At some point, an old buddy of mine joined Facebook or found me on Facebook and then after that asked me to play Empires & Allies…

Some time last week, or more likely the week before, I couldn’t sleep. So while lying in bed I used my iPhone and somehow it recommended I download a game called Empire Online. I did and I’ve since spent at least 20 hours playing it. Empire Online is a MMORPG. This means lots of people play the same game all over the world and each player is represented by a character in the game. Characters can interact, fight, even die…

Seeing as how I’m staying in for the evening I’m updating my blog, and probably will apply to yet more jobs, but I also will probably end up playing Civilization V.  I’ve stayed up too late, too often recently playing this game.  I’ve also been reading CivFanatics even after I go to bed on my iPhone. So here are some more thoughts on how to do better in the game if you want to be a peaceful builder..

This post was written before either expansion, I ended up playing this game for over 1000 hours so perhaps I have some useful though now dated insight…

This post does well in Google, but the game has been patched many times and the first expansion (Gods & Kings) and now the second expansion (Brave New World) have been released. I jotted down my final thoughts on Civ V vanilla and some refinements to my basic strategy post expansions…