dV - this has been discussed as you have guessed, and one plausible realistic argument would be the accuracy/lethality of ranged weaponry. Longbowmen can kill at long range, while early gunpowder weaponry could not. Advanced GP vs non-GP is something different of course, but that has always been the case i.e. Civ has never been expected to deliver realistic cross-era combat, right? Let's see once the game is out
Sure, muskets had a limited effective range, but those camel archers aren't exactly wielding longbows, are they?It's not just about range (which in the scaling of Civ is a whole topic on its own), but also about the quality and usefulness of weapons, e.g. muskets being cheap weapons for peasants, while perhaps long bows require more skill to wield and surely long sword armoured infantery was quite formidable. Of course there comes a point where archer vs Wild Bill Hickok becomes moot.
if you got to page 15 someone's posted the links, but i really think they should get put on the main news feed or something
This thead aims to summarize all the different configurations of Civ5 that are being offered onto the market. There are three distinctly different basic packages that all vendors have based their offer on.
No, it has not been confirmed when or even if the extra content will be made avaialble as DLC to people who did not buy the Deluxe version or who did not buy a pre-order from one of the companies offering extra maps.Does anyone know when and how the various extra functionality will be available by other means?
If not, when will that information be made available?
My question is even more broad than that. What about to people who did buy the Deluxe version or who did buy a pre-order from one of the companies offering extra maps. When or even if will the extra content be available?? (For example, say I buy one of the maps, when will I be able to get the other one?)No, it has not been confirmed when or even if the extra content will be made avaialble as DLC to people who did not buy the Deluxe version or who did not buy a pre-order from one of the companies offering extra maps.
No, it has not been confirmed when or even if the extra content will be made avaialble as DLC to people who did not buy the Deluxe version or who did not buy a pre-order from one of the companies offering extra maps.
The only thing that has been confirmed is that there will be a DLC pack released "later in 2010" containing a scenario and two civilizations, but there is no knowledge about the specific date or the specific contents.
*Cradle of Civilization Map packs will be available for later purchase as DLC.
Actually at the bottom of the official site's preorder page it says this:
Indeed good find by msj0. This wasn't cross posted on CivFanatics before. I'll update my post #6.Excellent, nice spot. Post #6 in this thread needs to be updated with this information.
Though....
- it would be good to know when and how; I'm also unsure how the DLC will work, as I would think it would simply function through Steam, though apparently D2D has a special "DLC Pack" that is unique to them, though this is seemingly contradicted in post #6 because later down below it says it will "be available to all". So is it unique to D2D or is it available to all (in which case why list it under D2D and not others?) So how does that work?
- What about the Deluxe content? (Babylon civ) When/how will that be available (if at all)? e.g., if I buy the Special Edition, can I ever get the Babylons?
[*]as stated before, it's unknown if Babylon will ever be released as DLC.[/list]