Civilization

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Civilization, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Unit animations force waiting before the player can make their next move2026-05-28
Intro animation can't be skipped on slower computers, forcing minutes of waiting2023-12-28
Players can't tell combat odds, so large stat gaps seem to work unpredictably2023-12-28
One-unit-per-hex rule forces a tedious dance to place units2021-12-26
Barbarians escape out of sight, so the player faces endless waves2020-05-21