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>>6347831
"Prince" always triggered my autism. The difficulty scale is an escalating level of supreme ruler, excluding "Prince" which is just being the faggot son of a ruler.

>>6348061
I can't hear it but that graphics screams late 90s

Lost
But play on Deity please
The AI of CIV2 is really weak

>>6347836
>>6348061
>>6348354
Lost hard

>>6348671
>move all units out of City A, leaving it unprotected
>all enemy units go for City A
>move all units out of City B, leaving it unprotected
>all enemy units go for City B

>>6348682
You can do something like this in Civ3 too, but at least the Civ3 AI does rapid early expansion well

>>6348736
In Civ 3 it really depends on which version you're playing. That game has one of the worst power creeps that ever happend to any game and by the time Conquests came out, the game was pretty much fucked and AI went from "somewhat passable if you squint" to "dog-shit bad".

>>6348026
It was supposed to be called "Duke", but they had a weird talk in MicroProse about it and it ultimately got turned into a Prince.
Blame Americans naming their kids Duke

>>6348898
My difficulty should be higher that deity, pilgrim

>>6349027
That's Caesar 2, right?
>>6347831
Civ2 will always be one of my favourite games ever. I think it was the first game that I enjoyed playing over and over again, despite the fact I kept losing more often than not.

>>6349012
PZHEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWHHHHHH
Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!
*bang bang bang bang*
*BOOM*
Uff!

YEAH

>>6349012
lost

>>6350425
Holy shit

>>6350770
piripipipipipipipi PARABAPAPAPAPAPAPAAAAAAAAAAPA
tiruriruriruriruriruriruri...

>>6350863
Beautiful

>>6350312
I heard Rampart instead

>>6348026
I'm one-upping your autism because Emperor is higher than King even though Emperor is the default title for the Despotism government which is the worst government type in the game (highest waste and corruption, lots of upkeep) and in all way it's inferior to Monarchy, for which King (a lower difficulty level) is the default title.

>>6348026
Prince has been used for rulers, historically. Sometimes your country isn't really big enough that you can call yourself a King without people giving you a funny look, but you're still sovereign. Principalities exist!

And then there's that HRE shit where you had sovereign Counts and so on because everything is a mess of squabbling tossers with fancy hats.

>>6350954
Same word as "Princeps" or "Principal". Is/was a valid word for a ruler. Just not in Anglophone countries.

>>6350954
>Who is "Duke"
>What is "Duchy"
>What are "Ducal titles"
I will take another from "Historical titles", this time for 500.

>>6347852
I just keep hearing this because it came on a demo disc I picked up years ago, left a real strong impression: https://youtu.be/bSXu_3qtsl4

>>6350952

In Civ 1 monarchy sucks and Despotism is the only way to go before demo/republic.

>>6347831
Lost immediately, I loved that game. Would upgrade everything in my throne room except the throne itself, which remained a rock.

>>6351972
Yeah but you can rush Republic and stay in it comfortably for the rest of the game

>>6347831

>>6352145
YEHHEEE

>>6348893
Anyone got that insider analysis from the production of Civ 3 and expansions for it? The one talking in details the combination of retarded game mechanics breaking balance and how pushy the publisher was with it?

>>6350429
Dang it.

>>6347831
As a kid my goal for when I grew up was to take over the world and I used to practice for doing that (and test strategies) by playing Civ 2. Apparently the lesson I took from "Taking over the world" being the goal of fictional supervillains is that it was a popular career choice, and that I was smart enough to not make the same mistakes they did.
I used to play the scenario based on earth, and I'd use cheats to make things more accurately represent the information I got from the books I owned (Lots of atlases, books about military hardware, etc.) by adding back in "obsolete" equipment that looked similar to real world equipment and by making sure that AI cities were kept close to their real world equivalents and that landmarks were built in the correct cities. Then I'd start with a small country (usually I assumed I'd take over one of the Pacific or Caribbean islands to begin with, so I'd pick a similar civilization and use cheats until I had what seemed like a realistic approximation.) and make alliances with bigger countries to take over our mid-sized neighbors, slowly building up until I controlled a large territory myself. Then I could compete more directly with the major powers. Usually the endgame was against the USA, Russia, or a Russia-USA alliance. I won at least once, sometimes I'd get bored of a stalemate and start again, other times I'd be defeated by other countries at the mid-size stage.

The funny thing is that I've always hated bossing people around (or giving instructions in general). As far as I can remember the main appeal of ruling the planet (or a large empire, anyway.) for kid me was being able to design a flag, currency, design new planned cities (practiced in SimCity 2000 and 3000, obviously.) including the future capital of earth, and picking out equipment for the military and national transport companies. Beyond that, I wasn't particularly interested in the power that would come with the position.

>>6350429
lost HARD

>>6352117
Based and rockpilled

>>6349453
WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE
lost

>>6350910
I live..AGAYN

>>6352747
>Things that never actually happend: The Post
You would know, if you understood the scale limitations for Civ 2 maps. But for that, you would have to play the game first

>>6355785
I'm not sure what you mean by scale since Civ 2 comes with a map that already covers all of earth by default (pic related). It's not like I made a 1:1 recreation of reality, or even managed to include every major city in the world. I might've made what I did sound more impressive in scope than it was. The end result probably wasn't even the best possible interpretation possible in Civ 2, since I used the Civ 2 default earth scenario as a base rather than making a more accurate earth map by myself.

>>6355828
Tried installing Civ 2 a few years ago, but can't play the video (wonders & council).
What should I do to fix it?

>>6355851
I'd look at using VMware running Windows XP or before rather than running it under Windows 7/8/10.

>>6351442
nice music
there and at title screen

>>6350980
PUDAKA (da dum tum)

>>6355956
I remember Civ 2 uses Intel Indeo for the codec.
I think I tried to install it but still no video.
I'll try in a VM with older Windows next time.

>>6352747
Based

>>6348026
Prince doesn't mean "son of a king" despite what Disney tells you. It's a nobility title like Duke, Count, or whatever.

>>6348682
Still works for Stellaris...

>>6358906
that's anachronistic as fuck. The original DMG and GB Pocket had the Nintendo logo rising from the bottom of the screen.

>>6355970
Different anon, but you won't get video on Win above XP, period. You just won't. Supposedly, it still works on Vista, but come on, who is going to use Vista, especially in 2020 and why would you do that, if you can use XP (just like back in the day when Vista premiered, kek)

>>6359184
What is odd is that I remember the Gameboy color logo and I use to have the archaic Gameboy back in the day.

>>6355851
In the same vein, I wanted to look at the SMAC secret project videos since I have the GOG version, but they apparently use an arcane format unreadable by anything reasonable.

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