I'm already looking forward to rolling my tanks there as Germany or Russia.
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A return of "caravans" or what ever?! This is indeed a good day.
So, SP trees are gone and will be replaced by 3 levels of ideaoligies you can mix and match? I wonder if espionage will be expanded on? I feel it should be. Hopefully warmongering isn't hurt by the way culture has been redone.
The new trade system is going to change the game in a huge way. I like the new changes in that direction. Much more realistic.
The new trade system is going to change the game in a huge way. I like the new changes in that direction. Much more realistic.
It really irritated me when there was so much hate for civ V when it was first released. People were trying to compare a brand new game to Civ 4 BTS, a game that was highly polished and refined after many expansions and patches. It was just ridiculous to compare the two.
I knew all along that civ V vanilla was bare bones, and that it would get much better over time. Once this new expansion is released, it will put civ 4 to shame. But I'm sure there are a few civ 4 fanboys who will refuse to even look at civ 5, just because they had a bad experience with civ 5 vanilla before it was even patched.
I knew all along that civ V vanilla was bare bones, and that it would get much better over time. Once this new expansion is released, it will put civ 4 to shame. But I'm sure there are a few civ 4 fanboys who will refuse to even look at civ 5, just because they had a bad experience with civ 5 vanilla before it was even patched.
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The way I understand it is that Order/Freedom/Autocracy are still sopols, but there are branches within each one tailored to your preferred victory condition. So you can go Autocracy and still be competetive in a science victory. Or Freedom ... Domination.
"I didn't expect this to work"= As Poland destroy a German Panzer with a Winged Hussar
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One article mentioned tech trading hands in the World Congress. Are we going to hold a vote so that Hiawatha has to share his discovery of gunpowder with the world?
Ok that sounds more in depth.
On another note...With the new trade system and sea routes, subs should become much more important in warfare.
I certainly hope one could get everyone to denounce or sanction Hiawatha and his Keshiks for burning down New York after having them handed to him as part of a "Peace deal"
The new expansion seems to be geared to culture in a huge way. I am not sure about how I feel about it just yet. If I want to play a domination victory, which I usually do. After all my favorite thing is military history. Having other civs try to change my addiction to warmongering through cultural pressure, could get rather annoying, but we'll see.
Battlehelm043
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This is perfect, I for one welcome the changes but am interested to see how polices, economy, diplo, and ideologies work... I hope that it allows for you to chose a government title along with it kinda like name your own religion aspect to the ideologies... Other than that this is indeed a great day!!!!
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I'm not worried about the trade routes too much. It sounds like you start with 1 land and 1 sea to make as you see fit. And you likely get more later on by getting new eras or techs and there's probably a civ that starts with an extra one.
HeraldtheGreat
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...like the Mahajapit or Srivijaya!
Or some other Swahili City-State, or a coalition between all of them to pass as a Civ. The whole Scramble for Africa scenario may be able to emphasize on this.
You're wrong, its gonna be:
"So what if he was born in Thorn?" = As Poland gets Copernicus in a city close to German Border.
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Hahaha.
Hahahahaha.
No, but seriously, these two features alone are the reasons I'm buying the expansion pack. Don't care about new civilizations, UU, UAs, UBs. Hell, even though the world congress and ideologies are great ideas, the above two features alone are still worth buying the xpack alone.
No one has any idea how happy this makes me. I've been yelling for international trade routes since release, and global food is something I've even started a thread about in the suggestions.
Hopefully, luxuries, strategics, and bonus resources contribute to the value of a trade route. I remember playing a Empires of the Smokey Skies game and one of the five was surrounded with spices, and was the only guy with spices. Honestly, if he had had a port and could form trade routes, that city would be extremely lucrative.
It would also be nice if City A and City C had a trade route, and City B rested on that trade route, it would generate a little extra for whoever owns City B.
I'm not how I feel about adding more needed units. The idea is cool, but 1IUPT can quickly turn caravans into a problem. I would've personally favored just creating a trade routes overlay, with trade routes between two cities being marked as the quickest path between two points. It would've opened up to quite a bit of fun in the form of strategically placed cities and clever road-building. At sea, the only change needed would be to make harbors emit a two-hex range that magnets in trade routes.
Bonus points if joining routes worked. If City A traded spices to City B, and City C traded whales to City B, whales would be added to the value of the trade between A and B, and spices to the value between B and C, making B a juicy target.
Oh well. It'll be interesting to read more about the feature as we get closer to release.
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