The game isn't called 'country' it's called 'Civilisation'
If you launch the spaceship first your civ becomes the first culture to become interplanetary, the genesis of a space-bound empire, every mission which follows will, in some respects, mirror your own. You set the pace.
In a cultural victory, it doesn't matter if your country is wiped from the planet, your culture has permeated or supplanted everyone else's, in some respects your civilisation will win even if the originator is gone.
The diplomatic victory has always suggested to me that the Earth has united under a one-world-government of some kind and your civilisation has produced its first leader, the one to unite the peoples of Earth. That's a victory.
I don't know what you're implying, but you're probably wrong.
Irrelevant. Each entity behaves exactly the same way a country would (at least human players do, for the most part, the AI is not a good example).
This doesn't stop your country, yes country, from being annihilated.
So, in reality the Romans and Greeks are still winning?
Except in a diplomatic victory you earn those votes by literally paying off or rigging the elections of city-states. That's not a victory and is absolute nonsense.
That human players like yourself don't understand the basic premise of the game really isn't my problem.
Irrelevant. You don't run a country.
I'd say it's probably the Americans - culturally.
Why is playing as an immortal god-king running a static, monolithic kingdom on a fictional planet with spacemen rubbing shoulders with ye olde knights any less believable than the same thing on an alien planet?
Your mom is when your mom and you arent your mom.
Why is playing as an immortal god-king running a static, monolithic kingdom on a fictional planet with spacemen rubbing shoulders with ye olde knights any less believable than the same thing on an alien planet? Alpha Centauri arguably competes for the best of the Civilisation titles.I suspect there's something else putting you off than its sci-fi flavouring.
Quote from: Ghost Spaghetti on October 27, 2014, 01:11:36 PMWhy is playing as an immortal god-king running a static, monolithic kingdom on a fictional planet with spacemen rubbing shoulders with ye olde knights any less believable than the same thing on an alien planet? Alpha Centauri arguably competes for the best of the Civilisation titles.I suspect there's something else putting you off than its sci-fi flavouring.I don't know. It just didn't capture my imagination. With regular Civ I guess when you start playing you want to see what all the wonders are, the units, the leaders, etc etc. You won't get that with the sci-fi ones. The units, leaders, etc aren't based on anything real at all. So I think I'm not interested in the learning aspect because I don't find it particularly engaging. And If I can't be bothered to learn it, I'm never going to be good at it and I'm not going to keep coming back.