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Here's a invite for you if you're interested, MBBF:

http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game/Joi...a-b0a1ac0b1b23

The next Civ expansion will be named One World, no details out besides that.

4 of 6 slots already taken.

I'd jump in.

I'm in.

Civ IV went from decent to great after its second expansion pack. Maybe this will be true for Civ V as well.

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I got a few people who want France. If everyone would post here what civ they want or change it on GMR.

Pardon my newness. I'm in GMR, and have installed the desktop client; what do I do next?

Toss me in something else. Random if that's an option.

It is. You're Limelicker, right?


If you haven't already (and there's still an open slot, so I don't think you have, click the link I sent you. That should secure you a slot. After that, I can start the game in Civ, and the app will notify you when it's your turn, as well as automatically download the save file for you to play. When you're done, the app should send the save file to the next player automatically as well.

It's very, VERY useful, and something I would encourage everyone in the game to download if they haven't already.

I am America.

So, I assume we haven't started yet right? The Robot website will tell me when it is my turn, yeah?

Robot tells you, it can e-mail you, and the desktop app (HIGHLY recommended) will pop up. Game has not started yet.

Thansk for the heads up on the app.

Need to fill one more slot, and once that's done, we'll start. If Brit takes the final slot, we'll start this evening.

Also remember that if you will be gone for a few days, please set "vacation" mode so the game doesn't stop for a week.

Yes, I'm limelicker.

In. I think we're ready to roll now.

The game is afoot!!

Here's the order of players:

Me(Eroy486), playing China.
Dunhere(AlanT), playing Egypt
GRCurmugeon(GStelmack), playing America
Spleen1015, playing France
Limelicker(MBBF), playing ??? (random)
Britrock88, playing the Aztecs

Settings are Small Continents Map, Turn Timer on, Quick Combat on(for those on slower CPU's), 8 City States.

I've taken my turn. AlanT is up. As usual, I'm in a horrible opening position, and I fully expect to be killed soon, just like the PitBoss days. :)

I've set a 24 hour timer per player for taking their turn. As GStelmack suggested, make sure if you're going away for a period of time to set yourself as Vacation. Note if you are skipped on your turn 4 times, the GMR will remove you from the game.

Posted a comment to the game as well, but this morning there was a 30 second in-game turn timer active. That needs to go.

I agree. Trying to figure out how to do that now.

As far as I can tell, we would have to restart the game from scratch. We're only 2 turns in, so this is the best course of action.

Restarting with the same civs (except for the one who had random), this time without the doggone turn timer.

My apologies
 

Had to restart the game. Thankfully, we're only 2 turns in, so it's not so bad. The annoying turn timer that I stupidly put into the game has been turned off.

Damn it. I liked my desert in the middle of nowhere location. :)

Wondered why I had lost my city. Okay, hopping back into the game now.

Did we lose spleen and need a replacement already?

Oh fuck.

I am sorry guys. I was sick on Thursday and Friday, sleeping all day. My daughter had basketball games all weekend as well and I totally forgot about the game.

I'm very sorry about being lame. I will get back to it when I get home tonight.

Sorry I missed a turn or two, folks. I've been wrestling with my computer for a few days, and I forgot that GMR doesn't boot on startup.

What is up with the turn timer? Was supposed to be my turn like 19 hours ago. Was hoping to take my turn in case that I lost power or something, but it looks like it is just stuck?

Or better yet, where's WVU Fan?

Looks like he just surrendered. At least this way the game goes on...

Sigh. I'm still in it for the long haul, even if it's just two of us and a bunch of AIs.

Did something happen to our game? I just went to see if it was my turn and the game no longer shows up in GMR for me.

I received a message saying you had resigned.

Makes me wonder if I'm getting skipped again. I suppose I should be more proactive about opening up GMR and checking the game's status, rather than trusting that it'll pop up from the system tray when it should to notify me.

I keep GMR open on my desktop, and I have it sending e-mails to an account I'm on all the time.

Sorry for being lame guys.

Hmm... GMR is freezing when I try to submit my turn. I'll restart the computer here in a bit and try it again.

I am away from my computer traveling for work for a week, so I turned on vacation mode in GMR so you all won't have to wait for my turns to be skipped.

As a backup plan you can always try the website in the future.

Good to know; I'll check that out should this recur.

