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When you're a mountain-based civ there are never enough. When you just want a nice coastal plains city there's always too many. It's probably in about the right place, but it would be nice to have more fine-level control over these sorts of things.

"It is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Indian Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, in Maluku in the Pacific, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun, in Somalia, to Mozambique. Cowrie...

The Switch eShop suggested that it was going to be one piece each month starting in April. IMO it's a better decision regardless to release it in chunks even before you consider the state of the game.

Gains a victory point for fabricating an empire that came before your neighbours conquered the region, perhaps? Jokes aside, I hope they're still working on this stuff, it sounds quiet interesting. It's a bit easier to justify the Mississippians since linguistically they sound "appropriate."...

I would argue the franchise has gone in that direction ever since the HRE was included in Civ4. "Civilisation" has always been an intentionally blurry state to allow both blobs like "Celts" or "Polynesia" and more obvious representations of certain periods like Persia (there's certainly never...

Iceland is not a part of any officially announced content. Crossroads of the World (March DLC/Deluxe extras) has Britain, Carthage, Nepal, and Bulgaria. Right to Rule (April-Sept DLC) has Assyria, Silla, Dai Viet, and Qajar Iran (these were leaked). Iceland was found in an in-game file that...

Sounds like resource variety to me. A fifth category sounds unnecessary.

Which is a bit silly, because the actually walls did connect in places across eras (although they also went centuries without being maintained too) and would fork every now and then. Have you built a go kart track, or are the walls secretly hiding some wacky contraptions to stop would-be silver...

I'd be surprised if the Ottomans released as an in-game naval civ. But I think their association with Barbary piracy and great naval battles like Lepanto is enough justification to include them in a naval-themed pack, as this potentially could be, even though they would be the odd one out with...

You can't disable updates (although you can tell Steam when to download an update, it will demand that it be updated before you can play and I'm not sure if that can be bypassed) but if Firaxis leaves the console-compatible beta enabled (right click the game, Properties -> Betas -> Beta...

It's also very interesting when you look at games that have an achievement that could be re-written as "open the game and hit start" and it'll be at 80% or so. If an achievement requires you to beat the first, very simple level, that sometimes drops to 65%. People underestimate the number of...

Battersea hasn't been officially announced but people were snooping through every frame of the Carthage/Britain showcase of the last livestream and saw something that looked like it. Nintendo's eShop has also revealed the flavour text for each DLC and implies a very industrial Britain imo.

Religion in EU4 is nothing like Civ. The game starts in 1444 with the existing religions of the period in place, and each has set mechanics you cannot change. With the exception of the reformations or losing a war to another power (as Britain, that would 99% of the time mean to a reformed...

Were the Mongols really planned to be paid? I always assumed they were offered for free as exchange for Firaxis turning preorder-bonus-Babylon into a paid DLC on the same day instead of releasing them for everyone like the Aztecs in Civ6. Genshin costs that much because it's been in continuous...

Manhattan is the test, but yes you do have to build one afterwards - they're expensive because in typical civ fashion they completely devastate a city. IIRC you can use a regular bomber to drop them as well, or at least I'm pretty sure that's what I used. Nukes aren't a unit that moves but a...