AI created AARs

[Askia Muhammad]

Yeah, stats, maps in replay, milestones – all these are more interesting to me than a text as well, because the story of my game unfolds while playing already, and I just want a nice remembering in hindsight. Summaries by someone else might not be able to cover what I would have highlighted and how, regardless whether that someone is another human or a machine.

Back when Rise & Fall was announced, I more or less envisioned this is how the timeline would function. Instead, it was a bit too gamified in my opinion.

I really think a very simple change that would have better accomplished this would be the ability to create custom entries on the timeline and actually write our wish histories. I’m not opposed to an AI LLM option integrated as well but I would like the ability to simply type entries onto the timeline and maybe select from pre-existing set entries.

I’m less interested in hearing about yields and bonuses in my stories - I’m a very narrative first player. I’ve had LLMs write me quick summaries of Civ like stories that I’ll read before bed.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm with Uberfrog. The whole point of playing a Civ game is to generate one of these narratives, with oneself as the author.

I differ from him in that I am usually not content to simply do it in my head. I write it out.

 

[Askia Muhammad]

I really wish there was at least a mod to write custom entires onto the timeline - that’s how I’d love to write my story

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, that would be cool.

Although, come to think of it, I generally need longer spans of time for my stories:



Over a 400 year stretch toward the end of the second millennium, the Memalik Subcontinent saw a radical transformation. In the 2500 years prior, the English had established themselves as the dominant power in the region. The cities of London and York each had more than 300,000 inhabitants around the year 2000. And the English had even claimed territory around a settlement at Hastings in the ??? Jungle, considerably to the west of the Thames. Istanbul, by contrast, amounted to little more than a city state overseeing the Noceli region, with a population a third the size of London and with the single small colony of Edirne at the mouth of the Kesan river. In the period between 1500 and 1100, however, the Ottomans conquered both York and London, and so the western portion of the subcontinent represented their sole possession. With the Iroquois taking Hastings at about the same time, the once sizeable English empire was reduced to Nottinghamshire region.