Recomend me an empire building game.

[Trash]

Worked fine for me? Wasn't the problem that it didn't recognize recent graphic cards and drivers? Shame CA have declined so hard they won't fucking patch it anymore. Even when they're still selling that Gold edition and the ERAS compilation. Fuckers.

 

[Malakal]

Raghar: I mostly played with BtS and with most recent patches too. The AI was a disaster at best and could only compete with numbers and superior (cheated ofc) techs.

So challenge yes, AI no.

Thus I am rather pleased with the new transport system. Ya, solution is sucky but if it fixes the problem? I am in.

 

[coldcrow]

SMAC
Civ 4 + Planetfall mod (imho the best mod for civ4)
MoO3
Dominions 3

 

[attackfighter]

Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Master of Orion II, Alpha Centauri, Crusader Kings with expansion and the improvement mod, Europa Universalis III with all expansions and the magna mundi mod, Medieval Total War I if you can get it to run, Medieval Total War II with Stainless Steel mod, Civilisation I (coz it's perfect), King of Dragon Pass, Pharaoh with expansions (I like the whole flooding nile thingie) should be a nice start.

Pharaoh's a city sim, not empire building.

Best city sim I played though

 

[deuxhero]

Civ 3 complete is 5 bucks on Steam. Is starting there a good idea?

 

[Malakal]

Civ 3 complete is 5 bucks on Steam. Is starting there a good idea?

Most people (bar Skyway) would say that Civ 3 is the worst part of the series (possibly Civ 5 in its current state). Start either with 2 or 4. I recommend 4 part, it has the most advanced features, plays excellently and is challenging enough.

 

[deuxhero]

Oh, hey, Amazon have Ciz 4 complete for 13 something. I'll get it when I'm ready to buy enough other stuff to get free shipping

 

[Eyeball]

Odd, I thought Civ3 was easily the best part of the series. Most handy interface, functional graphics, runs great on any old piece of shit and doesn't have all the new features added in Civ4 which I strongly disliked, such as Civics and the both stupid and overpowered "religions" feature. Even though playing Germany and inventing Judaism was kinda funny-haha.

 

[Malakal]

Odd, I thought Civ3 was easily the best part of the series. Most handy interface, functional graphics, runs great on any old piece of shit and doesn't have all the new features added in Civ4 which I strongly disliked, such as Civics and the both stupid and overpowered "religions" feature. Even though playing Germany and inventing Judaism was kinda funny-haha.

Civ 3 was a natural evolution to Civ 2 with 'everything more' mindset. You had more cities more techs more governments more resources (a lot of pointless ones, both strategic and food/luxury). But for me it was too much of everything. Too much cities to micromanage, too much corruption (especially in bigger maps You ended with a lot of cities producing nothing at all due to waste), ridiculous techs and governments (feudal and monarchy at the same time for example), dumb resources (I need rubber for infantry? why?). Civ 3 didnt really introduce any new concepts other than culture too.

Civ 4 on the other hand cut some of the problems (mainly the too much cities one) and expanded on great people and specialists, religions (which were rather nice and added both more diplomacy and economic/happiness variability) and especially civics. I liked civics since SMAC. Units and promotions were better too. You simpyl had a lot of new ways to play the game here. New victory options. So Civ 4 was smaller but bigger, deeper one for me.

But I guess this is an issue of choice. For a new player Civ 4 seems better though.