You do realize that El Presidente means "The President" in Spanish... right? It's not some made up title that Tropico put together. Trust me, as a guy who has both games, it's for Civ V.
No, civ. Cities will request resources, whales being one of the many possibilities, and will go crazy if you connect that resource to your trade system.
thats all fine and dandy, except you wasted time, considering when you declare war on someone you had open borders with, all your units are ejected from their territory
That's just retarded. Imagine IRL if the invaders were already inside your territory and suddenly were slingshotted back outside the borders by an invisible rubberband.
It's not for realism, it's for game balance.
If they didn't boot you out, you could just kill another civs capital in 1 turn without them having the time to react (with AI anyways, since any sane human player would see it happening)
When I was in the 8th grade I did this exact thing to a friend of mine. I think I was playing as the japanese or something. It was in school and we had enough copies for the whole class to play in different LAN games. It was BADASS!
But me and a couple friends decided to play together and teamup against some other people. We were in a lobby of 6. 3 us, 3 them. It was perfect. I got the southern end of the map and had no idea where they were at. I never sent scouts out, I never ventured too far. I let my guys worry about all that, filling in the map for my head. I focused heavily on offence. I built the biggest army I could, all the while talking like it was casual. they took over the middle area filled with gold and started farming. We rested there for a little while and gained our forces and advanced through the ages. Soon my army was covering the whole screen when I looked at it (I didn't want them to know).
I told both of them, that I was creating an army. And that I have superior units to them. I told them I would whipe out everyone else on the board. They just had to send me all of there resources. I told them I have been making some units right now for defence, ask them if they want any. "of course man, It would be great to have some extra help". So I sent my army, split in half. Still enough to wipe out them out easy peasy even with defence. There resources finally get to me and I spend all of it on siege units. I make incredible amounts of them. Then I sent them. I said, "reinforcements on the way, my new army is done."
They turned to our enemies and said that it was all over and that we were totally going to win. They didn't even care, But one guy... He had seen everything I was doing and just laughed the entire time.
When I got my siege units to my friends castles I told them to send their resources to me again. That I was going to attack in waves. They agreed that was a good idea just in case. As soon as they said, "alright everything is sent" I turned off the peace treaty with them and started decimating them from the inside out. Nothing stood any kind of chance. My main friend who I usually communicated strategy with was like "wait what? Why are your units attacking? Dude your units are attacking me! That's not what they're supposed to do!". He's screaming and yelling trying to grasp what was happening and trying to stop it at the same time. I already killed his castle so he was out of the game. But he was still furious. My other friends castle was better built from defence on the outside. If I had been on the outside I might have had problems. But because I infiltrated his castle I #rekt his **** . They were just dying, as was the guy across the way.
I ended up regrouping all of my units and sending them out to kill the other guys. There was a small force that tried to attack my castle. They were taken care of quickly.
Every game goes like this for me:
"Oh damn, x is beating me in tech, y is nearing the end of culture and z is going for that diplomatic victory."
"Guess i'll have to kill them all."
I don't play civ4, never did, I liked civ 3 so much I played it till civ 5 came out, but my civ 5 games usually end up with me going for cultural, and being peacefull, having 5 or 6 cities that are top notch with top notch units protecting them being cheap and all, and then I get attacked, so I start to build an army to retaliate, someone gets mad at me for killing the one's that attacked me, I have too many cities to get culture levels and boom I'm conquering the world.
Usually that ends up in them teaming up on me, besides being seiged means my farms and mines are getting ****** which I canno't allow, as it cripples my production and city's growth.
by far the most fun i have in Civ is building a continent spanning civilization, right up the middle, seperating a bunch of factions from eachother. im practicly immune from any form of attack, because i can exchange passing through rights with the guys on the other side for a request to attack.
and at the end game, everyone is within nuking range.
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Theron: It is the law, my lord. The Spartan army must not go to war.
King Leonidas: Nor shall it. I've issued no such orders. I'm here, just taking a stroll, stretching my legs. These, uh, 300 men are my personal bodyguard.
So I have Civ 5, I got it free (I think it was for voting in the golden joystick awards.)
I've only installed, booted it up and tried a tutorial and it wasn't really for me.
Is there a mode that is like free roam, where you can just build **** like in Zoo Tycoon or Sim Park and so on? Or is it still that tile and wait system?
No, there's no sandbox-type mode where you just build whatever you feel like for free. The game's not well suited for that anyway, since you only get one of each type of building per city, so if that's your style, stick to the types of games that play like that. The game's more about the management than the creation of the civilization.
No, it really isn't like those games. Its more of a competitive strategy game and the end objective is to be the dominant civ on the planet. So, there really isn't a free roam but if your friends have the game too, play it with them for an awesome time
Please keep in mind that if you got it like that, then it's most likely lacking DLCs, and the base game is pretty bad without the G&K or BNW expansion.
I'd personally just try mods and/or setting it on the easiest difficulty. I know of one mod where you can literally change the tiles themselves, put cities of whoever, wherever you want, give yourself certain units, etc.
I have Civ 4. It's fun, but I'm horrible at it and often have to cheat. I also notice that my paratroopers and tanks are often bested by my enemies muskets. Why is this? How does a musket beat my tank?
Musketmen get defensive bonuses. So if they are say, in a city, on a hill, hunkered down, and the city has a big cultural bonus, you will have a bad time. You want to take cannons/artilary to lower the cultural defense and do collateral damage. Troops with lass than full health are much weaker.
Thats why a longbowman with say, 6 power can take out so many axe men, even though they have almost the same power (5).
This musket guy wasn't in a town. He was on a desert tile and my tank was on a hill. This wasn't a single incident either. It happened often. My units would often have multiple bonus perks, but still get destroyed by muskets. My para-troopers with 5 stars on strength got kill by a musket. I call that a broken combat system.
I usually mass produce my nations specialty units... i.e. american minutemen... just because when you upgrade they keep their special perk (rough terrain costs only 1 movement) ... i.e. you can have infantry with that ability.