Civilization V: Brave New World

Been thinking about picking this up while staying home with my new kid.

Anyone happen to have an extra Steam copy of Civ 5 they never used? haha

Braen, I dont really ever use Steam. But I do have Civ 5 - w/o the expac, etc. Just message me if you catch my drift. I only have games that I was gifted on there.

I might, what's ur steam name? I must decide whether or not you are worthy.

I said it in the Steam thread and I suppose it is worth repeating here... if you still play Civ:5 at all, the expansion is a must. The expansion doesn't just tack on some units/features and call it good. It cleans up and balances the entire tech tree. It adds religion from the get-go (which evolves throughout the game), adds some depth with spies mid to late game, and add some much need depth for the later years.

Vanilla Civ:5 is a lackluster product and God's & Kings makes it the game it should have been at launch. It is still debatable if it ever eclipses Civ:4. Most people would say it does not.

Thanks for the responses everyone. My Steam name is narlykai

Maybe we should make a thread for people to give away steam games they don't want or have extras of...

Braen_sl said:

Thanks for the responses everyone. My Steam name is narlykai

Maybe we should make a thread for people to give away steam games they don't want or have extras of...

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Sent you a friend invite, name is same as here. I have a Civ V I can give ya, for the name of Mistwalkers!

Thing I find funnest about Civ5 is picking different leaders and trying my damnedest to exploit their special abilities.

• Ramesses with the Egyptians, for his 20% Wonder production is a favorite. You stack that with Marble resource, Golden Age, Religion bonus, and it is something like 60% bonus to wonder production.
• Darius of Persia, for 50% increase Golden Age durations. Stack this with the wonder that increases Golden Ages. Get the Mandate of Heave social policy and build lots of Colosseum's.
• Bismarck of Germany, 50% conversion of killing Barbarians in their camps and +25 gold.

Which leaders do you guys like to play with?

I just random everything and go for broke.

Somehow ethiopia is the easiest for me to win on immortal/deity. The additional faith is just amazing.

It was a bit unstable for me at launch. But that was years ago and pre-exp. Now I have zero problems crashing. Perhaps you could try lowering the settings; it can get fairly graphics intense.

Never had an issue with mine. Im using an i7 with a shitty GTX275.

If they offer this for free I'll try. I'm still super butthurt I shelled out $55 or whatever for the base CIV 5. That they are charging you additional money to "fix" the game rustles my jimmies something fierce.

Azeth_sl said:

The new* expansion adds a ton of layers to the existing game, even beyond religion.

I still can't stand the information era end game though, basically with Giant Death Robots you just wreak havoc and the game ends. I wish they had an option for keeping the game in the Ancient Era only

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If you haven't won before giant death robots you are doing something wrong.

I like to play Ghengis Khan for domination victories. Keshiks and khans are crazy good. Best time I've had with the mongols was 258 turns at Emperor difficulty.

If I'm going science or diplomatic victory, Babylon is pretty tough. That early scientist gives a really solid early game boost. With their UA I usually end up getting a total of about 12 great scientist by the end. Scored a 264 turn Diplo victory on Emperor with them the other day.

Ramses is great for a cultural victory, I think the best I've done with him was 282 at Emperor.

Gods and Kings really turned the game around. Still play the shit out of it.

Regarding stability, I've had Civ 5 going for apparently more than 120 hours across a laptop and a PC (Win 8 and Win 7 respectively), and the game engine itself has had 0 problems. The multiplayer is a whole other bundle of fuck-jobbery though.

Edit: Next big expansion announced,Brave New World. Revamps culture and diplomacy, adds Archaeology (which sounds awesome), 9 new civs including probably Assyria. No mention of multiplayer modding or multiplayer working-bettering so far. Will buy day 1 if it adds multiplayer modding, will wait for $7.50 sale otherwise.

Brando_sl said:

Finally got around to playing this after purchasing it during the Steam Xmas sale, is it just me or is this the most unstable game ever made? It sure it the most unstable game I've ever owned, render crashes, window crashes, etc. etc. Maybe it doesn't play nice on a Windows 8 machine but after updating my drivers and following all the tips to try to get this stable the game will crash on me at random intervals no matter what I do. Anybody else run into this and have any ideas or should I just give up at this point?

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I can't even run it in DX10/11 because it will crash. I figured it was my ATI 5800 drivers conflicting with the game somehow but I don't know.