Will we finally get a true 3d globe?
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I would love to have a true globe, but it doesn't seem to be a part of Civ VI. I assume that would be a pretty big feature to discuss day 1.
CivRev years back on consoles appeared to have a 3d globe other strategy games have had 3d globes for years. I don't understand why it would be that hard a feature for a professional team to put together.
What costs? The main issue against a globe is debalancing positions but you're already disadvantaged based upon where you start off on the standard torus map not to mention all the variation from the resources etc.
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The cost are designing something that has to work for two different types of titles, getting players to be accustomed to these different types of tiles, for something most people will do once and then forget
With a little cheat it is possible to have a spherical map with hexagons.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=356334
Personal I would love to see the tiling just go away entirely but this is better the nothing.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=356334
Personal I would love to see the tiling just go away entirely but this is better the nothing.
Teproc
King
It used to annoy me so, so much. I've gotten over it, but I agree... unfortunately I don't think it's likely to change. The screenshots we got were all super zoomed in, I think they're sticking with that aesthetic. It's not so much planning for me as immersion : zooming out in CIV and seeing the planet really helped in that regard.
Tventano
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You would need 12 pentagons. Thus 12 tiles and their surroundings look different from the other tiles.
But if you keep some area of the North and South poles and unpassable, then you can still get a near-perfect tiling, where yeah, in reality the tiles would be slightly different sizes, but not enough to be noticeable.
Which is why I loved playing on a 4k monitor despite the hard to read text (which I made as big as possible but that leads to clipping problems). If they make the UI scale in VI then going to a 4k monitor would be a possible answer for this. I had to go back to 1080p after braking the 4k monitor and even after several months I keep trying to zoom out farther, didn't do that in 4k.
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I'm not sure why you say it's something people would do once and then forget. I assume that if this was part of the game, it would be part of the default map, allowing for more realistic play around the poles. I have no idea how difficult it would be, (I wonder if camera angles, especially around the poles and the pentagonal tiles, would be a bigger issue than than the tile shapes themselves) but if this sort of map technology could be added without interfering with other systems, I think it would be a significant improvement.
stealth_nsk
Deity
No UI is view made for screens. We had the same in first Civ5 screenshots. Still, I hope the UI will be customizable, including hiding all UI elements.
Cyon
Cosmonaut
You can have a thousand hexagons and 12 Pentagons which all could be ocean, impassable mountain or natural wonder.
But in the Screenshots it doesn't look like it is spherical.
Another question will they have terrain that can change? Can steppe become desert because of drought? Can we build canals? Changing climate have been a huge player in history!
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But in the Screenshots it doesn't look like it is spherical.
Another question will they have terrain that can change? Can steppe become desert because of drought? Can we build canals? Changing climate have been a huge player in history!
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UncivilizedGuy
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The world is flat! Do we really need to have this conversation? You people are so uncivilized 
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