Worlds Longest Speedrun IS BROKEN - Civ 5 Marathon
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2024
- Today we accidentally speedrun the worlds slowest game of civilization 5! Thats right a civ 5 marathon game the slowest game possibble! 3X slower than normal with a total game length of 1500 turns! But what the developers didnt realise is that they built a broken perfectly balanced gamespeed by not lowering the rate barbarians spawn meaning every few turns a new barb camp spawns. Yet it takes 30 turns just to build a warrior. So you end up in a fun situation where the AI is getting destroyed by the barbarians.
So what if we exploit this broken gameplay feature by playing as songhai who generates gold from conquering barb camps. As we are playing on marathon 3X speed we also get 3X the reward! And with comparatively more barb camps spawning we can use the huge bonus of gold to swarm and rush our fellow AI players allowing us to Speedrun the worlds slowest Game of Civ 5. So let the spiffing brit try and exploit his way to victory whilst dodging nuclear Gandhi and his desire for the apocalypse!
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00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Welcome to the Game!
02:47 - Clearing our first barbarians
04:36 - Farming Gold & XP
06:24 - Revealing barb camps
08:14 - Going to war
09:30 - FREE GOLD!
09:50 - Slow construction
11:09 - Finishing the catapults
13:04 - Attack on Egypt
14:48 - War on Ethiopia
16:30 - The fall of Greece
18:12 - Attacking the Ottomans
19:59 - Fastest domination victory
21:41 - Victory
23:45 - Thanks for watching!
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title: Worlds Longest Speed Run - Civ 5 Marathon
#Civ5 #Speedrun #challenge - Hry
*"I want the game to be 3X slower... But The Barbs spawn 3X faster..."* - Sid Meier Inventing suffering circa 2010
@@ZBlinkZ bad business idea pal
@@ZBlinkZ Good luck
You need to do the exploits on the old black and white one or Black and White 2 God sandbox simulator game for the computer I think you would find the exploits to be quite funny
@@arnoldschmarkenfrecker7839 Agreed
Yes
Spiff, when they eventually wheel him into an old people's home:
"This care home may cost several thousand pounds per month, but *oh my* what they haven't thought of is: the tea here is free... So if I simply drink 18,000 cups of tea per day, then..."
Unfortunately, spiff has lost his mind in his old age and instead of making a video he's just explaining his 'genius' plan to the resident potted plant
18,001 1 pound tea’s.
Spiff stealing all the TEA, handing it to his relatives who then sell the tea, to others, just so that the profits made can be used to buy Yorkshire Tea Gold.
@@danielpickering3888 But then all he needs is a whale, then he can exchange them for some missiles....
and then by having another person pick up the missile at the exact same time they duplicate the missile and create thousands
Songhai's unique ability is they loot more gold when taking cities. Egypt's unique building is a tomb (temple replacement) that provides extra happiness but enemies loot more gold when taking the city. A great neighbor. :D
The more you know!
@@thespiffingbrit also Thebes rhymes with weebs
@@FayezButts actually rhymes with weebees
@@Jamie-st6of actually rhymes with letters
@@alonsoACR actually rhymes with factually
My first game of this, I sat down for 16 hours and didn't move until it was over.
This is my way of CIVing since 1997 :)
just one more turn...
@@thespiffingbrit Hold up, you have a member icon for your own channel. Am I just out of the loop or is this something new?
Conserving as much energy as possible to be used instead for gaming. I respect that Mewtwo grindset.
@@hungrymusicwolf You need to be a member to be able to gift memberships, or something. Might be related to the recent "breaking CZcams" stream. I watched it completely and remember nothing, haha sorry
This is pretty broken with germany too. They also get extra gold from barb camps and they get FREE UNITS from them too! Meaning you can get exponentially more units from it, which you can then use to kill enemy civs or tribute citystates for even more gold! This makes for an excellent snowball start!
I had the same thought as well, Germany would be god tier on this speed
From some other "broken" civs, I really like to play marathon + raging barbarians with Shoshones. You get strong scouts that you upgrade to Composite Bowman, then to Crossbowman, Gatlings.. etc., with no movement penalty, plus you can choose what you want to gain from Ancient Ruins!
And once I even had Fountain of Youth in such game too, making my several 2-shot + extra range + no movement penalty + survivalism + double healing Gatlings an ultimate killing machines! :D
like necromancy huh
too many unit and too many unkeep
@@blackwhite9668 if you get too many units you can gift them to city states for free influence.
