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After watching me play Civ4 for hours, building up cities and taking over the enemy's, she got interested and asked me to show her how it worked. Of course, I knew I'd be creating a monster--the game's addictive. What I did not anticipate is that she would become addicted without taking the game at all seriously. It's like SimCity. Yeah, you could go and be a boring nerd about it with planogrammed cities but it's funner to just play. These are games. Not jobs. This is also why I don't play StarCraft online because that **** feels too much like work. If you miss building an SCV when you have the resources for it, oh my god! That slight mistake could potentially be what gives your opponent an advantage over you. Oh and by the way, Civ4 wasn't even all that. ![]() |
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You have Asperger's syndrome, she doesn't. That's why you think there's a "right" way of playing the game, and she's playing with the game, not playing the game. ![]() I mean look at who's talking in here. Lorizael and Elok. I mean we already know they're both soulless, joyless nerds ![]() Of course they would say there is only one way to play a game and it comes at the expense of fun. |
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I usually give myself weird missions, like, naming my nation banana republic, sticking with republic as my gov, choosing a tropical world, and having as my victory goal controlling all the tiles with bananas in the world
I play civ 3 the most, at monarch, I am able to playing to win like a nerd with micro management and turn counting, but at monarch I can play "freely and carelesly" and the AI when I play like that is about as good as me, so it feels competitive. Tring to win the most efficient way isn't the best way to have fun with Civ games, trying all ways of winning is what makes it fun, the nerdy way is only one of them. |
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Oh, I'm somewhat inclined to be a builder myself. I enjoy building more, largely because Civ4's combat mechanics can be frustrating--I miss being able to rampage around the enemy's roads like I did in Civ2 (why does Firefox's spellchecker recognize "Civ2" but not "Civ 2"?). I typically build up a tech advantage until knights, then do a one-unit rampage because I hate waiting for the artillery to arrive/heal. Like I said, I'm not a great player.
But dagnabit, I make an effort to do things for logical reasons! When I get a great artist, I don't settle him in a safe city, I send him to steal my border back from the rapidly-encroaching Babylonians! I tell her she's killing me, but she just laughs her sinister laugh... |
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I generally avoid generating great artists at all (I don't go for pansy cultural victories). But if I do make one by accident, I'd rather get border push of some kind than three bucks a turn. Actually, I typically send them into conquered territories, but I was using an example from her game, and she hasn't gone to war. Oh, and of course they're good for GA fodder, if you're willing to stockpile them.
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