[NFP] Maya First Look

[Uberfrog]

The Maya, at last!

It’s funny we managed to work out/guess the leader, unit and district... but got all the details wrong. No city-state bonus, no jungle unit...

Still this looks interesting, and powerful like Korea’s bonus...

Her unique ability is named wrong though. Lady Six Sky is Ix Wak Chanil Ajaw. Ix (Lady) Mutal Ajaw (Ruler) is a completely different Mayan queen!

 

[Siptah]

at 1:30 there appears to be a new scored competition - "Appease the Gods"

Might be related to the new apocalypse game mode.

 

[Vilvatiktan]

LADY SIX SKY PORTRAYAL

Headpiece: Good enough but could be better.
Dress: She should never wear this to Met Gala.
Spear: YAAAAAASSSSS POKE THEM WITH THE POINTY END SIS!

CIV COLOUR: City names are readable, but nothing really memorable.
CIV LOGO: Civ5 logo is better imho.

 

[Jkchart]

This civ fits a lot of how i like to play so I really look forward to trying her out

 

[Sostratus]

I think the LUA seems worse than it is. +10% is pretty mediocre but you get extra combat strength too, so you can fight off early rushes.
That Hul'che archer is gonna SHRED.
Also Anyone who rolls a decent plantation resource start is gonna have absurd science.

That, and people are really sleeping on FARM GOLD. We are talking about money, straight from the freaking ground.

corn confimed

As someone who owns a corn farm this is divine justice for the one true food

 

[Loderingo]

Interesting design. Likely to be one of the most heavily map dependent civs if you don’t reroll. I wonder if she has a start bias?

 

[Datgingah]

I don't recognize this resource, did it exist before?

 

[Kimiimaro]

Maya palace, if anyone's interested.

 

[bite]

I have updated the Features Thread will all the new info on The Maya

 

[kryat]

Quick math says the -15% malus is equivalent to taking a +6 campus down to a +5. I assume that it affects all buildings yields too, so a +24 becomes a +20. That’s rough. Stay close to home.

 

[bite]

I don't recognize this resource, did it exist before?

BEES

 

[Casworon]

The Archer unit didn't have the renown and the lifetime like we saw in the other screenshot.

Which makes what that was showing even more confusing

 

[Wielki Hegemon]

I love it! Great Civ for my playstyle. A lot of city planning makes it great.
But will struggle in the archipelago, small islands map.

 

[TeddyMain]

I just realized something. Notice her idle animations when the video talks about her leader abilities. Is it just me or does she have the same idle animations as Amanitore?

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

I think the LUA seems worse than it is. +10% is pretty mediocre but you get extra combat strength too, so you can fight off early rushes.
That Hul'che archer is gonna SHRED.
Also Anyone who rolls a decent plantation resource start is gonna have absurd science.

Agree the LUA look like a penalty rather than a bonus, Obviously the unique district and unique unit look good but the need of builders and farms, -15% penalty for the majority of your cities to get +10% to a few of your cities and +5 combat strength rush protection is just a bad trade.

In fact I suspect they have buffed the tall playstyle given how this civ is designed for just that style of play.

 

[Siptah]

The Archer unit didn't have the renown and the lifetime like we saw in the other screenshot.

Which makes what that was showing even more confusing

Maybe
a) First Look video might be done with an older version of the game
b) renown & lifetime belong to a game mode and not to the standard rule set

 

[bbbt]

Might be related to the new apocalypse game mode.

Sounds like it to me. Appease or get disaster rained down.

 

[Wielki Hegemon]

I'm loving how Lady Six Sky turned out!
And no 2012 Apocalypse related bonuses makes me glad! I was worried the Firaxis design team was watching too much 2012 and Apocalypto.

Finally, Pacal gets to rest after two consecutive games.

Yeap. I am happy with this too. She looks great.

 

[BenitoChavez]

No mountain adjacency bonus for the observatory, instead of the plantation and plantation adjacency bonus.

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What is a "pamukkale" tile?

 

[Casworon]

at 1:30 there appears to be a new scored competition - "Appease the Gods"

Either it's to do with the Apocalypse mode, or this confirms that the free patches are going to be adding more content than simple number changes. Very exciting