From the Screenshots

[Warman17]

I'm using the screenshots from GameSpot to post this information -

Plains provide 1 food, 4 hammers and 1 gold
Fresh water provides +2 health

Spearmen have a strength of 4 and movement of 1

Chariots have a stregth of 4 and movement of 2

Different cities in the same empire can have idfferent religions.

Known city improvements:
Courthouse
Bank
Library
University
Harbor
Jewish Cathedral
Buddhist Temple
Granary

The following is from IGN screenshots

There's a "global" view with what appears to be a rotating globe.

 

[Colonel]

You cant know that for sure plus the "Jewish Cathedral", I would think they would have enough sense to put the name Synagoue-sp sorry

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

Well yeah. It would be easy to have a Jewish Temple (equivalent to the Temple of past games) and Synagogue (equivalent to the Cathedral of past games). Of course, what would be the Islamic equivalent of the Temple, do you think? Also, what would be the Hindu Equivalent of a Cathedral? The Bhuddists would definitely have a Temple and a Monastary-and possibly even a shrine-though one wonders what they will have as their Great Wonder?
Islam will definitely have the Quaballa as a Great Wonder, though The Dome of the Rock qualifies as well. For the Christian Church, you have the Cistine Chapel (or St Peter's Basillica) and the Church of the Holy Sephulcre (though Notre Dame would be good as well). The Hindu's would have the Taj Mahal of course.
Oh, sorry to get off topic, I just get carried away sometimes .

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

 

[Ardeshir Shah]

The Taj Mahal was build by a Muslim (Mughal) ruler.

With regards to the Buddhists, they could have stupas as temples and monasteries as cathedrals. Borobudur (the huge complex in Indonesia) might be their great wonder. Muslims could have both shrines and mosques perhaps. I took a course in Asian art and learned about the development of Hindu temple architecture - there's a big difference between earlier and later temples but I don't know if there are two separate words you could use for them.

 

[AndrewN]

Hmm, I think you are reading too much into the screenshots

Plains provide 1 food, 4 hammers and 1 gold

I think Plains provide 1 food and 2 hammers as usual, the square has been improved with a quarry (+1 hammer?) and a road (+1 gold) and already contained stone (+1 hammer?) giving the totals at the top.

Spearmen have a strength of 4 and movement of 1

Chariots have a stregth of 4 and movement of 2

Thats what the screes says, but we don't know how much experience the usnits have had. Its difficult to say, but 4 seems a bit high for some early units.

Others have already mentioned the buildings, the only thing I note is they are still spelling 'Harbour' wrong

 

[narmox]

The global view doesn't look to me like an actual globe. It looks more like they took the rectangular map, bumped it a bit while not making it a globe, so you can still see the whole map without having to rotate and rotate and rotate.

 

[Theoden]

Thats what the screes says, but we don't know how much experience the usnits have had. Its difficult to say, but 4 seems a bit high for some early units.

Well, the attack factors are all relative. If a spearman has 4 then a swordsman might have 6 or 7, and warriors are probably raised to 2 now. All in all, it depends on what all the other units have, whether 4 is high or low for such early units.

 

[Commander Bello]

Well, the attack factors are all relative. If a spearman has 4 then a swordsman might have 6 or 7, and warriors are probably raised to 2 now. All in all, it depends on what all the other units have, whether 4 is high or low for such early units.

As expressed in the past many times already, I would like to have higher stats for units in general, as this would allow for more graduation between different units.
Furthermore, it would make the balancing easier.

Using the stats of Civ3 as an example, why should a spear being of double the strength as a warrior, while the sword would be 1.5 times stronger than the spear?

Personally, I would advise to start with a basic combat factor (CF) of 10, which would be allocated to the basic military unit, the warrior, then. Based on this, all other values should be distributed (for ground units).
For maritime and airborne units, a similar concept should be applied.

 

[BigBirdZ28]

Well in Islam, there are two types of mosque. They are exactly the same in almost everyway, except that the smaller version does not hold friday prayers.

So you could have:

Temple -> Mosque
Cathedral -> Grand Mosque (arabic:jami3)

but it really is splitting hairs.

 

[Ramalhão]

I don't like to see "xyz Temple" and "xyz Cathedral". It's better to look for a better name and give them accordingly to religion in use. Example: cathedral is used only in Catholicism, so staying as "Cathedral" is ok. Instead of "catholic temple" we could see "church".

The only problem is to find real names who fit in both buildings for all religions, but a research can help a lot. There's also several people in this forum, which could help to give both names, as BigBirdZ28 made:

Temple -> Mosque
Cathedral -> Grand Mosque (arabic:jami3)

but it really is splitting hairs.

I think these names would fit well, because cathedral is only a bigger church - in my point of view, of course.

 

[mitsho]

I need to say it again, these names (Jewish Cathedral) are only placeholders. They are used to quickly implement the feature into the game and then test it. LAter on, probably when the civiliopedia will be done, this is going to be fixed for sure!

mfG mitsho

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Cathedral -> Grand Mosque (arabic:jami3)

I thought "jami3" meant "university". Does it also mean "Grand Mosque"?

 

[oldStatesman]

I need to say it again, these names (Jewish Cathedral) are only placeholders. They are used to quickly implement the feature into the game and then test it. LAter on, probably when the civiliopedia will be done, this is going to be fixed for sure!

mfG mitsho

Do you know something we don't? Hmmm...there has been speculation on possible beta testers lurking the sites....

 

[Alvaro da Luna]

I thought "jami3" meant "university". Does it also mean "Grand Mosque"?

"jami3" does indeed mean mosque, whereas "jami3a" (with a tight "a") is university. Of course "jami3" as university maybe valid depending on the part of the accent used, i'm not too sure.

 

[RoboPig]

Well yeah. It would be easy to have a Jewish Temple (equivalent to the Temple of past games) and Synagogue (equivalent to the Cathedral of past games). Of course, what would be the Islamic equivalent of the Temple, do you think? Also, what would be the Hindu Equivalent of a Cathedral? The Bhuddists would definitely have a Temple and a Monastary-and possibly even a shrine-though one wonders what they will have as their Great Wonder?
Islam will definitely have the Quaballa as a Great Wonder, though The Dome of the Rock qualifies as well. For the Christian Church, you have the Cistine Chapel (or St Peter's Basillica) and the Church of the Holy Sephulcre (though Notre Dame would be good as well). The Hindu's would have the Taj Mahal of course.
Oh, sorry to get off topic, I just get carried away sometimes .

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

The Mughals built the Taj Mahal and they were muslims

 

[Ardeshir Shah]

The Mughals built the Taj Mahal and they were muslims

I already said that =[

 

[mitsho]

Do you know something we don't? Hmmm...there has been speculation on possible beta testers lurking the sites....

I based my quote on logical assumption only. Jewish Cathedral does just make as much sense as a white [insert special name for a black horse]. (sorry, no better oxymoron got in my mind, and this apparently (?) just works in German ).

And no, I'm no beta tester, sorry ) mitsho