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[camwyn]

Civilization IV: Crack.

Civilization IV: Warlords expansion pack: Also crack.

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword expansion pack: Ben and Jerry's Crack 'N Tobacco Crunch.

If I seem distracted when we're conversing or interacting, smack me. I'll put down the mouse and back away from the Sumerians.

Comments

[ymfaery]

At least it's GOOD CRACK. :D

[camwyn]

Oh God yes. I've only played the BtS expansion pack a few times now but hoo, lord, I'm wanting a strategy guide so I can play it better...

Funny. For some reason I have no particular interest in expanding the religions that take root in my empires, but as soon as I get a corporation I'm pumping out executives for every city on my continent. I don't know if it's some kind of commentary on religion in general, or more a case of the continent still being wild and half-barbaric when missionaries become available to me and me not seeing the point in sending missionaries because they'll get killed in the wilderness.

[ymfaery]

Is this before or after the expansion sets? (I didn't get around to buying any, btw.) Because I like getting income from the religions when I have their special holy place in one of my cities, so I always send out missionaries when I can. :D

[tjalorak.livejournal.com]

Wow. How big are the maps you play on?

I love founding and then expanding religions because there's a wonder that gives you gold for your religious buildings, regardless of location. Plus, you can see enemy cities. That always made me laugh. I would suggest sending missionaries to your allies bordering you or linking them up with scouts to get to the farther away places/open borders but not allies.

Then just split up once you actually get into their borders. You can send the scout to scout, missionary to one of their major cities.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Jim has just gotten the whole pack, I - IV. We fear when it arrives.

[camwyn]

The original Civ was the first PC game I bought for myself. I absolutely adored it. Civ II was fantastic, too.

I liked III better than IV - up until now. Beyond the Sword brings random events back into the game- you lost a lot of those with the other sequels- and includes vassalage as a system; there's very little like seeing other civilizations' leaders come to you and beg for mighty Babylon to protect them in exchange for their eternal loyalty....


I've said it before, I'll say it again. If each of us is affiliated with a Rider of the Apocalypse, I got the white one. Not Pestilence, because that's not what the white rider was in the original text. The White Rider was Conquest. Kneel before Zod, bitches.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

I never really liked III -- the drab color scheme and minimalist tech tree kinda didn't work for me. IV is nifty.

I remain a fan of the spinoff Civ II Test of Time, with its four-layer worlds and fantasy/sf scenarios...

[camwyn]

I miss the advisors from Civ II. Especially the military advisor, who was always entertaining.

[corglacier7.livejournal.com]

God, yes. That game can eat your life, I swear.

[camwyn]

I've owned and played Civ I, II, III, and IV, and I've bought expansion packs for III and IV. I also played Civilization: Call to Power, back before the Call to Power game went off with a different company. That was kind of interesting, but it was a different experience- although I very much liked the public works fund approach to building infrastructure. Not that I have a problem with worker units and having to guard them, I just liked not having to direct a horde of worker units in the endgame. I swear, once you get to railroad time there's more workers than you know what to do with...

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

<3 Alpha Centauri.

Eh...

[argonautilus.livejournal.com]

I really liked Alpha Centauri best.

[eric-williamson.livejournal.com]

Ditto. My Civ/AC love is the worst addiction ever.

I would rank them:
Civ1: Marijuana (the gateway drug)
Civ2: Cocaine
Alpha Centauri: Smack
Alien Crossfire: Crack
Civ3: Opium
Civ3 expansions: Heroin
Civ4: Speedballs (heroin and cocaine injected)
Civ4 expansions: direct electric current to the pleasure centers of your brain. I'm like one of those rats in an experiment hitting a bar for another dose.

I have to pretty much go cold turkey to get my life back - you just can't "play a few turns" - you end up getting up half a day later wondering where the time went?

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