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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...

Civ5 and Civ6 made combat less linear using more chess-like mechanics. That's a good thing, yet I've been wondering whether it could be even further improved for Civ7. The major problem is that the map inevitably grows clogged late in the game, strongly limiting the actual ability to maneuver...

If we look at history, the control of trade routes has always been essential for powers to grow influential. Most of the earlier civilizations of the ancient world grew on rivers (Nile, Mesopotamia, Indus, Yellow River), as they allowed large resources shipments over long distances. Then trade...

I strongly believe that exploration is made too easy in WTP. That’s a flaw which was already true in Vanilla Civ4Col and which has never been considered seriously. Rather than "helping the player", I've grown convinced over years that it just makes the exploration experience more bland. If...

Here is a list I've compiled of the most followed professional sport teams on social media all across the world. I thought it would be interesting to share it here: https://www.international-football.net/social-clubs-2019 Followers are cumulated out of 4 social networks: Instagram, Facebook...

It seems "Back to the Future" was only 4 years off after all. :) 3Ez-tBo_RBQ

The idea of the modmod would be about enlarging the RAR experience at a global scale. I believe this could potentially be done mostly with pure XML and Art modding. Enlarge map Here is the basic: instead of depicting only a continent, the mod would be based on a full earth map. That means...

I won't come back on the heavy divide between Civ4 and Civ5 fans: hexagons or squares, 1UPT vs SOD and so on and so forth. The fact is that no matter on which side you are, obviously both approaches have their limits. Hence a simple idea: what about no tile at all? I used to believe that tiles...

Over 1 billion Here is a list of the 100 professional sports teams having the most likes in Facebook and followers on Twitter (cumulated). Football is leading the way with 49 teams cumulating together 742 million fans. Football clubs represented are pretty diverse as they are coming from 14...

Take advantage of RAR great features and rewrite History! This scenario requires RAR version 2.2 or better This scenario is based on the RAR Americas gigantic map. Why starting in 1650AD? Because that's an early stage of the Americas History in which all European powers have already settled...

Why this thread? Civ4Col's AI is desperately weak. No matter the difficulty level. This is so true that it's just not fun at all. When I play RAR, the fun is mainly about challenging myself. I don't feel any competition at all with other European settlers, they are about as "environmental" as...

Alright, with everything published about world war 2, I feel I have a quite good general understanding about what went on then... except for one thing: Hitler's spring 1941 decision to invade the USSR. The first thing is, it's impossible to invade the USSR, because even if you take Moscow...

Since the original 1994 release, Sid Meier's Colonization has always pictured a rather "romantic" vision of the New World History as pictured by North Americans : rather weak Natives gently accept to get destroyed by the Europeans, Spaniards are dirty Native murderers, Portugal has never put a...

Here's a collection of maps of the Americas, built with the idea to take advantage of all the cool features of the Religion and Revolution mod. The map exists in 2 sizes : Gigantic : 136 x 256 plots Huge : 68 x 128 plots The huge map being itself declined in 3 versions varying in randomness...

Important notice: these figures don't mean anything about popularity or fanbase. Out of curiosity, I got the idea to check the traffic on Wikipedia for articles related to the most famous sport clubs and franchises. Indeed, Wikipedia is plurilingual which makes the thing more interesting as it...

Hey everyone, Most democracies are based on a two-house parliamentary system : - the upper house supposed to represent the territories (generally the country's subdivisions) - the lower house supposed to directly represent the people. Such a system would imply that, in order to avoid conflicts...

If we look back at History, it's kind of weird how the 1930's started in a similar fashion as the 2010's. We all know there was the 1929 financial crisis which turned into an economical crisis, and then a social crisis, and eventually a political crisis. During the 1930's the world balance...

At the beginning of operation Barbarossa, when the war arrived on the Russian soil, a song quickly became very popular. The song is about a summer in the Russian steppes, when a young lady named Katyusha thinks about her heroe who left the village to fight at the far away border. Here's a full...

Présidents de la République Française Charles de Gaulle (1959-1969) Georges Pompidou (1969-1974) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1981) François Mitterrand (1981-1995) Jacques Chirac (1995-2007) Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-)

Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Konrad Adenauer (1949-1963) Ludwig Erhard (1963-1966) Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966-1969) Willy Brandt (1969-1974) Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982) Helmut Kohl (1982-1998) Gerhard Schröder (1998-2005)...