Recent content by RedCourtJester

I would love this.

The Catholic Church, like the Mormons, like the Scientologists, like McDonalds, is just as much a real estate empire as it is other things. It owns 277,000 square miles of land. And given that it remains impressively politically sovereign despite the Vatican being the smallest country in the...

Great thing about Timurids is they go both ways. Mughals or Qajar. Personally I don't need two exploration Mongolian civs. But if they can make it mechanically interesting enough and give us gun-camels, I might come to accept it.

Yes, I would consider it. It obviously is a religious institution, but it's become so much more than that since the exploration era, and really functions more like a megacorp ala Microsoft, Apple, or Tesla. I think reducing it to a religious civ really undermines/erases a lot of facets of what...

And if Humankind jumped off a cliff, should every game? ;) Yeah I still think the Tiwanaku are just generally a much better antiquity option than the Nazca. I think the only reason they wouldn't get in over the Nazca is if the devs think they can cobble together better uniques for Nazca. I...

I don't think trophy heads are going to be featured in any civ design...

Eh, I think Vatican City makes much more sense alongside Britain, Netherlands, and Russia in the modern era than it does in exploration era like Spain and Bulgaria. It may have had a lot of influence over renaissance Europe, but even that pales in comparison to its wealth and influence now as a...

Nah, I think, similar to Bulgaria, the Scottish Enlightenment will be a civic track and maybe a civilian unit, but otherwise it will lean very medieval. There's no reason for it to be "Britain" this time around, because we have Britain as a separate civ now. And while I wouldn't mind if a...

I did understand that, but what you seem to be misunderstanding is that the unique civics, units, and indeed "civs" of an atomic era needn't be switching to a "civ" ala China or Germany. We can have a layer of modern "Britain" which is transitioned away from into an atomic era without...

1. Correct. 2. Also correct. 3 and 4. This is where I (gently) think you are compartmentalizing, because this is just about the exact opposite of what you claim in the first two. Most of the modern civs are the sort of civs we would expect to see in a contemporary era pushed varying degrees into...

Lies. Zimbabwe would absolutely be (part of) an antiquity civ, no one is "turning into" Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is turning into everyone.

Yeah, but the flip side is how many times do people want to buy the same game with a fresh coat of paint and a few swapped out analogues? I actually think the tagline is less that Civ VII is going to look dramatically different from VI when finished, but more an attempt to try to sell the idea...

1. I hope they bring back "Green" as some sort of ideology/policy, hehe. 2. I feel like the series would benefit from "Undertale" style endings, where if you are playing in ways which technically win the game but are objectively evil, you get "bad ending" accomplishments and meta benefits...

Nepal is the modern Buddhist/Tibet civ, because otherwise we don't really get that sort of representation in Civ. We got a very Buddha historical site that needed to be completely restructured in the 15th century. Not that different than Onsen Dogo, honestly. It's totally fine as a modern...

I also think it is a reference to the fact that Nepal is in the top 5 countries for percent of total power generated by hydroelectricity at 98.5%. The only higher nations are Bhutan at 100%, as well as Paraguay, DR-Congo, and Albania at 99.X%. I would speculate that the others lost the honor of...