Board 8 > Weaku plays Civilization 5 for the first time ever [what is going on]

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Alright, I'm finally getting around to playing this game. I bought the GOTY and all the DLC awhile back.

I was gonna play Korea but I read somewhere that they were super gimped or something?

Oh well! K-pop will dominate the world in 7-10 hours!

*civ5.exe*

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What difficulty?

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i'll let you know one i figure out how to skip this intro cutscene

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Sejong - Korea
Map Type: Continents
Small Map
Settler difficulty
Standard pace

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I just founded Seoul. That was easy.

Now what

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I just won a game as Sejong two days ago by year 1911 (King difficulty, for those wondering), so screw the haters.

A Science victory would be the easiest with him, since that's what his special abilities focus on, but you can go for whatever you want. It's your first game after all.

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Alright, first turn I founded Seoul, started research on Pottery, and had the city focus its production on Workers.

Still not really sure what's going on.

Oh yeah, and I sent my Warriors somewhere and they found some ruins.

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Sweet, I found some advanced weapons in the ruins!

What am I supposed to be doing with my city when I'm starting out? Just let it produce things?

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It's pretty easy to win a game of Civ with any civilization, some are just easier than others. Korea has some nice science bonuses, so if you're into that kind of victory you should be good.

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the dreamer of improbable dreams

You don't have to do much in the early going. Produce some basics, check out the tech tree to see where everything leads to, make a worker, couple of warriors--that sort of thing.

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Do I choose a new unit to be produced each turn? or am i waiting the 7 turns it takes to produce a warrior before making something else?

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You have to wait until a unit is finished before you can start on another.

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I just discovered the city-state of Almaty and they gave me some gold. cool dudes

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You wait the 7 turns. If you have enough gold you can buy stuff that's produced instantly, but you probably don't have that kinda money right now. >_>

as your cities grow they will be able to make stuff faster

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So right now I'm basically sending my initial group of warriors all over the place looking for stuff while waiting for the city to produce stuff.

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Pottery complete! Now I can build Granaries. Woo.

I only chose it because I saw Pottery leads to writing and stuff, and that's what Sejong historically brought to Korea. >_>

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More or less. Like Tom mentioned, the more your city expands the faster production grows and the more food you get for your citizens to grow. Exploring your immediate surroundings is always a good idea, looking for any good places for another city or resources.

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Time to adopt a policy. Do I want to take over the world via Tradition, Liberty, or Honor?

us koreans love tradition...but where's the kpop policy

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I adopted the Honor policy.

My guy's are gonna kick ass in war.

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Ooh, speaking of which, I just found a Barbarian Encampment. Time to show these guys what's for.

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Tradition used to be a crazy good policy. I haven't played in a while, so that might not be the case anymore. Tradition focuses on growing your initial city quickly, Liberty is for large empires when you want to expand fast, and Honor is naturally for getting the early fighting advantage.

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Wow, I just obliterated these guys and stole their money.

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Man this reminds me of how I really dislike the social policies because they all progress linearly. Like, in Civ IV you could have a theocracy all game and it has various benefits/costs, but in this game you're just gimping yourself if you stop there and don't head towards free religion.

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I have a Worker now and I started work on a Granary. Time to get this Worker to work.

I still am not really sure what's going on!

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Huh. I just discovered Sailing in some ancient ruins that were lying near where I took out the Barbarians. Neat!

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Alright, I don't think updating every single turn is going to be much fun to read. I just started researching Writing though, and just bought my first unit of Scouts. I've got Workers building a farm, too.

That feeling from when I play Persona 3 or 4 is coming back, where I can't shake the feeling that I'm not doing things in the most efficient way possible. augh

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Thebes, eh? Something tells me it would be a bad idea to declare war with one Warrior unit. >_>

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From: Weakupedia | #024

I still am not really sure what's going on!

You're... building a civilization :o

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....I adopted the Warrior Code social policy and the game gave me Zhuge Liang as a Great General.

Time to take over the world.

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is there a way to tell which group of units will win a fight?

my scouts just stumbled upon barbarians

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I'm no expert on Civilization, in fact, I just started a few weeks a go, but I played it for many hours. I found that if you negotiate with other civilizations early on for Open Borders on your side only, you can get a decent amount of gold early on to set yourself up to become an economic giant. I guess the only negative things would be they can go through your place and discover other stuff more easily that helps them out, but open borders early on doesn't seem as big of a deal compared to when empires are giant.

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From: Weakupedia | #030

is there a way to tell which group of units will win a fight?

When you select a unit and mouse over an enemy they can attack, it will give you an estimate on how much damage each will do.

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as many updates as you can muster please

here's a couple tips to get started on:

it's important to get a couple cities sort of quickly, but each city you add decreases your empire's happiness. too much unhappiness and your productivity drops, too much more and rebels start spawning in your territory. so it's useful to figure out what resources will add happiness to your empire, and have your workers develop that (once you have the required technology). a lot of times if you have workers automated they'll do that on their own.

things that boost science (library is the first one you can build) are pretty useful. the easiest way to get a victory when you're new to the game is getting a huge tech advantage, then rolling over everyone's musketmen with your army of tanks. that shouldn't be tough to do on chieftain.

once you get more than one city make sure to connect it to your capital via roads.

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open borders tells the computer what your army size is, and they're a lot more likely to declare war on you. I wouldn't give open borders to any military power.

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Make sure to turn on Resource and Yield Icons on if you haven't. They help out a lot.

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Believe.

I have a wheel now~

And I met England and gifted stuff but the queen still didn't want to be friends. and now i think Thebes just sent out a party to attack me.

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also, how do i enable that stuff, xerd?

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GOT ME SOME ARCHERS

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Next to the map on the bottom right. One of them circles should have the options. Strategic View is also there if you want to use that.

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Believe.

man I wanna play but I haven't reinstalled this on my computer yet

so lame

soon

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barbarians the eternal rivals

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You know in hindsight civilization v. barbarians should have been in the rivalry contest.

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holy crap so many icons

i think i'm gonna leave these off for now since i don't even know what they indicate!

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From: OmarsComin | #034

open borders tells the computer what your army size is, and they're a lot more likely to declare war on you. I wouldn't give open borders to any military power.

Wow, didn't know that. I did this really early on in each scenario, and I don't remember anyone declaring war on me until long after I had built up stuff and the treaties were over.

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don't forget singapore for the rivalry contest, screw those guys. Set my civilization back a few thousands years!

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an unmet civ has reached the classical era

so while i'm here building farms someone else is off building the colosseum and stuff?

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oh cool i'm friends with egypt now after the douchebag rejected my extended hand

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uh

do barbarians disappear randomly?

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a golden age!

this is like that episode of futurama where bender becomes God

and i'm bender!

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from a single hut they spawn lots of warriors, who then wander off aimlessly. someone else might have claimed the hut though.

are you automating your workers? what have they been doing?