I use spies for stealing technology and sabotage.

I installed that, had it there for a playthrough but never really used it. I think I prefer the 'peering over the border' fast and loose guessing method. I like taking risks.

GooberTheHat wrote:

It is great, it's like having and adviser. Stops you making stupid decisions.

That's it, for me. Especially for those occasions when you consider breaking all ties with someone or severing open border agreements. Too often in the past it would seem like a good idea, so i'd agree to the proposal, and then half a second later i'm apparently at war with the regional superpower and i've no idea why.

Yar, it seems a great mod but it glances too close to cheating for me.

Paul the sparky wrote:

That's the game though. You're not supposed to know what everyone is up to all of the time.

You dont know what everyone is up to by a long way. You have no idea what technologies they have, what units, where their troops are based, what their intentions/goals are etc etc, and you have zero info on civs you havent interacted with. But without the mod you have these ridiculous situations where suddenly Alexander, for exmaple, says "let's go to war with Spain", and you have to make a decision right there and then, and you cant come back to him later once you've scouted out the blatant pitfalls of such a move or realised that Spain is the number 1 ally of China. All this stuff ought to be common knowledge.

For me it also helps make sense of what are seemingly random AI decisions without the mod. In the past you might suddenly find out Russia hates you for apparently no reason at all, where just a few turns previous they'd been your number 1 ally.

Will be getting this for sure.

Think I like the look of that info addict thing.

Getting to the point where I've realised I'm actually smashing the other civs so I should just get into attack mode and really see how things function.

I'm way ahead on tech and about to have flight well before everyone else, with enough cash to buy a few planes outright to begin.

Don't think anyone is close to packing artillery either, looking forward to seeing that pummel a city, Got a healing unit or two and a general, and enough space around the cities I want to attack to think I should be able to do some pretty special damage and make things quick.

Do they just wipe out a city?

Surely it could do some cool stuff like make mutant fish, or have the fallout blown by the wind or something.

Chance of population growth being contaminated or something.

Nice.

As a general musing, I think the reason this game is so amazeballs is that it actually practices what a lot of games try and preach.

I know they're different genres, but the principle is the same, 3rd/1st person shooters/stealth em ups/action games always want to talk about player freedom, even in open world, but you hit the limitations very quickly most times, you can go these 3 different routes, there's a choice, but this fourth way that looks really interesting is a fake wall.

You can chose to shoot this guy in the face, or wack him in the back of the head, or you can shoot this barrel next to him.

Civ legitamately lets you do things your way. And the limits take a lot longer to reach. My list of "I'll try that idea later/next game" could already fit on a toilet roll.

(Kudos to the AI for passing Arts Funding at the world congress, trying to slow down my science progress.)

I'm trying to push through Scholars in Residence. I don't think my mate as Babylon has noticed yet. He'l be pissed.

I think Chieftain is too easy as that happened to me too. I gifted a city back to Alexander after I smashed two of Boudicca's cities within two turns. Do they always offer cities as peace offerings? Seems a bit daft to me.

Nice.

Yeah, I'm only doing this first cheiftan run as practice. Even though it's easy, I'm making what I know are mistakes and I know I'll probably get my arse kicked on a higher settings so I'm happy to get the hang this way.

Might go for 2 difficulty levels up. This is one game where I don't actually being a little civ that could.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Dell Latitude E5410 Core i3 350M 2.27GHz 6GB 160GB DVDRW Webcam Laptop

It should run if graphics aren't truly awful.

Facewon wrote:

What are the system requirements for Civilization V?



Minimum System Requirements

Operating System: Windows® XP SP3/ Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free
DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation
Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c

Recommended System Requirements

Operating System: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor: 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free
DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation
Video: 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX®: DirectX® version 11

Ok, lappy is chugging late game, as mentioned.

I have a spare ssd, would that help? I already have 6gig ram, doubt 8 will help. I assume it's all about the "Core i3 350M 2.27GHz" being under spec. Can I upgrade that?

Turn off shadows if you haven't already, I usually leave terrain shadows on low though. I tend to use Strategic View for quickly doing actions and switching back for views of things like city religion and unit arrangement when fighting.