throne room. Civ1 for sure, don't know about the later ones.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:31 |
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John F Bennett posted:Civ1 for sure, don't know about the later ones. I think only Civ 3 did this as well.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:50 |
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Chikimiki posted:I think only Civ 3 did this as well. Was Civ3 the one with the live actors playing your advisors? I remember their clothes changing as time went on.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:52 |
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MH Knights posted:Was Civ3 the one with the live actors playing your advisors? I remember their clothes changing as time went on. That's Civ2.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:55 |
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It was so good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPC08cPGJw
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 18:56 |
Completed a game as Cleopatra where City States had at least 4 wonders. I feed Cahokia late in the game and they had 3. Weirdly it also lost its space port when freed
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Goodpancakes posted:Completed a game as Cleopatra where City States had at least 4 wonders. I feed Cahokia late in the game and they had 3. Weirdly it also lost its space port when freed this happens with the government plaza too since city states aren't allowed them. or if a civ already has a plaza and takes a second one. or anytime kongo takes a city with a holy site.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 19:47 |
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City states can have wonders?
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 19:54 |
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John F Bennett posted:Before the internet bugs stayed bugs forever. The Civ 6 infinite pantheons glitch still works fine, wonder how long that'll stay.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 20:02 |
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Pedestrian Xing posted:I feel like they could fix most of the problem by having units make a best effort to get to their destination instead of immediately cancelling movement when something is in the way. All they'd need to do is make it so that if a unit cannot move because of another unit that has move points, swap them in the movement queue. Bing bang boom it's fixed.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 20:11 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:City states can have wonders? can't build their own. but if a civ captures a city state and then builds a wonder, that will remain with the city state if it is subsequently liberated.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 21:03 |
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Yeah I've seen it in games but only realised after liberating the city state, you have to choose to become their leader and get the benefits from that, or keep it and get the benefits of the wonder. Can be a tough choice!
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 21:08 |
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HappyCamperGL posted:can't build their own. but if a civ captures a city state and then builds a wonder, that will remain with the city state if it is subsequently liberated. Ah makes sense. Never saw that happen, I think
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 21:08 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:I imagine this is old news for the people in this thread but I'm laughing my rear end off, just won my first Civ6 game with a diplo victory by voting to remove 3 diplo points from myself. Apparently it adds the points for being on the right vote first and if you hit the threshold you win even if you were about to drop back down? That is exactly how it works. But hey, who said dirty tricks in politics aren't the key to success? Giving city-states unique benefits to suzerainity is a neat idea. That way you have to be *really* power-mad (or just land-hungry) to conquer one. Usually I never do, but on a Fractal map I was boxed in and the only good territory was in city-state hands, so I had to take 'em on...
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Wait, so you'd end up with a gleaming golden palace but with a grey, mis-shapen rock in the middle of it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 21:34 |
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It occurs to me that Civ leader screens make excellent backgrounds for Zoom and Teams calls. I'm now opening all my meetings with "would you be interested in a trade agreement with England?"
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:It occurs to me that Civ leader screens make excellent backgrounds for Zoom and Teams calls. I'm opening mine by telling them to get their units away from my border.
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