What's your favorite civ and why?

Chris 62 · January 16, 2001, 04:55

Just wondering what you other folks choose to play as. I like the greeks for a couple of reasons. one is I'm greek myself. Another is I get a good feeling of history from names of cities like Delphi and Pylos.

Geography Dan · January 16, 2001, 04:56

I like the Romans, because I've studied a lot of Roman history.

I also often play as one of the purple civs, because I hate having to play against any of them.

Chris 62 · January 16, 2001, 05:00

I personally don't like the yellow. They just look to happy and bright

Rufus T. Firefly · January 16, 2001, 05:28

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Originally posted by Geography Dan on 01-16-2001 03:56 AM
I also often play as one of the purple civs, because I hate having to play against any of them.

Hey, I do that too! (But only as the Sioux; I hate the others too much). I also play as the Romans so that I won't have to play against the Russians, which is just as lame. But the civs I actually like being are the Americans and the English (because I can keep the names of their cities straight) and most of all the Persians (both because I live in part of the old Persian empire and because they are a perfectionist civ and thus generally get starting techs I like).

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Smokey tha nuke man · January 16, 2001, 16:50

most of the time, i play as the americans, cause i am american, or i'll play as the romans, cause i think they are the most friggin awesome real world civillization in history.

suas333 · January 16, 2001, 17:07

My personnal favorite are the Egyptians. The bright yellow makes cities nice to see on the mini map.

Otherwise my usual order of preference goes:

1) egyptian
2) French
3) Roman
4) American

BTW cpoulos, nice to see a few more New Yorkers playing civ lately.
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Wiglaf · January 16, 2001, 18:07

Good topic, cpoulos!

I like the Carthaginians, Hannibal's got his own unit

. Have you noticed that some of those rude diplomats carry swords and guns to your throne room? Tsk, tsk.

Julius Brenzaida · January 16, 2001, 18:32

Since the following game, I very often play the purple. It was an OCC one, Prince level, where I was a bit fooling around on a gigamap as the Mongols. My AI friends were quite far away and a lot of sailing was required for my trade. By the middle of the 20th century, the seas were as secure as a Chicago street in the 1930’s which explained why I had a real task-force to go along with my Transports full of freight. So long an introduction to tell you that I had 2 battleships and an aircraft carrier with bombers and fighters and helicopters not too far away from the French capital when it launched a spaceship just before me ! Damn ! and it was a fast one ! The only solution was to seize the capital, but that is not allowed with OCC rule. And that’s where destiny helped me ! There were a few barbarians near Paris. I threw everything against the city and it fell down and the Barbarians walked in and the ship went back to earth and mine took off, and I won the race. It remains one of my most stunning civ2 stunt. What has the purple to do with that ? Well, I had been the French and the French had been me, the Mongol would have played before the Barbarians and it would not have worked, as in the game, where the Barbarians played before the French. Forever grateful for that miraculous save, I like to choose the purple ones.

Besides : I like the purple color and when I play the extended original in ToT, I like to play the extraterrestrials and invade earth like in all those lo sci-fi books. So purple, purple and purple !

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weird god · January 16, 2001, 18:50

ROME RULES EVERY GAME. and only a world covered in innocent white is a good world, hehe

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Thoth · January 16, 2001, 19:00

I almost always play the Romans. I just seem to have better (more fun) games when I play them. They've also got the longest list of city names of any civ. I've played them often enough to become familiar with the city names, and I know it's been a good city building game when "Bagacum" gets built.

Smokey tha nuke man · January 16, 2001, 19:15

I know it's been a good city building game when "Bagacum" gets built.

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Is that really a city name the computer gives a city!!!i'm surprised that they didn't censor that

"bagacum", ha, if i ever start a real life country, that is going to be my capital

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War4ever · January 16, 2001, 20:07

I play purple and purple only as the Mongols, The Mongolian Horde, or just The Horde. The Mongols were the largest spanning empire in the world and i like to apply that principle to civ especially MP whenever possible... you didn't expect anything else did you

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Bereta_Eder · January 16, 2001, 21:10

MOst of the time I play the greeks, french, egyptians and celts.
After some thinking I have come to realize that these are the civs that I feel more.. closely to according to my own twisted judgement.

