That's how I interpreted that--something cosmetic to do with your "profile customization" that they keep referring to.
Isn't this how Civ Revolution actually handled things?
As I said, I hope they don't create a similar issue with Civ 7. I see a potential for it if you have two similar Civs which can branch the same way. If that happens then it could create an issue of who gets it first going into the next era. We wont know until we see the later eras.
In that situation, it would make sense if the first to pick was the empire who did best in the previous Age, the empire with the most "points" or whatever they're using to measure the victory paths (I can't recall if we've been told). That would be the most sensible way, imo.
Yes, true enough! Although there has to be plenty of reason/incentive to do well in an Age, I guess. And we must not forget those "dark possibilities", or whatever Ed said.
I think they said as much, but I wouldn't imagine a "disallow duplicates" toggle will be added sooner or later. They also released Civ6 without one.
Stellaris, one of the most popular and commercially sucessful strategy games of the past decade, is filled to the brim with narrative events and storylines where you often don't know the outcome of your choices until you try, and the outcomes can be as bad as losing entire planets (equivalent to cities in Civ).
I stand corrected. Forgot that about Stellaris. I did see the outcomes on hover in the B roll footage though, so it seems like Civ will have the choices clear.
Hopefully, the event system will be implemented better in VII than IV's. IV's event system was highly unpopular, but at least it was optional. IV had some "narrative" events as described, but also a lot of negative events that were immediate. I rarely ever played with events on unless forced to like in a GOTM (which very rarely had them on anyway) or some shared game. Not saying that can't be good though in VII.
As others have said, being a game that can be played multiplayer don't really limit what you can do with that, as it can be easy to have a setting when starting a mp game that don't allow those bonuses to be used or a parity.
From what we see, there aren't wonders that are unique for a civilization, but instead that are much easier to be done by that civilization, like here on Egypt the Pyramids can be unlocked by their unique civics tree, but likely also by a normal tech/civic others can also get. But this make it so Egypt can generally have it available earlier than others civilizations so they are more likely to build it first. There may also be a bonus to production or some other things that makes it easier for a civ do end up building their associated wonder.
