If you have a Microsoft operating system newer than Windows 2000, you already have to do online activation. If there's a nuclear holocaust in the northwest, you won't be able to authenticate your copy of Windows, so you'll never even get to the part where you need to authenticate Civ 5.
The new steam decided that I can't play any of the Company of Heroes in offline mode now. It says it can not contact the key server or something along those lines. Apparently the new Steam decided it needed to make sure all my games were real again. It also won't let me play Defense Grid because it was downloading the dlc but didnt finish before I lost my connection. So now that I don't have an internet connection till the middle of next month, four of my games can't be played.
What this meant was that "people who purchase software will have more legal rights if they buy over the counter rather than downloading", said Gunning.
If you have a Microsoft operating system newer than Windows 2000, you already have to do online activation. If there's a nuclear holocaust in the northwest, you won't be able to authenticate your copy of Windows, so you'll never even get to the part where you need to authenticate Civ 5.
Not true at all. There are versions which don't require activation, cracks that remove the issue, etc. I've used several operating systems newer than your threshold and have NEVER participated in online activation.
Nope, it's only 2:14AM and I'm finally stopping. Been playing since 10:00. I just picked this up and am hooked beyond belief. Work will be terror today.
Versions that don't require activation go with site licenses (usually for corporations). It's unlikely you can legally install one on your home machine. (Maybe I'm wrong? But even the version of XP I bought when I was in college, that was included as part of the educational license my school had, required activation.)
Obviously there are cracks; there would also be cracks for Steam if it went down, if there aren't already.
I'm not really happy about online activation. I just think a lot of the people against it are blowing it out of proportion. (My own limit is if they intentionally limit the number of times you can install/activate it, or the new Ubisoft thing where you have to be online the whole time.)
I can't believe people are using nukes in an argument
I would like to think if Seattle was blown off the map that trying to play Civ 5 would be quite low on your list to do. :awe:
And how the heck did this discussion morph into nuke bombs destroying the ability to play this game?
You can play it as you wish, though I've never liked diplomatic or cultural victories, they seem like cop-outs because AI never goes for them. I usually went for the space race win, mostly because domination/conquest is very tedious on huge maps which I played exclusively.
Also, I rarely rebuild anything, I build it right the first time, this is especially important for cottages. New resources can change stuff of course...
Question about Civ4
I've played a few games - working my way up to Noble - and am finding that on or around the 100 turns left message - I basically spend a lot of time just rebuilding farms, cottages, etc, city units, or wonders [I always build the united nations] - is that how the game usually plays out if you're not a warmonger? [I end up winning the diplomatic victory].
1 unti per tile seems to little to me. maybe a limit off 3-5 would have been more realistic.
I myself never really understood the hype about "stack of doom" especially against AI that tends to have tons of "artillery" units that cause colateral damage in CIV IV. I mean a real could easly attack your stack with 10-20 canons or whatever basicaly crippling it.
i always had multiple stacks and a few old or else useless units in front to take the hits.
it also provides an additional facet of planning when it comes to where to build your city.The problem is that a city often has one place to attack from that's clearly the best choice. Cross a river and you're generally hosed. Attacking from a hill or in the forest drastically increases your odds of success over flat land. So your units that are in those other stacks outside of the one tile with a terrain advantage have a greatly decreased ability to do anything to a city, so you're better of putting it one stack and attacking from that advantageous position.
could they be taking away keypad movement?
I've been playing Civ 4 for god knows how many years and I didn't even know it existed.
The problem is that a city often has one place to attack from that's clearly the best choice. Cross a river and you're generally hosed. Attacking from a hill or in the forest drastically increases your odds of success over flat land. So your units that are in those other stacks outside of the one tile with a terrain advantage have a greatly decreased ability to do anything to a city, so you're better of putting it one stack and attacking from that advantageous position.
On Topic:
1 unti per tile seems to little to me. maybe a limit off 3-5 would have been more realistic.
I myself never really understood the hype about "stack of doom" . . .
Hex-tiles. What happens when i push the up-arrow button? where does the unit move?
How do I move on a laptop that doesnt have a num-pad with the apprpriate "left-up" arrows?
2K Games announced today that Sid Meiers Civilization® V will be available in North America on September 21, 2010 and internationally on September 24, 2010 for Windows PC.