I have so many questions.
Basically, we are aiming for a Cultural victory with a Cultural leader for a month. We have 5 victories in the game, so 5 months worth of challenges. With World Congress being exclusive to Gathering Storm, if they plan to play all victories, the expansions have to come out to play at a moment.
I guess, we could see something like that (random pick):
- Rise and Fall, probably a King Challenge, Religious as Georgia.
- Gathering Storm, probably Emperor Challenge, Diplomatic as Canada.
- New Frontier Pass, probably Immortal Challenge, Scientific as Maya → it needs an expansion, either Standard of Gathering.
- Leader Pass, probably Deity Challenge, as Domination as Julius Caesar.
(Scenario and Civilization Packs do not exist)
But why? It would be a good way to get the player spellbound to the news of the franchise. But what would be the announcement?
Perhaps they are going to (re)announce Civilization VII. Or maybe they going to add a small expansion on Civilization VI as: "the Ultimate patch" or something?
If I am right on the victories focus, they could even add a new victory condition. For example, they could bring back the old Domination victory as an Expansion victory. Something like:
Expansion victory:
Your Civilization and City-States under your control have to cover 50%+ of the landmass, and have at least twice as much territory as the most wide empire beside you.
If so, nothing could prevent them to update the victory conditions. Domination could have a Vassal / Liege system, and update its conditions to:
Capture the Capital or be the Liege of all Civilizations in the game.
It would be the perfect opportunity to fix the World Congress. They could alter the voting system so that a wider and populous Civilization could have more base votes, but still have Diplomatic Favor as a currency to either buy votes, or proposes resolutions to be put under votes (no more random ones). They could expand the diplomacy with Grievances for people opposing the resolutions.
Or they could instead choose to bring back a "Money" victory in some way, even if I am instinctively making the connection to diplomacy, where money can buy, corrupt or lobby your way to victory. But they can do something interesting to it, more than "being the first at being at an arbitrary GPT / total Gold".