Given the recent furor in Australia about a particular violent game facing bans not because of the violent depictions, but because it also depicted the injection of morphine to represent field medicine treatment, I imagine game producers have become a little more aware of drug references than before.
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Given the recent furor in Australia about a particular violent game facing bans not because of the violent depictions, but because it also depicted the injection of morphine to represent field medicine treatment, I imagine game producers have become a little more aware of drug references than before.
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australian regulations are bat s*** Crazy 
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For the average pleb, perhaps. But The roman collosseum and Globe theatre certainly attracted tourism. Granted The scale of those examples is that of world wonders, the concept is still there, and, imo, relevant enough to not complain about it as something entirely nonsensical. Cause it does make sense.
The scale of the average collosseums values has just been increased in such a way that it might merit travel to that location, for whatever reason.
It's part of the simple concept of self-extrapolating why something might work the way it does by using your imagination. How, in any way shape or form, could a collisseum in Athens affect the happiness of the entire greek state, such that those in Argos are satisfied by it, in a general sense. Simple; From time to time the olympics are held there. News from the olympics is spread far and wide... and while a single citizen of Argos may never set foot in Athens in their lives, the topical discussion of the sporting event that is the olympics would be of interest, and would invoke entertainment amongst a portion of it's populous.
and there you have it.
Olleus
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I hate the concept of "average colloseum". There was only one building called the Colloseum, and that's the one in Rome. And even the Romans didn't call it that at first, but the Flavian Amphitheatre. That's because the type of building that you build in Civ is an amphitheatre - an oval shaped arena which is formed by placing two theatres back to back and getting rid of the raised stage.
Calling every arena/amphitheatre in the game a Colloseum is as absurd as calling every cathedral in the game Notre Dame, calling every library The Library of Congress, calling every laboratory Cern, ect...ect....
People were annoyed at the Civ4 Roman UU being called a Praetorian, this is far worse a historical outcry!
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Calling every arena/amphitheatre in the game a Colloseum is as absurd as calling every cathedral in the game Notre Dame, calling every library The Library of Congress, calling every laboratory Cern, ect...ect....
People were annoyed at the Civ4 Roman UU being called a Praetorian, this is far worse a historical outcry!
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Olleus
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Tylerryan79
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Anyone mind posting a transcript of the gold write up? Thanks!
Looks like it's mostly the same as in Civ4. The big news is really what we kind of new from before(but nice with a confirmation feature).
- The separation of
and 
(removal of 
and the slider)
- You can buy tiles
- The addition of city states
- Rushbuy always available. We had universal suffrage in Civ4, but always having rushbuying as an alternative does change it a bit.
- The separation of
and (removal of and the slider)- You can buy tiles
- The addition of city states
- Rushbuy always available. We had universal suffrage in Civ4, but always having rushbuying as an alternative does change it a bit.
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For an expansion they should consider integrating a system where you can invest your gold into civ-wide benefits. For example, being able to invest (using fake numbers here) 10g per turn to obtain a constant military bonus (+1 str to units, something silly like that)... as long as you continue to invest the X gold per turn, you gain continue to gain the effect. You could have multiple trees/branches, similar to the policy system, but rather make the trees more linear. Have trees emphasize military, growth, etc... as you progress down a tree you reap greater benefits at the cost of greater gold per turn. For example, Military Bonus #1 (1 str to units) would be 10gpt, but bonus #2 might be a total of 20-30gpt.
With multiple trees, and the earlier bonii being cheaper, this would allow choice in how dedicated you want to be to a certain kind of investment. If you're serious about investing in superior military, you just may be prepared to spend tons of gold per turn to reap those specific bonii.. However, if you'd rather spread that 50gpt around, you could get lower levels of various different investment opportunities.
I think something like this, if refined and actually worked on as more of 3 minute thought, would strengthen the value of the dollar... I mean gold. (that was a joke)
Oh, and it also gives the choice of whether you want to hoard gold or spend it for civ-wide bonii. If you begin to lose gold, and reach zero, you'd be forced to abandon a particular investment, and thus lose the bonus, while simultaneously bringing you back into +g -- which would actually create the dynamic of hoarding for a period so that one might invest for a period later... for example, if (still using random fake numbers) it's 100gpt to invest fully in the military tree and gain all of it's cool goodies, but you only make 50g... you might hoard gold for 20 turns to get a surplus 1000g, then declare war, being able to fully invest in military bonii (100gpt) for 10 turns.
In fact it could even be designed around the concept of "temporary buffs" to begin with... since such concepts are already in place with research pacts and golden ages (which aren't gold related... but ARE a temporary buff). That could give research pervue of civ advancement, culture dominion of persistant bonii that affect your entire game, and gold the domain of investing in short term boosts (which requires diverting gold from what you'd otherwise regularly use it for).
could be interesting.
