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I gotta get used to the new strategery first

plus, my playtime is sorta f'ed up with 2 jobs

Civ 4 is very, very, very cool, and does hearken back to Civ 2 much more than Civ III in many ways.

Is this a Real-Time Strategy game or is it Turn Based like the previous versions?

Good analogy

I loved Civ 2 and got Civ 3 for Christmas the year it came out. I never got around to playing it though. It was one of the dozen or so games that fell by the wayside while playing my mmorpgs.

During my current gaming burnout, I've been catching up on my DVD rentals of epic movies like Troy, Alexander the Great, and Kingdom of Heaven. I liked Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, not so much for Alexander. Anyhoo, they've got me jonesing for some epic historical battle gameplay.

Player reviews of the game from the EB website complain of bugginess - is this a big problem? I also read the positive review from Gamespot.

I'm gonna see if Civ 4 and AoE III is in my local EB and spend some of my birthday money.

Yesssss.....my gaming burnout is starting to fade a bit. The fever returns....

Edited, Mon Nov 7 22:53:01 2005 by Smoggy

Hmmm... Well the description's were a bit vague, so I'll ask:

Did they change the culture system? And if so, exactly how? My biggest beef with Civ3 was the way they managed the culture measurements and its effect on happiness, unhappiness, and my ultimate most hated thing: culture flips. I know they wanted to add in a sociological aspect to the game, but that system sucked really really bad. And made worse by how they integrated that into the whole war weariness/happiness thing. It made it so that you had to play "stupid war tricks" in order to actually attack someone and hold ground, even if you didn't start the darn war.

I should really not have to hang back and bombard a city down to a 1 population, capture it, and then send a horde of workers and settlers in to build it up to a high pop with my citizens in order to avoid the city arbitrarily deciding to change sides back to the native populations civilization (taking all units inside with them to boot!). Pure silliness...

Culture seems a lot more stable now. Whenever a city has flipped to me so far in a civ 4 game, I've never lost it again. I think they made it harder to culture swap cities. Racial identity also has a lot to do with it, I've noticed that in cities I've gotten in a culture flip, they tend to have mostly my race of people anyway.

I don't know the mechanics behind it, but it does seem a lot less arbitrary.

Also, I haven't had war weariness incapacitate me at all so far. But I've only played on the easier modes to get used to the strategy changes.

I suggest playing on Noble, on the Terra map. Terra map makes an untouched "new world" continent not accessable by anyone until the invention of Astronomy.

I like Colonization more than the first Civilization...

LOL! This always boggled my mind too.

I liked Europa Universalis even better than the Civ series, Colonization or AoE series, and I still play EU 2 now and again.

Edited, Thu Nov 10 11:11:00 2005 by fhrugby

Yeah, I figured I needed a system upgrade.... new vid card, more RAM...


It's fine at first. It's fairly smooth.
until you have a Full Map of the world and many Civs with alot of cities taking their turns and all of the Processes involved with that...

I think I'm gonna stop playing it until I upgrade my system... eventually it get's to the point of like 10-20 minutes between turns..... That's wehn i get around the 18-1900s....


Other than that I'm loving it.