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[camwyn]

Started playing Civilization Beyond Earth last night. I keep trying to call it Civilization V: Beyond Earth, which is not entirely fair. Does rather resemble Civ V, though. I do like the way very nearly everything you build and create gets slightly tweaked along the way according to your decisions; that makes sense in an environment where you're starting from scratch. I'm a bit annoyed about the difficulty of keeping the colony's health up, though. And I am going to put the Brazilian guy and the French lady through the WALL. We came umptybajillion miles through space in coldsleep to find somewhere better to establish ourselves and you two can't figure out a way to handle your differences other than warfare? We are ON A COMPLETELY NEW PLANET. You have been here LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS. How do you not have enough room to refrain from trying to kill each other? HOW?

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[ymfaery]

..so does it need a Steam account or an Internet connection to play the thing? The local GameStop didn't have a copy for me to stare at.

ETA: And I take it you can't just stick those two in a room and let them deathmatch it out?

[camwyn]

I was greatly annoyed to find it demanding a Steam connection even though I'd bought it on disk. Apparently that's how they distribute their updates/patches/whatever. As far as I can tell I think you need the Steam connection once and then you can run Steam in offline mode to play the game.

[ymfaery]

Yeah, that was my reaction when I bought Civ5 on disk. Oh well. CivIV is still fun to play with unless/until I have the time and inclination to figure out the offline thing for Steam.