Greeks: well I feel close 'cause I am own of them ! and I think they are appropriate to an early start.

French, I like their opposition (however sovinistic) to some aspects of today's civs. Plus french revolution and humanistic principles are my moto in real life. (which seem to be strangely forgotten when I am engaged in world conquest

) France seem to piss off the modern world pretty much which I also like and it's always fun to play and think they are always there to irritate everybody! (like the fly on the butt of that old lithargic horse that was Athens in Plato's tales).

Egyptians: Ancient Egypt and tales bordering the realm of myth like the Alexandria's Library always held a mystic over me. It's like a close but yet «exotic» civ to me.

Celts: They are funny! To my mind and from what I have heard (I almost know nothing about them really) they seem like ancient revolutionaries. Also it brings to mind paganism and before christianity cults that were so much different from the greek ones I already know.

popcornvendor · January 16, 2001, 21:44

i play as the zulus. i renamed them the barbarians and i get the barbarian city names.

Chris 62 · January 16, 2001, 23:31

Losts of different civs, but i notice that except for the americans and french most like the older civs. Does anyone like to play as the english? or the germans? Hoe about the chinese? I always like to see them around.

Rufus T. Firefly · January 17, 2001, 03:27

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Originally posted by cpoulos on 01-16-2001 10:31 PM
Losts of different civs, but i notice that except for the americans and french most like the older civs. Does anyone like to play as the english? or the germans? Hoe about the chinese? I always like to see them around.

I play as the English, for the reasons I stated above. But -- prepares for onslaught of rotton tomatoes and overripe melons -- it's always bugged me that the Germans were in the game. I mean, they never really had much of an empire, did they? They were the big losers in the scramble for Africa (heck, Belgium had more territory), and that was at their height! I suppose you could say the same thing for the Celts, the Aztec,and the Sioux. Whereas the Dutch, the Ottoman Turks, and the Phoenecians (sp?) all deserve to be in there. I'd love to see the Hittite Empire get its due, too. I guess I'll just have to learn to alter the rules.txt file.

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East Street Trader · January 17, 2001, 08:10

Admiring of that stunt, Julius.

I'm playing as the Mongols in my current game and if I see a chance ti give the barbs an enemy capital I'll attempt it in honour of your feat.

Popcornvendor

Didn't know there are barbarian names. I suppose I can look for them in the files but, meanwhile, enlighten my darkness. What's the capital called?

By the way, hit a small barbarian oddity the other day. I lost a city to the barbs and when I bribed it back they had the solitary citizen working as a tax collector? Now barbarian tax seems like an odd sort of thing. And what sort of life expectancy would you give the poor sob with the job of collecting it?

Basileus of the Romans · January 17, 2001, 11:58

I play a variety of civs.

The Byzantines of course

(customized Greeks) because I am a bit of a Byzantine historian, so I take a certian amount of pride in building the Eastern Roman Empire

The Germans, becuase I am part German. I'm glad the Germans are in the game. Great Powers aren't all about sheer size, you know! Germany, at one time or another, has brought us great musicians like J.S. Bach and Beethoven, great thinkers like Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, and Martin Heideigger, military theorists like Karl von Clausewitz, Heinz Guderian, and Moltke the Elder. Not to forget great leaders and statesmen like Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Frederick Barbarossa! I'd be happy to discuss German history in another thread, though, as this one is dedicated to the civs that we play

I also play as the Romans for the various reasons the others do. Although, I like customizing the rules so that I play in a Roman world- I play as either the Romans or Byzantines on the Europe map, with the AIs being either the other half of the Roman Empire (whichever one I am not playing), the Germans, Egyptians, Persians, etc.

JimH · January 17, 2001, 11:59

I seem to only win with the Carthigians. Maybe orange is my lucky color....

