Your Exploration pick seems like it will depend as much on your starting position as leader and Antiquity civ.
If you unlock both the Abbasids and Majapahit, you will have to weigh whether you have a lot of coast or are more landlocked. Or maybe you have mountains and coast, then you decide between Majapahit and Inca.
Do you have an aggressive neighbor? Maybe pick Normans or Ming for their defenses. Alternately, you could pick Spain to expand quickly if your neighbors are pacifists.
True enough that gameplay/map will dictate the optimal choice(s). I'm a little surprised though that there isn't a civ I've seen yet in exploration that I specifically want to aim for. Maybe the game loop for this era hasn't clicked with me yet.
True enough that gameplay/map will dictate the optimal choice(s). I'm a little surprised though that there isn't a civ I've seen yet in exploration that I specifically want to aim for. Maybe the game loop for this era hasn't clicked with me yet.
I can sympathize. When I first saw the four legacy goals, they didn't really appeal to me much. So, the civ options didn't either until I started figuring out how to use them to achieve the goals.
Culture is a collector set. I like it better than straight up religious victory. But I'd like to see more of these Reliquary Beliefs to decide how I really feel about it.
Science is an adjacency puzzle, similar to Civ 6. I like that.
Economic seems kind of boring. Escort valuable ships, rinse repeat. If no one is fighting you, skip the escort.
Militaristic is the same multi-faceted expansion goal as Antiquity, with an ocean to cross. I like that there are peaceable ways to accomplish it.
How I feel about the civs is more or less determined by how I feel about the objectives. Now that I understand the science objective, I think it appeals to me the most and conversely, the specialist civs. Weirdly, it was the economic objective that I liked best in Antiquity. So, my goal is to find a leader who does those two things well and a pair of civs that go with them.
I can sympathize. When I first saw the four legacy goals, they didn't really appeal to me much. So, the civ options didn't either until I started figuring out how to use them to achieve the goals.
Culture is a collector set. I like it better than straight up religious victory. But I'd like to see more of these Reliquary Beliefs to decide how I really feel about it.
Science is an adjacency puzzle, similar to Civ 6. I like that.
Economic seems kind of boring. Escort valuable ships, rinse repeat. If no one is fighting you, skip the escort.
Militaristic is the same multi-faceted expansion goal as Antiquity, with an ocean to cross. I like that there are peaceable ways to accomplish it.
How I feel about the civs is more or less determined by how I feel about the objectives. Now that I understand the science objective, I think it appeals to me the most and conversely, the specialist civs. Weirdly, it was the economic objective that I liked best in Antiquity. So, my goal is to find a leader who does those two things well and a pair of civs that go with them.
I am thinking cultural will appeal to me the most simply because it sounds like the most varied.
I'm a little worried that the victory conditions for exploration might end up feeling quite repetitive... If so it's a good sign that they already gave us a civ with their own spin on victory in this era...
But for a first game? I'm currently leaning Maya/Trung Trac. I guess we'll see what the map has in store for me.
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