Civ5 to bring my PC to its knees, do not want

[TimothyC]

Actually; I think the reason they raised the requirments for CPUs was to ensure that the game is playable in a reasonable amount of time.

With time passing at a "Standard" difficulty; you can have more than 400+ turns in a single game.

Going from squares to hexes increases the amount of processing time it takes for a single unit to consider "should I move to this part?" for the AI by a noticeable amount when averaged over several AI players and turns.

What I think is the real killer AI-processing wise; is the addition of ranged attacks. Now the AI has to look at an increasingly larger number of hexes for each move cycle.

Uhm Shep - In Civ2 and Civ4, with the square grid you could move into all 8 squares not 4, hence the move to a hex-grid reduces the number of moves a unit can make.

[adam_grif]

You think that is bad?

It's like a specialized maintenance fee for certain units, 1 unit of iron = can field 1 unit that needs iron at a time. Each resource will give you a couple of units of it, mind you. I actually think this is better, because there's no pressure in Civ 4 to go to war over resources that you already have; a single source of iron can support infinitely large numbers of swordsmen, for instance. This should encourage situations where somebody already has a source of something, but needs to go to war to get more otherwise their army won't be competitive in the long run.

I dislike the GDR because it's very silly. Yeah, Civ isn't realistic, but it has historical units and technologies. Suddenly throwing in giant robots is what I expect from some silly aftermarket mod (i.e. NextWar that came with BTS), not the actual vanilla game.

[Stark]

Changing the econ is absolutely necessary, and Civ5 making a break with 'tradition' (of sucking) is a big step. Their implementation is silly, but at least its new.

[Lord Woodlouse]

For the first time in years I can sit smugly knowing I can handle an upcoming desired PC game with ease. On my laptop no less.