Civilization (video game): Difference between revisions

* [[Arc Words]]: "Test of time."

* [[Army of Lawyers]]: In ''Call to Power'' and its sequel, once you develop to the Modern Era, you can ''literally'' train Lawyers and Corporate Branches to wage economic warfare on your enemies.

** And of course you and your enemies' armies could become this as well if you don't bother upgrading your units.

* [[Art Deco]]: A major inspiration for the gameplay interface for ''Civilization V''.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Averted with Great Generals (and the mongol equivalent the Khan), who are [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|One Hit Point Wonders]] whose only offensive capability is to make other units stronger. But to be fair, the Great General is just one guy while the regular units presumably represent regiments (give or take depending on the era).

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Internet wonder from ''Civilization IV'' grants you any tech known by two other civilizations. This would be awesome but for the fact that it's at the very end of the tech tree for most players, meaning that either it'll be built after it's needed or the AI will get it first. However, there is a specific strategy that ignores all other endgame tech to get the Internet built early, making it actually useful.

** The [[Ascended Meme|Giant Death Robot]] in V comes so late that anyone aiming for a domination victory will probably get it before having an opportunity to build the GDR. It also requires uranium which could be used on the earlier and quicker-to-build nuclear options.

* [[BFS]]:

** The main way of controlling the player's expansion is happiness. Playing on the Prince ("normal") difficulty, the AI only gets 60% of the unhappiness that the player does, and gets more happiness to start and an extra point of happiness for each luxury. This roughly translates to allowing an AI Civ to be twice as large as a human one with the same level of happiness, on normal, the difficulty where "The AI receives no particular bonuses".

** In earlier games, it would simply decide "now's a good time to instantly build a wonder". Nowadays, the cheating is mostly relegated to numbers; a lot of them.

** The [[Oh Crap|Dreadnought]] in Beyond the Sword.

* [[Narrator]]: In more recent games, they've had most of their descriptive text be read aloud, following in the footsteps of ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''. Though in this case, they only have one person doing the job:

* [[No Blood for Phlebotinum]]: If you don't have a resource and can't get it through trade or peaceful expansion, the only options left are either do without it or resort to violence.

** Beyond the Sword introduced the "Greed" and "Corporate Expansion" quests, which codify this.

* [[Non-Entity General]]: Both played straight for the player's leader (although you can choose your leader from among all the available ones, AI players react to you the same way regardless), and averted by AI leaders, some of whom are much more trigger-happy than others (we're looking at you, Isabella), and all of whom have personalized and sometimes entertaining interactions. For instance, if <s>sufficiently offended</s> presented with any deal she doesn't like, [[My Girl Is a Slut|Catherine the Great]] may "slap" "the player", complete with [[Star Trek Shake]], while if your relations are good (heh heh) she may favor you with a flirtatious wink. Tick off Sumerian badass Gilgamesh, and he'll grab your throat, bring you up close for a [[Death Glare]], then hurl you back.

* [[No Swastikas]]: The Third Reich is conspicuous in its near-total absence, although there is one quote from [[Adolf Hitler]] for ''IV'''s Fascism tech, and Erwin Rommel is featured as a Great General in ''Warlords'' (though Rommel wasn't actually a Nazi). The strange people who yearn for Hitler's inclusion in the series tend to note that [[Josef Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]], who were just as nasty if not quite as infamous, are playable leaders (though [[Banned in China|no country with paying customers will ban the game because of them]]).

** The [[Cosmetic Award|achievements]] for ''Civilization V'' are almost entirely [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]]. [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|"The World Is a Mess, and I Just Need to Rule It"]], [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|"Ruler of the Twelve Colonies"]], [[Doctor Who|"Exterminate! Exterminate!"]]...the list goes on. [[Pokémon|And on.]] [[Star Trek|And on.]] [[Daft Punk|And on.]] [[The Lonely Island|And on.]] [[LOLcats|And on.]] [[Back to the Future (film)|And on.]] [[Altum Videtur|And on.]] [[Overly Long Gag|And on.]] [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationv/achievements.html Here's] a list.

** In the expert lumberjack's Civilopedia entry for the ''Colonization'' expansion, it states that "[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|they were lumberjacks and they're OK.]]"

* [[Sliding Scale of Turn Realism]]: Round by Round.

* [[Space Is Noisy]]: Averted in ''IV''. If you pull the camera back far enough to show the entire planet, the sound and music fade away to silence.