Just a lighthouse | Sid Meier's Civilization 1 #3

There may be a lot of cities to manage, but at least the neighbours are friendly, right?
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Just a lighthouse | Sid Meier's Civilization 1 #3
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Gameplay Overview:
The Flagship Turn-Based Strategy Game Returns. Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age: Wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, go head-to-head with some of history’s greatest leaders and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
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[@BadVideoWatcher1]

Should have named this one "Bad Goodie Huts"

[@nessle420]

lmfao i fucking giggled

[@Speederzzz]

Context for future watchers: episode 2 was originally called "Bad Goodie Huts" accidentally, just like episode one.

[@xionkuriyama5697]

I for one am a fan of the idea of the last episode of this whole retrospect series being called "Good Baddie Huts"

[@MrNeathComputing]

I came here to see what Civ 1 was like. I'm now staying to see how the Egyptians do. Really addictive series.

[@mistymornin104]

“STALIN???” had me rolling 😂

[@DannoDemo]

Something about Civ 1: - Barracks and granary always - Civs don't have special attributes. That wasn't introduced until later. - AI is wonderfully buggy and hyper aggressive at times. - You could build everything (wonders included) in one city. - Don't stack units, go wide. If one dies, they all die. - Roads are your friend for getting units out for defense. - Many cities = more of a juggle than other Civ games. But they are figuring that out now.😅

[@FestivalSharkCam]

Seconded the non-stacking of units. Big no-no. I don't think the defense of the phalanx counts either if they put it on there.

[@alyarin9000]

@@FestivalSharkCam Yikes, that's crazy counter-intuitive. Though, i guess it makes for some more interesting strategy...

[@OriginalPiMan]

Maybe it's just because I played the Earth map a lot, but it did feel like there was a little bit of uniqueness between civs. I'm pretty sure on Babylonians started with two settlers, maybe just on that map, or maybe just random chance.

[@Shadow-bk1im]

What about in cities do they have to kill all the units in the city to take it?

[@OriginalPiMan]

@@Shadow-bk1im Yes. Units in cities die one at a time, and the population is reduced by 1 with each attack unless the city has walls. When the city is empty it can be entered. If the city has enough units in it, it might be destroyed utterly first.

[@RedSntDK]

I forgot Zulu's were in Civ 1, but it's nice to see they're just as aggressive as in Civ 5.

[@stephensrocket]

Zulus, Greeks, Aztecs, Mongols all pretty vicious in Civ 1

[@gavin4513]

This is so amazing. Excited to see Civ II as well.

[@rieldex]

rip goody huts :(

[@Njald]

Love that the Yogs guarantee of dick-ripping gameplay holdntrue even for three decades old games as well

[@lookarabbit2888]

Why's this so entertaining? I never played civ back in the day. Old computer games from that era are just unique I guess, that was back before everything was standard, folks were still figuring out how to do games, no rules.

[@GregMcNeish]

As much as I'm loving seeing you guys discover things on your own, there is one thing that I feel is VITALLY important to tell you: DO NOT CREATE UNIT STACKS!!!!!!! Combat is a single die roll in this game, so is incredibly luck-based, and (except for in cities) any defensive loss instantly wipes out ALL units in the tile. Keep your units on separate tiles whenever possible, so that any attack can only kill one of them at a time. If you want to defend your chariots with phalanx, keep the chariots BEHIND the phalanx. That way, whether the phalanx wins its battle or not, the chariots are alive.

[@linkatronic]

This reminds me of my first time playing Civ as a kid. I couldn't figure out how to tech military units, so I just threw waves of phalanxes at my enemies until their cities fell.

[@Baalshazar]

Always defend your cities in these older games, or yer gonna have corruption issues forgot how it scales tho.

[@korenn9381]

they have no clue what half of the city stats mean, and doubtful they'll learn before they're done.

[@Dave7118]

When they play 2 they should make sure to get the advisor videos working, it's the best part of the game!

[@HereticalGeek]

I am loving the nostalgia this series is taking me down

[@Lowekinder]

I started with Call to Power (Civ III if you don't count the spin offs), its wild to see just how much of the Civ identity was there right from the beginning.

