[NFP] New Frontier Pass Screenshot Analysis Thread

[AriochIV]

And which are they applying in the game?

I don't know, but I can't say I'm on the edge of my seat to find out.

Ironically, I just noticed that the icon for food has been Corn all this time.

 

[leandrombraz]

I just noticed something very interesting in the Maya reveal video.

There is no faith menu in the top left, even as late as turn 62!

There is a new 'competition' called "Appease the Gods" at one point, and at some point after that competition is complete the faith menu is visible again. There's no way to say if the two are related, but what if choosing pantheons/creating religions has been revamped and now works differently?

It might be part of the Apocalypse game mode. At some point, you need to appease the gods or surfer the consequences.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I don't know, but I can't say I'm on the edge of my seat to find out.

Ironically, I just noticed that the icon for food has been Corn all this time.

How much corn could a corn farm farm if a corn farm could farm corn?

 

[DWilson]

How much corn could a corn farm corn if a corn farm could farm corn?

Why did you post a message just saying "Nebraska"?

 

[DeutschDachs]

Just you wait to learn they'll call it "American Farm-Improvable"

Thanks Monsanto

 

[Jeppetto]

Somebody asked what about Maya and Aqueduct. Assuming the showcase showed gameplay from someone who actually knew how it works, there's hella ton of Aqueducts at 1:20. However they are Moutains-sourced. Either the other cities would feel like wasting good Farm, or they can get bonus Housing from Aquaducted non-Rivers or something.

 

[Kadu]

Is this a dev thing that the whole world is revealed in this video? Or may it be part of some new game mode settings?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Is this a dev thing that the whole world is revealed in this video? Or may it be part of some new game mode settings?

It's a dev thing.

 

[Jeppetto]

You can have it too If you allow debug console and type reveal all

Yo Eagle, there's part of video where the cursor flies over the American Farm-Improvable and tooltip appears at resolution lower than Netherlands. If you have actual eagle eyes here you go, the most res tooltip of it I could get
It doesn't look like that, bete there IS the tooltip

 

[AriochIV]

Somebody asked what about Maya and Aqueduct. Assuming the showcase showed gameplay from someone who actually knew how it works, there's hella ton of Aqueducts at 1:20. However they are Moutains-sourced. Either the other cities would feel like wasting good Farm, or they can get bonus Housing from Aquaducted non-Rivers or something.

Mayan cities don't get a Housing bonus from adjacency to fresh water, so getting the bonus from Aqueducts could be a big deal. Especially if you get the larger bonus for not being near fresh water.

 

[Vandlys]

Somebody asked what about Maya and Aqueduct. Assuming the showcase showed gameplay from someone who actually knew how it works, there's hella ton of Aqueducts at 1:20. However they are Moutains-sourced. Either the other cities would feel like wasting good Farm, or they can get bonus Housing from Aquaducted non-Rivers or something.

The video said they can't get housing from fresh water and coastal tiles. Those are different bonus than you would get from Aquaducts. I take from this that building an aquaduct, both by a river or by a mountain, would give you the normal housing you would get from an aquaduct in that case, just like with any other Civ.

@AriochIV You ninja you...

 

[VermelhoRed]

How about rubber trees.

I think they're an extremely important resource that was not implemented yet because it doesn't mesh well with the current systems. Rubber would be a strategic resource first, I believe, and most strategic resources just spawn from any tile. Rubber has to spawn on a rainforest tile first, which would make its implementation difficult. I THINK. Take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Why did you post a message just saying "Nebraska"?

Actually, I believe the song lyric goes:

"As corny as Kansas in August . . ."

Nebraska is only for corn husking, not corn growing: the one time I was in the state all I saw were wheat fields . . .

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Actually, I believe the song lyric goes:

"As corny as Kansas in August . . ."

Nebraska is only for corn husking, not corn growing: the one time I was in the state all I saw were wheat fields . . .

The east half of the state is corn, the west half of the state are the critters they feed the corn to.

 

[AsH2]

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Create a deep enough pool of honey and maybe the meteorite will just sink into it.

Quaker + honey + meteorite = cereal killer mode

 

[DWilson]

Actually, I believe the song lyric goes:

"As corny as Kansas in August . . ."

Nebraska is only for corn husking, not corn growing: the one time I was in the state all I saw were wheat fields . . .

Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa all argue about who really identifies with corn, has the best corn, etc.

 

[AsH2]

One thing i'm curious about. If meteorite showers add iron. Are they going to reduce the amount of iron that spawns naturally? Or are we just going to have much more iron on the map going forward

I think if they give a one time yield of iron (maybe randomly between 20 and 40 or something) then it can still be fairly done. This way a normal supply is needed, but others can still access iron units as desired.

Ahhh i didn't even consider they could by limited iron supplies that run out. Would be a really cool mechanic if that's the case

I think that's to ensure playing England will mean getting struck by disasters.
@Victoria may explain this further..

 

[Myomoto]

I think they're an extremely important resource that was not implemented yet because it doesn't mesh well with the current systems. Rubber would be a strategic resource first, I believe, and most strategic resources just spawn from any tile. Rubber has to spawn on a rainforest tile first, which would make its implementation difficult. I THINK. Take it with a grain of salt.

It's not going to happen, but I would really love if strategic resources were more tied to biome, and thus creating a bigger emphasis on trade or colonies if wanted to maintain a state of the art military.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa all argue about who really identifies with corn, has the best corn, etc.

Well Nebraska is the "Cornhusker" state if we want to end that discussion...not that I care which one really identifies with corn to begin with.

 

[AsH2]

To quote Charles Mann:
"Any history of Europe in the 16th - 18th centuries that doesn't mention the potato is not worth reading."

Specifically, it wasn't just Ireland, but everybody in northern Europe planted potatoes, and the increase in caloric harvest from marginal soils was dramatic everywhere: Scandinavia and Prussia specifically, saw something of a Population Boom from better nutrition, and you could make a case that it was one of the factors that allowed Sweden to play Great Power under Gustafus Adolphus and Charles XII in the 17th - early 18th century ..)
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I think we got potatoes to Sweden thanks to returning soldiers from the Thirty Years' War. Then Charles XII is credited for putting cabbage rolls (dolma) on our plates; But what really made potatoes popular up here was Eva Ekeblad 's discoveries of how to make flour and alcohol out of them..

Spoiler Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences :

..and then Eva Ekeblad became the first woman elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.