Age Beyond Earth; future DLC possiblity?

[Vandlys]

Since the release of Civilization Beyond Earth I've longed for a Civ game that let me start in the ancient era and move all the way into the future colonizing a new planet.

The way VII is structured I think it would be entirely possible to have a system similar to sponsors (but then linked to your existing Civ and its history in-game), which allowed the player to pick bonuses (and maluses?) to start again on a new planet.

What do you guys think about this? Is it too much of an effort considering what it would take to design all the assets?

 

[Heinage]

I was actually thinking the same thing.
The way they have split the game into distinct ages that play like campaigns means that future expansions could add new ages.
Probably the first one to add would be somewhere in the middle. I wouldn’t be surprised if they add a Medieval Age first, and then in a later explanation add a Space Age and take it off world.

 

[Nikolai II]

Good though.

 

[Krikkit1]

I was actually thinking the same thing.
The way they have split the game into distinct ages that play like campaigns means that future expansions could add new ages.
Probably the first one to add would be somewhere in the middle. I wouldn’t be surprised if they add a Medieval Age first, and then in a later explanation add a Space Age and take it off world.

I would actually prefer they do not add any intermediate eras. 3 civs seems about the limit to maintain some sense of Identity with your game.
If over the course of the game you were Egypt
->Egyptian Inca
-> Egyptian Incan Brazil
Then even in the late game, you could probably recognize the different unique infrastructures scattered around your core empire. The name could actually reflect your previous civs slightly without becoming too unwieldy. This was one of humankinds problems, with 6?7 eras there was no way you could maintain the connection to/significance of the past civs.


I could se a Future Age…but it would be transitioning to a truly different game like Beyond Earth-> that Starships game

 

[Pedro P]

With map expansions being a thing between ages, I think that for once, its not entirely unrealistic to think of space colonization gameplay, C2C style. An Age 4 where you get to commit some drone to drone violence in Mars doesn't sound bad.

Civs could be your Age 3 civ, or maybe organizations between states. Like UN, EU, MERCOSUR, NAFTA, Andean Community, CIS, ASEAN, East African Community.

 

[Professor Phobo]

I actually really do love the idea of an Age 4 which is "near future sci-fi Earth after a major global crisis" themed. The Beyond Earth sponsors were incredibly boring on the colony planet but the Earth sided backstories were cool. Your Age 3 crisis (World War 3, Climate Change, Megapandemic, Asteroid strike, etc) leaves things medium post-apocalyptic and you're playing the successor and survivor states rebuilding and moving forward to the stars.

The Age 4 endgame crises can be weirder sci-fi stuff; renegade AI, alien invasion, someone opened a stargate, etc.

Thinking about it, this would probably be an "optional" expansion sort of deal. And while we're on the topic of optional expansions, if they want to do weirdness and magic modules again, an "Age 0" prehistorical Conan the Barbarian style fantasy Earth where you're playing the magical kingdoms like Atlantis that vanish into history after fighting serpent people or whatever, and your legacies leave behind occult truths picked up by successor states...

Again just "weird expansion" ideas. Would not be core stuff since I'm only in the mood for sci-fi civ or fantasy civ maybe 1/3rd of the time I'm in the mood for classic Civ.

 

[Harasar]

It could be interesting if in Civ 7 flight to the Moon or Mars would be an actual part of game with various civs colonizing them and competing on actual map, not just an abstract condition of the science victory.

 

[Thormodr]

It would be easy to add an Age 4 with futuristic made up factions. Sounds interesting.

 

[Brackenspore]

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

From the sounds if things, the Modern Age ends around WW2, then a theoretical 4th Age would probably be Atomic-Information and a touch of near-future. A BE themed Age would be pretty far out there.

 

[Pedro P]

From the sounds if things, the Modern Age ends around WW2, then a theoretical 4th Age would probably be Atomic-Information and a touch of near-future. A BE themed Age would be pretty far out there.

In the trailer there is something that looks like a large rocket being launched into space (it didn't look like a militar one) which tells me at least the Atomic age is also part of the Modern Age in the game, since that is something of the 60s, not 40s.

 

[Deer]

I wouldn't be surprised if the first DLC was to add a fourth era with a complete roster of new civs for that era. But I think that era would be within the realms of our current history. I suspect that the interest among the civ7 players for a fourth 'Beyond Earth' era is too low compared to the amount of effort the developers would have to put into developing a new planet and all there is to be explored on there. If there is interest, I think they would be better served by making a separate game or adding onto the one we've already got.

 

[AriochIV]

I would expect that if they decided to do a Civ7 version of Beyond Earth, it would need to be a standalone product. As they did with the Civ5 version.

From the sounds if things, the Modern Age ends around WW2, then a theoretical 4th Age would probably be Atomic-Information and a touch of near-future. A BE themed Age would be pretty far out there.

Civilization traditionally ends with the interstellar mission in our near future. We know for certain that there is at the very least an Apollo-style Moon mission. That's long past WWII.

The Exploration tech tree starts in the late Medieval period, and I think the general consensus is that it goes until the early Industrial. I would expect the Modern Age would go from the late Industrial to the Future era.