Back in town, so turned off vacation mode. (At least for this week, looks like I have to travel the following two weeks for work though)

GMR's asking for my authentication key...

New expansion incoming!

RPS has a great interview already

Sweet! Was just reading the speculation thread on what the new civs might be yesterday. Was much debate over Poland. :)

And then we have Uncle Sid, demonstrating to other developers of legacy games (cough, SimCity), how you property develop and test a game and make sure that you focus on what the customer wants in the game.

Thank you, Sid. Day one purchase.

We've been debated about the rumored expansion pack for a while now at cfc, ever since someone saw some steam folders with the name "one world". I'm glad it wasn't just our wishful thinking.

Thank God - if there was one thing this game was crying out for, it was King Casimir III of Poland

Seriously, I'm geeked about this. Gods and kings is an incredible expansion, don't expect anything less from this one

Ok, Bucc: why no Zulu?

(and am I alone in thinking Morocco/Moors is being undersold as a possible civ?)

Only if you can rename them to Moops.

Cuervo, it has to do with the number of ranters and screamers saying that Zulu has to be in the game. No they don't and they never offered much civ- wise in the series, just tradition.

I agree about morocco, that would nice. However I've shied away from getting involved in civ speculation since much of it was based on stupid nationalism.

I think BNW is going to be great, dovetailing nicely with g&k's emphasis on early-mid game. As long as the make World Congress a minor role and not lame like civ4's UN.

If we are talking about new civs to add I hope they consider Maori - partly because that would be cool and partly because I enjoy playing TSL and having an oceanic civ would greatly help with balance

bhlloy, they ready did some time ago. The civ is Polynesia and its unique unit is Maori.

Is that a DLC? If its standard in G&K I have no idea how I've missed it for this long

Yes, I believe all of the previous DLC civs were included in G&K (except for Korea?).

I have Korea but not Polynesia. Weird

I don't think the Polynesia, Denmark and Korea DLC were included in G&K. I purchased those on a Steam holiday sale six months after I purchased G&K.

Very exciting. I'm glad to see this is focusing on late-game play. I get not wanting to make the end game too silly, but right now after your reach a certain point in the game, the winner is all but determined. Sometimes the last 50-100 turns or even more are just inevitable button pushing to the conclusion.

I think they came in the GOTY edition. Well, not Korea - that was only offered standalone. But Danes, Polynesia, Spain, etc.

Polynesia unit is Moai, as in statue, not Maori. Maori would be cool.

Can't wait for this expansion.

No, their UU is the Maori Warrior. They can also build Moai statues as an improvement that gives culture on coastal tiles.

Maori warrior (Civ5) - Civilization
Moai (Civ5) - Civilization

I think people are probably over thinking the speculation on new civilizations with BNW. There are nine new civs; we know one will be Poland. We know the U.S. Civil War will be a scenario, so don't you have to have an American/Lincoln and Confederate/Davis civ? There's the Scramble for Africa, so would make sense that we need a Belgian civ.

But will the other civs be duplicates like in Civ IV? Possibly tied to the Scramble for Africa scenario using existing civs with alternate leaders? Or will there be nine new distinct civs plus alternates?

Finally had time to read the RPS interview ... so glad to hear that the end game is the focus. In most ways G&K was a whole new game, and BNW sounds like it has even more dramatic changes. Very exciting.

The scenario would have to have one, but aren't there other scenario civs that aren't in the main game? (I've not played any, but clicking on the Polynesian one shows a number of civ icons that are a spin off of the main one).

And the FOFC game is stuck on britrock. Not that it matters much, we were down to just the 3 of us. Sigh.

Oh, sorry about that! I forget that GMR doesn't load on startup. I'll get to that tonight.

Some of the new civilizations have leaked out for Brave New World: Portugal, Poland, Brazil, Zulu and Assyria. Of the other four Civs, rumors are Morocco, Sioux, Inuit, Cuba and Belgium. Some city-states are being promoted to capitals, so the confirmed by screenshot additions are: Ur, Dubai, Riga and Panama City.

Glad to see Portugal -- that has seemed like a missing Civ from the beginning.

Really can't wait for July 9. I still hit Civ 5 from time to time to try a Civ I haven't done well with and new maps, but by the time I get to the 1900s I begin to lose interest. Really hope the improvements in the end game work well.

