DELETED
- Thread starter deleted139124
- Start date
Recommended Videos
My advice?
Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!
Civ V, especially with all the expansions, can be a lot to learn. And, while some recommend reading a guide, you're simply not going to understand what the hell the guide is talking about without having at least played one game until the end.
SO really, pick a civ you think looks fun or cool, jump in and just start playing! Don't expect to be perfect, just try to understand whats happening. After that, THEN read a guide and strategies and you'll likely understand it more. Or, if you're confused by a mechanic while playing, look it up at the time.
IMO context is the best teacher. Here's the description for "The Great Library" wonder in Civ V:
Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!
Civ V, especially with all the expansions, can be a lot to learn. And, while some recommend reading a guide, you're simply not going to understand what the hell the guide is talking about without having at least played one game until the end.
SO really, pick a civ you think looks fun or cool, jump in and just start playing! Don't expect to be perfect, just try to understand whats happening. After that, THEN read a guide and strategies and you'll likely understand it more. Or, if you're confused by a mechanic while playing, look it up at the time.
IMO context is the best teacher. Here's the description for "The Great Library" wonder in Civ V:
Until you've played a game this likely means shit all to you. Even if you understand it, can you tell if this building is worth getting for your playthrough? Probably not, and that's totally okay
1.Prepare to not speak to any family members or friends for about a month.
2.Play as any civilization you want for your first game and play on the easiest difficulty, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to lose on that difficulty. I also suggest picking a smaller map that has few islands.
3.Lower the amount of city states. They just act as annoyances and make the turns last forever.
4.Once you learn the basics, mod the shit out of the game and enjoy.
2.Play as any civilization you want for your first game and play on the easiest difficulty, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to lose on that difficulty. I also suggest picking a smaller map that has few islands.
3.Lower the amount of city states. They just act as annoyances and make the turns last forever.
4.Once you learn the basics, mod the shit out of the game and enjoy.
Alexander and Gandhi cannot be trusted, if you meet them early prepare an army and wipe them out. Seriously not even kidding they will declare war on you and never accept peace until you wipe them out.
A lot Archers are really effective at getting some early city captures.
Starting off tech wise you generally want to go Animal Husbandry first to see if you've got easy access to horses and then whatever techs you need to set up the improvements on your luxuries.
When settling cities aim to settle on new luxury resources to lessen the happiness hit.
Lancers are rubbish. Don't waste the hammers on them.
I'd also suggest looking at some MadDjinn Civ playthroughs on youtube. He plays on Diety difficultly but the insights he gives are really helpful to playing Civ in general for both new and old players.
A lot Archers are really effective at getting some early city captures.
Starting off tech wise you generally want to go Animal Husbandry first to see if you've got easy access to horses and then whatever techs you need to set up the improvements on your luxuries.
When settling cities aim to settle on new luxury resources to lessen the happiness hit.
Lancers are rubbish. Don't waste the hammers on them.
I'd also suggest looking at some MadDjinn Civ playthroughs on youtube. He plays on Diety difficultly but the insights he gives are really helpful to playing Civ in general for both new and old players.
My advice? Put it on the easiest difficulty and just play. You will learn as you go on. It is pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
i always go straight for the great library right away, science king dominates allWeaver said:IMO context is the best teacher. Here's the description for "The Great Library" wonder in Civ V:
Until you've played a game this likely means shit all to you. Even if you understand it, can you tell if this building is worth getting for your playthrough? Probably not, and that's totally okay
plus it doesn't hurt to have a score of 200 while most enemy civs are sitting around ~140 at this point, i can usually turtle my way to victory after this point. (surprisingly attila the hun won my last victory on king with this strategy..wouldn't have expected it to work with him)
edit: whoops forgot to input to OP
as others have mentioned, play a game or two on the lower difficulties (not the EASIEST, but maybe a notch or two up) to get a feel for the game, what it does, what it MIGHT mean for you, and then after that youtube a couple pro's or look at some guides, hell i was amazed by some of the pro videos i saw on youtube recently, some strategies i didn't even think about doing in the slightest.
Catherine the Great will try to destroy you the moment you show weakness.
I have no idea why people complain about Ghandi, I have never had a problem with him.
Do not neglect to build your National College as soon as possible.
I have no idea why people complain about Ghandi, I have never had a problem with him.
Do not neglect to build your National College as soon as possible.
Build every wonder. If someone else builds a wonder, kill them and take it. All wonders. All the time.
Declare friendship once for each of the other civilizations, and then never again. Late game, everything descends into a festival of denouncement and petty wars that never finish, so being unaligned keeps you un-maligned.
Lastly, if you can avoid the temptation, capture every city of people you go to war with but one. If you kill even one civ completely everyone will hate you for the rest of time.
Declare friendship once for each of the other civilizations, and then never again. Late game, everything descends into a festival of denouncement and petty wars that never finish, so being unaligned keeps you un-maligned.
Lastly, if you can avoid the temptation, capture every city of people you go to war with but one. If you kill even one civ completely everyone will hate you for the rest of time.
1) Montezuma is a backstabbing dickhead.
2) Genghis is going to stab you in the back, but if kick his teeth in chances are he'll consider you a worthy opponent and become a loyal ally.
3) If Gandhi builds the Manhattan Project, you're fucked.
4) Montezuma is a backstabbing dickhead.
5) "Resurrecting" a dead civilization/city state means you'll always get their vote in the supreme leader votes.
6) Build the Great Wall, Himeji Castle and Kremlin, and laugh at any would-be invaders
7) Don't get tempted by conquest too much. Annexing too many cities in a short time is going to break you.
8) Montezuma is a backstabbing dickhead.
