r_rolo1
King of myself
Fully agreed.Again, anybody who played Alpha Centauri would say the same thing about Civ 3 -- culture, unit maintenance, and resources were artificial constructs that were tacked on and perfectly removable -- not to mention corruption. The only real candidate was culture, and it's doubtful if it was really an improvement in Civ 3, given how much better Civ 4 was at handling it.
In fact Firaxis made with culture in civ III something very similar that it did with happiness in civ V ( I mean, make it ( partly ) a global variable ... in civ III you could win by culture by agregating the total culture of the empire ) ...
I agree with your point, but the fact is that it is not assured that Civ V will ever have anything beyond vanilla. Ok, that has been the standart operation system until now, but we also have a mandatory internet connection to play the game ( steam ... atleast you need to log once in your lifetime ) and a public focus on making DLC. It would not be exactly a completely wierd thing to see Firaxis dropping completely the X-pak notion and spit only DLC and the ocasional patch.People, this is about VANILLA versions. I played Civ V and thought it was decent, then I played Vanilla Civ IV and I wanted to gouge my eyes out because of it's crappy AI and other lame stuff like that. Then I played BTS and I liked it because it was a MASSIVE improvement over Civ IV Vanilla. Also fully patched Civ IV Vanilla was way better than basic Civ IV, likewise with BTS.
And OFC , even if you have any x-pak, you can't even say if they will make the game better at all or how much better ( or worse ) it will be. So, that is not exactly a argument