Recent content by Marla_Singer

Sorry but the scaling issue you're trying to point isn't limited to military, but is pretty much the same for every population aspects of the game. "1" population always eats 2 food and can only work 1 tile, no matter how late you are in the game and how many people there are in your city. This...

Which Civ iteration do you have in mind? In Civ3 for instance, nationalism triggered the ability to draft a citizen as a rifleman. In Colonization (1994) and Civ4Col (2008) all "human" military units (melee, mounted) are citizens equipped with swords, guns or horses. Only cannons and ships are...

Sorry my point wasn't addressed at you specifically. It's true that the talks we had with others grew on me, wondering what do I enjoy about 4X games, how do I apprehend them. Yet rather than giving my opinion, I'm more interested about how people perceive the concept. The question about...

Civilization is considered formative of the turn-based 4X genre: explore, expand, exploit, exterminate. We often come back to these in our discussions and it seems most of us agree that it is very central to the Civilization series. But beyond those four words, what makes the concept enjoyable...

That is correct, my memory twisted it. Yet this being said, as told by @pokiehl, that generally results in features from previous iterations being gone for good. Since Civ 1, I can't think of any important feature that was removed in one iteration and came back again afterwards.

According to Sid Meier (told several years ago but there's no reason it changed), the Firaxis rule for a new iteration of Civ is : One third of permanent rules that have never been changed since Civ 1. One third of rules directly inherited from the previous iteration (here Civ6). One third of...

Varying terrains accross the time definitely makes sense, even more so if the beginning of the game would be advanced to 10,000 BCE. However, we should be cautious with the fact that city (and district placements) are very strategic for the player. And as such, if a perfectly placed city...

I think that by "threads" they mean tree-like chains of replies, as they are done on social networks. Forum threads are of a different nature as each post isn't necessarily a direct answer from the post above (which is one of the features I like the most in forums). Increased toxicity still...

In this era that celebrates hatred and selfishness as the only valuable forms of expression, I have, as a European, a simple message to give to our American friends: thank you for being there again.

From a gameplay perspective, slavery was implemented in Civ4 as a simple mechanic allowing you to sacrifice 1 population in your city in order to directly achieve the current production. Many players denounced it as being overpowered (see this thread) as there's actually no other downsides. On...

The irony is that it's precisely when exploration started to become important in real History, at the Renaissance, that it loses all value in Civilization games. We can wonder why is it so? In real History, it is the development of global trade which motivated Western European powers to...

That is very hypothetical given we have no force to protect Damascus. Maybe the Russians could have done something to prevent the Israeli strike? Anyway what I see is that the US government refused to support an Israeli counterattack over Iran and has done everything it could to dissuade the...

Well, let's not pretend we're totally blind. If the Iran-backed Houthis targets maritime trade in the Red Sea, it's clearly a hostile move against Europe, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Iran never considered us as "neutral".

Greeks were considered as "the East" back in Roman times. I guess it's all relative.

The international coalition which supported Israel against the Irianian attack had as only purpose to avoid the conflict to escalate at an international scale. Interpreting it as further support for the current Israeli government policy is misguided in my humble opinion. According to the French...