By request, a thread to discuss all things Civ, the game that devours the living hours of those who fall into its clutches.
Feel free to chuck in favourite versions, leaders, funny stories and of course moans. As well as anything else.
So, I will join the einherjar in Valhalla and feast, while you toil away here.
Going to back this, I think:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funforge/monumental/description
used to play colonization more as a kid.
looking forward to the switch release.
Thereās going to be Colonisation on Switch? Fantastic. Iām there for that.
Only played Civilization 1. Didnāt seem like there was any way they could improve on it, so never got any of the others.
no, Civ on switch - sorry 
Iāll kick off with my current game of Civ 6 with the Rise and Fall DLC.
One of the things I like about the latest versions of Civ is that you can if you want get through a game with minimal fighting if you donāt want to. As Poundmaker I was busily amassing a huge capitalist empire whilst quietly leading out on science and culture with the aim of picking one in the endgame. I was allied or friendly with everyone except Sparta, my main competitor.
Around 1800 just as I was trying out making an airforce for a laugh, I noticed that the Dutch (who I was allied with) were hoovering up all of Brazilās cities and Pedroās capital was about to rebel. So on a whim to show a bit of solidarity I denounced Pedro (who I had been allied with before) and then declared a Colonial War on him, not intending to send a single unit anywhere near him.
A couple of turns later I become the subject of a 60 turn (!) Betrayal Emergency, where my nearest neighbours, the Romans and the Dutch(!) were invited to capture my capital. I reasoned since I was in a war now I might as well fight it, so I started practising with my newly built bombers and fighters, annexing most of the Roman Empire (and accidentally putting Trajan out of the game) and razing a few of the Dutch coastal cities (just to annoy them).
I spent most of a day coming through that, in the meantime not managing to pull away from Sparta in either science or culture. And now three of the remaining leaders all dislike me an eyewatering amount because of my āwarmongeringā, including the Dutch who started it all. Not Gorgo though. She loves a bit of aggro.
Could be in for a trickier than usual endgame.
I went cold turkey. I think the addiction is broken now.
My other half noted that I started losing weight when I stopped playing
There were ways to improve on it. Eventually they managed to make a version where you didnāt spend the whole of the last 200 years of the game painting the entire map with railways.
Boo! Really want to play Colonization now
Yeah itās one of those games where cold turkey is definitely required, rather than an easing off. Think Iām near that myself now. Need to read a book instead.
I go through a period every 3 or so years of downloading/installing that and transport tycoon deluxe.
do nothing but play them for a week or so then uninstall and say ānever again!ā
I had a good twenty years of my life taken up with it though. Thereās too much else going on in life these days thankfully.
Versions played:
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Needs to be multiple choice.
Should also include Colonization, the remake, Alpha Centuri and Beyond Earth really.
But I enjoyed that bit. Until Gandhi nuked me. Always bloody Gandhi.
I know. Idiot Dickhead me.
Think I had Colonisation. Canāt remember a thing about it though.
Was Civ 2 the one where you could go into space, only nobody ever worked out how you did it?
Yes. Chris Sawyer satiated my desire to paint the world with railways far better than Sid Meier ever did.
You had to build the Apollo program, then about a billion spaceship parts and then finally just before you won, someone else would win instead.
No there was a version with an actual space map layer that you could move some units to.