Too brief to say for sure. Cyrus in Civ6 was speaking very bad Middle Persian (poorly spoken and poorly written), and I'm tempted to say Xerxes sounds similar (possibly even the same VA). It doesn't sound like proper Old Persian or Middle Persian to me--notably the presence of the phoneme /v/, which is not in either language.
When exactly did Aniline Dyes (which were more durable, and more determinant that made rare 'elite' colors common) were first used and effectively replaced OG dyes like Akane Madder for Red, Indigo for Blue, And Murex Snails for a very expensive Tyrean Purple)?
"Silk Roads" would go much better as a mechanic or device with Civs like the Sogdians or Kushans who were the major workers of the route and the major 'Middle Men' civilization between China, Persia and Rome, respectively.
The VA for Cyrus (and Nader Shah) sounded more nasal than this. Xerxes sounds deep and commanding here.
At the late stage of Age II, Portugal finally found a sea route to Asia and effectively ended Silk Road for several centuries, and made Merchant Navy a serious affairs.
'Aniline' was first isolated by a German chemist in 1826. In 1834 another German discovered a coal tar derivative that produced a bright blue color which he called cyanol, but the first commercial aniline dye was produced in 1856 by William Perkin, who discovered mauveine, an aniline compound that produced the color 'mauve'. Perkins is usually given the credit for aniline dyes, although he was simply the first commercially successful product, because at the same time the German chemical industry discovered way to produce aniline compounds by the ton and started a massive artificial dye industry.
And this replaced prized Tyrean Purple?
Perkin's original mauveine was also known as Aniline Purple, and could produce various hues from the gray-purple Mauve to a bright purple. Today there are about 12 different versions of mauveine used as commercial dyes, so it's a pretty versatile chemical for the dye industry.
ppl on reddit seem to be freaking out cuz it isn’t old or middle persian or aramaic.
And Tyrean Purple originally made of tons of Tyrean murex snails. did it really made extinct that species of snails? and is this 'traditional productions of Tyrean Purple Dyes' now banned today?
I'm hoping that as well. Still, like in all earlier titles, war will most probable be about sieges so unless we see civ abilities tied to that I remain sceptical about all those boni that Xerxes gets about conquering cities. First he has to be able to do it to get any reward. It may be easier in antiquity without many walls. At least Augustus gets boni for towns whether he founded them or conquered.
That's quite complicated topic as it blurs the line between domination and diplomatic victory. Potential solution could be "vassals" instead of "allies", so those allied civ need to accept your lead as dominant military force. Not sure if such system is worth implementing and how well it fits the current diplomacy.
Potentially new diplomacy could provide both mechanics to make resolutions working (with the new diplomatic currency) and useful (with things like embargo). But I'd be really cautious, because yes, previous implementations of world congress were awful and I'd not add without being absolutely sure of its value.
There isn’t a diplomatic legacy path
From gameplay perspective the biggest problem is what the game needs to have only 1 winner, not the winners club. So, it needs some additional mechanics to determine who's the USA of this UN.
Probably something like you can use Influence to buy the votes of your allies (and they can use influence to buy your vote)…your vassals always vote for you.
1. Using influence to buy votes is the mechanic, which is really hard to make multiplayer-compatible. And what I've seen so far in diplomacy should work in MP the same way as in SP (although I don't play MP myself, I believe this approach enrichens SP play too, so this has my support).
as to 1 how is that not multiplayer compatible?
You've replied to the list important point of the 3, but ok.
It would only work on your allies so as a counter (to make sure that you only vote for yourself and not yourself + an ally possible leading to their win)
