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

quote: 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).

Otherwise my usual order of preference goes:

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

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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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

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.

quote: 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.

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.

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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?

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

quote: 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...

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quote: Originally posted by Ade on 01-21-2001 08:51 PM 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.

Ade, I recently developed a program that randomizes the personalities of the computer players. I could pretty easily modify it to randomize the colors of the different civs. I just have to make sure that I only assign 3 of each color. Let me know if you are interested and I create it and send it to you.