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Has anybody played Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (available on Steam)? If you're into logical puzzles and very quick thinking, you'll really enjoy this game. Having said that, the missus is the complete opposite in that she hates mind benders and puzzles but she loves this game.
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Ahh preparing for war, classic Ghandi
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Right, looks like I'll be treating myself to a Nintendo switch in March. A new Mario game that looked to be in the Mario 64 style, got to have it
A bunch of us started off playing IV over a decade ago, then moved on to V, now it's going to be VI. We're all a lot older now, most of us have wives or kids or intense jobs. Even with all that though, the original 5 are coming together tonight at midnight, and have taken the day off tomorrow, which should give us time for one last real game. Feel like a giddy teenager again.
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You played yet is it good? Plans fell through for tonight so I'm gunna jump in I think! But then Stellaris, have such a busy weekend too ffs
My experience with Civ 6 so far is I was waiting for it to unlock yesterday, went to take a nap "for 5 minutes", then I woke up this morning.
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I am really liking it so far. They've put an awesome emphasis on the small details, so planning ahead with districts, great people generation and Eureka moments really rewards you now. It's far from perfect, but IMO it's almost comparable to Civ V BNW already.
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See you online about 5 then
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I'm really interested in this game, but haven't done any research. I bought Civ 5 during a steam summer sale with all expansions and really liked it. But I'm scared it needs expansions to be fun or get any depth. Opinions?
It's best Vanilla Civ they've ever made imo, and it's closer to IV and V with an expansion already than it is to the vanilla games. Civics, Government types, Espionage, Eureka moments, Districts and Housing add real depth and they've made everything feel significant. Now, when you go for more turn, it's because there's more things to do in the immediate future, not just because you want to get closer to the 25 turn wait for the next relevant tech. Downside is that it's even more addictive...
Yeah, I only played 2 hours so far, but lack of depth is the last thing you need to worry about. It's easily the most complete vanilla Civ they've ever made. Not only it has most of the features previous games had, there's more interactions and synergies between the systems now.
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Also, this is the best picture in history of human race.
Thats awesome
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CIV 6 is so good the biggest Paradox fanboi on this site has not even downloaded Heinlin yet for Stellaris what is the world coming too
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[video=youtube;l1dnqKGuezo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dnqKGuezo[/video]
... Looks like I need to pick up Civ 6 (even though I'm s**t at Civ).
... Looks like I need to pick up Civ 6 (even though I'm s**t at Civ).
Second multiplayer game we did, 4 humans, 4 bots I rolled Saladin in **** loads of tundra at the bottom of the map. Only one bit of sea access and it's ****, then ages til the next player (a bot China) Now I am not a big fan of rerolling in MP, so I said nothing and pressed on. Everyone was sympathetic and generally considered me a minor power. In fact, 2 other players made me offers to help in joint wars etc so I could get better territory and be a bit more relevant. I wasn't going to win, but I could help someone else do it.
Or so they thought. Because quietly, I got the Tundra pantheon, then used a unit of workers to chop 3 sets of woods and get me Stonehenge. Everyone is actually happy, because the best religion goes to the irrelevant player. I take Wats and Jesuit Education (which is actually more OP in VI than in V, somehow). I then expand out to 3 early cities on the edge of the tundra. They basically have 40% ****** tundra tiles, so I am going to get gimped according to everyone else, but I have a plan. That wont be a problem, because I'm only going to grow my capital.
Using internal trade routes and other tactics, I expand at a ridiculous rate, each time settling on the edge of the big tundra. I take a calculated gamble, and go for a second wonder, knowing it will make China hate me, which it does. They denounce, they declare war in short order. Everyone else is basically ******* themselves at how ****** I am getting. Except, I have 6 cities, each with a Holy Site generating 5-7 faith. I get the doubling adjacency bonus in the civics tree, and at this point, things begin to get silly.
I am now generating a ******* absurd amount of faith, and my wats cost 20 faith a piece. I use the spare to buy science buildings in every city immediately, and actually have some spare to pick up the odd great scientist and great engineer. I am keeping China at bay, and rapidly expanding into the Northern no man's land between us, which is also fairly ****.
