But we've seen it on the map in some screenshots. And it would make a lot of sense as an improvement. I wouldn't rule out that the icon is wrong.Probably in the city center.
But we've seen it on the map in some screenshots. And it would make a lot of sense as an improvement. I wouldn't rule out that the icon is wrong.Probably in the city center.
Yeah, that's why I remembered that temple at all.Definetly looks like a south indian temple, god knows we spent enough hours staring at them to figure out what the Great Bath was.
Even with farms, tundra tiles are still not very good. At least you get strategic resources twice as quickly from cold tiles. Canada should be able to aggressively place small cities along the poles to get lots of resources, and usually loyalty issues are smaller in those unsettled areas. Plus, with the protection from Surprise Wars, those small colonies should generally be pretty safe. So, that's actually a pretty interesting bonus.
QFT - what do people want, interesting things that have absolutely nothing to do with the country in question?
And the Canadian unique building is the Cricket Pitch....
The best part about the design is that the diplomatic favours bonus is tied to actively being engaged in emergencies (and competitions - guess we'll learn more about those soon). You need to play the game to get them, and engage with the AI. That part's good. Also extra diplomatic favours for tourism, so there's a reason to go for tourism with Canada even if you're not going for a culture victory. Add this one to the list of "things that should be a base feature not a civ unique".
Some bonus to strategic resources was kind of expected. Interesting that they were called "consumable resources" - wonder if that means other resources besides the current "strategic" resources? Bonus is limited to resources on snow and tundra, so encouraging you to stay polar.
The Hockey Rink UI helps make snow and tundra tiles useable. It's otherwise lame and non-sensical.
The Mountie UU features prominent rifles. These were the guys who famously policed without guns. Bit of a disconnect there for me. Their abilities seem to those of Park Rangers. I wonder if they were a U.S. Park Ranger concept that the dev team wasn't able to fit in, and re-skinned for Mounties instead?
The unique play style aspect is the being unable to declare surprise wars, attack City states, or to have war declared on you. A lot of people (myself included) already avoid declaring war on the AI, so that's not really a change for us. The AI is already too passive, and not having to worry about having a surprise war declared on you makes it even easier to not worry about the AI. I can see this latter aspect appealing to some types of players, though.
Overall, it's pretty much my worst fears about what the dev team might do with Canada. Ignore a long and interesting history with a lot of possible fun game play mechanics, and instead make a snow civ that has hockey rinks and Mounties with non-sensical game play bonuses.
Sad now.
On one hand, it's irritatingly stereotypical. Like, demonstrative of a total lack of research.
On the other hand, it does appear fun to play.
Tundra Scots is right.
QFT - what do people want, interesting things that have absolutely nothing to do with the country in question?
And the Canadian unique building is the Cricket Pitch....
Canada here is very close to parody. I’m sort of okay with that. I’d be more okay with it if I could choose to exclude Canada from my games, because frankly I’m not always in the mood for parody. But it’s fine. This still seems to me to basically be what you’d get if you asked for Canada. It’s well designed in terms of gameplay, well executed (of course), and hits all the notes.
I think I can confidently say that this is definitely the most stereotypical civ we've ever seen. From using Canada's official anthem for its theme (unheard of in Civ VI), to having a stereotypical UU and UI, not to mention the tundra-based ability for the 500 Canadians who actually live in the tundra. Not even gonna touch upon the "peaceful Canada" nonsense.
France is way more stereotypical than Canada, actually. "zomg crafty evil french hogging all the culture" like that's not even how France *functioned*, at all.
So, Canada worst civ ever since you can't declare surprise wars in the ancient era?