Small Observations General Thread (things not worth separate threads)

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Good find. The outfit is bit ornate and blue for my tastes, so I may stick with his Oblique persona for now. Though I am interested to see this one's abilities.

This is obviously the French inspired Cultural/Diplomatic Baroque Frederick.
At least that's my guess.

 

[thecrazyscot]

A small observation :
8 days to go

A vast gulf of time, a near-infinite void.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

A vast gulf of time, a near-infinite void.

The modern example of Einstein's Relativity Principle:

Time creeps at a petty pace from day to day while you are waiting for release.

After release, there aren't enough hours or minutes in the day to play all you want to . . .

 

[SammyKhalifa]

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

--Douglas Adams

 

[AriochIV]

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Kamakura in Exploration

Kamakura (the capital of the first Shogunate) is Scientific???!??!

 

[Krikkit1]

Kamakura (the capital of the first Shogunate) is Scientific???!??!

That might be random

 

[ggmoyang]

It looks like the yield from city center building(Palace in the capital, City Hall in other settlements) scales with the age.

 

[Krikkit1]

Yield from city center tile increases with the age.

Are we sure that is the city center tile and not a lot of the other effects? (ie its believable , but there are lots of effects on those tiles... Leaders/Civs/buildings)

 

[ggmoyang]

Are we sure that is the city center tile and not a lot of the other effects? (ie its believable , but there are lots of effects on those tiles... Leaders/Civs/buildings)

Of course I can't be too sure about this since I can't play the game. But I'm pretty sure the Palace gives 5 of food, production and happiness, and city hall gives 3 of them.
And those yields being doubled or tripled with age progression sounds plausible as there are many 'per age' effects.

Other yields like science and culture could be from a different source like traditions or specialists though. I do suspect the 3.5 science and culture in Qaraqorum comes from a specialist.

 

[Krikkit1]

makes sense

 

[ggmoyang]

That might be random

I think it's predetermined.
Cartage is scientific and Gungnae, Meroe and Nukuleka are Economic in different videos:

(Cartage: 46:39)

(Nukuleka: 23:30, Gungnae: 32:24)

(Gungnae: 25:13, Cartage: 27:14)

(Meroe: 12:10, Nukuleka: 18:27)

(Meroe: 14:01)

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I've noticed IPs retain the same type game to game as well.

 

[Hawke9]

Great news!! The minimap has been fixed!!!

As seen in a recent Post by vanBradley on reddit

 

[Black Gate]

I have, in the past, mentioned that I'm 16h ahead of Firaxis' timezone, and that Steam says the game releases on February 12. This means that it'll be out no earlier than 8am US EST on the 11th - this hasn't changed.

What I've noticed recently is that advanced access is still listed as February 6 for me. Unless this is a mistake on Firaxis or Steam's end, that suggests it'll start (in US EST) in the early morning.

 

[CivKirk64]

The modern example of Einstein's Relativity Principle:

Time creeps at a petty pace from day to day while you are waiting for release.

After release, there aren't enough hours or minutes in the day to play all you want to . . .

I thought this was a quote about the release of death.
I was comforted to think that maybe when I'm gone I just have infinite time to play civ, and I don't need a mouse or eyes to do it... its just dream state civ. ahhh. If only.

 

[Giskler]

Closer look at the Oblique version of Freddy.

 

[Giskler]

Yields screen.

 

[Archanist]

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Yields screen.

Wish the resource type was frozen at the top so it's easier to check what each city is giving

 

[pokiehl]

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Yields screen.

I think the UI gets a lot of unnecessary bandwagon flak, but man, even I have to admit that way “Empire” collides into the “Collapse All” box up at the top there is making me cringe!

 

[stealth_nsk]

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Yields screen.

Gold, Food and Happiness per city doesn't equal the sum of its sources. Others could potentially have some hidden factors too, just not on this screen. Looks quite awful, actually.