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Redditor Plays Civ II for 10 Years, World Turns to Hell

Yah, I love Civ II. My favorite feature was the transform terrain function of the engineers because I would transform the terrain of most cities into hills to get powerhouse production cities. I would put mines on the hills and then rails getting I think 6 production out of each square. Combine with factory and power plant etc.. I could one-turn produce stealth fighters and two turn stealth bombers in several cities. I also like the truck in food from one city to another feature. Yah Civ II was a classic.

I would also play past the 2050 limit, like the Redditor did, to try to conquer the other civs. Global warming would happen a couple of times, but that's when the transform terrain feature comes in handy hehe. It would be cool if they could remake Civ II and fix some of the bugs but keep some of the cooler features.
 
Matt Foley said:
How can you not completely win Civ2?
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I'm guessing he intentionally chose not to wipe out some other empires? But then I haven't played Civ II much if at all...

Civ III, IV, and V, yes.
 
Microsoft Windows screwed me out of Civilization IV fun. I still have Windows XP, and 8 gigs of ram, but Windows deliberately won't read more than 2 gigs until I give Microsoft more money.
 
Matt Foley said:
Microsoft Windows screwed me out of Civilization IV fun. I still have Windows XP, and 8 gigs of ram, but Windows deliberately won't read more than 2 gigs until I give Microsoft more money.
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Yeah...I had a 32-bit version of windows XP, but when I upgraded my system I went with a 64-bit version of Win 7 so I could have more ram.
 
Matt Foley said:
Microsoft Windows screwed me out of Civilization IV fun. I still have Windows XP, and 8 gigs of ram, but Windows deliberately won't read more than 2 gigs until I give Microsoft more money.
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Civ IV works fine on XP with 2 gigs of RAM. 64 bit and 32 bit are different hardware systems so you have to create a new operating system for each.
 
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Opteron said:
Civ IV works fine on XP with 2 gigs of RAM. 64 bit and 32 bit are different hardware systems so you have to create a new operating system for each.
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My old PC build ran Win XP Pro 32-bit and had 4 gigs of RAM installed - but only recognized 3.5...

And while yes, it did run Civ IV fine, it started having trouble in the later periods of a game…

But then you have to realize that I usually played on the largest map size, and at the later points in the game much of the world was out of the fog of war, and with all those animations, processing a turn (and animating all the moves and the like) would take a bit…

I even ran Civ V on that rig, come to think of it…that was worse.

Much prefer my 16GB of RAM with this new build :2razz:
 
What I miss about Civ IV that they took away in Civ V is the named religion/religion spread aspect. I thoroughly enjoyed spreading Judaism and converting others/conquering others and converting them forcibly as a way to get back at actual history since the jews have been everyones punching bag for so many centuries.
 
Caine said:
What I miss about Civ IV that they took away in Civ V is the named religion/religion spread aspect. I thoroughly enjoyed spreading Judaism and converting others/conquering others and converting them forcibly as a way to get back at actual history since the jews have been everyones punching bag for so many centuries.
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I was constantly being amused by the random combos of civilization/religion that would crop up.

Like Jewish Persians or the Holy Roman Empire being...Islamic....:lamo
 
Hmm - maybe I'll look into Civ. I had the first one and didn't do much with it - the concept didn't thrill me. I was still hooked on Dungeon keeper.
 
The Mark said:
My old PC build ran Win XP Pro 32-bit and had 4 gigs of RAM installed - but only recognized 3.5...

And while yes, it did run Civ IV fine, it started having trouble in the later periods of a game…

But then you have to realize that I usually played on the largest map size, and at the later points in the game much of the world was out of the fog of war, and with all those animations, processing a turn (and animating all the moves and the like) would take a bit…

I even ran Civ V on that rig, come to think of it…that was worse.

Much prefer my 16GB of RAM with this new build :2razz:
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Ah I see. I'm still running Win XP, lol, with 4 Gig RAM recognize as 3.5 Gigs too. Its a 4 core 64-bit processor, just gonna skip Vista and 7 and go straight to Win 8. Civ IV seemed ok, I played about medium-large maps.
 
The Mark said:
My old PC build ran Win XP Pro 32-bit and had 4 gigs of RAM installed - but only recognized 3.5...

And while yes, it did run Civ IV fine, it started having trouble in the later periods of a game…

But then you have to realize that I usually played on the largest map size, and at the later points in the game much of the world was out of the fog of war, and with all those animations, processing a turn (and animating all the moves and the like) would take a bit…

I even ran Civ V on that rig, come to think of it…that was worse.

Much prefer my 16GB of RAM with this new build :2razz:
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Yup, anything larger than a medium/small sized map and out of memory error.
 
Matt Foley said:
Yup, anything larger than a medium/small sized map and out of memory error.
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While I didn't get that error, I suspect the slowdown was the game having to transfer data to and from the page file.
 
Wow, the memories. :)

Civ II was the best of all of them.

This guy seems like he got this way because of his own fault, but never-the-less, he needs to switch to fundamentalism and work those swamplands. Play for the stalemate on the front (just enough to hold them back), and start clearing the land for farming. Eventually he'll be able to overwhelm his opponents with superior numbers and break through. I wish he would have posted some screenshots though. :)


Tim-
 
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