[GS] Future Update?

[Disgustipated]

At most, it could suggest a Boston marathon release date, but I doubt it.

There is that possibility. Regardless, this is the most excited I've ever been about the Boston Marathon.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If this is a Expansion (which I doubt; I'm in the DLC camp here) then what if "Runner" is the code name of the expansion of which the cover artwork for it will be of a classical/renaissance running statue?

Just like Vanilla was Atlas, Summer Update was the Thinker, R&F was the Discobolus and GS [annoyingly ruined the theme with the beautiful] Volcano?

Interesting theory. The classical figure most often depicted running as a statue was Mercury/Hermes, god of commerce among other things.

 

[Jkchart]

Interesting theory. The classical figure most often depicted running as a statue was Mercury/Hermes, god of commerce among other things.

OH NO

CONSPIRACY ECONOMIC VICTORY THEORIES ACTIVATE

 

[WillowBrook]

I'm going to circle back to the 10 achievements for a moment.

I just realized STK1 means Stack 1, and is probably a reference to how the data is handled.

But if so, what does that mean? Anything?

 

[Matthias Corvinus]

What if it’s a statue of Ed Beech instead?

 

[WillowBrook]

OH NO

CONSPIRACY ECONOMIC VICTORY THEORIES ACTIVATE

Not to mention reworked trading system

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

But if so, what does that mean? Anything?

Maybe nothing. My wish is still for Corporations.

 

[Jeppetto]

1) So to people who don't want to read through off-topic and want to know whether this topic contains info related to actually new events, you can just look at the amount of new pages. If it's 1 additional it's off-topic. If this thread blows up with 5 new pages - itsa me, Euphorio!

2) My first thought when reading the Runner was also the marathon runner and maybe an expansion focused on diplomacy, olympics and such.

3) My faith cannot be broken, my religion stands supreme - I still insist tis a season of third Expansion rather than small DLC. Holy water cannot help you now, a thousand armies couldn't keep me off!

4) After the initial though of marathon and further elaboration, I also sign myself up to the camp that thinks that the Runner is just simple reference to Ed Beech's run rather than project name of the package.

5) I knew they will reveal something soon because I too should begin new job around start of March so the stars show quite clear signs.

EDIT: Fun stuff, in an attempt to use advanced numerology techniques taught to me through expansive line of ancestors meddling in the supernatural, analysing the ID of the DLCs, I have revealed an absolutely irrelevant yet astonishing fact - the new DLC has one extra digit. *Gasps dramatically*

 

[Wielki Hegemon]

Why you guys think its either expansion or DLC. I think we can expect something completely out of the box.
Just try to get into a Game's Owner shoes and think about that case scenario:

Milestone ONE previous years
I have a hypothesis that my publishing process is outdated or at least not enough efficient. It means vanilla plus two expansions with a 1-year gap between each of them was good in 2005 for PC Game. It can still be good for a classical board game, but we are not one. And obviously we live in 2020 with a multiplatform product in a totally different market context. What do I do? I need research to confirm or to refute my hypothesis. So here we have our survey.

Milestone TWO H2 2019
The research has confirmed my main hypothesis. I was recommended to proceed with further steps and testing. In a certain period of time I need to change my publishing process.

Milestone THREE Nowadays
The sooner I will implement the changes the better. It means I have to change both the game development process and marketing. A lot of learning. The best moment to learn is now when I have a working product Civilization VI and possible experiment costs and loses will not be too harmful. Time for a sandbox. I need to test and learn: a new development process, a new way of design, a new marketing model, consumer's reactions and feedback. Everything to be ready for Civilization VII.

PS. In this context, the runner can be a reference to japan's 'Top Runner' - the most efficient model on the market -> https://www.futurepolicy.org/ecologically-intelligent-design/japans-top-runner-programme/
Is it time for stack one of the 'Top Runner' DLC model test?

 

[The Kingmaker]

I also believe if 2K wanted a war game that could be played on phones and Ipads they should have made Civ Rev 2 and left the Civilization franchise to it's core market.

Just so you know, they did in fact already make a CivRev 2. That is an actual game they released in 2014, two years prior to Civ6.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

maybe the file is called "Runner" because this was the build that actually ran properly?

*poke*

 

[DWilson]

Just so you know, they did in fact already make a CivRev 2. That is an actual game they released in 2014, two years prior to Civ6.

