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Good points. Aside from balance the game really is quite superficial. I guess GPs are removed because workers give tile upgrades instead of planting a GP. Ironically, I imagine future space colonies would celebrate great people a lot. Stations could be improved, make them more variable...

There was a time when Civ5 vanilla went through some big patches and DLC supported adding of atolls and stone and some other side things. I think there was some reshuffling at Firaxis and they really buckled down to sort it out. But then it was the expansions that really made the game so diverse...

This thread makes me think of Railroad Tycoon. Maybe a bit offtopic but that game just shows how good you can make a trade simualtor, and that was years ago with basic technology.

Even when vanilla Civ 5 was dire on release it still managed to keep more interest. It was beautiful and appealed to the historical aspect that gave people chills since the first Civ. BE is an assault to the eyes and just tedious clicking so many times to change production queues and so on. And...

This is true. SoD made Civ 4 unfun for me (making 2 units per turn on a city, all add to the stack), and Civ 5 is so tedious moving armies, and seeing the terrain covered by a carpet of units. The combat AI in EL isn't worse than Civ 5/BE engine even with all the patches. You don't see...

It also is the biggest flaw of Endless Legend that if you are the runaway then they won't work together to dogpile you, and the end game is a snoozefest. In fact both games have similar flaws, tactical AI being another one. If you are well ahead in EL you can push around the weaklings to get...

It needs one simple patch to be great, in 6 months I expect it to be on par with BNW yet smaller in content. So it depends, if you can stand it, wait until the next sale. But then that's true of all games nowadays.

Orbital strikes on cities :nuke:

Well it's a big step up from Civ5 vanilla at release so that's one thing. Balance is bizarre and it's too easy to win so you don't have to make any decisions, but I'm trying the Better Balance mod (BeBa) and it seems to be better. Only 100 turns in yet though.

You can I'm sure and I think it clears the miasma.

Runs faster on mine too. I think also it is because there aren't all those city states to calculate for.

I'm guessing there is a neutral unit stationed in the city, e.g. a great admiral from a civ that is friends with you and has open borders with Polynesia. Try again next turn, if it is something like this it should move.

Cool city screens and palace view like in the older civs. Can't believe they left these out.

I think you can still build internal routes but you need a granary or workshop or there is nothing to transfer.

When you go up a level you can help for the first few games by rigging the settings in your favour e.g. polynesia on archipelago, and also reroll starts until you get a good one. If you are competent on king then emperor and soon immortal aren't out of reach.