5punk attempts to complete a 4X game

[Grimmie]

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate

Following the success of Mondiablos, where Pnut, Bits, Joose and I got together once a week for a couple of hours to beat demons up, I figured we could probably replicate the success elsewhere. Does anybody fancy actually finishing a game of:

Civilisation V (£8.74 for complete edition, or £4.99 for base game*)
Endless Legend (£15.29 for the collection or £7.81 for base game*) or
Beyond Earth (£11.99*)?

Personally, I'd love a long game of Endless Legend with 5punkers. It's very good.
We just need a small group that can regularly commit** a couple hours a week to the game

*Prices shown are Steam Winter Sale prices
**A few weeks skipped here and there are okay, obviously

[Dog Pants]

I'd love to try to do a Civ V game, but I doubt I'd get the time. I have a feeling I'd get rofflestomped by you or Joose at some point during proceedings anyway.

[fabyak]

What pants said. I'd certainly be up for starting a game again at some point! We need to Terraria again also

[Joose]

I would be up for either a Civ or Endless Leg Ends regular gaem.

[FatherJack]

I've only ever really got the hang of three of those Xs, substituting the last for being eXterminated. I have both those Civ games which I enjoyed (apart from those fucking sandworms in BE) and Endless Space, which I found massively, impossibly, hard.

[Dog Pants]

Endless Space got pretty easy once you got the hang of it. I seem to remember it all came down to terraforming to min-max your systems. I forget the details, I'd probably suck at it if I played it again.

[Joose]

Last night was good! I forget though, in the end did we decide to go for round two on this Thursday or next Thursday? Actually... was it Thursday?

It was late, I was sleepy.

[Grimmie]

This Thursday, aye.

I was going to do a diary entry for what happened in the game, but uh.. I didn't see anyone else other than Dogpants' dragon avatar, and one cell of Joose's border on an adjoining continent.

I also built a fancy library with a floaty gem above it, and everyone got scared when my techno-priests reached the second research age first.

[Joose]

I also built a fancy library with a floaty gem above it, and everyone got scared when my techno-priests reached the second research age first.

Your dudes look like Space Marines, you have a big legendary library and you have advanced technology provided by techno-priests. Damn right we are scared.

[shot2bits]

Also my entire civilization is made of my peoples excrement, including the people themselves.

It also happens to be the games currency...

All heil Shit Pile!

[Dog Pants]

My dragon people are peaceful librarians and if anyone wants to fight them they're taking their huge sabretoothed ice-lizards and sulking.

[Joose]

My people have....er....a pretty cool beetle? Our superpower: packing up and walking away.

[Joose]

What time we aiming to start tonight?

[Dog Pants]

I'll optimistically aim for 9:30, but it might be 10 or slightly after, depending on the RNG of children.

[shot2bits]

sorry about last night chaps, a ninja werks happened, hopefully wont happen again though

[Dog Pants]

No drama, we have all the time in the world.

[Joose]

Any chance we could do this week's endless legs on Wednesday? I have the parentals arriving on Thursday and doubt I could get away with "Hi Mum! Hi Dad! Im now buggering off for the evening to play games with my mates!"

[Grimmie]

Fine with me, but it'll have to be a 10pm start.

[Dog Pants]

Should be okay for me. Better actually, it means I get Thursday night to recover before Frigaems and Saturgaems deprive me of sleep.

[shot2bits]

Yas! I'm only working til 3 tomorrow so no problem for me