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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2684495" data-attributes="member: 4779">Just shut it off after 9+ hours straight.  I'll post more thoughts later but here's some quickies for now:*  I like the focus on less cities and more techs with many ways to play and customize, all the way down to the units.*  They REALLY changed how some of the city improvements and Wonders work.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  I raced to get the Great Lighthouse so my ships could take to the oceans and explore the world.  Well, I should have read what it actually gives you first.  I sat there bug-eyed for at least a minute.  It was a good time to take a nacho break.*  I'm about an hour or so in and I have 2 cities pumping along, I'm scouting the rest of the continent for placement of a third.  At this point I have a few workers scurrying around building the Might Russian Transcontinental Stone & Mud Road.  I zoom back to my capital and I get this message: "A forest has grown near Moscow," folloed by a clump of trees engulfing an area that I was planning on developing next!  I was stunned and impressed all at once.  Very cool.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*  Religion is wacky.  I like the way it is used.  I had a real challenge trying to isolate my civ from other civ's religion with absolutely no luck.*  And has anyone else been crushed by another civ completing a Wonder mere turns before you do?  I got 300 gold, sure - but I lost hundreds of years of improvements.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />* NO. MORE. LOST. AT. SEA.All said, I love this game.  Much better than Civ III which was cool at times but was more frustrating than Civ II.  I think they got it right this time.  It can be as simple or as complex as I want it to be so far.  I'm honestly surprised it's *this* good.  To me - Civ is back.Graphically the game chugs at times which drives me nuts.  I need to either get a new computer or finally get around to fixing my custom rig that had a HD crash earlier this year.  Never thought I'd be saying that about a Civ game.</blockquote>

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