Ara: History Untold

[Ashbery76]

I'm not sure about trade routes.It looks like a straight up swap of manufactured good in the demo's.

 

[Tonas1997]

I'm not sure about trade routes.It looks like a straight up swap of manufactured good in the demo's.

Ok, I snooped through a few dev blogs and in one they mention having to build a navy to protect sea trade routes... so maybe?

 

[Ashbery76]

Ok, I snooped through a few dev blogs and in one they mention having to build a navy to protect sea trade routes... so maybe?

Hmm but it's a one for one trade in the demo.

What could be in the route?

 

[Sephi]

Alright this last video confirmed that the Shongai leader is actually Askia Muhammad I, with that (if you don't count Eva Perón, Jonh A. Macdonald and Benito Juárez who didn't get their names shown in the UI) the only mysteries left are who is the Inca leader that seens to be an Sapa Inca, and who is the white dress East Asian lady (most likely another Korean leader). Also, Alexander is confirmed as another leader for Greece, so no Macedon this time (despite we getting an separeted HRE from Germany). So 45 leaders and 40 nations:

#​	NATION​	LEADERS​
01​	The Abbasid Caliphate​	Harun al-Rashid​
02​	The Apsáalooké​	Osh-Tisch​
03​	Argentina​	Eva Perón​
04​	The Assyrian Empire​	Sennacherib​
05​	Australia​	Howard Florey​
06​	The Aztec Empire​	Itzcoatl​
07​	Belgium​	Leopold I​
08​	The Byzantine Empire​	Irene Sarantapechaena​
09​	Canada​	John A. Macdonald​
10​	The Celts​	Boudicca​
11​	The Cherokee​	Wilma Mankiller​
12​	China​	Confucius​
13​	China​	Wu Zetian​
14​	Egypt​	Nefertiti​
15​	England​	Elizabeth I​
16​	Ethiopia​	Haile Selassie​
17​	France​	Jeanne d'Arc​
18​	Georgia​	Tamar the Great​
19​	Germany​	Hildegard of Bingen​
20​	Germany​	Otto von Bismarck​
21​	Ghana​	Yaa Asantewaa​
22​	Greece​	Alexander the Great​
23​	Greece​	Sappho​
24​	The Holy Roman Empire​	Charlemagne​
25​	The Inca Empire​	Sapa Inca Guy ?​
26​	India​	Ashoka​
27​	Italy​	Cesare Beccaria​
28​	Japan​	Tokugawa Ieyasu​
29​	Korea​	Sejong the Great​
30​	Korea​	White Dress Lady ?​
31​	Kush​	Amaniremas​
32​	Mexico​	Benito Juárez​
33​	The Mongol Empire​	Genghis Khan​
34​	The Palmyrene Empire​	Zenobia​
35​	The First Persian Empire​	Xerxes I​
36​	Poland​	Nicolas Copernicus​
37​	The Roman Empire​	Julius Caesar​
38​	Russia​	Catherine the Great​
39​	The Songhai Empire​	Askia Muhammad I​
40​	Spain​	Isabella I​
41​	Thailand​	Ram Khamhaeng​
42​	United States​	George Washington​
43​	United States​	Harriet Tubman​
44​	Venezuela​	Simón Bolívar​
45​	Zulu​	Shaka​

They posted on steam which leaders are in the leader dlc: Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Yoo Gwan-Soon, Hildegard, and Boudicca. So the white dress lady is confirmed to be Yoo Gwan-Soon.

 

[Razpor]

at some point they need to show some late era gameplay, still to see much of that

 

[Ashbery76]

at some point they need to show some late era gameplay, still to see much of that

Yeah it is a bit of a concern this near to release.The doubt that it might all fall down in late game.

 

[KayAU]

There's a new dev Q&A:

The question of late game performance is asked. The answer is basically "I would have been worried too, but we have a custom engine that is built to handle this".

 

[Filo90]

I'm mor

There's a new dev Q&A:

The question of late game performance is asked. The answer is basically "I would have been worried too, but we have a custom engine that is built to handle this".

I'm more worried about late game (act 3) balance and refinement more than performance....

Btw I've preordered today, I believe into this project and I don't care if everything will be perfectly polished at the release time...

 

[Lohit]

Request for moderators, as we know mods will be supported for this game, should we create a sub-forum for this game similar to what we have for civ series?

 

[Razpor]

Request for moderators, as we know mods will be supported for this game, should we create a sub-forum for this game similar to what we have for civ series?

This

 

[ggmoyang]

I just hope ARA forum doesn't end up like that of Millennia

 

[The_J]

FYI @KayAU has already PMed me about this (best way to get stuff done ; don't overdo that though), we'll probably later today create a subforum for Ara. I will try my best to set up 1-2 sensible threads, the rest will be up to everyone else .

 

[The_J]

Attention everyone, we have now a new subforum https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/ara-history-untold.641/ , and this thread has been moved to the new subforum.
I will now try to create some threads out of the content in this thread, and maybe make 1-2 new ones.
For any news, n stuff, please try to make new threads to populate this forum .

 

[KayAU]

Attention everyone, we have now a new subforum https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/ara-history-untold.641/ , and this thread has been moved to the new subforum.
I will now try to create some threads out of the content in this thread, and maybe make 1-2 new ones.
For any news, n stuff, please try to make new threads to populate this forum .

Thank you, and good work on the new subforum and threads.

 

[KayAU]

I just hope ARA forum doesn't end up like that of Millennia

I hope so too, and I am optimistic that it will not. Fundamentally, I believe Ara has the advantage of being a better game, and also maybe with heavier backing.

 

[KayAU]

Btw I've preordered today, I believe into this project and I don't care if everything will be perfectly polished at the release time...

It never is. But what I've already played was pretty darn good already, and it appears the team is dedicated to keep improving and expanding the game after launch.

 

[The_J]

I just hope ARA forum doesn't end up like that of Millennia

I hope so too, and I am optimistic that it will not. Fundamentally, I believe Ara has the advantage of being a better game, and also maybe with heavier backing.

Well... buy the game, and discuss it here, then this will turn out different .

 

[Tomice]

Thank you for the new subforum!
I just realized ARA exists, but it seems very ambitious, beautiful and I really like many of their design ideas. You could also have easily convinced me this is civ 7 by removing the actual name from the gameplay videos, it just hits the spot.

It's very weird it's somehow completely under the radar, even it doesn't look low -budget at all!

 

[PMF]

Hmm but it's a one for one trade in the demo.

What could be in the route?

I was kinda puzzling over this earlier and remembered watching the diplomacy video where they touch on trade briefly, no direct answer there but they do use Merchants as the method of conducting trade and it seems to be over a length of time and not every turn... (video link at trade section)

I haven't seen anyone trade in demo footage so I'm guessing there's not a unit running around, but maybe there's still a way to blockade them if you know the city they're coming from...? not sure. I could be reading it wrong, but it looks like traded items can have different 'travel times' (notation like 1 / 10 reads as 1 per 10 turns to me, anyway)

Just having fun speculating! This game is living in my head rent-free.... I've got it pre-ordered and am listening to the soundtrack preview on and off.

 

[Ashbery76]

Trade routes should be a thing though as the naval game becomes of little importance without it.