that idea didn't work, try something else." Designers have huge egos and they're easily bruised. "I'm there to kind of represent the history of the game," he said. As the founder of Firaxis games, Meier describes his role these days as more of an institutional memory repository. While Meier has continued to serve as director on subsequent Civilization games, a long line of protégés have come in to serve as the designers for each new sequel. That's not really what I want to be doing." you can subconsciously copy other games or whatever. "People say, 'Have you played XYZ' and I say 'No I haven't had a chance.' To some extent that can color. More than that, Meier says playing too many other games can have a negative effect on a designer's own direction and inspiration. Past that, he says, "it's really very hard to keep up with what's going on." What are you playing?Meier mentioned World of Tanks, Starcraft 2, XCom 2, and Minecraft as recent games that he has managed to put some enjoyable time into. The other Civ games were me playing here and there and then doing other things." That initial release still holds a special place in Meier's heart, he says, because "I lived with that for probably a year and a half, and basically just Bruce and I for a lot of that time working together. Things have changed a lot for Meier and the franchise since the first Civilization launched 25 years ago.
"I think other players, if you want to be really good, they go, 'Oh, I realize the chariots here are overpowered, so I'm going to build a ton of chariots,'" he continued. 'What would I do if I was the king of this civilization?' That's the fun for me." I'm trying to play the way you're supposed to play and get into the role. "To be good you have to try to find or exploit the weaknesses in the game," Meier said. It's a shortcoming that Meier, in a set of recent interviews with Ars Technica, chalked up to a fundamental difference in playstyles. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Further Reading Civilization VI impressions: More than 500 turns can tellThe creator and namesake of the long-running Sid Meier's Civilization series-which just saw the launch of its sixth numbered release last week-freely admits that he's only "OK" at his own creation. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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