Civilization VII - Launch Day Developer Livestream (2/11 @ 1pm ET)

[Guandao]

It boggles me that the Kavalan are in the Antiquity age, and they're the only Taiwanese Aboriginal peoples in the game.

 

[queenpea]

They are considering adjusting AI so that it is not placing cities too close and thus avoiding implementing Loyalty mechanics.

I hope they consider this real hard!

 

[Guandao]

@pokiehl It's ok, I wasn't offended by your comment, no need to delete it.

 

[Riconatic]

I hope they consider this real hard!

For me Ed sounded that they need to do this.

 

[pokiehl]

@pokiehl It's ok, I wasn't offended by your comment, no need to delete it.

Didn’t mean to delete, meant to edit, hit post too early What I meant to post fully was:


I think they have more pressing concerns right now I have a lot of quibbles with names and other design choices, but the UI is just killing me right now. At least changing the identity of an IP is very simple: just change the name in a localization file and boom.

I suspect they’re going to continue adding IPs too, especially if we get DLC that expands on how we interact with them…Which I hope is coming. One big thing that annoys me is you lose stuff like the ability to target raids once you’re their suzerain.

 

[Guandao]

I had a dream last night I was playing Civ7, but they made the UI better and the resource icons looked really nice.

 

[pokiehl]

I had a dream last night I was playing Civ7, but they made the UI better and the resource icons looked really nice.

That’s another thing…I love a lot of the icons for resources. And I don’t get why some of them have different background colors.

 

[marius_kaparius]

Did not know that all narrative events are tied to historical documents. Cool!

 

[marius_kaparius]

Resource panel is going to get some clarifications in the near term.

 

[Riconatic]

Did not know that all narrative events are tied to historical documents. Cool!

They said that those events are easily overlooked.

I would counterpoint from the other thread presented really fancy event ui-views (concepts?) from game files. And end result is quite dull.

Maybe they should have not overlook those themselves

 

[marius_kaparius]

They said that those events are easily overlooked.

I would counterpoint from the other thread presented really fancy event ui-views (concepts?) from game files. And end result is quite dull.

Maybe they should have not overlook those themselves

I didn’t get the impression the team themselves said they overlooked them, the commenter was commending the team for a game element they thought was often overlooked. Ed then commented that they are based on real world writings.

 

[marius_kaparius]

Experimenting with having specialists carry over to new ages

 

[Gedemon]

someone made a TSL Earth already

 

[King of Prussia]

They have to be careful with the pseudo loyalty stuff tho, otherwise the AI may never try to go to distant lands to settle/conquer. This was the biggest hangup to colonizing in civ 6.

 

[marius_kaparius]

They’re working on more organic looking maps based on feedback

 

[StargazingDog]

I am glad to hear their response to loyalty. Loyalty felt bad in Civ 6. It was largely pointless, but still cost mental effort and time. I do not want to see anything like this in Civ 7.

 

[queenpea]

Aww the ending of the livestream made me a little sad. They seem a little deflated. Buck up, friends, the game is really fun, and I am very happy to be playing it!

 

[Gen.Washington]

They said the maps were designed for balanced multiplayer and they’re working on realistic generation now.

 

[UWHabs]

That’s another thing…I love a lot of the icons for resources. And I don’t get why some of them have different background colors.

I do think global vs city vs bonus (vs treasure) should have bigger distinctions. I think they do now, but I can't 100% tell.

 

[marius_kaparius]

Sounds like auto-explore is being added

Correction on this one, on second listen they seem to be waiting for more feedback.