From 2K Greg on 2K Forums: "What would you like to know from the dev team?"

[mitsho]

I'd guess they will tell us a few things about the scenarios shortly before the release... We practically know nothing about the Smokey Skies Scenario f.e. Besides that, they can tell us about the Byzantines and Maya or for example the world wonders... So there's still a few things left.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Whatever happened to the element of surprise? I actually don't want them to tell us a lot, maybe even leave the scenarios a mystery so we can have fun experiencing it ourselves for the first time .

Liz said there ain't any major events in May so I doubt we'd be getting any major news on God and Kings, I think we'll have some on the E3 in early early June.

 

[Thry]

I REALLY want to know this. I play Starcraft at an EPM level of 200+, Master League 1v1, Rank 1 Master on all other leagues.

WILL we be able to hotkey and set rally points for units / cities? This was possible in Civ IV, and made managing an already easily manageable army easy. In Civ V, I will literally THROW away a game because the stress of managing / rally an army with an already broken pathfinding system is too much for me to put up with.

There's so many UI changes that need to be implemented. We had hotkeys in Civ IV to allow a city to produce a unit type indefinitely. In Civ V, there's a cap (I think 5?) of how many units you can queue up at a time.

 

[nokmirt]

I wonder why they don't have the technology to show us a full size screenshot? They show us these little tiny screenies. You might as well wait until you can show them at fullsize. I really don't mind waiting. Just make it a surprise, we only have a few more weeks to wait.

 

[Thry]

Playing Civ5 is too stressful?

I'm honestly confused as to why you play it then...

That has nothing to do with the argument at hand. Mediocrity should never be an acceptable standard for a game to abide by.

 

[theadder]

I wonder why they don't have the technology to show us a full size screenshot? They show us these little tiny screenies. You might as well wait until you can show them at fullsize. I really don't mind waiting. Just make it a surprise, we only have a few more weeks to wait.

I agree with this. There is no excuse for tiny images now. If the magazines want to use small images to keep bandwidth costs down, then Firaxis ought to have the screenshots at their website as they are published.

 

[Sephlock]

I'd like to know if they are going to tweak the netcode to make things more stable, or at the very least make it so that you do not permanently and recurrently desync as soon as something goes wrong- just make it so you can stay in the game client and stay connected, and just transfer whatever data needs to be transferred...

I know they won't, but I pray that they will.

Oh, that, and include a "remove only marsh and fallout" option. "terrain features" includes forests, which I generally don't want removed...

Oh, and a "remove improvements if there is a resource available" (for example, if theres a spot where I have a trading post and then I uncover an oil resource there... although now that I think of it, that could destroy a manufactory or other great person improvement... so there'd need to be a toggle for that too).

And maybe bring back some of the older multiplayer features (can you still map ping and rename individual units, and tag spots for everyone to see?)

Oh and make the AI better without having to resort to cheating.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

I'd like to know if they are going to tweak the netcode to make things more stable, or at the very least make it so that you do not permanently and recurrently desync as soon as something goes wrong- just make it so you can stay in the game client and stay connected, and just transfer whatever data needs to be transferred...

I know they won't, but I pray that they will.

Oh, that, and include a "remove only marsh and fallout" option. "terrain features" includes forests, which I generally don't want removed...

Oh, and a "remove improvements if there is a resource available" (for example, if theres a spot where I have a trading post and then I uncover an oil resource there... although now that I think of it, that could destroy a manufactory or other great person improvement... so there'd need to be a toggle for that too).

And maybe bring back some of the older multiplayer features (can you still map ping and rename individual units, and tag spots for everyone to see?)

Oh and make the AI better without having to resort to cheating.

Great People Improvements automatically work the Strategic Resources, so the ability should simply be "connect resource to trade network"