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    Interview with Christopher Tin

    Very nice! People are talking about what civ and strategy they're going to play as first - personally, I think I'm going to be idling on the main menu for a good 10 minutes before doing anything else :) I do wish he hadn't described Sogno di Volare as 'eurocentric' though, that's fuel to the...
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    Russia First Look [Peter]

    The only decent thing about the UD is that it is, well, a UD, so half price and doesn't count towards limit. Russia looks really strong for early religion, which I never would have anticipated before the leak. Honestly, the first time I read the leak I misread the UD's abilities as the 'city...
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    Russia First Look [Peter]

    We see 2 new cities founded, both get 8 additional tiles, that's a hell of a lot. How many do the Shoshone get again? And the tool tips for trade don't say exactly how the extra science and culture are calculated, but seem very small as expected. Looks like the extra territory is the only...
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    Norway First Look Video

    Lots to like with this civ, but my favourite bit is definitely that the auto captions think Norway is led by 'Party Hard Rod'
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    First Look: Spain

    Tamar confirmed?!
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    All leader portraits

    It still doesn't look quite right... But the slightly darker spot at the bottom of E1 is in about the right position to be the dog's eye... DEAR LORD, I appreciate it was the style of the time, but could portrait painters not have mixed things up a little?! We've found how many close matches to...
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    All leader portraits

    You mean like, perhaps, windows? I'll shut up about this theory after this, but I will be back to say I told you so when we see the original picture!
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    All leader portraits

    I personally still think this statue of Osman I is the real-life picture that is the closest match to C5, just from a slightly different PoV: (Depending on how I look at C5, I can either see a man in a turban looking right, or a man on a horse looking left) And maybe I'm trying too...
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    All leader portraits

    Alternate angle of the same statue: It's not a bad likeness of C5 at all... I think it fits better if you imagine C5 was taken from a position slightly more clockwise around the statue. Also, in all seriousness, now that I've been inspired to read up on Tamar, I REALLY want to see her in an...
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    *New* (Working) Expansive Customizable Deep Chess-like Turnbased Strategy Game

    What. I love it. I have no freaking clue what it is, mind. I suspect it may be a new take on performance art.
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    Wondering about wonders

    ByteGeist being a corruption of Zeitgeist would suggest some kind of cultural bonus, which I imagine is likely to either be a percentage bonus to culture (Sistine Chapel) or a free virtue (Sydney Opera House). Has it been confirmed if these wonders will take up a hex like the warpgate, or is...
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    Unit XP from native life

    It sounds like the aliens are supposed to get a lot more aggressive if you tick them off, and as long as they got stronger too so that you were taking some risk in choosing to fight them, then getting XP from them whatever your unit level seems perfectly reasonable. The caveat is the risk - if...
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    Beyond Earth E3 Demo Videos

    They pretty unambiguously said on Polycast 200 that this wasn't the case, and the recently released bios for the leaders and factions also strongly suggest that leaders are tied to certain factions (the Kavithan Protectorate sounds akin to a cult with Kavitha as its figurehead so having Fielding...
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    Water Mill Pros and Cons

    I will definitely, definitely build them where possible in my first few cities because you want to get those early cities growing as much as you can. Is it as good as a granary? Absolutely not, but there's nothing to say you can't have both. At that early point in the game I feel it more than...
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    great artists you would want in bnw.

    Thanks for clarifying! OK, that wipes out a lot of my personal favourites then (although there's a decent chance of The Scream for Civ VI :)). Although that might not be such a bad thing, it would help keep a lot of anachronistic weirdness to a minimum.
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