CanuckSoldier
Emperor
I don't think it will be that hard to get the basics of balance down. Yes fine tuning all the civs is always a long debate even among MP players.
1. Balanced maps/starting locations and resources are the answer to this just like it was in Civ4.
2. Natural Wonders will be turned off.
3. City states will be turned off.
4. Barbs will be turned off.
5. Wonders are not that often a factor, except for specific ones for a specific scenario/era start, we do ban specific wonders in these situations if they are unbalancing. But in general when you are trying to expand and build an empire so you have the resources to go to war if you want, wonders generally waste hammers unless they have a very good benifit.
6. This is hard to tell at this point, we will have to wait til the demo and test the happiness vs expansion in the early game.
The most important thing for MP is that we start talking about balance right away so we can do a mod before Xmas hopefully. But this has always been the case, it took a few months to delve into Civ4 when it came out and make game changes that were needed.
CS
1. Balanced maps/starting locations and resources are the answer to this just like it was in Civ4.
2. Natural Wonders will be turned off.
3. City states will be turned off.
4. Barbs will be turned off.
5. Wonders are not that often a factor, except for specific ones for a specific scenario/era start, we do ban specific wonders in these situations if they are unbalancing. But in general when you are trying to expand and build an empire so you have the resources to go to war if you want, wonders generally waste hammers unless they have a very good benifit.
6. This is hard to tell at this point, we will have to wait til the demo and test the happiness vs expansion in the early game.
The most important thing for MP is that we start talking about balance right away so we can do a mod before Xmas hopefully. But this has always been the case, it took a few months to delve into Civ4 when it came out and make game changes that were needed.
CS