Recent content by Manetheren

Won't pick Rome again as its too close to Greece, so I'll head to Asia and mother Russia!

After looking at the Hoplite unit, it reminded me of Achilles. Not too bad to have a bunch of those running around (as long as they wear thick boots!) :D

In some of the videos I saw barb activity early hampered expansion, and gameplay wasn't optimal anyway because people were trying out the game for the first time. I think with bigger map sizes it will be possible to have empires with 20 cities, but obviously some will probably be city-states...

I've been playing Cities: Skylines, and that is what I'd call a CMS. CivVI is nothing like that, nor are any other Civ games. You can manage your Civ cities and make them all great, but if you don't strategically plan your cities, techs, policies, etc with a mind to what the other Civs are...

Yeah, someone like Ashoka (http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/ashoka-6226.php) would be cool to play.

I agree with this, it would at least make the civs work a little bit to get the continent bonuses. Also, sorry if this was answered somewhere else, but when you takeover a city does that city switch to your religion automatically, or do you still have to send in a missionary/apostle? I...

That should put an end to the wild speculation... yeah right :D Looking forward to watching the livestream.

First played Civ III, got IV, but never got V. After reading about Civ VI and watching several YouTube videos I'm excited to start playing. Like the districts and city-states each having interesting suzerain bonuses. And of course the barbs will make life interesting in the early game. :eek:

French would be spoken more than Mandarin Chinese? The population in Africa really must be growing quickly...

What happened at the ill-fated livestream that would upset marketing?

Their UU sounds interesting, nice to have that movement bonus in woods/jungle, and the extra defense against ranged doesn't hurt either.

Yeah, you're right, my brain isn't functioning very well this morning... :)

Since each turn represents years I don't have a problem with paying gold to switch policies. Here in the U.S. we seem to switch policies every few years after elections. There is also a period of anarchy if you switch to a previous policy, so that will limit switches.

Yeah, its one thing to pillage a tile of a mine/camp/plantation and temporarily take a resource away from another Civ, but doing it permanently would just encourage "builder armies", which doesn't seem like much fun.

Bring on the Vikings!