Civilization V Solo Reports

[T-hawk]

I always feel like there's a really good freeform strategy game somewhere in there

That nails it. There's a good strategy game somewhere in there and I'm going to bang on Civ 5 until I find it. I think it's optimizing for fast culture, since that avoids some of the worst design spots, ICS and the AI's tactical ineptitude.

Commodore, I have no information on G&K PBEM.

Anyway, the larger news is that I think I isolated the crashing problem. It happens in the Renaissance if either of my two DLC civs (Babylon and Korea) are in the game. It's reproducible by just starting a Renaissance era game with either civ - crashes instantly. Maybe the DLC is corrupt on my machine somehow, though I'm rather not inclined to shovel more time at the problem and just go play other civs instead.