I know it's early, but what Civs do you plan on going for your first game?

[gdr_willter]

I will play a gamble.

The last unrevealed Antiquity Civ will be my first choice in Civ 7.

Persia + Xerxes! Cool enough.

 

[Leyrann]

Persia + Xerses! Cool enough.

I might go with that as well because of the increase settlement limit they both get. I don't like settlement limits so if I can avoid having to interact with them, in particular in my first game, I'd prefer that.

 

[ehecatzin]

yeah...I wanted to try rivers first, but Xerxes just looks so cool.

 

[Zaarin]

I'm starting to lean towards Achaemenid Xerxes + Egypt > Abbasids.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Persia + Xerses! Cool enough.

perfectly matched.
also King Asoke and Mauryans. or Khmers (as an evolutionary path towards Siam)

 

[ehecatzin]

I'm starting to lean towards Achaemenid Xerxes + Egypt > Abbasids.

oh I like that...

 

[Ronaldo_]

I know it's early, but we are Civ fanatics after all. We don't know all the civs, especially exploration and modern era ones, but we can take educated guesses as to what the major ones will be. I see some people in the China thread already saying that will be their first game, so I figured it's time for a thread on this.

This is mostly your choices of what 3 civilizations you want to play first, but feel free to say what leader you'd like as well.

As for mine, tradition dictates I play as America first. I know I'm biased, but I've been doing it this way since Civ 2. Obviously to get there I'll have to go through 2 others first. I'm leaning towards Roman->Norman->America. Though it's tempting to go Greece->Norman->America. My leader will most likely be Ben Franklin.

Anything that leads to Germany. Hopefully Goths are an option at the start.

 

[Disgustipated]

One thing I realize is pretty much impossible in this game is to play every combination of civs and leaders. The completionist inside of me cringes at being unable to do this.

I don't care to do the math on this, I'm sure it's in the thousands if you include leaders, and of course more will be added throughout the course of the game.

 

[Evie]

The math is impossible given how little we know of which leader get what unlock, but at a bare minimum, assuming 20 leaders and only two next age pathways hand excluding Shawnee), you have 400 paths to take. Assuming all civs can unlock all other civs through gameplay unlocks instead, you're looking instead at 20 000 paths, 22 000 with Shawnee.

 

[AriochIV]

If you ignore switching restrictions (if you're playing multiplayer with with an option or mod that disables restrictions), then the number of combinations is 30x31x30x(number of leaders). So more than half a million combinations.

Sorry, I meant 10x11x10x(#leaders). So for 20 leaders that is 22,000, as mentioned above.

 

[Krikkit1]

If you ignore switching restrictions (if you're playing multiplayer with with an option or mod that disables restrictions), then the number of combinations is 30x31x30x(number of leaders). So more than half a million combinations.

I don’t think civs will ever be available not in their age… any mod that does that is such a redesign that it might as well be steampunk ancient gods.

 

[Disgustipated]

I don't believe we are getting 30 leaders at launch. Greece doesn't have a leader for example. Not every civ will have a leader.

 

[AriochIV]

Sorry, I meant 10x11x10x(#leaders). Brain fart there.

I think I've made that same mistake twice now.

 

[The_goggles_do_nothing]

There's also playing each combination on each map type.They mentioned a couple different types in the exploration live stream.

They talked in the first live stream about statistic on who finished the game. I wonder if they could host a "big board" of completed combinations

 

[Bast]

I'm probably going to go something like Isabella with Maya>Inca. New World Queen!

 

[chaosprophet]

I don't believe we are getting 30 leaders at launch. Greece doesn't have a leader for example. Not every civ will have a leader.

Thinking about it, even playing every civ at least once can be hard if you don't force yourself to it (as in ignore how the game will look for you and instead of going to best choice just pick a predetermined path you chose before the game started).

 

[Siptah]

Thinking about it, even playing every civ at least once can be hard if you don't force yourself to it (as in ignore how the game will look for you and instead of going to best choice just pick a predetermined path you chose before the game started).

In Humankind with its 6*10 civs, it took me around 10 games to play all ancient civs. To play all civs, it took more than twice the number, because some are just niche in their abilities. In the end, I sometimes just chose a civ simply to have played it at least once. I expect the same in civ 7.

 

[aieeegrunt]

I’d like to play Germany but apparently they are not in the game

I guess it’s a pretty minor civ that didn’t have much impact on the world right?

 

[AriochIV]

I’d like to play Germany but apparently they are not in the game

I guess it’s a pretty minor civ that didn’t have much impact on the world right?

There's a good chance that there is a Modern Age Germany, but it's not clear what the path would be through the first two Ages to get there.

 

[gdr_willter]

I’d like to play Germany but apparently they are not in the game

I guess it’s a pretty minor civ that didn’t have much impact on the world right?

Or have so much impact - enough to be marketable DLC option that everybody will pay for it.