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    Visions of the Seventh Civilization

    It seems you understood the intended meaning of stylized. I'll add that it's also contrast of styles which helps readability. Civ 6's terrain still has a lot of realism to it, which makes the more cartoonish improvements/districts stand out more. Opportunity to have best of both worlds. I've...
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    Visions of the Seventh Civilization

    I think the stylized art they used in civ6 was a good call. Playing 4X games with realistic art styles has been tougher for me after I got used to how easy it is to read the map at a glance in Civ6. So I very much hope they keep the map stylized. Leader screens I am ambivalent one, if they...
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    Repairing districts & improvements is so tedious

    The worst I've ever had was in a Mali game where my core cities' production was keyed to a single cluster of holy sites with desert production adjacency. It got wiped out three times by sandstorms and with my production being wiped to almost zero took maybe a quarter of my game time to build and...
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    Civilization VII Wishlist

    You could make this game but it wouldn't be civilization any more.
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    Civilization VII Wishlist

    i don't think Civ7 should be an 'everything' simulator. The strategy game market is pretty wide and civ's biggest edge is the name recognition to reach a big audience, which requires it to be as accessible as possible. That in turn (probably) requires things like a high level of abstraction, and...
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    Terrible Ideas

    Thinking about it that's pretty close to being a description of the tile blocker system from Stellaris...
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    Terrible Ideas

    Not to mention the leader intros... She'd have a field day with Amanitore or Wilhelmina
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    Terrible Ideas

    She'd actually make a solid Sean Bean replacement...
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    Little things you'd like to see in Civilization VII

    I agree that it's not a good idea, more trying to think about how far you could go if you wanted to really try and tackle it... Random events depend on how significant they are... As long as they aren't too hugely impactful I think they work...
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    Little things you'd like to see in Civilization VII

    You can still snowball in a tall victory by compounding your good decisions... So I don't think wide vs tall is the real dichotomy here... The best solution I can think of would be to have the map expand woth each age, adding new civs on a roughly equal power level to the player... But I don't...
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    Little things you'd like to see in Civilization VII

    I think this really gets at the heart of fixing the snowballing issue in Civ6. Whether you skew the game balance towards wide or tall, civ's basic game loop means good players compound their good decisions to a point where the game is decided far too early, and late game is a formality...
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    How much do you care about scenarios?

    Civ Vi's scenarios never really appealed. I think IV was the only iteration where I played a lot of the scenarios, but that was more becsuse I played the base game to death...
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    Millennia | Announcement

    I do like what I'm reading here... Hopefully the ages aren't too easily gamed by the player. And also hoping for good mod support to add new ones. That said the graphics aren't exactly much to shout about
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    How does 1UPT effect if you will buy Civ 7

    Combat subgames always sound like they should offer a lot of tactical nuance and fun, but I've yet to see them deliver. In my experience they tend to just get repetitive and stale very quick. I suspect part of it is that players tend to be good at ensuring they only make one-sided engagements...
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    Ara: History Untold

    That's a good way to describe it. Everything just looks slightly lower quality and rougher around the edges than I'd expect (assuming a premium price point). Nothing obviously wrong with it, but just looks unpolished.
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