Not that it's necessarily unique but it's more of the history behind film in America and how it's impacted the world. There's a reason why when people refer to the film industry they say "Hollywood" as a nickname and why Firaxis picked it as America's unique in Civ 6.
It is tricky, though I disagree with your assessment that the Founding Fathers were "notably Un-Christian." The majority of them held orthodox if not particularly zealous Christian views; Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison were Deists, Adams was a Unitarian, but otherwise they were pretty standard Anglicans and Presbyterians for the most part. Several of them were ministers. That being said, Protestantism is woven deeply into the roots of American culture. The South was pretty tepid in its religion until the Second Great Awakening when Methodism spread like wildfire through especially the back country and Appalachia, but the Middle Colonies and New England were founded by people with strong (usually unpopular) religious convictions (Quakers, Presbyterians, and various Anabaptists like the Moravians, Dunkers, and Mennonites in the former, Puritans in the latter), and the Great Awakenings led to the explosion of Baptistry and Methodism. That they came to establish religious freedom is certainly a myth, as demonstrated by New England's persecution of Quakers, but really you don't see America's relationship with religion become complicated until first in the late 19th century when you have the theological split between theological liberalism (the German School) and theological conservativism and then in the late 19th/early twentieth century when you have a large influx of Catholics and Jews from Europe (both of whom had always been present in America but only in small numbers). Then in the twentieth century you see the advent of modernism and religious skepticism. But the bottom line is that, while America was founded as a secular nation, it was founded under the profound influence of religion. (However, coming from the Wesleyan Holiness movement myself, I think a Camp Meeting or Gospel Meeting would be a great...unique project or something, representing the likes of Edwards, Whitefield, Asbury, Moody, Graham, etc. It really is a truly, uniquely American institution.)
I didn't really consider it my job to worry about localization.You know, of course, that Pioniere is the German term for Combat Engineer, so that could result in a confusing translation in the German edition of Civ VII and an inability for gamers to tell the difference between a "Military Engineer" and an American UU.
I mean I could understand not wanting uniques from the Modern era and after, but no uniques even from the Industrial Era? That's technically mid game.
I can get behind this. It effectively removes America and the other nation-states from the game.
Not if you give them Pioneers and Meeting Houses.I can get behind this. It effectively removes America and the other nation-states from the game.
Not if you give them Pioneers and Meeting Houses.
Well I figured Pioneers would be available from the beginning, considering it would be a settler replacement. I'm not sure what era you wanted Meeting Houses to come though. That being said unique infrastructures for Brazil and Australia came in the Classical and Medieval Eras respectively.
Still, the Industrial Revolution was starting in England by the time America was born so one could argue my point stands. And if one wishes to get truly technical, the Renaissance per se was over before Jamestown was even founded.
It'd probably be either a Shrine or Temple replacement in Civ6 terms so...pretty early.
Yeah, renaming it the Early Modern Era would make more sense with what they're going for, though I'm not sure about renaming Humanism to Renaissance, especially as more and more modern scholarship downplays the Renaissance as one of many that happened all over the world during the Middle Ages.
Well considering it took Russia and Japan until about the late 1800s to early 1900s to leave some facets of the Middle Ages behind I guess you are right.
Yes, I love this idea!
I agree. If Canada returns, I want it to look a lot more like the Civ6 Cree than Civ6 Canada, and a Voyageur/Coureur du Bois UU is perfect for them.
Although it's a cool idea is it truly Canadian, because I consider them being prominent when Canada was still a part of the French civilization?
Voyageurs and especially coureurs de bois married into Native American tribes, and within a couple decades many of them were métis (small M because the Métis weren't a thing yet). This so alarmed France that they dispatched French women to New France posthaste, but it still didn't do much to stabilize the colony. Men still overwhelmingly outnumbered women, and they still worked closely with Native Americans and often married "after the fashion of the country." Honestly I think New France has a lot more interesting to offer than 20th century Canada does. So yes, I would say Voyageurs and Coureurs de Bois are distinctly Canadian; you certainly didn't have them in France. Even in post-British Canada you see their legacy in the likes of McKenzie.
