I strongly disagree. The development of technologies has always been dependent to a large extent on previous technologies. You can't have cannons without metal working (well leather ones were tried, but not with great success). Horse riding is a prerequisite for stirrups. Etc etc.
But until recently we couldn't see the other direction. The first people to climb on the backs of horses didn't have the satisfaction of knowing that effort would result in Abrams tanks thousands of years later. They tried stuff to fulfill immediate needs, not to forge a winding path to some future objective.
Apologies if this has been asked but what do the characters behind Anton in the video mean? I don't recall them being there in the previous video and I tried scanning them with Google translate but no luck.
Apologies if this has been asked but what do the characters behind Anton in the video mean? I don't recall them being there in the previous video and I tried scanning them with Google translate but no luck.
It looks like we're seeing only part of the last character in a longer text, but maybe someone who can actually read hanzi or kanji (not sure which it is) can say more.
It looks like we're seeing only part of the last character in a longer text, but maybe someone who can actually read hanzi or kanji (not sure which it is) can say more.
We can clearly see the last character, which means to transform. The one before it is cut off, but if nothing important is cut off then the 2 characters together would mean change, noun or verb. At least that is how I interpret what Google Translate gives me. My vocabulary in Chinese is extremely limited but I speak enough that I get some of the conventions and thus Google Translate is actually extremely reliable, but take it as you will. I am fully prepared for a native speaker to inform me of my mistakes. =)
As far as I know, the meaning should be identical regardless if it is hanzi or kanji, it is only the pronunciation that changes.
Eurekas and Inspirations could do with a rework. At the moment too many of them are a bit lame.
For instance, settling on the coast as a tech boost is fine, since settling is expensive and you won't always settle your first city on the coast.
But consider the Currency tech boost. There is no opportunity cost to it. You'll always get a trade route with Foreign Trade and naturally use it.
The tech boost for Currency should very obviously be "establish an international trade route".
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The game has some great boosts, like requiring a wonder to boost the Theatre Civic, but many other eurekas/inspirations are boring and nearly impossible NOT to get, which to me makes them pointless.
These "boring too easy to get" boosts will detract from the shuffle mode experience.
Apologies if this has been asked but what do the characters behind Anton in the video mean? I don't recall them being there in the previous video and I tried scanning them with Google translate but no luck.
It looks like we're seeing only part of the last character in a longer text, but maybe someone who can actually read hanzi or kanji (not sure which it is) can say more.
We can clearly see the last character, which means to transform. The one before it is cut off, but if nothing important is cut off then the 2 characters together would mean change, noun or verb. At least that is how I interpret what Google Translate gives me. My vocabulary in Chinese is extremely limited but I speak enough that I get some of the conventions and thus Google Translate is actually extremely reliable, but take it as you will. I am fully prepared for a native speaker to inform me of my mistakes. =)
As far as I know, the meaning should be identical regardless if it is hanzi or kanji, it is only the pronunciation that changes.
In case you guys still interested about it, the phrase behind Anton is 変化 (henka, or bianhua in Chinese) which means change or transform in both Japanese and Chinese. The words themselves are written in the Japanese style of Chinese characters (kanji) so the context should be a Japanese one.
The words are seemed to be written on the lower part of a scroll, similar to a typical calligraphy piece, so I would speculate that the whole scroll has an idiom/set phrase writing on it, and 変化 is the last part of the whole idiom.
The lower left part of the scroll writes アントン, which reads anton - you can possibly tell this is the katakana transliteration of Anton's name, or how Anton's name should be write in Japanese. I assume that's his signature in Japanese; and since the writings on the scroll in general is also not very good (I'm sorry to point that out, Anton) it is very likely that Anton wrote the whole scroll by himself.
I do like that the Firaxis team shows their faces and rooms in these videos though; it's more personable somehow, and that's comforting given the current pandemic.
I feel sorry to point that out, and I understand/want to say that ink brush calligraphy is very hard to master even as a Chinese/Korean/Japanese etc.
We generally considered those who can write good-looking words using ink brush as very literate, cultured people, it's fine if your writings don't look right initially.
I feel sorry to point that out, and I understand/want to say that ink brush calligraphy is very hard to master even as a Chinese/Korean/Japanese etc.
We generally considered those who can write good-looking words using ink brush as very literate, cultured people, it's fine if your writings don't look right initially.
As a Korean, I confirm that calligraphy is hard. No number of visits to the free "paint your name in ink" events in Seoul made me any better at it either.
As a Korean, I confirm that calligraphy is hard. No number of visits to the free "paint your name in ink" events in Seoul made me any better at it either.
My parents have our name painted (in English letters) by one of those street artists who do the ornate figured calligraphy (or did in the 90s) on the streets of Seoul. They got them for both sets of grandparents, too.
That's Japanese style Chinese characters - compare 変化 (Kanji) and 变化 (simplified Chinese) or 變化 (traditional Chinese), Anton's writing is the former style. He also used Japanese to sign this piece of calligraphy.
If following this path of reasoning then it is Japan that will get an alternate leader
This is a tough balancing act. Like, part of me says "if you're given a map, you should gear everything towards that". But another part of me says, "you're given a civ, you should play to that". Sometimes they line up and it's beautiful. Sometimes they clash, and you have a tough decision.
But outside of a system where uniques come based on the map and not based on the civ, there's not really a way around it. Like, it would be cool to have a mode where you build the first boat, and then the game pops up and says, "congrats, you now have a longship UU" (or like where you research sailing and then have a choice to go research the longship UU after that), but that's a vast departure from things now. I think in the end, that just happens to be a case where there's no real great solution, so it's always a balance of playing the map vs playing the civ, and you just have to hope for the best mix.
or you can just go to war
Half-jokes aside, I agree that the interest of the game is exactly this, having some hopes of an alignment that is sometimes challenged.
This has been discussed a bunch if you want to scroll up the thread, but to summarize:
Tech order is still random, and while you may reveal where a tech you want is, you still do not know which techs are before it, thus making it difficult to purposely get the Eurekas for the correct techs along the path. Furthermore, you now want to achieve the Eureka early so you can start planning ahead, which changes your priorities a bit.
Also the randomization aspect is still part of this mode, even if the hidden feature were totally rendered useless by Eurekas.
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