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Heh, did anyone notice the river which forms in the desert to the southwest of Paris? That bugs me.
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So that's a review by cyberstrategie. It's in French, quite extensive, I'll translate it later. There are several new screenshots of the early game. Of course they're playing Paris
EDIT: There is a home page, an article dated 22 August 2010 and a newer article dated 26 August 2010.
Civilopedia screenshot of the Utopia Project.
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Civilopedia screenshot of the Rock of Gibraltar
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Great article and a good read. A nice turn by turn walkthrough of his game. I'd like to see more AARs like this.
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"3720 Ave. JC, Tower 7, the fearsome warrior Jaguar (bonus jungle and treatable by eliminating enemy units)"
from Mercade's article
it appears they have a bonus fighting in the jungle and get full health by killing enemy units (cannibalism?)
edit:
"Washington puts the Lancers, a more advanced unit (Force 7) that our warriors (force 6). Whether Washington has found these weapons in a ruin, or it has already discovered the technology of bronze working (very unlikely). Finish the requirement to have a mine to produce bronze Lancers, the simple technology is sufficient. Only iron is always needed for swordsmen"
I assume Lancer means spearman. the article speculates that They had hit an ancient ruin and their warrior upgraded to spearman even though they don't have bronzeworking. So now we know that ancient ruins can upgrade your units to a type that you don't have the tech for yet.
edit2:
"3640 Ave. JC, lap 9, the warriors always jaguars along our borders, the U.S. share in the probable direction of Aztec, and we can finally adopt a social doctrine! We have three choices: Tradition or Freedom, schematically for the economy, or Honor, for the armies. A wind of freedom blows while in Paris! Opting for tradition, it would be a bonus food. Well, but the situation is already advantageous at this level. Opting for Freedom allows us to produce faster settlers and build cities that already have reserves of food, improve worker productivity, and cities, and our cultural influence.
At a diplomatic interview, instead of a simple hello Washington has said that we are a friend of freedom. Hard to say for now if the U.S. has also already adopted this doctrine (and if the game as it seems the appropriate reply to the situation).
To the east, after our game scouts are sheep and spices. This promises tasty meal! After a swamp and jungle still out of sight. In the northwest there seems to be more plain. In the south-west there are hills. "
The French adopted Freedom. When they spoke to Washington again, he addressed them as the "friend of Freedom". Do AI's have preferred social policies?
edit3:
"The scouts fall face to face with the warriors of Alexander the Great. A little more and they have explored the ruins just before us. Greece has 30 gold in its coffers, 2 / tower. Following the coast a little further east we reach the borders of Ramkhamhaeng, whose coffers are nearly empty, 11 gold, but eight wins in each turn. That done Siam of all his gold? Mystery (perhaps a purchase of a box with a resource, which the AI does not hesitate to do, it seems). "
So, the AI takes advantage of the land buying ability. Good to know.
from Mercade's article
it appears they have a bonus fighting in the jungle and get full health by killing enemy units (cannibalism?)
edit:
"Washington puts the Lancers, a more advanced unit (Force 7) that our warriors (force 6). Whether Washington has found these weapons in a ruin, or it has already discovered the technology of bronze working (very unlikely). Finish the requirement to have a mine to produce bronze Lancers, the simple technology is sufficient. Only iron is always needed for swordsmen"
I assume Lancer means spearman. the article speculates that They had hit an ancient ruin and their warrior upgraded to spearman even though they don't have bronzeworking. So now we know that ancient ruins can upgrade your units to a type that you don't have the tech for yet.
edit2:
"3640 Ave. JC, lap 9, the warriors always jaguars along our borders, the U.S. share in the probable direction of Aztec, and we can finally adopt a social doctrine! We have three choices: Tradition or Freedom, schematically for the economy, or Honor, for the armies. A wind of freedom blows while in Paris! Opting for tradition, it would be a bonus food. Well, but the situation is already advantageous at this level. Opting for Freedom allows us to produce faster settlers and build cities that already have reserves of food, improve worker productivity, and cities, and our cultural influence.