With multiple trees, and the earlier bonii being cheaper, this would allow choice in how dedicated you want to be to a certain kind of investment. If you're serious about investing in superior military, you just may be prepared to spend tons of gold per turn to reap those specific bonii.. However, if you'd rather spread that 50gpt around, you could get lower levels of various different investment opportunities.
I think something like this, if refined and actually worked on as more of 3 minute thought, would strengthen the value of the dollar... I mean gold. (that was a joke)
Oh, and it also gives the choice of whether you want to hoard gold or spend it for civ-wide bonii. If you begin to lose gold, and reach zero, you'd be forced to abandon a particular investment, and thus lose the bonus, while simultaneously bringing you back into +g -- which would actually create the dynamic of hoarding for a period so that one might invest for a period later... for example, if (still using random fake numbers) it's 100gpt to invest fully in the military tree and gain all of it's cool goodies, but you only make 50g... you might hoard gold for 20 turns to get a surplus 1000g, then declare war, being able to fully invest in military bonii (100gpt) for 10 turns.
In fact it could even be designed around the concept of "temporary buffs" to begin with... since such concepts are already in place with research pacts and golden ages (which aren't gold related... but ARE a temporary buff). That could give research pervue of civ advancement, culture dominion of persistant bonii that affect your entire game, and gold the domain of investing in short term boosts (which requires diverting gold from what you'd otherwise regularly use it for).
could be interesting.
How is that different than what we have had in Civ2-4?
Same question as above. Perhaps more buildings require resources?
Welcome to Civ2. Funny this is being touted as a new feature when it isn't. But the lead designer's pedigree only extends back to Civ3-4.
Thoughtful Thug
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Actually the lead designer was a beta tester for Civ 2. I am certain that all of the people involved in the making of the game is familiar with all of the games of the franchise. I know I wouldn't hire someone who had never played all of the games.
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The article is explaining how cities work in Civilization V. It's goal is not to only point out things that are new
Louis XXIV
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Yep ...
I am wondering what happened to the podcasts? There was one on 16. and 23. of July but for nearly 14 days we havent heared from elizabeth...
I was wondering the same thing! its been forever since a podcast. Im getting kinda anxious!
But Piece has a strong point here. I starve my cities as well, using granaries and food stored as a resource, to boost production of a wonder or tryingto hurry some Great Person (empathizing some type with massive specialists all of a sudden).. etc. If a penalty for unhappiness doesn't affect your game play it could be a problem if not minded by the devs.
For example, suppose you know that next turn your empire is about to go unhappy. You set one of your important cities to maximise food this turn (maybe +10
) but not so much as to grow to the next level. Next turn unhappiness kicks in so you now emphasise something else while the city starves very slowly (maybe -1). If it takes you only 10 turns to fix your happiness problem, then that city was pretty much not affected at all by the unhappiness hit to growth rate.
More generally you could do this in all cities. Emphasise growth during times of happiness and then emphasise anything but growth during times of sadness.
I hope/expect there will be other negative consequences of empire unhappiness than just the growth rate, but regardless of whether that is true or not, I really hope there is some negative consequence for starving cities if there is one for growing cities (as well as food-stationary cities I suppose - it's only fair).
) but not so much as to grow to the next level. Next turn unhappiness kicks in so you now emphasise something else while the city starves very slowly (maybe -1). If it takes you only 10 turns to fix your happiness problem, then that city was pretty much not affected at all by the unhappiness hit to growth rate.More generally you could do this in all cities. Emphasise growth during times of happiness and then emphasise anything but growth during times of sadness.
I hope/expect there will be other negative consequences of empire unhappiness than just the growth rate, but regardless of whether that is true or not, I really hope there is some negative consequence for starving cities if there is one for growing cities (as well as food-stationary cities I suppose - it's only fair).
Thyrwyn
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Not having the choice to grow is still a consequence, even if you can switch your cities to some other focus. You could also consider easier growth a reward for keeping your people happy. Just because your people start at happy, doesn't mean that is the "zero-state".
For example, suppose you know that next turn your empire is about to go unhappy. You set one of your important cities to maximise food this turn (maybe +10
More generally you could do this in all cities. Emphasise growth during times of happiness and then emphasise anything but growth during times of sadness.
I hope/expect there will be other negative consequences of empire unhappiness than just the growth rate, but regardless of whether that is true or not, I really hope there is some negative consequence for starving cities if there is one for growing cities (as well as food-stationary cities I suppose - it's only fair).
Seems to me easily fixed by making starving people count towards unhappiness as well. Yes, you can still try to eploit it, but you risk going from merely having unhappiness to being deep in trouble.
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