{"id":96,"date":"2006-08-31T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-08-31T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T06:25:15","slug":"its-life-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Life, Jim&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking around the other weekend for games to fill in an hour or two I came across <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freeciv.org\/index.php\/Freeciv\">FreeCiv<\/a>. It&#8217;s a free version of the Civilization strategy games, and got a bit hooked. Unfortunately it was just a bit hard for me to see what was going on, and finding help and up to date guidance was a bit hit and miss.<\/p>\n<p>So I ordered a copy of the latest commercial version, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2kgames.com\/civ4\/home.htm\">version IV<\/a>, of the game. Cheap, from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>It does look a lot nicer, and has a lot more bells and whistles then FreeCiv, which is in no way surprising. FreeCiv seems very close in game play, but if I&#8217;m going to be staring at a game for as long as I suspect I will be with this, then I do want pretty!<\/p>\n<p>The game itself is a strategy game where you have to grow a civilization (strangely enough) by carefully using resources, building military units, using diplomacy etc. Just like the real world. Kind of. You can play multiplayer over the net too, but I suspect I&#8217;ll be just playing the computer for a while until I get the hang of it all.<\/p>\n<p>When a game comes with a 224 page manual, and it&#8217;s all in English, then you know things are a bit complicated! But I like that. Should keep me going though the winter, anyway!<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking around the other weekend for games to fill in an hour or two I came across FreeCiv. It&#8217;s a free version of the Civilization strategy games, and got a bit hooked. Unfortunately it was just a bit hard for me to see what was going on, and finding help and up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}