Where did this screenshot came from? It's not only about tiles. Scout doesn't have a dog and probably there are other things too.
Is it me more do the vegetated tiles look less sparse too?
Civ Discord is running a Feedback session on Auto-Exploration and what we'd want (it's quite enlightening), they set it up with few screenshots to give it so some flavour, the screenshot came from there.
It's part of old fans expectations, since auto scouting was in previous games. Together with larger maps, Firaxis tries to close "the game even doesn't have X" type of complains.
Well, they do it as well. "Repair all" is coming in several days and I hope for some hotkeys in the UI improvements too.
On that and various different missing feature topics I'm wondering if anyone tried to dig through various settings files game creates? My development experience tells me that something first is hardcoded in source code, then it goes into configuration file to be able to change it without the need to rebuild project every time, and then eventually configuration file is modified through in-game settings implemented in UI. Might be that they are at step 2 for some of requested features. I recall that close after release of civ 6 I was able to disable one setting I didn't like not available in-game by finding it in *.ini file (it might have been unit auto-cycle but not sure at this point). I would check it myself, but I don't own the game, but I assume there is enough technical people on this forum to dig this sort of things out. Maybe folllowing this assumption there is nothing like that because it would be already dug up, but worth checking?
Auto explore is standard and should have come on day one. The same with quick move. These are standard quality of life features that are essentially industry standard in 2025.
That's why Firaxis gives those features high priority now. But first priority features were the ones to make game playable. Things like auto-explore are expected by fans, but are not strictly required to play and enjoy the game.
Lots of people would disagree with you here. Auto explore is not for me, but it is silly to pretend it’s not a core feature for a great number of players.
It's depends on the definition of "core". In MoSCoW prioritization it clearly comes as "should", but not "must" - players are upset without it, but you could still play.
Playability as the bar for success? The bar is on the floor.
It's not about bar of success. All I was talking are priorities.
Ok, I’m dropping it as we are getting off subject—I just don’t know if it is necessary or wise to defend every decision made by Firaxis when they decided to release the game when it was (almost objectively) not ready for release. Sometimes it’s best to say—“hey, this should have been in there day one.” And then leave it at that.
Agreed, I'd rather they didn't spend one minute on this!