Spiff: I'm going to be doing something that is broken OP today.
*Civ 5:* _Alright, might as well spawn Spiff 6 tiles away from a Fountain of Youth._
I have almost 1k hours in this game and I've never even seen fountain of youth. This man is a wizard
@@imafraidjumitebeeinnagang155 I haven't played unmodded Civ V in a long time, but there's a mod called "Really Advanced Setup". With that you can, among many other things, set specific wonders to spawn near you.
@@imafraidjumitebeeinnagang155 I've only got 440 hours in the game, but I've never seen it either. Actually, looking at the list of natural wonders on the wiki, there are _a lot_ I've never seen.
@@imafraidjumitebeeinnagang155 i only spawn with sri pada
After years, I finally accomplished the one goal I had for Civ 5: I built every wonder in the same city (which requires insane culture because you have to unlock all the trees and you have to switch ideologies multiple times as well).
Multiple restarts to get the right land types in the starting city was required.
I had to save scum a few times in early game to roll back after the AI would build one first, then build it first, but once the city becomes a powerhouse, then that no longer was necessary.
Congrats, that's awesome!
That's sick
Weren't you the guy that posted about this on the Civ 5 reddit? Because I swear that I've seen this before.
@@guest273 I'm probably not the first person to do this, or even talk about it.
Backstory is my wife and I used to travel from UT to CA and back a couple times a year to visit family, and she's the one who preferred to do the long drive. So I had a setup with power in the car, Steam in offline mode, and my laptop on a little tray (to avoid burning my lap after awhile)... I would just play CIV 5 on these trips, as it is one of the best games when you can't go online.
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My Favorite Civ, glad to see you doing another one on V
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Spiff is a legend!
I agree Civ 5 Is the Best!!
My favorite way to play civ 5 was as Venice on marathon speed. Focus on wonders and trade routes, by the time the world congress happens you have absurd money to buy every city state vote and do whatever you want.
does it work on deity?
barbarian camps are op. in civ 6 on marathon deity, i use them to get some early golden ages up. you need a ton, but its the only way you get anything at all in early game.
shhh your spoiling the next civ video ;)
@@thespiffingbrit :o
@@thespiffingbrit when are you going to play the superior civ4?
RIP technoblade
Wouldn't a simpler way to guarantee a golden age simply be to explore a ton, get goody huts and meet civs?
We've finally come full circle. He's having fun just playing a game optimally
love how the adviser warns you against making the game-winning move
Fun thing is, playing on Marathon IS how you do certain actual Civ 5 speedruns.
If you do a Deity Domination Speedrun, like I did, it stops the AI from building more units, so you can easily take out their capital and win.
You still end up winning in
I really like to play marathon games because they make each Era feel like a completely different game instead of a rush through ages
As a tall-building wonder rusher, this is why I always play on Quick.
and settler
This is a blast from the past. Civ V is like coming back to an old family house and just taking in the sights. Very fun to watch. :D
There's a lot of improvements I like in Civ 6 but 5 is just so much... cleaner? Smoother? The aesthetics and gameplay is just better.
Civ 5 is far and away superior to 6. Base Civ 6 was painful to the point that the expansions didn’t sound like they fixed any of the issues.
@@Kilthan2050 My favorite way to play civ 5 was as Venice, one mega wonder filled city. The fundamental design of civ 6 destroys that playstyle and im still salty about it.
@@Kilthan2050 They didnt fix anything, they added way more problems. loyalty and weather, the big 2 systems both the expansions added, are both a utter mess to this day.
5 is far and away the better game, the only thing even good about 6 is the district system they stole from endless legend, and even THAT they messed up, as in endless legend districts dont stop the tile they are on being worked, in civ6 they do. So you downgrade cities in a way when they have allot of districts.
5 is my #1 turn based strategy game for sure
@@MWBalls same. Early science and production and you can steamroll with wonders
I love how the AI at the end tried to stop you from attacking. Uh, no I do want to attack. See? I won.
Any "balance" really goes out the window with marathon. Always gives fun solo games.
Spliffy: Aw nice a great person spawn! A great general!
*Guderian*
Spliffy: We’ll send him straight to the front.