And I think Alan T's been on vacation mode for quite a while now... :/

Day one. Really excited for this....

Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World | Official Site | 2K

Anyone care to give someone who just now bought Gods & Kings the short version about how best to use religion and espionage? It seemed like just all of a sudden one day I got a spy and a prophet, but not sure how best to use all the buildings and units that the religion especially seems to provide. Best to use faith to buy missionaries? What buildings can you buy with faith? What are spies best used for? I'm like 1 game in right now, and it's still a little confusing.

I really haven't found a whole lot of use for religions in the game. It seems the amount of work needed to nurture it isn't worth the effort.

Spies are useful to either keep in your capital to help stop spying by other countries, or you can send them to more advanced countries to steal their technology. Spies will also tell you if another country is plotting an invasion.

I agree with cartman on religion. It offers diminishing returns and while I think it's important to get an early pantheon (folklore or fertility), the beliefs I choose are the ones more internal and does not depend upon spread. I much rather use faith to buy units or great persons, not missionaries et al (except to gain influence with city-states).

If I can steal 2-5 techs in a game with spies, then I'm happy.

You can also send them to City-States to have them "rig and election" and gain influence.

New video from the expansion.....

I can't wait for this expansion.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/e...ave-new-world/

EDIT - It looks like the link to the US version is http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/e...-new-world-na/

Can someone in the US check and confirm?

I've been really enjoying the combination of +1 gold per 4 followers and the "religion spreads faster (even faster after Printing Press)". If I can get my religion going early, a few great prophets/missionaries sent to establish a presence on another continent/island and I'm swimming in money.

I typically go for a religion as soon as I can just because the more civs who beat you to it, the harder it is to found a new one after that, and there are just too many benefits to religion even if you keep it within your own borders to let that go.

I'm a sucker for the religion perks that grant production bonuses. :-D

Steam is also having a Civ 5 free to play weekend, starting today, and has -75% off all pre-Brave New World items. (and 10% off Brave New World)

Yeah, the 10% off is universal among retailers that are doing preorders. Amazon, Steam, Gamefly, Newegg, GreenManGaming...

GMG has the extra 25% off voucher, as Ryan pointed out. Only drawback is you don't get the Steam key to activate your purchase until release day, as opposed to Steam where you'll be able to preload in advance.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/e...-new-world-na/
Civ V: Brave New World for $20.25 using voucher code GMG25-GDSAK-7FPWQ

just went to a website to watch some of the trailers and the release date was listed as June 9th...almost hurt myself running up the stairs to get my wallet

Getting excited. Plan on a big night session late Monday night when the new expansion unlocks. Preparing to get sucked back in for another few hundred hours of gameplay.

I too am excited for the release. God do I ever hate when games aren't released on weekends. Now I'll have to wait till next week to get some serious game play in.

My band's got two shows next weekend, and both are two-set jobs. I have yet to play a full second set on the bass, so I have a lot of learning to do. Will probably have to wait to get in on the Brave New World action. :(

It would have been so great if they had released the game today! Does it come out Monday night or early Monday?

Yeah, it's going to be huge; so many new mechanics.

Yeah, I'd have love to marathon that thing through the holiday weekend.

Guessing you mean 'early Tuesday,' not Monday, and it probably depends on your time zone. My guess is midnight Pacific on the 9th.

Those who ordered through GreenManGaming for the discount will probably not be able to preload because keys won't be available until the game is released, so fair warning there.

I know the Steam releases unlock for me here at 11:00 PM CDT.

This was my first GMG purchase. Any idea when keys are released? Do they email you or do you have to login to get it?

https://www.greenmangaming.com/user/account/#games

Log in and go there, and you should see 'Steam games.' You click that, and when the key is available, it should be there.

Midnight eastern, then.

The last time I preordered from GMG I got the keys a few days before release.

The one thing I would be concerned about is that GMG is a British site, and the EU release date is Friday.

...I think I'd cry.

OTOH, if they give you the keys a few days before release, maybe that means Tuesday after all?

OTOH GMG's page for BNW *does* say the release date is July 9, so...

Here's an IGN hands-on review of how late game mechanics have changed for the better.

Civilization V: Brave New World Review - IGN

Who gets to the late game, anyway? :P