[@alluraambrose2978]

This is gonna be the best playthrough ever, all the Civs need them now

[@woof5082]

duncan begging lewis to get reasurch tech. I thought lewis was good at civ lol

[@torgor_]

That must mean the goodie huts are good now

[@SurlyHannah]

In 2023 it takes a co-op to beat a game from 1991. And honestly, that checks out

[@Alex-fn2hl]

that's just because it's the yogscast

[@mor3gan285]

Old games are some bs, especially if you don't sit and read the entire manual

[@Mgrow]

YOU HAVE TWO UNITS IN ALEXANDRIA MOVE ONE NORTH TO DEFEND BUSIRIS FFS!!

[@harryfairclough2400]

Best series in so long. Loving it.

[@thesonofthesouth]

I wish they’d bring back the ship embarkment

[@ChanceBrunton]

20:26 "The lighthouse... It must be amazing!" "It's huge, right? Really expensive!" Indeed, it's fantastic. One could even say it's a Great Lighthouse :) 22:29 The moment of realization is fantastic. It is odd though that it's just called "Lighthouse".

[@Faolmor]

2:58 How modern and out of place does that marketplace look!

[@arcticnightwolf]

why aren't they improving the tiles around their cities ... >.

[@bwood6337]

Seriously, Lewis has tunnel-visioned on city count super hard. Maaaaaybe thats the play but it feels weird.

[@paradoxmo]

That was more or less the best strategy in Civ 1 and 2, to just spam cities because the center tile was worked for free.

[@BobChevy73]

Love the new series! The dickripping is hard with this one though... Can't find cavalry that are in the city you JUST LOOKED AT... Travelling with settlers to explore... Leaving cities undefended and those that are have only one phalanx and no walls... Not buying the phalanx in the city that was lost... Stacking units....

[@augustmacdonald9615]

honestly i had no idea civilization revolution was just remixed civ 1

[@kirstanjones2175]

If I remember rightly, you can fix happiness without colloseums by pulling a worker off of the city map, and they turn into an entertainer.

[@dnebdal]

Or they could build a temple, which makes one unhappy person content.

[@krugec23]

Love this series

[@IfItsNotFun]

As someone who hasn't really gotten Civ too much before this, i'm kinda super digging this one, and this whole series as a whole honestly

[@kristoph17]

As someone who played Civ 1 from 91 until 99 on Emperor difficulty, it is horrific that you boys have let your capital revolt for this many turns! 🤣

[@johanwittens7712]

Started commenting on the first two videos in the series that it's not necessarily the best idea to build a lot of cities early in this game. I see you found out why the hard way.

[@MichaelTE]

You're clustering the cities way too close together. You need 4 squares between each city, not 2

[@StrangelyIronic]

The old games fit really well with the atmosphere of the Yogs IMO (Xcom and this for example). I hope after Civ that Lewis and Duncan can play through some of the Anno games and then have a co-op/multiplayer game with one of the newer ones with some of the crew. I've always felt Anno's city builder focus, military second, type of gameplay would suit their play style better. Still think they should disable the pixel rendering and just have it upscale for the original crisp goodness of VGA era pixel art. Maybe enough people will have mentioned that to be noticed for the next series.

[@logandaley1544]

It’s kind of fun to see how the Civ series started and how it changes as this series progresses.

[@ollllj]

yes, the great lighthouse is very significant in civ1, because sooner or later you have to move ships in this game and that +1 speed is very significant.

[@SyzygyTT]

The 0.5.5 next to your money is: Luxury rate / Tech rate / Tax rate (all in percentages). You might want to tweak it. Corruption will show up as 'red yields' in cities depending on how far a city is from the capital and your government type. Yes, you can change governments, and you should. You definitely have Monarchy already, it gives extra yields. edit: just watched till the end, better late than never. btw I think you need temples for happiness.

[@sergioflor3154]

You can also rehome units to different cities so that they don't just eat up the resources of one city by pressing 'h'.

[@sergioflor3154]

Also if you unassign people from tiles in the main city screen you can reassign them as, Entertainers, which increase happiness, Tax Collectors, which increase tax revenue, and scientists which increase science generation in your cities.

