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One of the first suggestions I made on the official civ discord was support for 2D leader fallbacks, like civ 5 and 6 had. Without it, leader modding is pretty much DOA, even if some kind of 2D-plane workaround becomes possible. With the diplo screen showing both characters, most players are...

Help me out here - why update the unit data always if the unit only exists in Antiquity? Wouldn't it make more sense to update the unit data only in Antiquity, and then make the text changes always in case those localization tags are referenced again?

All the civs seem really cool. Pirate mods have long been very popular in civ, I'll be interested to see how they do an official one. A fourth age is a potential disaster for the game, especially one after Modern. For civ switching to work the game needs a really high density of civs, and...

I really agree with this. I think there is a bit of a myth that "Civ games launch incomplete and are finished by the expansions". There's an element of truth to that for Civ 5, but Civ 6's launch version - while buggy - had more than enough mechanics and systems. Civ 6 expansions kept adding...

Very cool news. I would love to see some of the first-hand research they did, I'm curious about the meaning of a lot of the Shawnee city names and the names of their various abilities.

Neither would I, because that's the way it should be. Siam rewards the player for playing with City-States, and the penalty for not doing that is... you miss out on the bonuses. But imagine if it was "May immediately become Suzerain of a City-State, but -25% yields if you have no City-State...

I was hoping that these kinds of restrictive and negative abilities would be limited to leaders. I don't mind Shaman Himiko's awkward Science penalty, since I can just not choose her (and play regular Himiko). But it looks like if you want to play a "normal" game as the Mughals, you're out of...

I'm not really a fan of any of the non-leader choices. These are all great people, super interesting and relevant in their own fields, but it's difficult to imagine many of them wrestling all the different components together as the leader of an empire. That's what made traditional leaders...

I think anything with an adjective or government type is getting additional civs in other ages, namely Meiji and French Empire. But very odd that Antiquity Persia is Persia instead of Achaemenid when they had a second Persia already cooking.

I can't really answer this poll because they're two separate questions. I like the choices of civ a lot, especially now that they can be more specific like Qing, Meiji-era Japan, Normans etc. But the leaders so far really don't vibe with me, especially the non-leader leaders like Ibn Battuta and...

Edo Period was when they explicitly stopped clashing, although it does seem like "Edo Japan" is coming based on the Meiji intro text. It really shouldn't be a militaristic civ since it represents 250 years of near-unbroken peace, but I don't see them not including Samurai as a unit. Maybe it...

I specialized in short-lived states, rebellions, and other obscure civs for my civ 5 mods. While it can be tricky to fill out uniques for civs that largely exist in footnotes, there's usually something you can use as long as there's a book or piece of research on the subject. If there isn't...

As mentioned above, the Wajinden and other Chinese/Korean sources are actually quite detailed. The semi-historicity only occurs when you attempt to conflate her with a figure from the Kojiki or Nihon Shoki. The long-standing problem for Japanese scholars has been that these foundational texts...

I really like Queen Himiko's design. Everything we know about her comes from foreign records of trade and tribute, so it makes a lot of sense to give her a diplomatic angle. Less keen on Shaman Himiko, but I usually squirm at designs with maluses anyway. More than that, though, the LA "Miko of...

It's not bad. I do wish they had been a little stricter with the time period, given how they decided to name the civ - I would have gone all-in on Meiji-era naval warfare and skipped the aviation element altogether. Something like a kaigun-taisho would have made for a great unique Naval...