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I don't mind having some form of long-term upgrade. Even just as a nominal like "this is the Princess Patricia Light Infantry unit" which gets "upgraded" over time for different conflicts. Even just for some game-play role-playing, it's always cool to know that this level 5 machine gun basically...

4 also had it so that cities had a number of turns before they could start contributing anything. So if you captured a big city it would always have like 5 or 10 turns before you could start getting anything back from it. You had to have enough capacity for that time to sustain yourself. I...

4 was good in that if you tried to spread too far too fast, you could easily bankrupt yourself. I remember some games where I'd have a good rush and take out a neighbour, only to absolutely destroy my empire and end up abandoning the game. Neither 5 nor 6 came close to replicating that - 6...

There's different strategies to employ too. If you're a civ that has good bonuses to industrial zones or encourages them, then really planning them out can be huge. Use map tacks to plot aqueducts, dams, etc... and you should be able to routinely get a +6 or +7 industrial zone in some spots...

I think the monopolies mode in 6 helped bring out a little more desire to get resources, but yeah, the overall resource setup in 6 definitely is a bit stale. Sure, if you have a riverside city a rice tile can make a nice farmed tile without the need for a triangle, or a few other specific cases...

Yeah it seems more like a sort of dedicated scenario with a mild competitive aspect rather than like a true "challenge olympics" or something. I mean, we haven't had anything like this in all the time of civ, and it's mildly codifying like an official GOTM with a quick setup accessible to...

Yeah, my first try I explored what felt like a long way in the north, didn't see them and thought was blocked in by city-states, so I started assuming he was more around the south of the lake. But then I didn't see anything there either and got confused. And by that point even with a bunch of...

Yeah, online speed dual rush, curious to see what the fastest times on it are. But otherwise, feels less thematic than the last one.

Yeah, I think Democracy forbid any war declarations, Republic I forget when you could or not. It made for some interesting game decisions at times. I don't mind having more tradeoffs like that - even in civ abilities, you see that with some leaders being able to do different things. But for...

I actually don't mind the settling locations. The capital I don't like to wander forever, so I can live with an ocean start. Everything else except for Cullen I think is on freshwater. Dundee is probably the weakest city - that's a city that I would rather back-fill later and is a pretty useless...

Especially with neighbors already beating each other up, going Military instead of settling Dumphries would have sped things up a little. At that stage you could probably have gotten maybe 2 swordsmen for the price of that settler, and with no walls in the AI cities, swordsmen are more than...

A very basic supply system would be really cool. Even a simple "for every X tiles to nearest un-occupied city, unit maintenance is +1 per unit per turn". Even if it's just a simple +1 gold per 5 tiles away from your nearest unoccupied city, suddenly wars will probably double your overall unit...

I'm guessing that in the default setup they maybe manually set up those burnt forest tiles (or when they saved it for the scenario something broke them and caused them to be stuck), such that those tiles don't regrow and stay burnt forever. That's what sort of scared me the first time. Although...

Yeah, it was one of those things where if you know the map, you can change how you decide to play. Knowing there's none, you play the game differently. I found that once you get past the initial pesky GDRs roaming, it was pretty calm the rest of the way. Maybe I just got lucky in their spawns...

They mention going from 1 to 6 as the only ones they've played, so yeah, that would be a jump. Civ 3 is when they first added like culture and diplomacy victories, and since then, religion is the only other new ones, really. I mean, civ is not exactly an easy game, and I can't imagine what it...