Multiple improvements in hexagons?

[Raven White]

From this screen shot you can see little squares near the crops
a hint that maybe improvements will not be controlled in hexagon
form or/and there will be multiple improvements options on a
hexagon not just 1 per hexagon?

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/62125...vilization-v-announced-20100218060432980.html

 

[Ahriman]

Highly unlikely. much more likely that this is just a graphical blending; sometimes tile features (forests, hills, improvements) will not take up an entire hex, or will spill over into the next one, to try to give the game a more natural look.

 

[The_J]

Besides that i can't see, what the OP mentions, it might at this stage just be a graphical bug.

 

[Shurdus]

Besides that i can't see, what the OP mentions, it might at this stage just be a graphical bug.

This, and it would change the game quite a bit if they allowed this.

@ the sig: those little gamers would have traded their souls for pokemon cards anyway.

 

[Rusty Edge]

I believe those images have since been described as pre-alpha graphics.

In the Civ IV ( gold edition was it? ) they had an interview in which the designers learned that civ was a tile-based game even moreso than a turn based game. In the design and test stages of IV they were working with enhanced blended graphics, and learned that it wasn't civ if you couldn't tell at a glance whether a tile was fish or foul for combat,movement and improvement purposes.

 

[Toni1]

Might it be that fields will grow over time to eventually encompass the empty squares seen in picture? I mean there are different shape and size fields in different screenshots. Shame there's no city screen yet to show citizens are allocated to various work areas...

Did they drop workers from this version as I don't see any?

 

[Ahriman]

Did they drop workers from this version as I don't see any?

No, there are still workers. One of the screenshots with some interface showed the worker unit.

 

[timtofly]

Did they drop workers from this version as I don't see any?

IGN has this screenshot:

Spoiler :

 

[Tylerryan79]

I also dont see what the op mentions, but from those pictures it just seems that if you build x amount of farms side by side, its blended to look like 1 large farm with the hex lines off. They also greatly resemble farmland viewed from a plane, with all dfferent shades and shapes. I like it.

 

[Schuesseled]

maybe farms expand like cottages do in civ 4, provifing more nad more food the longer thier worked.

 

[Chalks]

As Ahriman says, it's probably just graphical blending of tiles - however, I pray that what we see in these screenshots is just a placeholder texture. It looks pretty ugly in my opinion.