Arioch's Analyst Thread

[bjbrains]

A few more corrections:
Freedom still reads 'population in cities produce 1/2 unhappiness'. It should be "specialist population in cities produce half the normal amount of unhappiness". Civil Society also say 'have' instead of 'half'.
Legalism is confirmed to be a 33% reduction http://www.gry.gildia.pl/_n_/ggk/gry/sid_meiers_civ5/galeria/imageb008-1280.jpg

 

[AriochIV]

I forget at the moment, but didn't the description for the camel archers say that they didn't need horses?

Nope.

Socialism: maintrance of building -10% Also, Arioch, you've listed "tradition" under the SP of Tradtion. I think you should remove it.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[brianshapiro]

http://img155.imageshack.us/f/38244641.jpg/

Socialism: maintrance of building -10%

Also, Arioch, you've listed "tradition" under the SP of Tradtion. I think you should remove it.

Socialism reduces costs? Whats the reasoning in the game behind that

 

[PinkHammurabi]

http://img155.imageshack.us/f/38244641.jpg/

Ah neat they changed the Piety icons. Now it includes the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

 

[brianshapiro]

Ah neat they changed the Piety icons. Now it includes the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

The previous piety icons made no sense at all.

The holy hand grenade is the orb used in coronation ceremonies, used as an emblem of independent sovereignty

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

The previous piety icons made no sense at all.

The holy hand grenade is the orb used in coronation ceremonies, used as an emblem of independent sovereignty

The orb probably refers to the Soc Pol called "Mandate from Heaven". Anyone know what this Soc Pol does?

 

[Calouste]

Ah neat they changed the Piety icons. Now it includes the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

It's only the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch if you count from left to right, top to bottom

 

[DalekDavros]

Socialism reduces costs? Whats the reasoning in the game behind that

The "game reasoning" is that it's balanced against other options provided, with little concern paid to exactly what the word "socialism" should/does mean in the real world. The meta reasoning is that it's under the "Order" branch and so had to provide some benefit related to reducing costs from social efficiency. The real-world reasoning is hard to determine, because no two people alive today can even agree on exactly what socialism is.

 

[AriochIV]

Ah neat they changed the Piety icons. Now it includes the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Yeah, I was kind of wondering if they really intended to keep the Jewish star as Monotheism and a Christian cross as Theocracy.

 

[brianshapiro]

Yeah, I was kind of wondering if they really intended to keep the Jewish star as Monotheism and a Christian cross as Theocracy.

Is that what they were? Really makes no sense

 

[WillCooper]

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2969&c=36

Each civ has to complete the manhattan project before they can make nukes now.

 

[DeepQantas]

Socialism reduces costs? Whats the reasoning in the game behind that

Where's the Privatization social policy? My people have been suffering from free health care, crowding the national railways and leeching off rain water for far too long!

 

[Algeroth]

Where's the Privatization social policy? My people have been suffering from free health care, crowding the national railways and leeching off rain water for far too long!

Yes, I kinda miss some Free Trade social policy too.

 

[Souron]

One of the abilities of Astronomy has got to be to allow units to embark on ocean tiles.

 

[12agnar0k]

I think it was confirmed somewhere that Navigation allowed Embarkment, (without navigation you can't Embark at all), and that is 1 tech after astronomy.

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

No, you start to embark at optics IIRC but I'm pretty sure Navigation and Astronomy will enhance things.

 

[12agnar0k]

No, IIRC Navigation is what allows Embarkment. It doesn't merely enchance it.

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Something else I found in a recent interview

Garret Brittner :
but what we've done with Civilization V is we have what's called "Policy Trees" and a policy tree, you can build your empire and manage your empire in a very organic way. You can tailor your policies towards your particular play-style and these are permanent choices that live with you throughout the game, so you can really build a unique government that suits your own civilisation and it gives you that much more power to tailor your play-style and tailor how your empire is run.

So, were people merely assuming that "policies can be interchangeable" or was this confirmed elsewhere, if so, then we have conflicting statements.

 

[dra]

Negative. You can embark as soon as you have triemes, so Sailing. However, untill Astronomy you are restricted to shore.

 

[Azazell]

AriochIV --> please delete all my picture for you site http://well-of-souls.com!

Everything in from my 150 screenshots. All Units, buildiings, technology - Statistics, details - Everything from Civilopedia.. Because I can be very punished from 2K Games . Please time is very important for me

 

[sumit1207]

So there is no intercontinental warring until a tech after astronomy???