Civilization V Solo Reports

[Commodore]

Thanks T-Hawk, entertaining as ever.

So reading these and Ichabod's posts in the PBEM I'm struck again that there seems to be some good clay here; you are enjoying the game as it is and there may be something workable...how much modding do you (all) think Civ5 would need to look like a decent MP game? Something like Civ4 BtS base at least for balance/playability...

[wetbandit]

Look at the NQ mod. It makes quite a lot of significant changes. You can find it on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/nqmod/ here and there are more than a handful of twitch streamers who play it with videos on there or youtube. Ichabod has led the charge to have a game here among RB types using NQ mod, we'd like to have more interested people.

[v8mark]

Is there a summary somewhere as to what the NQ mod does exactly? Other than 'make the game better', that is. I had a quick look on the subreddit and on Google and really couldn't get much of a sense...

[Ichabod]

Is there a summary somewhere as to what the NQ mod does exactly? Other than 'make the game better', that is. I had a quick look on the subreddit and on Google and really couldn't get much of a sense...

I think most/all of the changes are listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1me02...p9ly8/edit

The mod is balanced for MP and quick speed. There seems to be a pretty active MP community behind the mod, which is a good sign.

[v8mark]

Great, thank you!

[Azza]

Seems like some serious powercreep into the social policies.

[T-hawk]

Back in non-mod news, here's another one. I'm getting faster at actually playing through these after several runs now.

http://www.dos486.com/civ5/bnw5/

[T-hawk]

Two more:

http://dos486.com/civ5/bnw6/

http://dos486.com/civ5/bnw7/

Okay, both Poland and Sacred Sites are indeed pretty good.

[naufragar]

Thanks. These are always really great reads.

Did you start on the gold hill in the Poland game? I can't figure how you'd get there on turn 1 otherwise.

[T-hawk]

I moved there. Your first settler never starts on a resource. The game actually starts on turn 0, then you can move onto a hill and settle on turn 1.