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More Civ is a good thing.

More Alpha Centauri would be a better thing.

Excellent. The only reason to still have a PC capable of playing games. For me.

Excited!

*cough*Chaos Rising*cough*

Ah yes. That too.

Wicked child!

*smiksmakslap*

What about OpenTTD?

That'll run on anywthing.

that's because you never played Mount&Blade

That's true. Your comparison to Pirates! made me regret not picking it up for super cheapness the other weekend.

Did I spy hexes? I wonder what they're going to put in to make it significantly different to Civ IV with BTS.

That's a good point - I lost my copy of Civ 4 so now's a perfect opportunity to buy the Complete Civ 4 box for £7 from Amazon, as I never played the expansions.

Aw no, now I'll spend the summer with little sleep trying to reach all my Future Techs.

Hexes, probably.

I hope they've added Scientology as one of the religions.

How do you use the numberpad to move units if it becomes hexes?

Christ. What the fuck is the point in building that in Flash?

Well the number of squares you can move to goes from 8 to 6, so I'm going to answer "non-intuitively".

1,4,7,3,6 and 9 seems sensible.

Not that I use the numpad with civ4.

Hmmm, I say.

No 8 or 2? Insta not interested. LOL.

Can you go prone?

You have a clear left and right, s0 4 and 6. then the rest are diagonals. Unless the camera is rotatable, in which case use of the pad would be impractical anyway.

I say we get someone to organise a DDOS on Sid Meier's life.

I prefer hexes over squares, so i'm quite excited.

Why not use malleable circular shapes that increase or decrease in size varying on the influence of the surrounding landscape, cities, empires and units poisitioned in said squares?

The same way you do in every other hex based game? You have 8 buttons but 6 directions. Just make the 8 and 2 keys not work.

You should also try Space Rangers 2. It's Pirates! in space and its absolutely mental.

I just realised something...

I played hundreds of hours of Civ 1 on the Amiga, whilst I was at Primary school.
I played a similar amount of Civ 2 whilst at High School.*
I played a lot of Civ 3 whilst at College.
I played a lot Civ 4 whilst at Uni.
And I'll probably play Civ 5 a bit in this post-degree, working life.
In almost all cases there's no overlap. One period for each game.

I wonder what era Civ 6 will usher in for me, or if I'll play it at all
Infact, I'd better be doing something different by the time Civ 6 rolls around, or I'll have ruined this little life-symmetry that I have going on.


*It got replaced by SMAC when that rolled around, but I think I'd stopped playing it by the time I got to College. I was playing too many HL mods

Demo today. At some point.

The only thing that has stopped pre ordering has been concerns about PC specs. This should answer them. Hopefully.

Specs:



Seems pretty low, to be honest, especially that graphics requirement.

It's only the graphics I'm worried about - everything else easily meets the recommended specs. The site which you can use to check you can run it says it's fine, but I believe the chipset in my laptop (Radeon 5470 512Mb Dedicated) is supposedly under the minimum

The desktop exceeds the rec. specs, but my main play of Civ4 tends to be co-op games, while downstairs and so not on the desktop, so I'd be disappointed if the laptop couldn't run it.

Still, downloading the demo anyway.

Aye, downloading the demo now.

Where is the demo?

Oh right, it's on Steam.

Here is the Steam link, link fans: http://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/

Downloaded.

I needn't have worried It automatically set most things to high, and it seems to run fine. Game: boughted.

For some reason it wouldn't let me turn on AA, otherwise ran fine on all max settings.

On the other hand, it's now unplayably slow...

It appears this has much to do with the pluggedinness of my laptop.

Has demo. Runs fine. Is SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

I am liking Demo. Of the three, the egyptians do seem to be the one to go for in the demo. The cheapness of important wonders like the great library, and The ability to build plenty of war chariots with no horses, followed by then building lots of horsemen (and then backing up with catapults when available) has allowed me to manage to kill of two civs before the 100 turns is up.

Third probably would've fell too, had it not been for the "Ahh, you're building up an army on my borders", "Yes, I am, for I am declaring WAR!", "Ok, then while you're not expecting an attack, I will kill your chariots. Ahhhhhhh" problem I had at the end.

When's this out to buy?

Friday.

I shall be getting it then then then.

There's a preorder bonus, I think - extra maps or something.

Aye.

Given I've always gone for the generated maps, it's not that much of a bonus for me.

The deluxe version on steam with an extra civ (Babylon), on the other hand...

What's the point in that? I always play random generated.

Ding.

I very occasionally played on the earth maps, mind. Quite a different game though.

Dong.

I think I played Earth exclusively on Civ1 on the Amiga. Just because starting as the Zulu nation meant you had quite a long time to prepare and advance before first contact. Which was normally Egypt or Babylon.