KaiserIsak · January 17, 2001, 12:23

The romans is my favorite, 1) because they start, 2) because of the nice color, 3) because of their cities and 4) because i admire their historical great empire.

Bereta_Eder · January 17, 2001, 18:30

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I play as either the Romans or Byzantines on the Europe map, with the AIs being either the other half of the Roman Empire (whichever one I am not playing), the Germans, Egyptians, Persians, etc.

Hmm, that gives me an incentive to choose the civs I play with. I've never done that; I like waiting for the unexpected and I love the impredictabilty of not choosing civs.

But if you choose thy challengers according to a certain historical era in which they all existed I guess the world (random even) would feel more real. Plus you'd not have the limitations of senarios...

Thanx Basileus

jcarkey · January 17, 2001, 19:34

I used to play as Mongols but now I play as ROmans for no particular reason.

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Action · January 18, 2001, 18:01

Wow, Am I the only one who plays the Russians? I play the Russians when I am going for conquest and the Americans when I am going for AC. Heh, I guess I am stuck in the cold war.

What colors do you think would be the best to avoid playing in order to get challenging AI civs? Purple for one.

Smokey tha nuke man · January 18, 2001, 20:39

am i the only one that has trouble telling the yellow and orange unit sheilds apart. i've started a billion wars cause i thought i was attacking one civ when i though i was attacking the yellow when i am actually attacking the orange (and it always seems that they yellows are my enemies).
so i avoid playing as either yellow or orange to make sure i can tell who my units are.
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jcarkey · January 18, 2001, 22:54

No smokey, I don't fall in to your predicament.

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Chris 62 · January 19, 2001, 01:35

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Originally posted by Action on 01-18-2001 05:01 PM
Wow, Am I the only one who plays the Russians? I play the Russians when I am going for conquest and the Americans when I am going for AC. Heh, I guess I am stuck in the cold war.

What colors do you think would be the best to avoid playing in order to get challenging AI civs? Purple for one.

Your not the only one. I like the russians also, but as silly as it seems, the colors matter to me as I'm playing. Also, russian culture is as long and varied as any european civ, not just the cold war and comunist era.

popcornvendor · January 21, 2001, 20:51

about the barbarian names. the capital is called "17" and then the city names are like "visigoths" and "saxons" and some more i cant remember at the moment. i think there are 17 cities with barbarian names, hence the 17 on the capital name. funny, i dont think iv built of 17 cities, i usually get bout 10 and then conquer what i need

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Anodyne · January 21, 2001, 21:51

Hmm. It sounds quite strange reading how you talk about the colors of civs

I think it was boring to always know what civs were in the same game, so I started randomizing the colors at the start of each game (I just use dice and edit the rules.txt according to my die rolls... haven't figured out a more advanced system), making it more exciting. Nowadays, it's much more fun, like having the Greeks, English and Carthaginians, and Romans, Russians and Celts all in the same game! I'd suggest you to try it, too. If you don't like it, change the colors back.
Oh, yes, about the favourite civs:
I like playing Chinese, they've just always been so fascinating, especially for their scientific and philosophical progress in the ancient era. Some other of my favourites are the Persians or Arabs (I like the tales of 1000 and 1 nights

), Babylonians (fascinating, yes...), and Carthaginians(as I admire the Phoenicians and these are the closest I can get to them).
Anyway, I still do enjoy playing any civ in the game.

Caesar the Glutton · January 25, 2001, 11:08

I like being the Romans, Carthaginians, or Greeks. I just like the city names for them. I have been every civ at least once, but my least favorites are the purple ones, and the Persians.

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ruoxiaohai · January 29, 2001, 05:01

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Originally posted by cpoulos on 01-16-2001 10:31 PMHow about the chinese? I always like to see them around.

Right here! But I always rename the tribe to "Children of the Dragon."
I also like to play as the white civilizations...white here being the color of their flags...Yes. Anyway, they are so easy to see on the map.