Firaxis is doing live demo of CivBE tomorrow!!!!!

[DarkestOnion]

I hope they still fix this: the explorer should heal while excavating. if else excavating things under miasma might be quite impossible, which is surely not intended. Or just make the explorer invulnerable to miasma.

I think the solution would be to explore Miasma Excavation Sites after researching technology which upgrades your Explorers to be resistant to Miasma (Harmony Affinity?) Imho, Miasma must be dangerous in the early game instead of becoming only a minor nuisance with Explorer Immunity.

 

[vahouth]

Anyone noticed in the vid that Resilin resource (the white worms) no longer provides science ?

 

[3of5]

That either has either been implemented into the Alien Preserve building (Alien Lifeforms Tech) or may be a bonus that has nor been researched yet by the player.

 

[Deggial]

Maybe in the 26th Century antiquated ideas like Gender Definite Names have been discarded by some of the Factions? This would make an interesting hopeful statement for the Russian based faction wouldn't it?

In fact, he will be a Drag-Queen, as Russia finally did overcome it's homophobia...

 

[COF]

Maybe in the 26th Century antiquated ideas like Gender Definite Names have been discarded by some of the Factions? This would make an interesting hopeful statement for the Russian based faction wouldn't it?

This is really wishful thinking, I doubt Firaxis would go THAT far. Wouldn't make any sense. If it was a female they would have given her a name that is already known today as female.

 

[Osmotic]

Mores is an academic term in Sociology, not an outdated term.

Here is the Wiki on the Term if you are interested

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores

Replacing one specific accurate word with two more vague words is typically a bad idea.

Nice upbraiding but you are barking up the wrong tree. This game is not an academic exercise. We are trying to suggest more appealing titles from the point of view of scifi storytelling. Flavor and immersion is the name of the game, not trying to conform to current academic pedantry.

 

[TheGrumpyBuddha]

Nice upbraiding but you are barking up the wrong tree. This game is not an academic exercise. We are trying to suggest more appealing titles from the point of view of scifi storytelling. Flavor and immersion is the name of the game, not trying to conform to current academic pedantry.

Eh, just because you didn't know the word doesn't mean it's not going to be appealing in general. I am not a sociologist and I know what "social mores" are. It's not "current academic pedantry", some sociologist apparently came up with the word more than 100 years ago.

 

[3of5]

Nice upbraiding but you are barking up the wrong tree. This game is not an academic exercise. We are trying to suggest more appealing titles from the point of view of scifi storytelling. Flavor and immersion is the name of the game, not trying to conform to current academic pedantry.

I don't really follow you on this one. I am a SciFi geek and i do enjoy it when my scifi is scientifically correct. Using the term "mores" (which i understood even though i'm not a sociologist, or a native english speaker fo that matter) is correct and fits the intended use. I'm fine with that, i even think that is a good thing. Why would using correct termini harm flavor and immersion? Or scifi storytelling for that matter? There is a "sci" in "scifi", i gather. Even though one might forget that after decades of Star Wars and Starship Troopers mellowing our standards.

 

[TheGrumpyBuddha]

Why would using correct termini harm flavor and immersion? Or scifi storytelling for that matter? There is a "sci" in "scifi", i gather. Even though one might forget that after decades of Star Wars and Starship Troopers mellowing our standards.

"This is science-fiction! Don't use hard to understand words!"

 

[Teproc]

English is a second language for me and I know what mores mean (partly because it's close to the French word, but still). So I think it's just fine.

Edit : I realize this might sound inflammatory or whatever, that's really not my intention : my point is that when you've never heard a word you always assume noone uses it ever, because your personal experience trumps what other people might say. This is, of course, a mistake, and I don't think it's a concern here because the concept will make the word pretty clear even for someone who hasn't encountered it.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Nice upbraiding but you are barking up the wrong tree. This game is not an academic exercise. We are trying to suggest more appealing titles from the point of view of scifi storytelling. Flavor and immersion is the name of the game, not trying to conform to current academic pedantry.

Even if you were right that it's a word limited to academic pedantry (which I don't agree with), I fail to see how that's immersion breaking or harmful to flavor. Using technical or complex words are a staple of science fiction.

 

[Knut_Are_M]

that game was clearly made for demonstration purposes.
i would have picked a loadout of refugees/machinery/and life form scanner. brazilia has a nice bonus.
then i would go might and tech engineering for combat rovers.
build order would be earth relic, exsplorer, clinic and then build a few rovers to attack aliens for resourses and secureing nice exspansion sites.

combat rovers as brazilia with might tier 1 has 12x1.35= 16,2 strength vs aliens. now that is much better then 13,5 vs aliens that soldiers got.
now you have a unit that can combat aliens and move around much faster for only 20% more hammers.

 

[Mustakrakish]

Maybe in the 26th Century antiquated ideas like Gender Definite Names have been discarded by some of the Factions? This would make an interesting hopeful statement for the Russian based faction wouldn't it?

This is really wishful thinking, I doubt Firaxis would go THAT far. Wouldn't make any sense. If it was a female they would have given her a name that is already known today as female.

This is not "wishful thinking", this is just what? "This would make an interesting hopeful statement for the Russian based faction"... "antiquated ideas like Gender Definite Names"... I'm lost here... How calling a girl "John" or "Arnold" makes for any "hopeful statement"?

There are gender equal names, just as in another languages, I see no point whatsoever for through and through male names being forced upon females or vice versa.

 

[COF]

That is not what I meant, is it possible that it may be the case in the future? Absolutely.

However I simply don't think Firaxis would do that or think of something like that, the first thing you would tak into consideration would be female names and I doubt you would just randomly decide to give a female leader a name that is known today as male out of the blue like that.

 

[JokerJace]

Nice upbraiding but you are barking up the wrong tree. This game is not an academic exercise. We are trying to suggest more appealing titles from the point of view of scifi storytelling. Flavor and immersion is the name of the game, not trying to conform to current academic pedantry.

Using the term "academic" with negative connotations somehow makes you sound very ignorant.

 

[Louis XXIV]

that game was clearly made for demonstration purposes.

Actually, I don't think it was. If it was, it would have been a better map that wasn't both isolated and cumbersome in terrain. I think it should have been a pre-planned map, though. It usually makes for better presentations, but I didn't see anything in that map designed for the presentation.

 

[Eastern Heretic]

Just thought it's amusing that in one thread people complain about bland tech names and in another about obscure virtue names. It really is impossible to satisfy everyone.

 

[GeoModder]

What did you expect? This is the internet!

 

[AriochIV]

If all people can find to complain about is the nomenclature, then you're in pretty good shape.

 

[Acken]

If all people can find to complain about is the nomenclature, then you're in pretty good shape.

There's not many details available to complain about yet though