Must... Join... Steam... Group...

[Shabbaman]

Must... Sign up... for... AAARGH!!! CDZ's Steam Group (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/CivDuelZone)... to... play... Civ5... with... fellow... spambunnies... MUST!

[socralynnek]

Can I play Civ5 without buying it forst in that group ?

(Stupid question. Can be classified as spam.)

[Shabbaman]

You can play civ5, but you can only play multiplayer with people on your friend list.

[Beorn]

That's almost ... xenophobic.

[ProPain]

Yeah, really weird indeed. Is that only for the demo version or for all versions?

[Shabbaman]

Well, in some universe it actually makes sense, since you're using Steam as a means to find other players.

[ProPain]

Mmm, what's wrong with playing a game of civ against a random opponent that just happens to be available?

Not a mind personally. I've basically only been playing my very little MP civ against other CDZ members anyway

[killercane]

Joined as SirKC. Somebody had my name.

We gonna have a game Tuesday sometime or what?

[Furiey]

The manual has been released!

http://downloads.2kgames.com/civ5/site13/community/feature_manual/Civ_V_Manual_English_v1.0.pdf

[ProPain]

Nice! Ofc course I couldnt resist any more and bought Civ V. Preinstalling now.....


God, I'm weak :)

[Furiey]

Join the rest of us!

[Furiey]

Just had a steam update download which includes this item:

Added support for Civilization V charity promotion (not visible until Civ5's launch)

Wonder what that is?

[ProPain]

I suppose they're collecting funds to help civ addicts like ourselves get into some sort of rehab program.

[Shabbaman]

Funny, there are more people joining the steam group. NHJ has joined (as the great dictator), there's even some korean guy that joined.

[Matrix]

NHJ has joined (as the great dictator)
That was my doing. ;)

[Samson]

I joined the group, though I have not been active here for some time. I am hughbedo on Steam 'cos Samson was taken.

[Shabbaman]

Hi Samson!

[ProPain]

WB Samson :)

[Shabbaman]

'cos Samson was taken.

BTW, under friends>settings you can set your profile name. It can be different from your account name, and duplicates are allowed. So you can take your own nick if you want :)

[Darkness]

Is it just me or doesn't the link in the first post work?

[Darkness]

Never mind. I got in on the 5th try or so. :)

[ProPain]

Interestingly Steam says the game will be up in 2 hours, that would be 1 am, so UK midnight I suppose. That sucks, too late for me.

And I had been hoping on a quick midnight test run :(

[Beam]

Caving until I get it up and running.

[ProPain]

dead tired, going to bed. With all kind of RL stuff going tomorrow, FNCiv will be my maiden trip

[Furiey]

Quarter past midnight here in the UK and the game still says pre-load. Could be any time now, but too knackered and going to bed.

[Furiey]

Taken from 2K Games' Forum

UNITED KINGDOM 1am BST

EUROPE 2am CET

AUSTRALIA 10am Melbourne

[Furiey]

PLAY!

[ProPain]

files are 'decoding' :D

[ProPain]

and done decrypting, that took ages..

[Furiey]

Damn Steam and their special offers. For any Monkey Island fans here they have Tales of Monkey Island complete for £3.50 or whatever that is in Euros.

[ProPain]

shouldn't have told me that, now I need to spend money.

[Furiey]

I've also found this list of free games on the steam forum. Not many, but some may be worth a try.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=851573

[Shabbaman]

I bought Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 last week, 10 euro's for two epic games. It's also about as much as they're worth. Slaughtering zombie bots is a lot of fun if you play coop though.

[Furiey]

If anyone hasn't got Plants v Zombies, it's on offer for £2.38 at the moment.

[Shabbaman]

And you get two tf2 hats with that.

[ProPain]

I think PvZ is worth its regular price, so at this discount it's a steal. Tower defense with zombies and cheesy jokes. What else do you need?