[@ChandlerBiloxi]

I know these are recorded in advance so commenting in the last two videos would not have helped. As someone who bought the original Civ within a week of it's launch and still has it somewhere on 5 1/4 floppy, I was in serious danger of dick rippage over yall not realizing the lux/tax/science settings. I love the "what is corruption" comment. If only they provided some sort of 'pedia to look things up. Hopefully yall realize my favorite Civ I trick of using diplomats to make cities revolt.

[@ChandlerBiloxi]

I see yall noticed the dangers of stacking, if the top unit loses they all die. Yall might have missed the RNG fun/torture of trying to sail a loaded trireme through deep water to circumnavigate the globe. Hopefully later yall can lose a battleship when it attacks a phalanx.

[@MrEfi4]

Seriously, how could you not know what corruption is xD I think this mechanic was even in Civ3 (most difficult from them all, I would say, but much more playable than 1 and 2)

[@Floxit]

This is ridiculously funny to follow your realm in your Civilization guys. But the game said "a Great Leader", meaning you'll have to terminate somebody, Highlanders.

[@bitspacemusic]

More pls.

[@lobstarooo]

This perfect dance between nostalgia and cringe is quite certain to give me a heart attack. Please keep going.

[@trolley7947]

If I remember correctly great library gets you ALL knowledge known throughout the world. Or maybe that’s Leonardo?

[@stephensrocket]

Leonardo is in Civ 2, upgrades all your obsolete units

[@trolley7947]

@@stephensrocket okay thanks. Couldn’t remember which one he was in.

[@YannaTarassi]

Fun seeing new Civ players learning the pain of our old Civ. Here's a trick for you: when in war switch to Communism to reduce the popular uprisings and corruption, then after the war pop back to Democracy for the Science boosts.

[@JosephFrollo]

Remembering back to when I played the original Civ in college. If you haven't seen this yet, cities get upset when their military units are gone (away from home). You can reset a military unit's new home city by having it in the new city and pressing H. Mine the gold for a ridiculous amount of money.

[@Alex-fn2hl]

This one's a bit of a dickripper, but still, it's pretty cool to see you play it at all! I don't blame you for being confused by the unit stacking thing. This was gone by the time Civ 3 came out!

[@vindicator05]

"OOooooooeeeeehhhh!!! DISASTER." Yep. That nails it pretty much :D

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

Corruption is basically bad hammers. Its negative peoductivity.

[@WolfTronix]

If Gandi is in the game you have to defeat him before he gets nukes.

[@Taenarius]

A building that gives hammers? Nah, that doesn't exist. For some reason production is represented by shields in the old games.

[@HansLemurson]

Civ1 had very strong attack, countered only by City Walls that tripled your defense. A unit suitable for attacking cities had an attack so high it would massacre everything it strikes.

[@little_isalina]

now i remember why baby yoda looked so familiar. He looks just like a settler from Civ 1, only green.

[@TomBombadil851]

how do they not recognize the advisors? pretty sure the bald guy with the white beard is the same as the science advisor in civ 5

[@BeartatoTime]

Oh my god, I genuinely didn't expect Stalin lmfao

[@felixawsome]

I was surprised to see stalin in this game until I realized it came out before the fall of the soviet union

[@CWig_99]

love this series! Can't wait to see them play Civ 3

[@Reinstall]

This is great. The lighthouse is a wonder. haha!

[@60508]

I wonder if they'll every discover that you can change the tax rates.

[@ivantumanov1015]

"Yes, lets stack all of our no defence units so if they get attacked they all die together!"

