When I had Civ 2 I played it for months, but with my copy of Civ 3 + PTW
I have played it for two days now and am fed up ready to uninstall and sell it.
Is it me who have changed or is this game passé?
I have played 3 games now on monarch to diety+cheat level with 10-14 civs on
kal-el's earth scenario. For me the whole concept is lost if played on some
random generated map. Thus, I need a lot of civs on this huge map.
It feels like all the game is about now is to build city improvements and
irrigate/road with the workers. I am so fed up with irrigating and mining
which takes ages to complete that I have edited the scenarios with complete
irrigation and roads where I'd want my cities so I can get on with the
interesting part, to build my army and take over the world.
(culture win? great fun to sit and watch my borders expand)
I did this, cheated (but compensated the head start with irrigation/roads
with Diety level), and got my 10th of the map beefed up and in the future
tech era to get some action already. However, gah, by now it took 4 mins to
wait after each turn (2.5GHz 512MB GF3) and when I realized it would take a
gazillion turns to get all my troops all over the world to ransack about a
gazillion cities I gave a great sigh and went to bed.
The computer wasn't any fun opposition either.
It never made me break a drop of sweat. When I started nuking nobody seemed
to care allthough they tried to seem really pissed at me by declaring war and
giving me a scornful look.
The interaction with the other civs is bleak. A trade here and there and that's
all the interaction I got except for the nuking fest which was terribly one-sided.
The spying thing was a total dissapointment. What's the use of stealing a tech if
it takes triple the price compared to getting it the safe way by barganing?
The plant spy feature never worked once out of the 15 times I tried it.
So all in all for me this game was all about building improvements and irrigating
for an eternity, while catching up on the tech, until I finally get to build my
un-obsolete army to take over a world I don't want to have.
I may sound very negative but I like the concept of the game although it gets
way too mundane and repetative.
HELP me make this game more fun (read: I want to interact more with the other civs and do more stuff
than build buildings)
Am I missing any features of the game that are somewhat hidden? Any changes I can
make in my personality or layout of the game to make it a more pleasurable experience?
Thanks.
I have played it for two days now and am fed up ready to uninstall and sell it.
Is it me who have changed or is this game passé?
I have played 3 games now on monarch to diety+cheat level with 10-14 civs on
kal-el's earth scenario. For me the whole concept is lost if played on some
random generated map. Thus, I need a lot of civs on this huge map.
It feels like all the game is about now is to build city improvements and
irrigate/road with the workers. I am so fed up with irrigating and mining
which takes ages to complete that I have edited the scenarios with complete
irrigation and roads where I'd want my cities so I can get on with the
interesting part, to build my army and take over the world.
(culture win? great fun to sit and watch my borders expand)
I did this, cheated (but compensated the head start with irrigation/roads
with Diety level), and got my 10th of the map beefed up and in the future
tech era to get some action already. However, gah, by now it took 4 mins to
wait after each turn (2.5GHz 512MB GF3) and when I realized it would take a
gazillion turns to get all my troops all over the world to ransack about a
gazillion cities I gave a great sigh and went to bed.
The computer wasn't any fun opposition either.
It never made me break a drop of sweat. When I started nuking nobody seemed
to care allthough they tried to seem really pissed at me by declaring war and
giving me a scornful look.
The interaction with the other civs is bleak. A trade here and there and that's
all the interaction I got except for the nuking fest which was terribly one-sided.
The spying thing was a total dissapointment. What's the use of stealing a tech if
it takes triple the price compared to getting it the safe way by barganing?
The plant spy feature never worked once out of the 15 times I tried it.
So all in all for me this game was all about building improvements and irrigating
for an eternity, while catching up on the tech, until I finally get to build my
un-obsolete army to take over a world I don't want to have.
I may sound very negative but I like the concept of the game although it gets
way too mundane and repetative.
HELP me make this game more fun (read: I want to interact more with the other civs and do more stuff
than build buildings)
Am I missing any features of the game that are somewhat hidden? Any changes I can
make in my personality or layout of the game to make it a more pleasurable experience?
Thanks.
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