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Huh? Kipling was English. He was born in India because Britain controlled it and his family lived there at the time. His family's having lived in a far-flung corner of the Empire doesn't make the man himself not English.

I'm hoping the Loyalty mechanic is either testing the waters for, or at least can be expanded into, a fully functional system for Colonization, Revolution, and De-Colonization. I have long wanted a function that would allow for civs to found colonies which could then break free and form new...

Scotland wasn't designed to be too English, it was designed to be too British. As was England. (Victoria, Redcoats, British Museum, etc.) They made separate English and Scottish civs and then designed them both with predominantly post-Union things. It's an odd choice, to say the least...

Clearly, the next expansion needs to include Anacaona of the Taino, a Minoan civ led by a priestess, and Godiva as an alternate leader for England. :mischief:

If you say so. Show me where I claimed that. Go ahead, I'll wait.

And I don't "get" how people can "fail to understand" that being cut off from an entire victory condition is worse than being able to go after whatever victory you feel like. Personally, I don't like where this trend is going. Throughout the Civ franchise, it had always been the case that...

My assumption is that, sooner or later, Portugal will get in. The bonuses given to the Lisbon city-state are not quintessentially Portuguese enough to preclude Lisbon eventually getting a new name and icon while Portugal, a perennial favorite of this series, gets elevated back to civ status...

That's fatuous. All civs start the game with the potential to found a religion, except Kongo. If that potential is taken away from other civs because too many other civs got there first, that only affects that one particular play-through. Sure, that civ now can't found a religion this time...

This has been bugging me since the first time we saw the feature in action. Ideally, I would want to see the day/night cycle look more like this: But failing that, it would be nice if the sun would at least move east to west. Cue someone saying that given the randomized continents, "America...

So, the only Sub-Saharan African civ in the base game is not only represented by a leader whose primary achievement was capitulating to a European power and uprooting his own culture in favor of theirs, and he's barred from a central game mechanic, but now we learn he's also barred from an...

They stated outright a long time ago that you cannot damage Wonders.

And even then, we're stuck calling them the "Olmec", a name given by the Aztecs to a people who, in their own time, were living in the same region that the ancient culture had lived in. Presumably the ancient Olmec had their own name for themselves, but it would not have been "Olmec", and we...

I really don't think they called the civ England in order to leave room for a Celtic civ. They're so inconsistent about their implementation of the Celts that there's no reason to think a Civ VI Celtic civ would have modern British cities in its city list; it would be just as likely--if not...

Apart from the fact that "Vercingetorix" is fun to say, is there any compelling reason to use him specifically? Personally, as fascinated as I have always been with the Romans, I am getting tired of seeing civs included whose representation in-game is primarily as "peoples conquered by the...

Some of you are really grasping at straws. He was making a joke on the word "warmonger", pretending that it derived from an imagined verb "to mong", and that a "warmonger" would be defined as "one who or that which mongs war". It's not a hint about Mongols.

And of course, the weird speculation about Gorgo continues. While nothing has been officially confirmed, here are three predictions on which I am willing to stake my reputation*: 1) Gorgo will not lead a Spartan civ. Pericles leads "Greece", not "Athens". Therefore the Greek civ still...

For myself, I think my biggest complaint about the visuals is that the districts look too separated. They don't give me a sense of being parts of the same city. They just look like pieces on a game board. I mean, I know that they are literally that, but it would be nice if they looked more...

Nice catch! If there aren't really multiple leaders, then having both the civ icon and the leader portrait there would be needless redundancy.

Exactly. As blobs go, Polynesia is more like the Celts than like Native America. Each group of Polynesians was different from the others, but they were culturally and linguistically related enough that one can meaningfully speak of "Polynesian civilization" as a general thing. To speak of...

The problem with using post-colonial African civs is that their borders were largely drawn by Europeans sitting around a table in the 19th century. Nigeria didn't arrive at its current borders by any organic process of local war or settlement, but by British diplomats pointing at a map and...