On the addition of Dinosaurs.

[moysturfurmer]

So this time around museums come in two flavors. With & without dinosaurs. As dinosaurs are the variable it stands to reason that their presence signifies some unknown mechanic. Likely you can stick dinosaur bones in Great Work slots. But is that it? Is it as simple as sticking "Dinosaur Bones (1)" into a museum & getting a bonus. Would their be no mechanic for actively searching/trading for a full set of "Brachiosaur Bones (skull, body, tail)." It'd be a sensible way of utilizing a theming bonus mechanic. Would there only be one dinosaur? Could it not be that different continents are home to specific type of dinosaur? One full set per continent? Brachiosaur on Lumeria, Tyranosaur on Atlantis, Triceratops on Detroitium? Would this not be true to life? And what of 1993? Could it be that in the Information Age you can spawn a Michael Crichton Great Writer? & could it be that he can write a Great Work that spawns a Great Scientist BD Wong and Great Actor Richard Attenborough? & could it be that you can burn these two people to discover the technology of dinosaur cloning? & could it be that once researched you can build battle-raptors and triceratops cavalry? Could it be that later on in the tech tree you can discover the technology of "Jurassic Park 5" & use gene splicing to turn your leader and population into half person half tyranosaur? Could it be that that is a reworked diplomacy victory? Do you eat your rivals to win now? Could it be that if you send your Dino-civ to Alpha Centauri a pop-up appears saying "play Civ BE now & when you click it your computer shuts down and the 90s sitcom The Dinosaurs starts playing on your tv and you can't look away and you want to look away but it won't let you look away

 

[dexters]

We had archeology in BNW, I can see it being folder into with Palaeontology or Palaeontology will be its own thing.

One example:
Archaeology > culture path
Palaeontoloy > science path

Alternatively
Artworks and dino bones come from the same unit and just provide different bonuses.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Not only this, but you'll also have Creationism civic which allows you to destroy enemy dinosaur skeletons by claiming them fake. The more skeletons you destroy that way, the more points you get towards building Ark, which lets you win religious victory once the world is flooded by the wrath of God.

 

[Redaxe]

Not only this, but you'll also have Creationism civic which allows you to destroy enemy dinosaur skeletons by claiming them fake. The more skeletons you destroy that way, the more points you get towards building Ark, which lets you win religious victory once the world is flooded by the wrath of God.

This is a joke right?

 

[dexters]

This is a joke right?

Clearly.


I hope so.

 

[Cerilis]

We had archeology in BNW, I can see it being folder into with Palaeontology or Palaeontology will be its own thing.

One example:
Archaeology > culture path
Palaeontoloy > science path

Alternatively
Artworks and dino bones come from the same unit and just provide different bonuses.

I could totally see dino bones given science instead of/additional to culture, [and tourism obviously].

 

[cakes]

the science victory now involves cloning dinosaurs and splicing their dna with that of frogs and putting them in a park. it's also the cultural victory

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The Civ twitter account did just link an article about dinosaurs.

 

[IronfighterXXX]

This is a joke right?

Maybe, but a good one

 

[moysturfurmer]

The Civ twitter account did just link an article about dinosaurs.

Fact: if you take "Fixaris" and move some letters around and add some others and subtract the rest, what do you get?
XCom.
"We will be watching"
Alien civ confirmed, clearly. Probably. Possibly. Doubtful.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

I can't believe you overlooked the biggest change that the addition of dinosaurs is going to bring.

That of course being the most powerful unique unit basic warrior unit in the history of the franchise.

 

[dexters]

Interestingly enough Dinosaurs and Firaxis go a long way back.

Firaxis was working on a Dinosaur game using the Civ3 engine and was developed more or less concurrently with Civ3. It never saw completion.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Interestingly enough Dinosaurs and Firaxis go a long way back.

Firaxis was working on a Dinosaur game using the Civ3 engine and was developed more or less concurrently with Civ3. It never saw completion.

They sure yabba-dabba-doo.

 

[Plus Ultra]

I hope they correctly balance dinosaur types for a TSL map.

Diplodocus is too generic, and we already have too many traditional dinosaurs (Triceratops, Velociraptor, T-Rex, Stegosaurus...)

Argentinosaurus should be in for balance reasons.

 

[Bibor]

If Creationism is in the game, I demand dinosaurs to be starting units. Fits the timeline: 4000 BC.

 

[4N4C0ND4]

Not sure why they took the risk to "include" dinosaurs.
I'm no US citizen, but won't it be a deterrent to some religious people?

 

[Cerilis]

Huh...science victory related to digging up bones and actually researching... I could like that.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Wait, this is speculation right, where did it say there's two types of Museums?

 

[rjg85]

I hope they correctly balance dinosaur types for a TSL map.

Diplodocus is too generic, and we already have too many traditional dinosaurs (Triceratops, Velociraptor, T-Rex, Stegosaurus...)

Argentinosaurus should be in for balance reasons.

Yes, and despite 200 million years of evolution in between you could argue that T-Rex covers all bi-pedal dinosaurs so no need to include those smaller ones that no-one's heard of

 

[Plus Ultra]

Not sure why they took the risk to "include" dinosaurs.
I'm no US citizen, but won't it be a deterrent to some religious people?

Why? From their point of view Dinosaurs were created on Day Six. (Genesis 1:24, 25).

Creationists don't (necessarily) deny the existance of Dinosaurs. They just believe all creatures, living and extinct, were created by God as perfect, complete beings.

Oh, and religious =/= creationist. Plenty of religious people acept evolution as a theory, many as a proven fact.