*Blitzkrieg intensifies*
This entire time I was just questioning why Spiff wasn't using Bismarck/Germany instead.
They're the true Marathon OP civ.
Instead of getting money, you just get a unit every time you take a barb camp.
And those units are based on your science progress, where-as barb camp spawns are based on world average and capped to a point.
So you can eventually get modern units out of destroying a spearman by driving a tank into the camp. If you're playing with enough difficulty mods for the game to last long enough.
I think Spiff's strat is more practical because it's multi-dimensional. Sure, you can indeed receive units from killing barbs, but the gold Spiff got is multi-purpose. You do need to take care of high maintenance costs with larger armies, and of course the stunted growth from settler production can murder a run.
I'm pretty sure that's not how that works. Germany has a 2/3rds chance of getting a unit, and from my experience you get the unit that was in the camp when the camp is destroyed - or the last barbarian unit in the camp if it was empty. You're not getting a Mechanized Infantry from destroying a spearman with a tank, you're getting the spearman. You also get less money from clearing out camps, because we wouldn't want it to be *too* overpowered. Still, you get a massive army at the start of the game by clearing out barbarian camps.
I really like the citystate game in civ5. It's a bit more dull in civ6 imo.
Being able to intimidate citystates when surrounding them with your army is such a neat game mechanic
i gotta say, the best civ exploit ever still has to go to civ 3 for their "you are bankrupt, but we aren't going to do anything about it" exploit where you could run a negative income with 0 gold, and all the game would do was warn you of impending bankruptcy, every turn, until the end of the game.
You don't know how happy it made me when Spiff said 200% longer and actually gave the correct 300% total statistic associated with it! Apparently most people assume (x times more) means (x times as much) instead of (n + x times as much). ☺️
Yes it's so annoying when they say 200% more but it's just 200%
People think that because the language and grammar gives mathematical wiggle room. Like you put the parentheses there and that’s nice but ain’t no fucking distributive property or pendas in English language ya feel. So we go to cultural norms.. in my case I think this is the first time I’ve heard of n+x(y%) outside of a non academic setting… is this a non American thing?
@@thepower7803 idk if it's a non-american thing but you don't even need the parenthesis provided here. the phrasing itself covers it - 200% MORE. more than what ? more than what you had. if you have 10 apples, then having 200% more apples has to be 30 apples. or another way is to ask "what would 100% more be then ?"
it's one of those where people just hear the number and ignore the context. similar to how people get confused that 19th century means 1800s and not 1900s (because the 1st century was years 0-99AD and the 2nd century started year 100). easy and common mistakes, but also very obvious if you think about what was said for like half a second
@@ashlyy1341 the 200% is a number the more is a qualifier, could be less. Still doesn’t tell u what the number is applying to just how it applies
Nerdiest way to say 3 times longer award goes to you and spiff good sirs. 1 x 3 = 3 and 1 + 2 = 3. :)
The Civ Series is my absolute favorite of all time and good to see Spiff exploiting away in a lot less time I would need to get such a win. Splendid!
Spiff just finding The Fountain of Youth on turn 3...
Funny. I always play on marathon in Civ. I like to take it slow, relax, and watch. The start might be underwhelming, agree.
It also makes the game feel more impactful. Wars drag on for longer while you can watch your empire slowly grow over time.
It works especially well on a huge map.
I'm the exact opposite, I hate slow games, I always play on quick or online speed because I rarely ever finish games anyway and at the very least I don't want to just spend my turns waiting for things.
@@bigfudge2031 we are not so different then: I rarely finish games too. I always press "please one more turn..."
I'm another one that also play marathon. I prefer the biggest size maps and it gives time to explore. It also makes more units useful before they become obsolete.
playing on slower speeds makes the game way easier
I remember before G+K and BNW came out, an exploit I used to do was to try to rush ancient ruins with an archer or scout. If you got lucky enough and got the unit upgrade , you could get late game mechanised infantry in the classical era.
Since there werent any composite bowmen or gatling guns, archers would upgrade straight to crossbowmen, then to riflemen.
As a Civ VI main I'm ashamed to say I've never played Civ V
HOWWWW! Go play it now! That is an order
@@thespiffingbrit Ok do I steal It from someone in my family?
Also I have all DLC's in Civ VI and I'm currently Achievement hunting so welp
@@Dalynx09 you need to play it
stop playing fake civ and play civ4
Civ V is great, but the happiness system will feel very clunky and outdated.
