We really need more American civs. Like in previous civs it was disappointing but in a game where you're expected to evolve your culture South American civs are going to be starved for options for a while. Hope we get something like Humankind's region oriented culture packs.
Is Teotihuacan really that unlikely? I don’t expect it in the base game, but I would be really happy to see it someday. And if they’re including the Mississippians, I think that opens the door for the inclusion of some obscure civilizations. I don’t expect things like the Olmecs or the Harappans, but I believe Teotihuacan is much better documented than those two.
I might be biased here, though, since Mesoamerica is a region of a huge particular interest to me. Either way, I hope they give us much more than just the Maya and the Aztec.
Personal guess based on nothing except that it makes sense to me: the first two packs (Crossroads of the World and Right to Rule) will be focused on smoothing out the weirder gaps in the base game, but future packs will probably tend to be regionally themed (like Civ6's already were, interestingly). Expansions will probably have the usual mix of regions--perhaps followed by "smoothing" DLC again.
@sTAPler27 Bad news: I do think that we are getting dual "Spain" leaders at launch with Benito Juarez and Simon Bolivar (and no actual leader for exploration Spain yet), because they provide a necessary skeleton to build out that region. But, good news: I think that we will get a great three-or-four leader civ pack earlier down the line which will give us, quite likely, a full Mayan path with leader, Purepecha and leader, Muisca and leader, and Aztec and leader). Or something quite close to that, I think America will look great. Point being,
@Xandinho , yes I do think Teotihuacan's odds are great.
(I'm also feeling out a Canada + Inuit -> Dene -> Metis path to better represent that region for even more America. It's one of the more difficult ideas because, unlike our likely Polynesian expansion progression, the Metis, Dene and Inuit likely arrived in exactly the opposite order they would want to naturally progress by "level of civilization," but maybe they could be symbolically reflecting on each other (the Inuit are "like" what the Metis would have looked like, or the Metis are "like" what the Inuit could have looked like) more than representing a literal progression. Also, I just can't think of a solid Canadian pathway other than Norse -> Normans, which Cnut is likely already claiming. Norse -> Holy Roman Empire/Franks/Carolingians -> Canada? Kiiiind of? So North America may manage to swing a couple civ leaders up there too.)
@Zaarin I semi-agree. I think Crossroads of the world is going to smooth out expectations of Assyria and Babylon, which won't be in base game because they don't "meld" as well with other civs to form the necessary infrastructure; you can definitely call that a "weird" gap by Civ standards, though. Right to Rule, I am less sure about; I don't really know where it is going to be located (I am pretty sure not "Aztec through Inca" territory, that begs for a bigger expansion on both the Mexican and Colombian paths simultaneously as noted above), but it isn't necessarily Gaul and Goths and HRE related stuff like people think. ACTUALLY, if I were to peg an obvious "gap" in my model that begs for fixing sooner than later, it would in fact be "Spain" since it has no leader. An expansion for that could be Al Andalus/Cordoba -> Spain -> Argentina and Al-Andalus -> Portugal -> Brazil, with Pedro I and San Martin as leaders, although I feel like I need to workshop that prediction better if that's the case because I would probably have expected Spain to progress to "New Spain," with an actual Spanish emperor, but that arrangement only adds 3 new civs. (and no, I don't think cutting Aztec -> Mexico or Inca -> Gran Colombia really works; we already have a Mexican wonder in the game and I don't know why they would release Al Andalus but not Portugal/Brazil in the same pack).
I think America and Southeast Asia are going to be the two regions they will most want to "fill in" first, with maybe Swahili Africa as a third region that just feels like it coheres together "less" than Amina's Songhai (which, although comfortably complimented by a Nubia -> Akan -> Ashanti civ or something Yoruban, stands perfectly fine on its own for now, whereas Swahili Coast is kind of begging for Mutapa -> Zulu and Abyssinia -> Ethiopia). I think especially Latin America needs to come sooner than later, so either I am expecting a "BIG" DLC pack for "building out the Maya, Muisca, Purepecha/Aztec," or otherwise a full expansion to come sooner than later. (which, I was speculating on at least one idea which the Mayans would reflect well: a new "defensive/isolationist/enduring" leader type, which they perfectly encapsulate, along with, coincidentally Vietnam in Southeast Asia and the Zulu on the Swahili Coast).
” based on gut-feeling… I mean, yeah, there was no other possible conclusion. Condolences, though,
