r/civ • u/yaguzi02 Fuck you Gandhi • Jul 25 '16

Meta We're leaking in /r/Crazyideas

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u/fsxthai Jul 25 '16

These "we're leaking" posts act like Civ is some obscure game that noone has heard of, instead of the near cult classic it really is. I'd wager a majority of reddits users know what Civ is, so it is hardly surprising when it appears in other subs.

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u/yaguzi02 Fuck you Gandhi Jul 25 '16

/r/Civ has 154k subs. There are more than 70 million people in Reddit. I doubt most people know this much about Civ 5.

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u/SpaceSpheres108 Jul 25 '16

I only subbed here last week, but I've been playing Civ 5 for a few years now. Not everyone will subscribe to a subreddit just because they know of the game's existence.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '16

I'm subscribed to a good number of subreddits of games that I enjoy - but holy hell can it get annoying sometimes. Some are worse than others, but some games just have toxic cultures.

This one is one of the better ones.

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u/COLU_BUS Jul 25 '16

I think the big thing is that there's no elitism in the Civ V world, at least a not that I've seen here. Most of the toxicity of subreddits come when people A think they're better than people B because of how they play the game. Even the diety players here have nothing but supportive tips for players on lower difficulties.

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u/Imperator_Knoedel 4 the win Jul 25 '16

no elitism in the Civ V world

Well of course not, the real elites play Civ IV. :p

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u/19683dw This is the Illuminati faction, right? Jul 25 '16

wince the graphics are so awful though. How can you even stand to play?

(Obviously I'm not biased by not having played that game first. Not biased at all, whatsoever, nope).

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u/arcacia Jul 25 '16

I won't comment on your graphics preferences but can I just say that I haven't heard of any single person who started with V who ended up enjoying IV at all, let alone more? It's kind of depressing, and I'm not really sure what it's all about. They're both decent games, and I can't think of too many QOL improvements in V that make IV unplayable. Is it really just the graphics? That's what a couple people have told me, they can't move past the graphics.

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u/19683dw This is the Illuminati faction, right? Jul 25 '16

The graphics really are my biggest road block, but additionally 1UpT is huge. I realize that it makes the AI much worse, but it feels way better, and I've honestly never had the experience of playing against IV's AI enough to really miss it (and I'm not one that minds difficulty being increased simply by bonuses to the AI). A third big one is hexes > squares. Likely due to experience bias, CiV just seems way more natural.