This is the only version available on Android, and it lost support not much after release. It's pretty much a direct port from the 360 original (unlike the graphically simple iOS Civ Rev 1). It has an extra two leaders, I believe, and a weaker AI (it seems to be bugged into relative inactivity and non-aggression).

 

[oakdragon]

This is total speculation, but here's my (provisional) interpretation of Runner: it's a nickname for Ed Beach, and this will be an expansion that has his fingerprints all over it. It will fill out the game like the last Civ V expansion did. Possible features include ideologies, a new Enlightenment era, overhaul of trade system, colonization mechanics, and economic victory.

Plus a new unit, the Chariot of Fire...

 

[oakdragon]

If you're a Rush fan, I'm surprised Marathon didn't spring to mind:

"From first to last
The peak is never passed
But something always fires the light that gets in your eyes

One moment's high
And glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightning that flashes and fades in the summer sky"

Hmmm . . .summer sky . . . maybe an early summer (late June) release

It does, but NWM came to mind first because of the Civ connection with rebels. I don't see one for Marathon.

 

[Neirai]

ngl Olympics mechanics would be sweet. I've tried for years to implement a sports mod.

 

[Matthias Corvinus]

I want newspaper reports that tell me who is doing what and where everyone ranks. I also want my cities to interact with me more and I need more city center improvements

 

[ehecatzin]

One thing that I hope the next update adds is different modern architecture styles for city centers. All of them have the god awful skyscrapers with no cultural variation whatsoever.

Yes! For sure! And also variations of buildings in unique districts; Phonecia, Mali and Zulu get unique buildings in their Cothon, Suguba and Ikanda but the Seowan, Street Carnival/Copacabana and other unique districts do not.

Yes for the love God please, I find it so dissapointing how the focus of civ VI is to "play the map" and yet after the midgame, the map consists of a bunch of patchy districts that look the same, almost identical city centers, etc. My ideal scenario would be for all districts to get some variation like the Suguba does, it would help so much...I mean they are already color coded It's not like we are going to confuse them.

Interesting theory. The classical figure most often depicted running as a statue was Mercury/Hermes, god of commerce among other things.

That's also what I thought about, corporations and economic victory maybe?

 

[Jeppetto]

Speaking of districts looking the same, I was actually little disappointed in Future Era art. They wanted more sober Future, so they went with Singapore to everyone (or was it Seoul that isnpired them?). I'd rather want Future Era to have entire expansion worth of content and for it to actually completely change the game into crazy stuff. With that, visually, the cities should actually look futuristically, like legit some for our age unappealing, odd shapes, plastic looks, flying garden platforms as parks within city and such.

It might not be everyone's cup of coffee and it is highly unrealistic when you realize how prior years and this year were portrayed in Cyberpunk or Back to the Future, showing that technological progress may still be a little more sober than we imagine, but from gameplay uniqueness perspective, it's such wasted potential. The Sea Steads might be the closest thing to what I wanted.

 

[CPWimmer]

I'm going to circle back to the 10 achievements for a moment.

I just realized STK1 means Stack 1, and is probably a reference to how the data is handled.

Is there something specific that makes you think that now?
"STK" = "STacK" was one of the many proposals back when we were first throwing around ideas, but there wasn't anything that made it stand out versus other ideas. And of course "Season TicKet" took off because it fostered the most interesting discussion possibilities.

I feel like there's a possibility that these 10 achievements are for a free scenario while more achievements would be added closer to release for Runner.

That's a good point. The timing of these 2 events, based on what they have historically meant in terms of lead time, actually point to two separate events. The Depot is usually much earlier then the achievements, not the other way around.

Vangelis also did Blade Runner's soundtrack.... So... Maybe there is something to this, even if you're being facetious

Yes, I was being facetious, but I was aware of the connection as well!

...4) After the initial though of marathon and further elaboration, I also sign myself up to the camp that thinks that the Runner is just simple reference to Ed Beech's run rather than project name of the package.

Yes, after Ed's Twitter post, I feel that this is the most likely reference. We know they can change Depot names anytime they want. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual name or timing of the final product that this Depot will contain. And specifically, the Boston Marathon is on a Monday, which is NOT a normal release day for Firaxis. I know we are in uncharted territory here, but it seems unlikely that they will break that particular pattern.

 

[Matthias Corvinus]

Was there a name for gathering storm in the depot before it was announced? I know vesuvius was internal.