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• Best ruins ever! : Brian Leahy
• 4 ancient ruins promotions in a row. : ZenzenTen
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  I just bought it. Downloading now. I suck at this game oh god. : ejectorpod
  • Welcome to the world of Civilization 5. You're in for a hell of a ride. : MisterPhoton
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  You are clearly not aware of just how advanced Norinco is. : AxeMan808
  • holy shit lol : shortbuscaptain
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  Civ 5 people, does this game run well in Windowed mode? I usually played Civ games in windowed mode, s... : TPSReport
  • Windowed was working fine for me on the review build, which I'm told was retail code. : Brian Leahy
  • i play in windowed mode most of the time! : dahanese
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  ottomans built stonehenge in a coastal city and it appeared (mostly) underwater : Foxhawk
  • yeah I just had some submerged pyramids. I guess it makes for an ultra secure burial tomb : shogberg
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  Getting some weird graphical glitch as the world opens up. Ground textures will show up as a red and whit... : Happy Doodle Muffin
  • Sounds like you're missing (the farwaway land) textures or they can't display properly. Verify integirty ... : nwillard
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  Any non american shackers succeed in unlocking their game early through proxies? : CtrlFrk
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    Steam is very clever and doesn't allow that. Also, I'll not risk losing my account for such a small time ... : Nitrium
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      I know of one person who seems to have gotten it to work, and the time difference is amplified by me bein... : CtrlFrk
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        Sep 22, 2010 5:33pm PDT
        Oh I see. : Nitrium
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    I did! In Hong Kong here and did it with Astrill. : nwillard
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      Pretty easy. I already had it pre-loaded so I wouldn't have to slowly download the whole thing through a ... : nwillard
      • And I've just been asked to work late to help some guys sort through migration issues... I guess next wee... : CtrlFrk
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    I did, but I gotta leave steam in offline mode otherwise it resets back to pre-loading if I use my normal... : Darky_06
    • Sounds like a great way to get an account banned. : dodob
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  One of the dickhead computer players built a city right next door to one of my existing cities, and bitch... : MagicWishMonkey
  • Surprisingly lifelike AI! : Happy Doodle Muffin
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    You can ask them to not build next to you. Lovely little diplomatic option :) : MrLobo
    • Yea, he asked me not to build next to him early on so I avoided his borders, then he built a city right n... : MagicWishMonkey
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      Do they listen? Because I know when they ask me not to, I just say "Oh sure, sorry 'bout that" and then d... : Vincent Grayson
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        hahaha, they wanted you to give them units to attack you with? : MagicWishMonkey
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          LOL, this game sounds just awful. : MrBig0
          • hahaha, it's still fun but there are definitely a few bugs here and there. I hope they focus on fixing... : MagicWishMonkey
          • Yup this game is the worst game I ever played because there was a small notification saying my enemy want... : kill9
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        i had a 10 turn peace treaty with AI germany. he traded all of his cities and some resources for 10 turn... : dantastic
        • Yeah, I was a little disappointed when I won my first game accidentally. I hadn't even explored the entir... : Vincent Grayson
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    Yeah, I had that happen twice which caused me to conquer the continent. I am normally not warlike in Civ ... : Pettytheft
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      The combat somewhat resembles the combat in Alpha Centauri with the direct/indirect attack distinction. ... : Arcanum
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        For the first time in a Civ game I enjoy going to war. It actually makes sense instead of throwing massiv... : Pettytheft
        • Seriously, this is the first time I've enjoyed the combat and it's turning me into a jackass. I usually g... : EruditeCaveman
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  We build for China. : Dschinghis Khan
  • Nobody will notice their money is missing. : Sailor of Fortune
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  They must have gotten the time machine tech at some point in the endgame. Oh man, can you imagine how awe... : BlackCat9
  • That would be terrifyingly cool if done well. : Vincent Grayson
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    There was a time travel RTS at GDC one year that did exactly that. Time travel was another resource if I... : SeaLlama
    • Did you not read his entire post? He mentioned it, it's called Achron. : ArcKnight
    • Yes, and it is AWESOME. They're still developing it, but have a paid beta you can try. I know OverloadUT ... : BlackCat9
  • Mind blown. : dodob
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  Anyone else getting a crash while loading a multiplayer game? My brother and I played for 7 hours last n... : Leviathan41
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    Send your save game to me at 2KGreg@2KGames.com and I'll take a look : OverloadUT
