DakaSha said:there is a very specific member that will not agree with that
YourConscience said:Did anyone ever find a solution for the extreme turn times in Civ 4? Using vanilla or any mod (some are worse) by the mid-game I lose interest simply because processing each turn starts to take up to a minute which really is not my definition of fun...
And that on a not so weak Core 2 Duo E8400. Hence, upgrading to the newestest processor ever would only halve the minute to 30secs, which woud still grow to over a minute by the end of the game...
YourConscience said:Did anyone ever find a solution for the extreme turn times in Civ 4? Using vanilla or any mod (some are worse) by the mid-game I lose interest simply because processing each turn starts to take up to a minute which really is not my definition of fun...
MapMan said:inb4 skyway.
Eyeball said:Prefer Civ3. Civ4 buggered up the interface and added some refreshing new ideas that were nevertheless poorly implemented, like religion and corporations, although it was somewhat amusing to take over the world as the Jewish German Empire. The promotion system I also found to be more of an irritating hassle than adding strategic depth, although others may disagree with that. But at least they removed the silly "gain experiece, gain +50% health bar!" system from Civ3 that often made early game sieges nigh-on unwinnable.
Multiple Sarcasm said:If you want a Civ game, go with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
herostratus said:Compared to civ 3, civ 4 has a significantly improved economics model, very good tech tree, much better AI than in any other Civ game, good balance between traits (with the warlords-introduced traits being poorly implemented and the rest good) as well as some meh-ish features like religion and corporations (corporations being added by Civ 5 developer Schafer himself). I'd say combat complexity is largely unchanged.
I haven't played civ 1 or 2 but from what I hear neither have fixed the problem of city spam, so I would without a doubt recommend you civ 4 with expansions.
Malakal said:So wars can ruin nations? GEE fucking impossible. Maybe it makes for a bad gameplay but makes a lot of sense for me in historical context. Besides you could always go for the specialist based economy. You had the opportunity to do so unlike civ 3.