I really hope we don't get an ancient/neolithic age ; it made humankind games kinda a slog to get through and really nothing substantial could happen in that age, just a lot of pressing the next turn button...
I agree. If any new ages come up that is more likely be to be the big expansion material.
I'd personally prefer it to a whole new Atomic/Information Age, with new civs.
Well, I guess we just have inverted views on it
cause I really want an Atomic/Info Age, regardless I think we both agree that an age before antiquity or one after modern is more likely than a medieval or industrial age being put in between ages 1-2 or 2-3 respectively.
I wouldn't mind it if the Atomic/Information was just an extension of the Modern Age, without changing civs. Because I personally wouldn't be a fan of playing with civs such as China (PRC), Soviets, (Republic of) India, Post WWII Germany, Japan etc.Well, I guess we just have inverted views on it
Or you just have DLC packs that are better if you have the expansion (2 exploration Civs and 1 Atomic) or (1 Ancient, 1 modern, 2 Atomic)
I understand your gut reaction here, but I think the reality is that the game is already full with switches which are much more bonkers than this. This type of switch would also clear the way for Mughals to "India" and Qing to "China."
It’s having two civs that are literally the same polity and presenting them as two distinct “civs” that rubs me the wrong way, especially when we already have two American leaders and will probably have more.
Well if it was America to "Soviet Union" and Qing to "United States" it wouldn't be as weird.
I could understand that idea better if the America we had now was called "Colonial America" and had Minutemen and Founding Father's Great People, and a Town Center quarter with Meeting House and Courthouse, instead of Marines and Prospectors and an Industrial yard focusing on the U.S. after they achieved their independence.
Well, theoretically the civ we have now is "Colonial America" (at least per the music theme video on the official Civilization Youtube channel), so I'm not sure it'd be altogether too different from France -> France or other silly transitions we might see. Or maybe these civs just won't reappear in the atomic age, although I'd have to say excluding America from the atomic age would feel pretty silly. I agree though, general I think the timeframe for the modern age runs up a bit too late to make a clean break for atomic age civs.
Or "Great Britain" to "United Kingdom"
The current civs switches are still passing from one political entity, culture or group to another. A hypothetical America to United States wouldn't even be a switch at all, they are the same political entity, culture and group. It would be the weirdest switch of them all if it ever happened, mainly because it wouldn't be a switch at all. Sure, modern USA is different to 19th century USA, but so is 1st century Rome and 5th century Rome, yet they still are the same political entity and culture.
Yeah, unfortunately the America we have in game is already pushing heavily toward the later end of the "modern" time period in game conceptually with marines and robber barons and so on, despite being aesthetically focused more on the colonial/early independence era. This is going to make any fourth age awkward as it will either have to deal with some substantial overlap in that regard or else not have the most important atomic age civ IRL (I hope that's not too controversial of a claim to make) actually represented in the game's atomic age.