    • sent. Thanks Greg! : Leviathan41
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  Does Civ 5 have steam cloud support? : mankeroo
  • Yep! You get 10 save "slots" on the cloud : OverloadUT
• No one told me there was time travel in this game! Started a game at 12:30 and suddenly it's 6 hours... : rolecks
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  is it possible to get the Babylonian civilization now that its not possible to preorder anymore? : grendel
  • I think they said it'll be DLC in the future. : BlackCat9
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    Babylon was not a pre-order bonus. You can still get it if you buy the Digital Deluxe edition. : OverloadUT
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      what was the preorder bonus? an extra map? : grendel
      • An extra map on steam and a future DLC on D2D. : moogle
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  we should get some big shack multiplayer games going : Foxhawk
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    you should try playing in the shack multiplayer game we have going now : Deathlove
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      i meant for civ 5 that is the new one : Foxhawk
      • You should still take your turns for alpha pitboss >:( : Jikim
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    i assume civ still does the sequential turns instead of simultaneous turns? I loved sword of the stars m... : valael
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      Simultaneous turns has been the default mode since Civ4. : Goncyn
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        what? really? everyone takes their turn at the same time now? I guess that's what I get for not even... : valael
        • even alpha centauri had simultaneous turns : Foxhawk
      • I don't think this is true for Civ 5. : Jikim
• I miss the Custom Music option. Before you say "winamp in the background" it adjusted the music volume a... : prokat
• Heh. I have some modern armor in the game I'm playing now. In 1902. : Arcanum
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  i've gone 160 turns without meeting another civ. i started on an island and don't know how to get settle... : eeeealmo
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    Use more tongue. : Ebu
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      oh shit i was using wooden dildos still : eeeealmo
      • Other civs really open up once you can drill petroleum resources. : BlackCat9
  • do you have embarkment? send some scouts or boats out to explore automatically. : jimmy_legs
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  question how do the special resources work? For example- I have 2 iron tiles and it says (2 used) does th... : extrahappyturtle
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    you need X of strategic resources to produce unit(s). once that unit is produced, the resource is freed ... : jimmy_legs
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      eg, you have 2 Uranium resources being utilized and you want to make an Atomic Bomb, which requires 2 Ura... : jimmy_legs
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        Is there a way to see what it's being used on, I made two iron units like 50 turns ago but I'm not sure w... : extrahappyturtle
        • I am not sure where or if you can see a breakdown of where it's being used. Your strategic resources sho... : jimmy_legs
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        Actually, that isn't the case according to the manual. If you have 2 iron, and you use them up to build u... : Bean
        • Oh, dang. Well, I was only basing it off of nukes, which I promptly used :D : jimmy_legs
        • I've been wondering what happens when you make a unit and then lose the resource. I traded to get iron an... : Geoffrois
        • ^^ Bean is correct. : Arcanum
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          But one tile of iron does produce more then 1 unit of iron though (something like 4?) : SilverSnake
          • Yes. Strategic resources produce something like 2-8 units per tile. I'm not sure if that's entirely ran... : Arcanum
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  the only other steamworks game i played was empire: total war. shortly after i installed that game, steam : skryte
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    Steam lets you disable automatic updates, yeah. : Arceihn
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      and i can play disconnected, right? why does it disable the game while downloading an update? that was th... : skryte
      • I guess to make sure everyone's playing with the same version. Offline mode works fine now - I think you ... : Arceihn
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        You need to be online to unlock it just after you install it, but after that you can run it in offline mo... : Darky_06
        • alright, that should work for me. : skryte
  • After you run it the first time, you can switch Steam to offline mode and play without connecting to Stea... : OverloadUT
• Can someone explain to me how to use mods? I want to download this clock mod I saw in the GiantBomb quick... : Haxim
• Diane's been playing for 8 hours straight. I think there's a new Civ fan. I got to play about 50 turns of... : BlackCat9
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  man, the automated workers are annoying. they build so many damn farms and unnecessary roads that they ki... : stgulik
  • there's also the annoying option of micro-ing your workers : \ at least you'll feel like you got more ... : OhSnapHighFive
  • I would micro my units but how many improvements can be made on one tile? : pancake humper
• Aww man, dang. I just loaded a few mods (ok, 6-7 hours or something ago) and got just shy of 300 turns i : jimmy_legs