ShahJahanII
Homesick Alien
Just realized, this should put an end to all the pointless ranting on the fact that there hasn't been an expansion pack yet.
I think it's just pluses. so I don't think there's minuses, but then again, there's not much minuses in Civ 5 with the exception of Gold per turn and Happiness. (oh and food)
There's no downfall to policies either.
Will this expansion be patched over Civ 5 or will it be listed separately in your Steam library? I assume that it will be treated like DLC before.
How does Steam normally handle expansions? That will be your answer, most likely.
Resolution isn't that great...
- University of Sankore
About the whole, "how can religion affect diplomacy if the leaders only care about winning" discussion.
A simple way to do it is too keep the civilization leaders as cold, pragmatic, real-politikers, but have the population of a civ care about how moral and religious their leader is. Arguably, this dichotomy has existed for large parts of history.
How could this be implemented?
Simple, every trade deal/research agreement/treaty you do gives you +/- happiness depending on whether you share a religion or not. If that has too much impact on the happiness system, make it so that it increases/reduces your culture output (to represent people's increasing/reducing wish to get involved in creating state propaganda and improvements).
Fits very well from a gameplay perspective, and arguably pretty well from a historical/immersion perspective.
Has this been confirmed?The thing about sharing religion is this, the founder gets to pick the benefits and once taken (like the Defender of the Faith Modifier) then it isn't available to another religion.
So with more gold, more happiness (assuming), more food and more hammers, games would be finished quicker? Instead adding more of stuff (ala Civ4), shouldn't there be more critical choices that we would need to make? I hope they would balance these additional bonuses with some degree of consequences.
Other than that, looking forwards to seeing the new civs and what they can offer for gameplay.
Maybe something to do with a science victory? Those feathers make it look victorious.Anybody noticed the weird 3 beaker icon at notifications? I first assumed that was the rigged election but that goes for the Espionage Icon doesn't? It's covered by the rigged Election description above the map, it's a 3 beakers icon with the "feathers" or whatever it's called.
Maybe something to do with a science victory? Those feathers make it look victorious.
It also looks like one of those achievement icons.
But intriguing indeed!