It's about now that people seem to notice that I am literally generating 5x more faith than anyone else, and it's only getting worse. A few missionaries from other human players turn up, only to find that I have used the troops I built to fight China to form an impenetrable wall on my border. No disrupting my religion, no getting a more detailed look at what I'm up to. My ****** terrain is now a massive advantage: I now have a single sea chokepoint to defend, and a 10 tile or so strip of land at the top of my empire next to China that I am packing with new cities and soliders. The first set of 7/8 tundra cities are generating so much faith that I can barely spend it all without going for great people. All my trade routes are internal, boosting every new city to 5 pop asap.
At this point, people look at my science score and begin to panic. I am a full era ahead of half the game. My empire is entirely self sufficient and has no need for city states or external trade routes. At this point, people start to remember why I got banned from playing Korea in V and armies start getting built and mobilising. As **** loads of heavy cavalry, siege weapons and basic gunpowder units start flooding China (killing him and taking 1 city each so they have a base of operations for each of their civs) they begin to realise that, apart from the rotating set of cities on settler making duty, all I have been doing is making troops. Hideously, hideously advanced troops. I have aircraft. I am about to get missiles. There is a brief war.
Because I was so ******* far ahead, everyone else is still gonna play for 2nd. At this point, I have completed the tech and civic trees many times over, and am currently helping Gandhi to become one of the game's most powerful empires. He was declared war on by the remaining 2 bots and was getting ******, so I turned up, helped him crush them, weakened cities to as low as possible, then let him capture them. He now has a ridiculous ******* empire spanning 2 continents, and is about to hit the atomic era...
Or so they thought. Because quietly, I got the Tundra pantheon, then used a unit of workers to chop 3 sets of woods and get me Stonehenge. Everyone is actually happy, because the best religion goes to the irrelevant player. I take Wats and Jesuit Education (which is actually more OP in VI than in V, somehow). I then expand out to 3 early cities on the edge of the tundra. They basically have 40% ****** tundra tiles, so I am going to get gimped according to everyone else, but I have a plan. That wont be a problem, because I'm only going to grow my capital.
Using internal trade routes and other tactics, I expand at a ridiculous rate, each time settling on the edge of the big tundra. I take a calculated gamble, and go for a second wonder, knowing it will make China hate me, which it does. They denounce, they declare war in short order. Everyone else is basically ******* themselves at how ****** I am getting. Except, I have 6 cities, each with a Holy Site generating 5-7 faith. I get the doubling adjacency bonus in the civics tree, and at this point, things begin to get silly.
I am now generating a ******* absurd amount of faith, and my wats cost 20 faith a piece. I use the spare to buy science buildings in every city immediately, and actually have some spare to pick up the odd great scientist and great engineer. I am keeping China at bay, and rapidly expanding into the Northern no man's land between us, which is also fairly ****.
It's about now that people seem to notice that I am literally generating 5x more faith than anyone else, and it's only getting worse. A few missionaries from other human players turn up, only to find that I have used the troops I built to fight China to form an impenetrable wall on my border. No disrupting my religion, no getting a more detailed look at what I'm up to. My ****** terrain is now a massive advantage: I now have a single sea chokepoint to defend, and a 10 tile or so strip of land at the top of my empire next to China that I am packing with new cities and soliders. The first set of 7/8 tundra cities are generating so much faith that I can barely spend it all without going for great people. All my trade routes are internal, boosting every new city to 5 pop asap.
At this point, people look at my science score and begin to panic. I am a full era ahead of half the game. My empire is entirely self sufficient and has no need for city states or external trade routes. At this point, people start to remember why I got banned from playing Korea in V and armies start getting built and mobilising. As **** loads of heavy cavalry, siege weapons and basic gunpowder units start flooding China (killing him and taking 1 city each so they have a base of operations for each of their civs) they begin to realise that, apart from the rotating set of cities on settler making duty, all I have been doing is making troops. Hideously, hideously advanced troops. I have aircraft. I am about to get missiles. There is a brief war.
Because I was so ******* far ahead, everyone else is still gonna play for 2nd. At this point, I have completed the tech and civic trees many times over, and am currently helping Gandhi to become one of the game's most powerful empires. He was declared war on by the remaining 2 bots and was getting ******, so I turned up, helped him crush them, weakened cities to as low as possible, then let him capture them. He now has a ridiculous ******* empire spanning 2 continents, and is about to hit the atomic era...
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