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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
      • 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 turns of peace. 10 turns was enough to rally my troops and surround berlin :D now i gotta find 3 more civs that arent on the god damned main continent. i have some boats but the only let you use the damned boats along the coast. this game will never end

        Sep 22, 2010 10:42pm PDT
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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