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@11thSignal wrote:
As it’s a fievr I might give this a try, by the way whats comms do you lot use nowadays as in to keep in touch with each other?
TS3 mate, details here viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5448
It’s not being used very much atm, except when we message each other via steam for a game, so you may need to grab us there first if you’re looking. Having said that, I’ll still be on TS when I can, I’ve just been busy recently.
Do you not rate L4D Signal? It’s an awesome wee game, and we still play it quite regularly. For a fiver this is a bargain.
@=xdc= magicker wrote:
you can almost certainly embed it in the front of the site
That’s a good point, you can most likely do it on wordpress, though I’d need to test it to be sure, and if you wanted we could create a page off the frontpage dedicated as a gallery of Fifa highlights? It wouldn’t be hard to setup, but I’d be leaving it up to you guys to maintain it (which is simple as fuck before you let that put you off).
Awesome Dave, give me a shout and jump on TS if you fancy some TF2 🙂 Playing with Doc, Paddy, and Streff I’ve had some good games of it over the past few months, and you just can’t beat it for a game when you’re concentrating on teamplay. Not as big a fan of MW2, certainly not the mutliplayer modes available, but Spec Ops is pretty good if you’ve not tried it?
Anyway I’ve pretty much always got Steam on, so I’ll give you a shout back if I see any unanswered messages when I’m afk.
After reading that article from Civ Fanatics I played a much more successful game over the weekend, and finally have a win under my belt, albeit on Prince difficulty. Having said that, I’ve rarely ventured beyond Prince in earlier versions of Civ, and I don’t think I’m going to any time soon in this one either because I’m still finding some aspects of the economy tricky to manage.
The biggest problem I’m having is with production, which I understand is lower in this version of Civ, but it’s at a frustrating level. Juggling production issues with Happiness and a random problem with gold, I was able to raise an army consisting of only around 10 units, with which I had to conquer the North American Civ on the Earth map. This took ages to raise, and cost a lot of gold, which is really quite frustrating when your empire consists of Africa, Europe, and all of Asia. The only positive spin I can put on this atm is that it means losing units hurts a lot more than in previous versions, but really I expect to be able to support a much larger army, and construct it in less than a couple of centuries, when I occupy more than half the landmass of the planet. As it happened the 10 units were more than enough for me to win this fight, as the NA civ were miles behind me in technology, but when you can’t be bothered to string out a game of Civ in order to nuke the fuck out of someone, then there’s clearly something wrong.
There are a few other frustrations I’m having with the game, and these are preventing me from recommending it to anyone here basically, even though I want to promote civ a bit. Yet, having said that, I’m still glad I got it, and I enjoyed the game over the weekend – so go figure 😕 . I’d be interested to hear whether anyone else has taken the plunge yet and tried this, but atm I’m sitting on the fence with my overall verdict, at least until I see what direction they take with the first couple of patches.
I’m pretty sure the forum can only handle embedding videos from youtube. You’ll have to either upload the video there, or simply link to the ea.com video directly.
You’d probably need html code enabled on the forums to embed other videos, but iirc that’s quite a security risk.
– logged into steam a few times but nobody about
Lies! I’ve been sitting around on TS and steam all weekend.
Oh and that video’s awesome Silver, thanks 🙂
Fixed your video -There’s no need for all the html crap, all you do is copy the ylVtj-1Ccgg? part of a youtube address between the [youtube] tags.
Re Minecraft, Stalker showed me this video the other week, and I’ve lost a good couple of days to the game since.
I got it through Steam, and been able to answer any questions I have by googling, so not missing a manual. Some of the stuff I’ve read online suggests the manual isn’t 100% accurate either btw.
Good guide to the game for Civ4 players here : http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=382233
Reading that I think I’ve identified some of the problems I’m facing, in that I’m not specialising cities. This is something I first read about in civ 4, but I never really considered that important, as I got away with it not specialising. May just try this for Civ 5.
Oh and the more I read about this game, the more I think it might be better played in multiplayer.
tbh, I’d hold off getting it if you’ve not done so already. I’m itching to have a game with someone, but there’s something missing in the game which i can’t quite put my finger on, and I don’t want anyone to be disappointed with their purchase.
There are also definitely faults in the game, but I’m not sure yet how many are flaws in the design, or simply flaws in transfering my Civ 4 gameplay to the newer version. I’m enjoying it atm, which is the main thing, but give me more time to look at it before taking that as a recommendation.
The way I’m feeling about this atm, is that it’s been rushed out to meet a deadline, without fully testing some aspects of the gameplay, and that it’ll require some patching, or mods to iron out the problems. I can’t say for sure yet though, as it’s quite a bit different from Civ 4.
Fair fan review here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=384645
Oh and my concerns over the AI were alieviated slightly by last night’s game, as previously it didn’t appear to be fighting very effectively. I still have a question mark over some decisions it makes, but it’s not as bad as I’d first feared.
Judging by the game I had last night, I don’t think I’m ready for Mulitplayer yet 😆
Damn the AI is aggressive in this version. Even if it detects even the slightest hint of weakness on your part, it comes gunning for you.
I’m also struggling a bit striking a balance between economy and production across my cities, so any advice from anyone here on that welcome.
When he says we’ve got a dedicated server Silver, what he’s forgetting to mention is that he’s hosting it on his home connection which is shit. Also the game’s stuck in god mode on multiplayer atm, so no point playing it until the developer fixes it. Ridiculously addictive game though, which could be good for multiplayer a bit down the line.
