Recent content by BD123

In the diplomatic screen, how do we get things like Cultural Exchange or Scientific exchange? Is there a specific trigger? I played Ada in one game and was able to offer these endeavors to other civs, but in recent games they don't appear whatsoever. Played through the entirety of Antiquity as...

We can simply add onto the tech and civic trees and change the legacy paths a bit to accommodate the later 20th century and beyond. If anything, the existence of the Modern Age gives ample space for nations like Argentina, Brazil, etc. for representation in Civ 7 when their (hypothetical) entry...

The Civ switching is a bit cleaner than I imagined it would be. I feel the most jarring times are at the civ/leader selection when I have to deliberately think "okay, I'm going to be Isabella of the Maya." But in-game that discrepancy takes a back seat and the civ I choose feels adequately...

I'm a bit late to the discussion about the new Chinese leader abilities, but I'm disappointed in them tbh, as I was with the previous leader releases. It seems ever since NFP, there hasn't been a distinction between what aspect a civ should excel at like in the past. Ethiopia receives a boost to...

These guys are definitely a lot better and planned out than the Great Negotiators (literally cannot believe they actually just slapped Lady Six Sky's ability onto Nzinga and called it a day...). The leader models are great. As others have said, hopefully the same, if not better, quality seen in...

I don't deny that women in historical Vietnamese society possessed varying degrees of power and agency more than their northern counterparts, I just think it's interesting that historians both Western and Vietnamese have latched onto this image of Vietnam as exceedingly open to female rulership...

In terms of historical studies I'd say Eleanor is the most interesting to me, but I wouldn't say she was a great inclusion game-wise. She added nothing new to France and was completely detached from England's general gameplay. Dido is also interesting but I think that's because as a legendary...

Pangaea is my least favorite map so I forgot about it lol. What I meant to say was that the hacienda should have greater yields/incentive exclusive to colonized continents but an otherwise weaker yield/incentive on the capital home. That's still not ideal on pangaea but I don't think a civ needs...

Recently getting back into CiV and Vox Populi, but I agree that the Ottomans need a bit more work. Napoleon and Gustavus Adolphus both got reworked so that they'd better reflect the leaders' time period, so I'm not sure why the Ottomans are getting Tanzimat Reforms from the 1830s when Suleiman...

I wasn't expecting massive reworks for everyone outside of the three shown in the first look video but I don't like how they considered unit balance to be a part of civ balance like including Ethiopia as a "changed" civ only bc the Oromo Cavalry was given the same buffing treatment as all the...

Spain got a big overhaul as we know, but the geothermal fissure start bias is interesting bc 1. I literally do not ever think of geothermal fissures in relation to Spain like yes there's volcanos in the Canaries other than that... and 2. Spain is oddly pushed more towards a science victory...

Well to be fair the Khmer and Spain were just absolute hot messes, weak, and in the case of Spain, entirely convoluted with massive paragraphs describing the Mission and inter-continental bonuses. Korea is boring and strong, but straightforward. I agree that more work could be given to Korea...

Wouldn't Haiti just fall into the post-colonial civs category of "civilizations" with the likes of Brazil and Australia? Civ has continuously expanded its definition of "civilization" to include whatever the devs and players find interesting to play and create at the moment, and if Haiti is...

I feel like they could've still taken it up a notch with Spain, like Spain gets the trade route buffs and whenever they conquer a capital on a foreign continent gain 1 or 2 trade slots. But that probably would've been too wordy and Spain was already a civ notorious for a long wordy ability...

I feel like they excluded Napoleon bc they wanted a more culture culture France. In Civ 5 prior to BNW France was a culture-domination civ, unique with the only CUA to expire. But then BNW came around and they made France super honed in on wonders and arts (specifically in Paris) and then...