Civ VI is all about expansion, while Civ V is more about going tall.
I just started playing Civ V a couple days ago and yesterday watched a bunch of old spiffing Brit Civ videos... now this video comes out? crazy.
Finally the entire civilisation will be drinking tea now . What a glorious day !
And wah-bam! Spiff cheered as he made preparations to conquer another city. Are you sure you want to do this? his military advisor asked. Did I stutter? Wah...Bam... and in a ball of fire another civilization was conquered only to be lost to the ages.
Great video as always! ^-^ I really like the tortuously sloooooooooooooooooooow Civ 5 game settings you used and your strategies for coping with it by exploiting barbs was great! :D
This was on a map where all civs are on your starting continent. Imagine having to wait until you research the caravel to actually defeat all AI civs. That would have been significantly longer... And painful
Hi Spiff
Absolutely love Civ V! Hope to see even more of it, love your content!
Yet another CIV5 video
Really hope you start making more Civ 6 videos soon, those introduced me to you and I felt like there was so much potential there
Interesting run & analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Let’s go I got the gold that will totally arrive and won’t be “lost in transit” into a wormhole that leads to spiffs warehouse
@Unknown User I don’t think you know all of the people hiding in the gold transporter
I always love seeing Spiff vids. Always a good time.
Always love watching Spiff play Civ, honestly my favorite videos to chill with
Plus I get strategies I want to try
Thank you Spiff, always love your gaming and exploits
Been watching for years, finally have tea to enjoy this with. 10/10, would recommend.
The spiffing brit going along with the first spawnposition instead of resetting the game while spawning next to a dessert is a chad move.
"World's Longest Speedrun"
Baten Kaitos 100%: "Am I a joke to you?"
how about fates gates of dawn 100%?
I recommend you to try Civ V with Community Patch or even with the "Vox Populi" modpack.
Community Patch is a QoL improvement for the game, you have to own all Civ V DLCs in order to use it.
Vox Populi is a community-made expansion for the game that revolves around balance and also utilize lots of Community Patch features. It's a gameplay overhaul and almost totally new experience from the vanilla Civ V.
Like every game, it is always balanced wink wink.
Its always balanced until...the Yorkshire Tea begins to flow.
Love your Civ V videos. Idk why but you discovered the Fountain of Youth super early and didn't even acknowledge how rare or OP it can be.
Haven't watched the video yet but Civ videos are always good fun!
I was watching in the background and every time you said “Barb Camp” I was hearing “Bobcat” and was momentarily extremely confused.
Don't know if anyone else has said it, but a very useful tip at all levels of play: Setting the city's focus to Production in the City View menu, and then manually placing population where you want allows you to get extra production in the same turns when population grows because of how production is added immediately after the population increases on the same turn. You can then move the new pop into w/e tile you want. Slightly more micromanaging but especially useful at the beginning.
This is the first time I've ever liked a Spiff video in the required amount of likes!! I can't wait for my Barbarian gold!
Great funny vid bro, keep it up ! Just started playing Civ5 again too :)
Classic Brit behavior. “I say, fancy a spot of global conquest?”
That free gold bit at 9:30 reminded me of the LRR sketch "Staggeringly Fast Loans".
Best Civ game by far!! I love the videos on it
Ah, songhai marathon. My favorite game mode
Love your videos!!!!
i like that the video is faster paced than usual.
Marathon speed and you left animations on! You absolute mad man!
@The Spiffing Brit - I just got my most beautifully perfectly balanced coin today featuring the only man that can come close to matching your magnificence: Reanu Keeves. It is indeed glorious! Very well made and an extremely lovely design on it, it also has a very nice weight to it, I enjoy the heaftiness to it. GREAT JOB!
15:13 Guderian was tired of the Italians failing in Ethiopia so he went back in time and hired the Songhay. Interesting choice Heinz.
Been subbed since less than 1.5 mil and excited to see spiff break 3 million! He deserves every bit of this exposure and I can’t wait til my kids are old enough to be his 6 millionth subscribers!
Just stumbled onto this channel loving it. Not sure if you take requests but if you do I'd be interested in seeing you break Restaurant Empire.
"MLABLAURBLAFRGH!"
Door Monster News handler: "WHY ARE THERE BARBARIANS IN HERE??!!!"
