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Topic on Talk:Sid Meier's Civilization V

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It actually is a little strange to me that I've overtaken this article over the last several months, not quite my intention. I do like to keep it on course and up to date, but I welcome other editors. If you want to comb over it, feel free. I would just hate to lose some useful information in the process.

I as a rule try not to remove other people's edits or contributions without good reason, hence leaving some of the excess troubleshooting steps. I actually don't think they are that useful. I simply didn't want to remove existing information for no reason.

I do feel it's important to show the different versions, mainly because a lot of people have been confused by the "Game of The Year" edition. Many people seem to believe it contains Gods and Kings (where they get that idea, I can't say), and also believe it contains all DLC. I suppose this could be shortened to say "The Game of The Year Edition contains all DLC except Korea and Wonders of The Ancient World. It does not include Gods and Kings." I do want to keep a mention of the Campaign Edition, simply to note it is not compatible with the other versions. I mean, the point of this article to is keep confusion to a minimum (and sowing confusion is something Civ V is good at...).

I understand the point of fix boxes, as I said, but I don't like the appearance of them. I don't think plain text is perfect, either. Right now this article is very wordy and detailed, and I think putting a lot of fix boxes in would only make that worse.

I would recommend, however, that any drastic changes that would affect people finding information on this page wait a short time, particularly with the "Issues with version whatever" part. A new patch was just released, and I have noticed people referring/linking/quoting that section to sort out bugs introduced in the last few days. Keeping that intact would be helpful for the Civ community, for the next few days at least. As far as I'm concerned, that is the most important part of the page right now.

As for whether fixes may not be applicable...I don't believe there is a single fix on here that applies to everyone. Most of them work, but they all have shown exceptions...this is a very buggy game, and it seems like the community is holding it together with patchwork.

I will look around at other articles to get a better feel for the current layout (it keeps changing on me!).