purpose of civ 5? the joy?

the game is relatively simple. the only goal is to win, you can literally do anything you want to accomplish that goal.

I would accept this as an answer to begin with, as I'm new (you've heard that many times by now).

But texts like "do whatever you wanna do" "you cant be spoon fed enjoyment." "not everyone likes the same stuff, thats why there's chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, etc." "Walk into your closest ice cream shop and ask the store manager why they have so many flavors while you're at it." it's like you're not even trying to be helpful you just straight up don't want me to play? Read the other users comments in this thread and you'll see that actually contributed to things I had no idea about you could do that I will start do thanks to them. I didn't get any "there's chocolate, vanilla and raspberry" comments...

I would never ever write that to a beginner who would try to learn a game I have experience in. I play a lot of csgo if someone new would come in and ask how they can improve, what they might miss from their playing I wouldn't instantly shut them down and say that the game might not be anything for them since they reached out to a community instead of playing the game by themselves..

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