Alright, I have looked through these and worked with Rob (R8XFT) and some of the other awesome CivFanatics mods and admins here to come up with this list...
I agree. But unfortunately, I don't see each Q&A revealing much at once. I want to blame people for asking unambitious/dull questions (sometimes with obvious answers) such as "Could you advise what the starting advantage is of one of the already revealed factions?", "How many turns will we have at the start of a game of Beyond Earth before other factions arrive? Will they then all arrive at once?" or "Is there multiplayer?". But in the end, it's the devs the ones who actually pick which questions to answer, and they'll generally go for the most mundane to avoid disclosing much in a single opportunity.I don't want to be a malcontent but if the idea of these Q&As is to reveal new information, please don't cut and paste from existing sources. Even if you just rephrase what's already known, we will at least have some new lines to read between.
This way it's a bit frustrating.
I agree. But unfortunately, I don't see each Q&A revealing much at once. I want to blame people for asking unambitious/dull questions (sometimes with obvious answers) such as "Could you advise what the starting advantage is of one of the already revealed factions?", "How many turns will we have at the start of a game of Beyond Earth before other factions arrive? Will they then all arrive at once?" or "Is there multiplayer?". But in the end, it's the devs the ones who actually pick which questions to answer, and they'll generally go for the most mundane to avoid disclosing much in a single opportunity.
They won't reveal all the factions at once, for instance, or all the possible units, or victory conditions. It's part of the hype-building, regrettably. If it's anything like the road to XCOM Enemy Unknown release, there will be 'bursts' of significant reveals every now and then, and thorough stinginess and rehashes of existing information inbetween.
The big disclosure of this particular Q&A is the virtues mechanic. The rest is either known, common sense, or just small things (like the PAC being industrious).
Ok boys I have a question which is simple, doesn't reveal too much but many people are interested in it:
Does Panasian Cooperative include also India (I hope not)? Faction including India + China + SEA is as ignorant as creating faction with USA + Russia + entire Europe but if it is the case we would love to know that
They won't reveal all the factions at once, for instance, or all the possible units, or victory conditions. It's part of the hype-building, regrettably. If it's anything like the road to XCOM Enemy Unknown release, there will be 'bursts' of significant reveals every now and then, and thorough stinginess and rehashes of existing information inbetween.
The big disclosure of this particular Q&A is the virtues mechanic. The rest is either known, common sense, or just small things (like the PAC being industrious).
The PC Gamer UK preview implied aliens spawn from nests/colonies, which get riled when attacked, and become more aggressive with every loss. The concept itself reminds me of native villages in the original Colonization, but there's been no mention of indigenous alien sapience in CivBE, just xeno-animals.Question:
Where does alien lifeform spawn from? Like barbarian camps or are there some kind of alien city-states?