Explain Civ V to me

[KrazyHorse]

What's so different? Are they bringing back the foreign adviser from Civ II?

I see something about hexes, which means they finally took my advice from ten years ago. Keep your answers in bullet point format. My time is too valuable to waste with proper grammar or punctuation.

[wodan11]

What's so different? Are they bringing back the foreign adviser from Civ II?

I see something about hexes, which means they finally took my advice from ten years ago. Keep your answers in bullet point format. My time is too valuable to waste with proper grammar or punctuation.

• I guess your time is too valuable to read the many threads discussing and giving exactly the info you're requesting?

[KrazyHorse]

Yes, that was the implication. You're demoted. Next?

[OzzyKP]

- One unit per tile
- City states
- Leaders speak in their own language
- Resources limit number of troops
- Australia is included as a civ
- Archers can shoot two tiles away
- Don't need ships to transport units
- Easy to download mods inside the game
- Hexes

[KrazyHorse]

Ozzie knows how to obey his elders

[Theben]

RTFTs

[KrazyHorse]

Newbie in post 2 already said that. You're now his assistant busboy.

[giblets]

Allegedly:

• tiles produce gold and/or science, instead of commerce that sliders distribute
• no religions
• no tech trades, but allies help research
• "social policies" (no idea)
• cities have 3 hex radius
• no "road spaghetti"

[KrazyHorse]

road spaghetti
set it and forget it engineers

[KrazyHorse]

caravan spam
catapult spam

[KrazyHorse]

What does "no religions" mean? Were there religions in the other games? I mean, I built a lot of temples in my day, but they were mostly non-denominational.

[giblets]

Civ IV had a "religions" feature with christianity, buddhism, etc. Each religion was founded by the first civ to discover a particular tech. They mostly offered the same benefits as the generic religion buildings in previous versions of Civ but they also affected diplomacy, and one of the founder's cities became a holy city where a shrine could be built that would generate income.

[KrazyHorse]

So, Mormonism/Scientology, then?

[wodan11]

Yes, that was the implication. You're demoted.

That's ok, my time is too valuable to waste doing it for you, which is what I was implying.

[SpencerH]

So, Mormonism/Scientology, then?

Yep. Buy and play Civ IV BtS, then you can try to develop scientology into a world dominating religion. You can pretend you're Joseph Smith Jr.