Civilization V Solo Reports

[T-hawk]

I didn't pick the city names, Firaxis did. But yes I too was struck by the anachronistic choices. Edinburgh and Dublin were not a Celtic union, they never belonged to one nation until coming under British sovereignty. Obscurity should be no obstacle whatsoever to Civ city names; how many of us ever heard of Pasargadae or Dur-Kurigalzu or Xochicalco?

BTW, a few months ago, I actually did see the Stone of Scone in Edinburgh Castle. Funny how things like that come around.

Anyway, if you people keep complimenting the writing, I'm going to have to keep producing more reports...

[Ichabod]

From what I messed around with faith in the game, it seems to be a very redundant system, in certain ways. I mean, if you don't pick the "Religious Policies" that allow spending faith to buy things (like cathedrals and similar stuff), in a short time you don't have much to do with faith. It's like you generate faith to get policies to generate more faith. You can get some weak food/gold/culture policies, but they are very random. I constantly found myself with lots and lots of faith and without much to use it on very early in the game (maybe I'm missing something, though). Missionaries and Great Prophets after enhancing the religion seem kind of pointless.

Then, after a lot of time, you can buy Great People with faith. That's probably the most useful thing to spend faith on. Maybe the weird GPro mechanic of losing all faith when a GPRo is born (rather than use a treshhold) is used to avoid people getting at industrial era with thousands and thousands of faith points and buying thousands of great People.

I haven't played the game enough to make a good analysis of it. These are just my first impressions while playing.

[Brian Shanahan]

I didn't pick the city names, Firaxis did. But yes I too was struck by the anachronistic choices. Edinburgh and Dublin were not a Celtic union, they never belonged to one nation until coming under British sovereignty. Obscurity should be no obstacle whatsoever to Civ city names; how many of us ever heard of Pasargadae or Dur-Kurigalzu or Xochicalco?

Wasn't meant as a dig at you, hope I didn't come across that way.

I'd be fairly close to pointing Pasagardae's site on a map, central Iran. Dur-Kurigalzu I've heard of, but less sure of, and isn't Xochicalco somewhere in Mexico (originally I was thinking the name had the same derivative of the Xoloitzcuintli, the bald dog, but I were wrong)?

BTW, a few months ago, I actually did see the Stone of Scone in Edinburgh Castle. Funny how things like that come around.

How many dwarfs did you kill with it? And how long did it keep you in food?

Anyway, if you people keep complimenting the writing, I'm going to have to keep producing more reports...

I've absolutely no problems with that threat.

[Qgqqqqq]

I didn't pick the city names, Firaxis did. But yes I too was struck by the anachronistic choices. Edinburgh and Dublin were not a Celtic union, they never belonged to one nation until coming under British sovereignty. Obscurity should be no obstacle whatsoever to Civ city names; how many of us ever heard of Pasargadae or Dur-Kurigalzu or Xochicalco?

BTW, a few months ago, I actually did see the Stone of Scone in Edinburgh Castle. Funny how things like that come around.

Anyway, if you people keep complimenting the writing, I'm going to have to keep producing more reports...

You'll still be producing them in 50 years time then.

[BRickAstley]

Anyway, if you people keep complimenting the writing, I'm going to have to keep producing more reports...

Well I've not said it before I don't think, but I'm always fast as well to pick up on a new report of yours. I'm fairly certain I've read every one on that website.

[Rowain]

I didn't pick the city names, Firaxis did. But yes I too was struck by the anachronistic choices. Edinburgh and Dublin were not a Celtic union, they never belonged to one nation until coming under British sovereignty. Obscurity should be no obstacle whatsoever to Civ city names; how many of us ever heard of Pasargadae or Dur-Kurigalzu or Xochicalco?

Well the celts do also pose the problem that their 'empire' is abit hard to grasp. When the celts were THE cultural player they were widespread but had no empire. At least none is known. Afterall what is today considered 'celtic territories' is just the bit of lands they got pushed to while losing their original homes. Due to the Romans and germanic-tribes little is left from the original celtic cities in central europe. The most easy recognizeable (in german speaking regions) carry a name with Hall (example Hallstatt) but AFAIK the real celtic-names are lost for many (then important) places.

[antisocialmunky]

If you want a primer on Iron Age Europe, you can always refer to Europa Barbarorum:
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/features_map.html

How about more than you ever wanted to know about Celtiberians?
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread...reuakoi-10

There's Osprey too:
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Ce...1841761435

I dunno, Civ civilizations don't necessarily correspond to centralized states so I don't see a problem other than the CiV guys being lazy with the naming.

[TheArchduke]

Anyway, if you people keep complimenting the writing, I'm going to have to keep producing more reports...

I like your reports as well.

I also still think CIV V is fun and has some merit as a game, although after CIV IV it is somewhat of a disappointment.

[GreyWolf]

Well, Celts were never a unified state or even a united people.

My comp can't run Civ5, but I enjoy the reports.

[Sareln]

I didn't pick the city names, Firaxis did. But yes I too was struck by the anachronistic choices. Edinburgh and Dublin were not a Celtic union, they never belonged to one nation until coming under British sovereignty. Obscurity should be no obstacle whatsoever to Civ city names; how many of us ever heard of Pasargadae or Dur-Kurigalzu or Xochicalco?

Well the celts do also pose the problem that their 'empire' is abit hard to grasp. When the celts were THE cultural player they were widespread but had no empire. At least none is known. Afterall what is today considered 'celtic territories' is just the bit of lands they got pushed to while losing their original homes. Due to the Romans and germanic-tribes little is left from the original celtic cities in central europe. The most easy recognizeable (in german speaking regions) carry a name with Hall (example Hallstatt) but AFAIK the real celtic-names are lost for many (then important) places.

It doesn't help that CIV's model, in a general sense, conflates the nation state with culture.