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.

 

[Guandao]

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

 

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Did not know that all narrative events are tied to historical documents.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Did not know that all narrative events are tied to historical documents.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

 

[The Economy]

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!

I think Ed Beach always looks a little deflated. Maybe he's just not an evening person.

 

[taulph88]

I noticed that when Ed met Confucius, the leader banners on top right did not accurately depict the leaders and their respective civs (got shifted over). Not until he left the leader screen and went back in then it corrected itself---i experienced this bug myself so hopefully they noticed that and a fix will come.