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Most of the other civilizations have had a lot of exposure in popular culture, politics, et al. The Cree (and, for that matter, Mapuche) seem to be a different story. Especially considering America and Canada's past tendencies to try to dispel the First Nations' cultures; not sure what modern...

I remember reading that the head designer was an avid enough fan of Panzer General to impel that particular rule into the game. The problem is, Panzer General is a pure military game. The Civilization games...aren't. Or at least, they're not supposed to be. So the question becomes, why would...

Gaiko: Well, you did have an element of that in Civ4. Each leader had a particular social engineering trait that they would instantly adopt once it became available, and would never relinquish it. Meanwhile, if YOU had the trait in question, you'd get a diplomatic bonus with them, because your...

Well, hexagon-shaped tiles, now... Nonetheless, it does worry me when I see people claiming that appealing to the masses MUST involve dumbing down (I know the appeal part hasn't been brought up specifically yet, but I can sense its approach...). I can't trace the line of causality; why must...

It seems that whenever anyone acquires a technology in my game, the game reports an error about the "tech Acquired.event" handler, reporting a problem with address 0x0F3DA558. Any idea what it might be referring to? (Hopefully, this has nothing to do with my fix-work in adding the missing files...

Just a quick note for Sejong's leaderhead: There's a different one, certainly a good alternative to the Kublai Khan palette swap that's currently being used: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=299736

I know I don't get why ALL the civilizations and leaders have to be pop-identifiable. Most of them, yes, but how baleful can it be to have a few arcanes? Sixteen civilizations...probably the most wieldy power of two available (eight would have been far too few, thirty-two overdoing it...

Unless I'm guessing wrong, I think the AI essentially does blind research anyway, on account of the flavor preferences. I'm guessing the way it works is that the AI picks the available technology with the highest flavor rating. In case of a tie (e.g. two technologies that each have a 10...

I'd trumpet Sejong of Korea if I could be confident that he'd classify as Charismatic (technological innovations, overseeing the invocation of Hangul...definitely Creative). Two problems, though. First, that seems to be mostly military charisma we're talking about, and while he was popular with...

That's just it...I want *all* the techs as soon as possible. Otherwise, I'll be overly vulnerable SOMEWHERE, and that always sounds to me like "badly failed at something". "Beelining" keeps sounding to me like "overextending" (Me and my perfectionism...). {frowns} I suppose it has something to...

I'm not entirely sure WHAT everything entails (I'm not that good at figuring out the schemae), but hopefully I won't miss anything... FOREST FIRE Can occur if you have forest plots. Asks you to either spend ten gold or still a unit for four turns. Fail to do either of those, and you get...

One thing I'm trying to figure out is what leaders/civic formations will generally get me techs the fastest--with leaders being judged by their traits and their civilizations' unique buildings. So far, I'm eyeing Wang Kon (financial + seowon) and Hannibal (financial + cothon) as the main...

First, we should figure out what Augustus will get in exchange for Creative/Organized. He'll probably get Imperialistic (he's the one who CREATED the Imperium...), and I suppose either Philosophical or Industrious.

Lincoln is confirmed, of course, so let's look at the others... Celts: Boadicea Spain: Franco Rome: Lucius Junius Brutus Persia: Darius I Greece: Perikles France: Charles de Gaulle Japan: Meiji, Shotoku Korea: Sejong the Great {grumble} Already out of ideas...

We already know Abraham Lincoln is going to be in here (although what traits...traditional Philosophical/Charismatic, "Lincoln Unmasked"-view-style Aggressive/Financial, or a segue of the two?). But who the other five might be...hmmm... My hopesguesses: 1. Sejong (Korea) 2. Shotoku (Japan) 3...