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Civ 3 already had unique units and civilization traits. You would need to go back to Civ 3. But I think the real break was with Civ 5 - up to Civ 4 you had boni, but they did not really impact on the core mechanics. It's Civilization like Venice in Civ 5 and Mali or the Maori in Civ 6 that make...

I've completed a first game with Trajan and went for a science victory to see the late game additions. All in all, I am not really impressed with the quality of the addon. First off, it is quite buggy, especially with the Barbarians not spawning on certain continents, weird city state spawns &...

I think the red cards are plenty powerful. You just do not need them as much in single-player as the AI is so bad at war (so many of Civ 5+6 issues stem from that single fact). The problem with the high production times are all the relations between normal city production and other items...

Disregarding the England vs Britain thing, if they are examples of tall empires it might be worth noticing, that neither one of them is close to being a superpower at this point. China, the US and the EU are all wide. I think the worst thing is that it is a stupid dichotomy and that the best...

The whole pop being not linear in actual population is probably not helpful for this discussion. Population was always a make-belief number to have somewhat realistic population sizes both in Ancient and Modern Eras, starting from Civ 1. For gameplay purposes population is linear. But...

Stacks had their flaws, but I do not think this is a fair description of the Civ 4 combat system. When playing against a good opponent there was quite a bit of thought you had to put into both outmaneuvering your enemy and stack composition. There were also more direct unit counters than in Civ...

Sea trade is not bad for strategic play. However, making it realistically strong would be too much of a good thing. Harbors are already pretty good. There has never been any real power in the power without access to the Ocean/Sea. Re naval units: starting from Frigates, they have a range of 2...

Let me preface this with my personal experience. I have played every Civ game at the time of release. Civ 4 is my favorite, Civ 5 is my least favorite. In both cases, this is strong preference. Having technology earlier than in the real world has a strong tradition in Civ, I remember sometimes...

I think more diversity and complexity is probably the wrong direction to go with Civ. I always felt a bit ambigious about the increasing differentiation beyond traits in leaders and Civs that started with Civ 5. It may add some replays, but in general I like the blank slate approach where you...

Hah, perhaps i should not have edited. Just to see how people end the seltener.

In the end it comes down to this: Prominent atheist: Religion is mostly a bad influence and various morgen fringy beliefs are stupid. Prominent christian: atheists are evil, should not be trusted with Office original education, are fools and deserve to be tortured forever. And are bad because...

Complaining about the sample size being too small is silly. If it was a truly random sample from the population at sample the 95% confidence interval for ratio of doctors considering quitting would be between 80% and 86%, which would not change the message at all. The real problem here is...

One aspect I don't see discussed here is not only did the doctor betray his country, which frankly I don't care much about (though it is stupid to expect a country to react in another way). Much more disturbing is that he violated medical ethics. Using vaccination as a cover establishes a...

Morally I think it would be just. I find it very strange that the same people who would strongly oppose high inheritance taxes would disagree. Obviously you inherit obligations as well. So if you have a house or land that was in your family hands back then you profited from slavery in some...

I really think that a lot of this it is too small a change in energy input argument is a fallacy caused by the temperature scales we commonly used. In Celsius a change of 4 degrees seems very large but on a more appropriate scale like Kelvin it seems much smaller. Using Kelvin global climate...