Civ7 peoples-- before the starting gun -- NoGo

[Boris Gudenuf]

you also get potential for ppl like aboriginal australian cultures, which don’t allow their dead to be depicted and the pueblo, who hold the speech of their language to be of religious importance and therefore a closed practice.

not to mention the flexibility in settlement type makes nomadic peoples or people with semi-mobile settlements or extremely small settlements make WAYY more sense. an exploration era inuit would be significantly more viable in civ 7

Speaking of later-Age nomadic/pastoral Civs, I just finished reading William Taylor's new book, Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History, and on this particular point, they had assumed that Native Americans didn't get their hands on apperciable numbers of horses unntil the early 18th century. Now, from archeological finds of horse remains all the way up to Wyoming, it seems that horses got loose from Spanish colonies in Mexico and New Mexico a century earlier, and within a half-century had spread as both domestic to the natives and feral horses all the way north across the great plains.

Which means that all the Native American groups famous as 'horse people' - and pastoral nomads - were that way from the very beginning of the Civ VII Modern Age around 1600 - 1700 CE and so a Lakota/Souix, Commanche, or Nez Perce Civ could be represented with all their famous attributes without fudging the dates or any transition required.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Indeed. I was speaking specifically of archaeological cultures, where often what we know is limited to pottery types, arrowhead shapes, and possible the shape of their houses. I'm not necessarily itching for an Urnfield Culture civ at this time. But for proto-historical civs like Minoa, Etruscans, Xiongnu, and so forth, I'm quite on board. I'm already delighted with how civ switching and detached leaders have enabled us to include the Mississippians (though, granted, they did have both leader and language options--e.g., Tuskaloosa speaking Choctaw would have been fine--but are definitely easier without).

Yeah, I'm just restating a bunch above, but what was keeping a lot of the ancients off of the civ roster previously was just a language actor. They kind of sidestepped that, eh?

 

[Willie5000]

It is very odd to not include a Civ that is synonymous with the Age of Exploration in a game that has a dedicated Age of Exploration with specially designed mechanics for it.

We do have such a Civ though. It’s called Spain.