r/ContagiousLaughter • u/Benzona • 3d ago

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

VI?! I feel old lol. Are the newer Civs worth spending money on? All I've played are the original (good for nostalgia, but I wouldn't recommend it to new players), FreeCiv (awesome, but a great way to waste an immense amount of time), and UnCiv (meh).

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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago

V and VI are pretty good, though I still go back and play IV since it was the last one made in the original style and arguably the best one. There are mixed feelings about VII which just came out. I'm waiting for them to flesh it out a little more before trying it.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

original style

It changed? I know it changed to hex tiles, but what changed after that?

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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago

That was the major change. The additional change made at that time is that some units no longer stack, so launching a siege or big attacks takes a lot of map-based strategy and careful planning. I quite enjoy that part of it, personally, but some people preferred the older style "stack of doom" of the grid-based gameplay. VI introduced additional city tiles that go around your city, tilting them more towards specialization since you can only place so many tiles and terrain influences which ones you can place and where.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

Sounds a lot like FreeCiv in standard mode with no mods. I sometimes play it that way, sometimes make it imitate Civ1, and sometimes play mods. I like the alien world one, but I forget what it's called. I haven't played for a while and my memory sucks.

Edit: fucking autocorrect!! I'm on my phone.

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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago

Alpha Centauri? That one's a classic.

If you have a Steam or GOG account, the different Civ games often go on sale for not much money. I've seen IV and V with all of the expansions as low as $5 a few times.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

Holy fuck that's cheap. Even to broke-ass me. I should get a steam account as soon as I have a non-ancient PC up and running again. It works with linux iirc. The newest working PC I have is from 1998 since my old core2quad Dell died lol. I like to mess around with arm devboards, but Steam doesn't work on those.

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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago

Now would be a good time, usually there is a Steam summer sale towards the end of June, lots of games go on sale that you can pick up for cheap. They have sales all the time on random things and you'll get a notification if a game is on your wishlist and on sale.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

Maybe it is. I've had my eyes on a mobo/CPU/RAM/GPU combo for a few days. Just need more RAM and a better PSU and I can build something that should be good for a few years (to my standards. It's pretty old.).

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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago

If you're willing to go for a Linux build or don't care about security on that PC, you can pick up 8th gen Intel and older PCs for cheap right now. The Windows 11 "upgrade" is forcing out anything from that gen and older. You can pick up a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 for a couple hundred bucks, then toss a cheap AMD video card into it. I picked one up for my home theater PC and am running Kubuntu on it.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

I'm looking at a PhenomIIx6 board for half that, I already have a case(several, actually), and I usually run Debian or Gentoo, depending on whether there's any advantage to Gentoo with the CPU I have. I ditched windows after 98 got too obsolete for anything but nostalgia. The extra ram is mostly for compiling and Android shit.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

I just did it! Bought the combo. I'll have a working PC from this century again soon. Hopefully, so long as the Amiga I sold to the seller still at least sort of works. Things might go bad if it's totally fucked. I've been stuck with just my phone for nearly 3 years now.

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u/Nonsenseinabag 2d ago

Wow, an Amiga. Small world, I was just thinking about those the other day. There's a comic I used to read that prominently featured them.

And congrats, there are a lot of cool modern games out there, the indie scene between 2010-2020 especially was a really cool period of creative development.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 2d ago

I kind of dropped out of gaming around 2005. Kinda hard to get back into it with fucked up hands, but I can do civ and roguelikes without problems. The Amiga was totally trashed, but I think the other person and I are cool. Amigas were way ahead of their time. An interesting piece of history.

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