Man CZcams’s getting passive aggressive, the only adds I get on spiffs channel are for coffee
Ramesses II of Egypt called Spiff honest.
I find this hilarious.
And a glorious banana. didn't need to hear anything else I'm subbing now lol
Thanks a lot. I have all kinds of shit to do today so when I woke up I said "no civ today, gotta do stuff." Figured I'd treat myself to a video while I smoked a ciggy. Now I'm 120 turns into a new game and it's all your fault!
Songhai, Egypt, Ottomans, Ethiopia and Cape Town all together. Well done map generator.
-1 point for not immediately renaming Istanbul to Constantinople after conquering.
8:50
Me, an Intellectual: "Theebz"
Spiffing, a Gentleman: "Theh-behs"
Excited to watch, oh and you should absolutely check out MTG arena original decks since you like MTG :)
true British behaviour to steal gold from literally every barbarian on the planet
Spiff: They would be happy if I gave it back. But.... It's mine.
Spiff: steals a worker
Egypt: I will never financially recover from this
Spiff is like lets game it out but he actually uploads 😆
You always deliver a good video to sip some godly bags of Yorkshire Tea Gold to, like the Tea fanatics we all know we are
It's actually so weird that you have to "rush" to build world wonders. The Pharao wasn't like "We need to build this Pyramid quickly before the greeks beat us to it!" He was like "Be finished in 40 years so you can store my corpse in it. And also the one of the architect even if he is still alive."
Instructions unclear, I licked the gold and now have 1,084 different diseases.
Another weird civ5 outlier is Carthage, the famous boat enjoyers, absolutely owning highlands maps.
As soon as they get thier first great general, every single land unit they own can waltz over mountains as they please (but lose 50% hp if they end turn on one).
"You daft sod, why you picking a sea empire for a mountain map?"
Oh, I er, just like the colour is all.
I looked for two years and finally found a store that sells Yorkshire Gold... it tastes amazing. Thanks spiff for the recommendation every video.
Congrats on hitting 3 million!!!
Thank you spiffington for making curious as to whether civ 5 is on sale. Of course it is. It's steam summer sale time
a civ 5? and my favorite mode? spiff you wonderful person!
Congrats on 3mil spiff :) I raise my cup of Yorkshire tea to u sir!!
Congrats on 3 mil!
pretty good video first one i knew about before the video i think though haha. i use the Aztecs and just surround barb encampments with ranged units to far culture and money
Congrats on 3 mill 🥳
I imagine you could also do this with Bismark as well since he is also really good with lots of barbarians.
Yep, this is basically why I like to play Songhai. I almost always play Marathon anyway, and it didn't take long to notice this little thing. Fighting Barbarians is also quite a lot simpler on Marathon as well, as a single Warrior is usually more than enough to clear a camp. Much harder to do on faster speeds, as the Barbarians spawn too fast for a Warrior to keep up with a constant need to heal in between attacks.
If you have any gold with extra blood that’d be great because Skarbrand’s been upset ever since you smacked his melee defense down to 0
This comment is meant to indicate to the algorithm that I (we) still enjoy Civ 5 content, Spiff, and the destruction of multiple forms of decency in the name of speed and efficiency.
Cheers :)
I feel i miss the point of civ in general, I played first 3 games and never really liked it. It looks the same but with better graphics and more characters. I'm here for spiff, though this video is making me fall asleep and I've lost what's going on
Maybe I don't like it because its not earth. Like someone took the precursors of our nations on a different planet for some, nefarious, scientific reason? I get the point of using human nations so you can use your favorite unit. I feel it needs story not just excessive strategy
So the game is always the same, but how you win...is different? Makes me appreciate the total war games much more.
9:43 Mmmmm, delicious barbarian blood.
9:47 But, delicious barbarian blood!
I like drinking coffee while listening to your videos
1500 turns?
Advisor:if you attack, the game is over!
Spiff:yea, the game is over... for them!
2 days ago I played civ 5 with my friends and Spiffing Brit uploads a video rn. The world is perfectly balanced.
"As your advisor, I don't think winning the game is a good idea."
Overcoming the initial hump raging barbarians present is monumental.
This gave me slight "war" flashbacks xD
Me and some friends played marathon a few times, and one of those, I was beseiged so early, and so often, that the others had to create a ring of troops around my city just to keep me from being murdered by the barbarians xD