Recent content by Kwami

I don't think that I'd spend 250 hours playing a game that I don't enjoy, though. If the game isn't entertaining and engaging, then I'm not likely to keep playing it.

Yes, more civs! Hopefully, now that the leader art is decoupled from the civilizations, it's easier to add new civs and we can get more of them in future DLCs and expansions. I think ~20 per age would feel much better.

The base game had some leaders without civilizations and the reverse, too. The DLC is just following that format.

I've played for almost 250 hours so far. That certainly feels like good value for my money. I sure do hope that they fix the bugs, improve the interface, and spruce up the DLCs a bit (Britain's unique ship is still totally wrong), but it's hard to say that I didn't get my money's worth. Despite...

Has the franchise fallen, or have our advertising styles changed? I'm sure that whoever Firaxis hired to make ads knows what works. If this is the kind of ad that works, then so be it.

What about the ad is a total immersion killer?

Definitely!

I'd be happy if I could at least make the big "end of the age" banner go away. It sits there for an eternity.

I'd like a prettier interface, too, but I think that most of the complaints come from the lack of information. The boring grey box style seems to be pretty popular in modern games.

If the only ask is that you be allowed to rename your civilization to whatever, then sure, I can't imagine why I would object to that. But I would want an option to disable it for multiplayer and I wouldn't want the AI picking random names. But I think I saw @Krikkit1's post as building on the...

Perhaps I don't understand the point of a discussion board, then. Are we all just supposed to +1 the original post and not offer any counterpoints or criticism? Shall we never disagree on something? The original post wasn't asking for a simple option to rename your civilization. It was asking...

Do we really have to keep rebutting the same absurd arguments over and over again? The advertising money is not the development money. Also, they did hire UI developers.

From anonymous sources. That's not an official explanation. Besides, the problem isn't really the boring grey boxes. The problem is the lack of information. We don't know if the beta UI had more information available or if it was just as bad as the release UI.

And I've yet to hear an explanation for why Ben Franklin of America building Cossacks and Katyusha Rocket Launchers is somehow better for immersion than the current system.

What? The entire point of this thread is to tell those of us that enjoy the current system that we're wrong and that Firaxis should change it. No, there's a gameplay effect here. Two, really. First, the AI isn't going to come up with arbitrary names. They're going to use the existing names. So...