At a diplomatic interview, instead of a simple hello Washington has said that we are a friend of freedom. Hard to say for now if the U.S. has also already adopted this doctrine (and if the game as it seems the appropriate reply to the situation).
To the east, after our game scouts are sheep and spices. This promises tasty meal! After a swamp and jungle still out of sight. In the northwest there seems to be more plain. In the south-west there are hills. "
The French adopted Freedom. When they spoke to Washington again, he addressed them as the "friend of Freedom". Do AI's have preferred social policies?
edit3:
"The scouts fall face to face with the warriors of Alexander the Great. A little more and they have explored the ruins just before us. Greece has 30 gold in its coffers, 2 / tower. Following the coast a little further east we reach the borders of Ramkhamhaeng, whose coffers are nearly empty, 11 gold, but eight wins in each turn. That done Siam of all his gold? Mystery (perhaps a purchase of a box with a resource, which the AI does not hesitate to do, it seems). "
So, the AI takes advantage of the land buying ability. Good to know.
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No
However, I can see 4 things that could be involved
1. The US is friendly to France.
2. France has Freedom (that doesn't actually make it the US friend)
3. The US has Freedom* (not sure because this is early for the US to have a social Policy.. unless they got it from some ruins)
Any combination of those 3 might be necessary for that phrase.
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See, now if the diplo screen were there we would know why they are suddenly more friendly. This article references the shot-in-the-dark nature of diplomacy as well.
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Probably representing warrior code (like the Janissaries.. I don't think Firaxi is saying the Ottomans practiced cannibailism)
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It was a speculative joke.
1. This was already confirmed, so if your lucky you can get a nicely upgraded unit from ruins that will be feared by all as its so technologically advanced, though I'm sure they have some kind of limit such as not allowing the unit to upgrade past your current Tech Era, otherwise you might be able to get really lucky and hit multiple upgrades and turn your warrior into a tank
2. Trust a french to think of Cooking a nice dinner for themselgs whilst playing Civ
3. Actually the guy just assumed that, the AI could have spent his gold rushing something or on a reaserch pact, or many things. Suffice to say they will make use of the various gold spending methods as this will help them along in the game.
That makes sense. Shouldn't the civilopedia state as such? Do they leave out the prerequesites for all of the wonders and projects?
I'm going to guess that most 'pedia entries will have prereques. Could be an earlier version, or simply a result of Utopia Project's rather unique prerequisite. I do appreciate the "yeah, this really represents whatever your civ thinks Utopia would look like" bit too.
Those Civilopedia shots of Gibraltar and Utopia Project appear to be the same ones Azazell posted a while back.
edit: This post at 2K forums made my day. Some dude thought it was already September.
edit: This post at 2K forums made my day. Some dude thought it was already September.
Mercade
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Credit where it's due. SnipperRibbit found this site and posted about it first. He just didn't post the link.
And while we're at it, ZimbuTheMonkey alerted me to the fact that Walmart has a picture of the Americas map pack:
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Montezuma will be so lonely playing there by himself.
It's too bad that they can't think of enough unique abilities that they need to recycle them.
It's too bad that they can't think of enough unique abilities that they need to recycle them.
Mercade
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Monty might have play mates. There's green/yellow, black/white and black/yellow in the settlements on that map.
Thyrwyn
Guardian at the Gate
stealth_nsk
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This could a pact of secrecy.
EmpireOfCats
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Stunningly beautiful. I think we can say that whatever they did, they really got the landscapes right. Hurts to look at a Civ IV map after this.
Credit where it's due. SnipperRibbit found this site and posted about it first. He just didn't post the link.
And while we're at it, ZimbuTheMonkey alerted me to the fact that Walmart has a picture of the Americas map pack:
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Thanks for that. Looks like someone took a big bite out of Southern Mexico!
Hopefully, there are some neat additions to these map packs as the map looks rather average.
The ocean looks gorgeous though.
mjs0
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Also, Amazon has an image of the Asia map pack:
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stealth_nsk
Deity
Wow. Lots of civs there.
Now I doubt these are scenarious - too many leaderheads would be required. So looks like they are just maps
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