[@oglieotr8256]

CIV1 never stack units.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

Corruption is Civ 1's version of loyalty. If you have a lot of cities and/or units far from the capital, the cities begin to corrupt and you lose control of them, and their production goes down (angry citizens won't do anything). Courthouses and units fortified in the cities help fight the corruption. If the corruption gets too high the city will spawn barbarians equivalent to the level of corruption, and there's a risk the city rebels and become a barbarian settlement. The game will tell you when you're about to lose control of a city to corruption, but when you get that warning, you need to shove military into the city to knock it down, and then focus on building/doing stuff that brings the corruption down. This whole corruption system is not very well done, Civ 2 greatly improved upon it, and of course in Civ 3 it was replaced by the cultural influence system which has involved into the loyalty and culture pressure system in Civ 6

[@DanielPicardCA]

That would make sense, but in Civ 1 corruption has to do with trade. The bigger the city, the more trade potential, the more corruption and lost trade, except for your capital which doesn’t have corruption because of the palace, unless you’re using Communism. A courthouse reduces this, or switching to Democracy. Loyalty is represented by happiness. A temple reduces unhappiness as well as adding a military unit. I could go on having grown up with this game. Terraforming is possible, changing forest, jungle, swamp into grassland or plains, by using a settler to mine or irrigate them.

[@Hippida]

I used to play this in gray scale on my first mac

[@kinesta]

ZULUUUUUU!

[@Direk091]

I really hope they find some bad goodie huts again and name an another video "Bad Goodie Huts 2".

[@ajlsthegamer1932]

First. Also I never knew this is how old ’Civ looked

[@thuglyfeoscar]

I need more

[@dethmin173]

cool

[@Guydude777]

Really enjoying this, keep 'em coming!

[@PeRcH72]

hehehe 2 video's in a row, can't wait till the next one!

[@AsbestosMuffins]

omg stalin needs to be a current civ leader

[@devoidofvoltz2562]

Damn, I never realized show much of a copy Master of Magic was of Civ1 at least on the map level

[@korenn9381]

Master of Magic was published by the same company. It's better to call it a spin-off than a copy. People learned a lot from civ and made a much more interesting (and better looking, even at that resolution) game

[@konomexplays]

I have only now realised the Settler artwork is a sort of carriage rather than an overly happy cow. 30+ years I've thought this.

[@pigmiwarriorgaming1315]

It's the covered wagon you see in the 'settling a new city' animation because in video games from the 1990s Oregon Trail was the universal aesthetic for settler units

[@FrankBramble]

ANOTHER ONE, MY DAY OFF HAS BECOME BLESSED

[@klemen1702]

That cliffhanger form ep 2

[@thuglyfeoscar]

Beautiful civ 1 chaos

[@jefflongley9226]

I'm just here to drop a hot like and comment instantly before even watching the video because this is great and I need more injected directly into my veins.

[@vaidkun]

as civ1 veteran I cringed so much watching this let's play.

[@caityreads8070]

lol

[@matheusGMN]

Great Video!

[@epicfish8134]

Jank excluded, there’s a lot of charm in this game and I love the palace and city viewer; hope it’s in civ 7

[@korenn9381]

Jank? what jank? They haven't encountered any bugs so far.

[@epicfish8134]

@@korenn9381 The Zulu immediately landing and taking a city without war being isn’t jank to you? A game can have jank and be bug free

[@Gunnarr123abc]

@@epicfish8134 what are they supposed to do, land and sit there a few turns to let you defend? it would be jank if they did not attack without warning! it is doing what a human player would do

[@someperson8641]

❤

[@ericgabel698]

Wonder if Lewis and Duncan ever figure out there is a tech tree in the manual that Lewis has a pdf of?

[@DebatingWombat]

Or, you know, that there’s a reason it says “HELP AVAILABLE” in glowing Green fonts when choosing a new tech, i.e. using the civilopedia for a quick check on what the options available lead to? But hey, it seems like minimal use of the civilopedia and not opening the manual for anything but answering the copy protection quiz is apparently the theme of this playthrough.

[@conorkelly947]

they know because every civ game has had the tech tree in the manual but nobody alive wants to watch ppl read a fkn manual

[@DebatingWombat]

@@conorkelly947 Sure, but it does get a bit long in the tooth to constantly hear all of this “I wonder what this does?” jabber. There’s a line between exploring a game’s features “cold” and this constant barrage of the kind of questions that 30 seconds of actually using its interface would tell you. It’s just beginning to wear a bit thin on me and is starting to verge into “Are they pretending to be thick for supposed comedic effect?” territory.

[@GhostOfSparta]

I wish this was regular civ