Civilization V Announced!
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ICNP
The Third Superpower
If they drop city radius to just adjacent tiles, then they eliminate the strategy of tile overlap and it turns into infinite city sprawl.
I'm not putting in a pre-order just yet. I have to see the Mod and DRM situation.
I'm not putting in a pre-order just yet. I have to see the Mod and DRM situation.
ChristofferC
Chieftain
Great news!
Hex grid is a plus in my book.
Multicore support is tricky and unlikely to be in the game. I guess they could paralellize some of the AI decisions, but not much beyond that.
Hex grid is a plus in my book.
Multicore support is tricky and unlikely to be in the game. I guess they could paralellize some of the AI decisions, but not much beyond that.
E_Pluribus_Unum
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Sounds great!
Elhoim
Iron Tower Studio Dev
There was a mod that made units into small armies in Civ IV... Just like the screenshots in Civ V.
chunkymonkey
Procrastinator
Great news!
I needed an excuse to buy myself a spanky new machine, here it is. Goodbye social life in 2011
I needed an excuse to buy myself a spanky new machine, here it is. Goodbye social life in 2011
Jabarto
Emperor
Oh, and I hope that abomination known as the WorldBuilder has been scrapped for an external map editor like in Civ 3. They did say that mod tools will be better, so one can hope...
Gre_Magus
Manet
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Is anyone else getting the sense that you may not be able to stack units (or at least that there will be a limit?) Is the idea of "armies spreading across the landscape" just a reference to the additional figures/unit or is it something more consequential?
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Hexes huh? But wow, the terrain looks realistic. Hope my laptop can run it. Also hope that it actually changes things. But removing suicide siege sounds sublime.
Yared
That Guy
SoDs aren't really that realistic.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Oh I really hope stacks are still in, as armies didn't usually literally spread across the landscape.
Bowsling
Deity
Holy crap, the forums are slow right now.
When can we expect forums for Civ V?
this news made me so elecrified that i decided to log in after over 2 years of staying offline 
there was lots of wishes and discussions abt Civ5. I expect:
- logistics routs implemented in combat system - this will create frontlines without need of zone of control
- employment factor - no more little cities with lots of working buildings; possibility of building multiply factories, banks etc. in big cities
- planet map as a globe /not flat, not toroidal/
- mutliply 'scenarios' on science path
- realistic numer of population versus emplyment and army
there was lots of wishes and discussions abt Civ5. I expect:
- logistics routs implemented in combat system - this will create frontlines without need of zone of control
- employment factor - no more little cities with lots of working buildings; possibility of building multiply factories, banks etc. in big cities
- planet map as a globe /not flat, not toroidal/
- mutliply 'scenarios' on science path
- realistic numer of population versus emplyment and army
Kierkegaard
Warlord
Holy crap, the forums are slow right now.
When can we expect forums for Civ V?
Fall this year
weekend_warrior
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I heard it will be 1 unit per tile, so obviously no more SoD. Totally just a rumor of course. That's a plus in my book, I hate the idea of building some huge army and stacking them all up.
Bechhold
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Hm, The Escapist says that City States is the new battleground for Diplomacy. Though it sounds interesting I really hope there are more changes.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98421-Civilization-V-Coming-to-PC-This-Fall
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98421-Civilization-V-Coming-to-PC-This-Fall
Ahriman
Tyrant
For me, the combat redesign is what will make or break a new civ.
Hexes and new graphics aren't enough (and ooh, ranged bombardment, which is modded back into Civ4 anyway).
They have to make the combat system deeper, and figure out a way to remove the incentives for stacks of doom while still keeping combat simple and elegant.
I think they thought that collateral damage in civ4 would be enough to prevent SoDs, but it wasn't. I hope they don't think that ranged bombardment collateral damage will be enough on its own to prevent stacks of doom for Civ5.
I'm not optimistic though, its a challenging design problem. But that's what Civ *should* be doing.
The economy design works pretty well. The combat design, not so much.
Hexes and new graphics aren't enough (and ooh, ranged bombardment, which is modded back into Civ4 anyway).
They have to make the combat system deeper, and figure out a way to remove the incentives for stacks of doom while still keeping combat simple and elegant.
I think they thought that collateral damage in civ4 would be enough to prevent SoDs, but it wasn't. I hope they don't think that ranged bombardment collateral damage will be enough on its own to prevent stacks of doom for Civ5.
I'm not optimistic though, its a challenging design problem. But that's what Civ *should* be doing.
The economy design works pretty well. The combat design, not so much.
