A thought

[tonic]

Started on Civ I as well, my first ever computer strategy game. First thoughts: Where to start? Felt like being in a cockpit of an aeroplane staring at all those meaningless controls. It took me months before I could even survive a few centuries. A steep learning curve - but with hindsight definitely worth its weight in gold!

[Empress]

I remember being amazed at the graphics and wondering [i]where are all the covered wagons for the settlers???{/i]

[Mark von Wagner]

First game of CivII: Played at prince, got a decent score (150% or so)
Second game: Played at Deity, got my ass kicked
Third game: Played at prince, got a good score (200% or so)
Fourth game: Played at king, never finished because....
Fifth game: My brother had just gotten on top of the high score list by playing a scenario, so I decided to kick him off. Played on the same map as my third game, against the same civs, at the same level (prince). Got a score of 576% (9607 points)(the game is in the Hall of Fame on this site). Decided that I'd beated Civ II, so I took a break for a few weeks.
[This message has been edited by Mark von Wagner (edited August 06, 2000).]

[KhanMan]

First time I played civ2 I had already been a civ-er (civ1) for many years, and I was all into the idiocy of the ai (back when you could attack, make peace for money, steal tech, make peace, attack, make peace with the same ai civ, and then end your turn

So I made an alliance with the russians, and sent my horde of elephants against them, planning on betraying them...then my friend explained alliances, and it took me about 10 turns to force a war...

-KhanMan the LLSS

[Scouse Gits]

At least my 8088 was souped up to 8 MHz - although it felt like 8 Hz while it was constructing the map ... probably the different culture, but I kept wondering what was the connection between cattle horns and settlers ?? Conestoga wagons only occurred to me after I had seen the Hi-Res graphics for Civ 2 a goodly few years later ...
First impressions of Civ2 ... Wow what fantastic graphics! Early strategy - survive and expand until the first Non-city arrived - then smash the rotten AI - yes in pre v2.42 days any cities after (about) 128 were None cities and you could rehome everything to them without cost.
Those were the days...


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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[Novi Nomad]

The first time I saw Civ II was at work. There was a guy in the office who would play it about 7 hours a day (he managed to take some time for lunch). At first I thought the graphics looked pretty lame. At the time I was playing Sim City, and thought this game didn't look as good. He convinced me to give it a try though. I bought the game the next day. I didn't read the manual, and the guy that was familiar with the game gave me pretty minimal guidance. One of my first moves was building palaces in all of my cities. I had no idea that that moved my capital. D'oh! I spent many hours playing that night.... Just one more turn and then I'll crash... Yeah, right. This game is absolutely addicting. Civ II owes me many hours of missed sleep.
[This message has been edited by Novi Nomad (edited August 07, 2000).]

[jcarkey]

My first thoughts made me think "Why did I spend money on this?" I thought it was absolutely hideous. I wasn't used to the hexes at all. I thought whta type of unit is this? What command is used to sentry? etc...

Fortunatley I stuck with it. Tried the tutorial a couple of times. Then I fell into the trap of cheat mode. I finally beat a full game without cheat mode. Yoo-hoo!!

I was able to beat chieftain and warlord. Then I tried the OCC. I nearly did it, but I ended up using two settlers I started with to start new cities. Darn. At least I beat Deity!
Thats what I thougt of CIV2.

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[Dr.Oogkloot]

My first thought was: "This game is uglier than Civ 1".

[Father Beast]

as an old player of civ1, my first thought of civ2 was, "Where's my settler, and why do I have a warrior standing there?" to this day, I still think that the settler looks like a warrior (militia) should look, and I wonder where I can get a mod to change it.
I spent a lot of time moving the wrong way because of the map, and huts always gave me new units, which I had to support. I built a number of wonders in my capital, many of which didn't do any good because of, for example, the lighthouse when I had no port cities.
I had to wean myself off the settler cheat and do tile improvements the new fashioned wa - with time.
I had to deal with my neighbors threatening me when I was just exploring next to their city. at least they didn't fortify right next to one of my cities after declaring peace.
"What are all these weird units anyway?"

But I made the transition and I'm hooked.