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Discussion getting a little philosophical here. I think that every Civ I've played has always been hit or miss, in the sense that if you don't get a setup with good land, good opponents, etc, the game can be boring and it can be not fun to finish. But if you get the right start, it can be so...

Hey, lets be careful referencing Willy Wonka characters here; if we're not careful, someone is gonna get called Veruca Salt!

I'd really like to see some kind of system where various combinations of resources produce unique bonuses. Like, for example, if you had both Silk and Dyes, it would give you a special bonus because you can dye your garments and make them more valuable. That kind of thing.

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I like the one that gives extra great people points, that's usually what I take if I can't decide...

I had a very similar experience; I got Arabia as my random civ on a shuffle map, and it was just fun. I like the Last Prophet ability; it was nice to be able to spend the early game not worrying about religion at all. I'm not a great player or anything Arabia just worked for me.

Yeah, this is annoying. Most of the continents seem to block passage from one ocean to the other in my games, too.

This thread reminds me of this:

TLDR - 1. Most players not good enough to be affected by the issues people here complain about. 2. Release had to happen at some point, why not now? 3. The devs built a foundation that will be built on, that alone was worth the price. 4. Players here are better at the game than devs and more...

We all came into the release knowing the game wasn't "finished," in the sense that, we know there are going to be DLC and we know there are most likely going to be two expansions to the game. So this is the foundation. And I think the foundation is very strong. When it reaches its final form...

I thought agendas were going to be more about guiding the AI behavior, like Teddy would be more likely to protect a civ on his own continent, or Victoria would be more likely to try to colonize other continents ... I didn't think they should be diplo modifiers at all, especially not ones that...

I have no programming knowledge and I would submit that (a) video games have always had bugs, and that as a customer, my expectation is a game that works, but not one that has no bugs. Some of the best games ever have bugs. Some of them are even charming. (B) Most people are not judging the game...

I like that wagon wheel idea.

Here's my take - I love this game Civ, but I'm not as good as a lot of players here. I think part of the issue is that the developers aren't as good at their own game as the community is. The community identifies issues through their skill that the devs aren't capable of finding. I know that...

I AM going to buy the game on Steam, and I, too, have reasons. Good thread!