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Water cities are able to move within a range of 3 of other cities, which means that if you build the Mass Driver for +1 to city bombardment range you can bombard other cities with your city. However, this currently seems to be broken. Unlike any other attack on a city the bombardment targets...

It seems like this would be considerably less double edged after Rising Tide, since a high level Harmony player could leash worms that came into their own territory and add them to their military. I'm genuinely curious about the feasibility of just using the ability as a way to get a cluster of...

Beyond Earth has never really been about flattering representations. America is represented by a corporation best known for underhanded tricks, France and Spain have a snobby cultural imperialist, Polynesia and Australia have a con-artist, India is basically a cult, and so on. Future Earth...

I'm unfamiliar with the naming conventions at work here, but the Doctor writing the message is Dr. Park Jae Moon and the new leader is Han Jae Moon. Does that mean that Han's own parent tried to get him disqualified from the seeding program and that Han then sent his own father or mother (I'm...

I really wouldn't mind another spy faction. Because of the ties between espionage and intrigue levels the ARC's ability will only be boosted by having more spies around. Sometimes I felt like I was the only one trying to drive up the intrigue levels of major cities and throwing another sponsor...

The big one for me is more personality from the leaders. They now send small unobtrusive messages whenever you take actions that affect their opinion of you, and the diplomacy screen will apparently have different text based not only what leader you are talking to but what leader you are...

It'd be nice if the ocean had some unique advanced improvements that further set water cities apart. They could have something fairly tame changed about them, like reducing local production instead of needing energy for maintenance (the closed environment is highly efficient but requires...

It was mentioned that the new victory movies are scrolling-comic book type things, and not a full 3D production. I'm not sure that had been clear before. It's not unexpected, and a bit of a relief to me. In a sci-fi setting that demands a large range of exotic forms and environments it's a...

That's a really good point. I personally doubt Firaxis would push the envelope in that way, but now I really wish they would. Some bold lifestyle choices on behalf of the leaders would spice up Beyond Earth's vision of the future a little.

Purity Explorer: "I wander the savage frontiers and live by my rifle just like the great explorers of old. Someday I hope to bag myself a raptor bug so I can mount its head above the fireplace in my cabin. I sure do wish they could find a way to breed dogs or horses that could survive out here...

Seems like a pretty clear case of gameplay taking priority over theme. It'd leave a lot less room for unit progression if everything started at the level it did at the end of Civ V and it's not that hard to handwave it by saying that different gravity, weird atmospheric composition, and the lack...

Here is what I think everybody has been missing: All the ships need to contain farms, recycling systems and habitation modules, because those are eventually needed on the planet. The colonists have no idea to what extent they will be able to make use of the local environment after planetfall so...

I like Ferocity as well. Neatly fits with their Fury name styles. Synergy now just seems too clean when their creations seem to be fairly messy and borderline monstrous.

The problem with bringing back city sates is that basically everything I liked about city states relied on things missing from Beyond Earth, like providing votes for a world council and diplomatic victory or acting as conceptual way of acknowledging minor historical nations. Meanwhile, most of...

I think the best one for Purity/Supremacy is the most obvious: Mastery, given their domination over machines and their 'virtuoso' themeing. I favour Ascendancy and Synergy for Purity/Harmony and Supremacy/Harmony respectively, but that's just personal preference.