Arioch's Analyst Thread

[SlothMD]

I don't know what the other related social policies do, but as a real world analogy it might have made more sense for socialism to increase happiness...

and lower productivity. Or to equalize happiness - make the unhappy people more happy, and the very happy people less happy.

 

[V. Soma]

I would do anything to stand on Azazell's side.
he says he was not warned about the prohibition.

If it was not written in any legal paper when he started doing his review, then he can't be touched!

 

[PieceOfMind]

Everything in from my 150 screenshots. All Units, buildiings, technology - Statistics, details - Everything from Civilopedia.. Because I can be very punished from 2K Games . Please time is very important for me [/B]

I have passed on your message to moderators and admins (by PM) of the site. I'm not sure whether senior moderators have the permission to delete the images, but junior mods like myself sadly don't. It will hopefully be fixed very soon.

I would do anything to stand on Azazell's side.
he says he was not warned about the prohibition.

If it was not written in any legal paper when he started doing his review, then he can't be touched!

I'm not so confident of that.

 

[Azazell]

V.Soma and PieceOfMind - thank you for much!

 

[brianshapiro]

and lower productivity. Or to equalize happiness - make the unhappy people more happy, and the very happy people less happy.

I think the way it works now, you're assumed to be doing a tradeoff between one social policy and another, so choosing Socialism would mean you're not getting the benefits from a free market, etc., and that wouldnt be necessary

 

[AriochIV]

Regarding the "heal instantly" promotion, I do recall someone saying this in the E3 interviews: that a unit can forgo a promotion to heal itself completely. So it may be available right from the start.

 

[Mercade]

Regarding the "heal instantly" promotion, I do recall someone saying this in the E3 interviews: that a unit can forgo a promotion to heal itself completely. So it may be available right from the start.

Yes, I recall that too.

 

[Souron]

Negative. You can embark as soon as you have triemes, so Sailing. However, untill Astronomy you are restricted to shore.

There's no ability under sailing. Optics has an ability, so I think that optics allows units to embark on coast and lake, and Astronomy allows embarking on ocean.

 

[cheesemijit]

I know it isn't the most important thing but i am not a fan of the new minimap. I don't know what it is apart from the fact it doesn't show the terrain.

 

[Schuesseled]

The heal (instead of) promotion is pretty cool, allows you to save a unit that would normally die no matter what promotion he got.

 

[beestar]

I believe that's a feature of one of the units (Janissary?). It might not be accessible to all civs / all units.

 

[Azazell]

The heal (instead of) promotion is pretty cool, allows you to save a unit that would normally die no matter what promotion he got.

Yes - heal promotion is very useful..

 

[Zhahz]

Civ 5 is going to kill. It will be a hit. There is no good reason to keep a lid on info at this point. 2K is silly to pass on the free advertising and hype.

IMO, the walkthrus done by beta testers (like Sulla) before Civ IV released did more to promote Civ IV than any advertisement could ever do. Reading thru that stuff was almost terrible because it made waiting for release that much more unbearable.

it may be so that 2k doesn't want unofficial screens of the civilopedia and the tech tree online. Because they're maybe not finished, yet.

Could be but most of us already know we're seeing preview build info that isn't 100% locked in.

The thing is, if these unfinished preview builds get everyone completely jazzed, you know they'll like the final product even more...so why hold back.

 

[Elrikk]

@Algeroth

Whose couch is this? It's a sofa, baby. Whose sofa is this? Freud's. Who's Freud? Freud's dead baby... Freud's dead.


Is this from the movie "It's a Mad, Mad Mad World" ?

Elrikk

 

[Thormodr]

Civ 5 is going to kill. It will be a hit. There is no good reason to keep a lid on info at this point. 2K is silly to pass on the free advertising and hype.

IMO, the walkthrus done by beta testers (like Sulla) before Civ IV released did more to promote Civ IV than any advertisement could ever do. Reading thru that stuff was almost terrible because it made waiting for release that much more unbearable.



Could be but most of us already know we're seeing preview build info that isn't 100% locked in.

The thing is, if these unfinished preview builds get everyone completely jazzed, you know they'll like the final product even more...so why hold back.

Spot on. It's much more entertaining than the boring, dry previews from all these websites that no one has ever heard of.

 

[neev]

Civ 5 is going to kill.

Nah. It's going to mass murder.

I find it suspicious that 2k wants civilopedia screenshots removed (I read Azazell requesting especially those to be removed, in the stickied thread up there. That's how I understood it, I may be mistaken).

 

[Algeroth]

@Algeroth

Whose couch is this? It's a sofa, baby. Whose sofa is this? Freud's. Who's Freud? Freud's dead baby... Freud's dead.


Is this from the movie "It's a Mad, Mad Mad World" ?

Elrikk

No, it's unholy lovechild of Pulp Fiction and The Interpretation of Dreams AFAIK.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Nah. It's going to mass murder.

I find it suspicious that 2k wants civilopedia screenshots removed (I read Azazell requesting especially those to be removed, in the stickied thread up there. That's how I understood it, I may be mistaken).

Nothing suspicious, developers usually don't want all the info out before the game is finished. They're still balancing and changing stuff (legalism was alrady nerfed) and with too many details we might get a wrong picture.

 

[PinkHammurabi]

@Algeroth

Whose couch is this? It's a sofa, baby. Whose sofa is this? Freud's. Who's Freud? Freud's dead baby... Freud's dead.


Is this from the movie "It's a Mad, Mad Mad World" ?

Elrikk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM

 

[Souron]

I would do anything to stand on Azazell's side.
he says he was not warned about the prohibition.

If it was not written in any legal paper when he started doing his review, then he can't be touched!

We know he did sign a gag order not to release the info until now. Possibly that paperwork also included additional restrictions. Azazell needs to look over that paperwork to verify that 2k's claim is valid, and if it's not clearly so, then contact a lawyer.

They could also be claiming copyright violation. That could be harrier.

But this isn't the thread to discuss this.