9) Do not underestimate exploration and trade routes.
10) Montezuma's "peace" theme never plays in the game.
2) Genghis is going to stab you in the back, but if kick his teeth in chances are he'll consider you a worthy opponent and become a loyal ally.
3) If Gandhi builds the Manhattan Project, you're fucked.
4) Montezuma is a backstabbing dickhead.
5) "Resurrecting" a dead civilization/city state means you'll always get their vote in the supreme leader votes.
6) Build the Great Wall, Himeji Castle and Kremlin, and laugh at any would-be invaders
7) Don't get tempted by conquest too much. Annexing too many cities in a short time is going to break you.
8) Montezuma is a backstabbing dickhead.
9) Do not underestimate exploration and trade routes.
10) Montezuma's "peace" theme never plays in the game.
Play a couple single player matches first but don't overdo it. SP teaches some really bad habits- these will be very difficult to unlearn once you start multiplayer.
Secondly, find a couple friends to play MP with asap- the game is so much better that way. To put it in numbers, if the SP experience is a 6/10, the MP is 8.5/10.
Secondly, find a couple friends to play MP with asap- the game is so much better that way. To put it in numbers, if the SP experience is a 6/10, the MP is 8.5/10.
I have to disagree with these. I have never once had Montezuma act nice only to declare war on me. Ergo, he is not a back-stabber.Vegosiux said:
I have also never had Montezuma act nice to me.
My advice is not to spoil the game for yourself by reading guides, unless you intend to play multiplayer and want to perfect your game. Your formative days of playing Civ are some of the most wonderous and enjoyable.
I second this sage advice. In the end when humanity is but dust, ultimately alien visitors will judge your civilization on how many mighty and awe inspiring wonders you have built. Or replace alien visitors with alpha centauri visitors if you won a space race victory.norashepard said:
Im assuming you have gods and kings and rest of expansions so heres a few tips:
-Don't worry too much about religion, it's nice to have, but ultimately founding your own religion and spreading it across the world requires a lot of effort and some vague idea of what you're doing. Or you could just limit the religion to your own state, that works too.
-Use terrain to your advantage. Even if you're new to civ, the combat system should be easy enough for you to grasp if you played any turned based strategy games in the past. Bottlenecks manned by just a few ranged troops and melee troops blocking the path can hold off many times their number. In this respect civ5 is the easiest civ of the series, no more stack of doom!
-Build scouts when you ain't building anything else early game (and assuming this doesn't bring your bank balance to the negative), map exploration is key at the beginning imo so you get an idea of what's around you and can prepare in consequence.
-Don't think of taking enemy cities until you got siege units. And even then, cities can defend themselves rather well so don't rely on a single catapult, you're gonna need more.
To expand on this...don't trust any bot, they will always turn on you no matter how much you think they are your best bud.Soundwave said:
Do not trust Montezuma or Genghis, they will attack you as soon as they smell weakness. Don't honour a non city-state's call to war- let the warring parties grind each other down, then you swoop in and nick all their cities.
Not as good as Total War series. My problem with Civ is that all the countries have the same units, with exceptions to maybe two or more depending on the era. Faction Perks are not very useful in the long run,and it gets tedious unless on hard mode... NOw Rome 2 has so many problems compared to it's predecessors but the various factions do feel unique but I still prefer Rome 1 with mods and especially Medieval 2 Germanic Crusade. Gotta bring back pagan faiths haha. Shogun 2 is the best though so play that game instead.shapaza said:
Nah, Civ 5 is pretty simplistic actually.shapaza said:
The bigger you are, the faster you research. Think of population as science points. Happiness is a cap on your science, so you never want to halt your population growth if you can help it. Cities take about 6-8 successful attacks early on to capture. The AI isn't very smart on combat. There are many small things like Social Policies and such but it is impossible to make a bad choice there.
Do you have Gods & Kings? It introduces faith which was done really well. I wish religion used this model in Civ 4. You can make some bad choices in the bonuses it offers but it is pretty obvious which are not useful.
Overall, you just need to start a game and figure out what the best victory condition is best to go for. This will surface more and more as the game goes on naturally. You could also hone in on one and try for it all game long. Generally, more focused strategies are more successful. Unless you have specific questions, I wouldn't get too intimidated considering you have played the demo.
EDIT: I recommend trying domination and/or science victories first though. This will help you learn budget and maintenance well. You can start the game going for both but you may be forced to pick one at some point depending on how things go.
My tip is to rush a few scouts early on. The bonuses you get from exploration in this game are fantastic.
From personal novice experience:
-Japan is OP for dominance.
-Diplomacy is for shit and they'll back stab you regardless. Oh, enjoy the fact they'll spam you with "denouncing" messages.
-Any allies you get will just make a settlement right in the middle of your territory.
-If you're winning a war, don't accept the Peace treaty no matter what.
-When taking enemy settlement just raze it and place your own settlement, the negative happiness isn't really worth it and you'll be better off wasting the social policies on something else.
-If they've attack you in the past, they will do so again.
-Spying is awfully clunky especially if you have quite a few settlements (God + kings only)
-Japan is OP for dominance.
-Diplomacy is for shit and they'll back stab you regardless. Oh, enjoy the fact they'll spam you with "denouncing" messages.
-Any allies you get will just make a settlement right in the middle of your territory.
-If you're winning a war, don't accept the Peace treaty no matter what.
-When taking enemy settlement just raze it and place your own settlement, the negative happiness isn't really worth it and you'll be better off wasting the social policies on something else.
-If they've attack you in the past, they will do so again.
-Spying is awfully clunky especially if you have quite a few settlements (God + kings only)
Nope, it's your growth and attack effectiveness as well.Savagezion said: