Politics and Power

*Late Submission Politics and Power has very interesting connections, and I'm making between three different things. Also, I'll attempt to answer these questions: What roles do politics play within your civilization? What roles does diplomacy play? How are power struggles represented in the game? First, let's look at the three connections. Politics and power of modern day China Politics and power in Civilization V with China Comparing...

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Episode #2

I just released Episode #2. I will try to release as many as I can during the course of the semester. I'll keep account of how many turns I've made for the future posts. Here is my game: Civilization: China (Wu Zetian) Map Type: Earth Map Size: Huge - 12 players and 24 city states Difficulty: Prince (Normal) Game Pace: Standard The civilizations that I am fighting against I have picked. They are as follows:  Japan England Germany America France Korea The...

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Episode #1 and Technical Difficulties

Episode #1 is out on YouTube. You can check it out on the front page by clicking Videos -> My Gameplay -> Episode #1. I will upload more as I capture more footage and upload it to YouTube. I had a lot of difficulty these past couple of days trying to A) Capture the gameplay and B) Edit the footage. I am using Mirillis Action! to record PC gameplay. Up until the newest released version (1.18), I couldn't record any of the footage....

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Culture, Culture Everywhere

As I've stated before, this blog is for a college class. We have a choice between doing a blog or traditional paper. In our classroom, there is 7 other students that are doing blogs. In our last post, we had to choose what kind of victory we want to aim for in Civilization V. After going through everyone's blogs, I've noticed something. Everyone* is going for cultural victory. (*Only including those that have posted about it) I think...

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