Starting as a Tribe, a gameplay loop preview

Cool my dude

also what are the tribe names used

Sambians
Semigallians
Skalvians (German)
Yotvingians

 

I prefer this kind of Tribal start over starting as Tribal Units who wander around and collect resources/hunt Animals. I also like how the Tribes (and the Barbarian Camp) spawned adjacent to lakes and rivers.

I only have one suggestion: Combat Units that get trained in a Tribal Village could have Extra strength on the same terrain/feature type of their Trival Village. Like a Tribe that is on a desert Tile will train Units that have +x Strength on desert/desert hills.

Did you change something about the Barbarians too?

I hope someday Firaxis will hire you (and let you fee hands to do anything you want). Great Job (as always)!

 

Maybe even the Tiles immediately adjacent to the Village could give some boosts to those Units.

 

Could work aswell. maybe even better, because it would represent the Environment of a Tribe much better (instead of the 1 tile of a tribe that might be i.e. a plain grassland while most surrounding tiles have also rainforest on them. So a +x CS in Rainforest would be more reasonable than a +x on Grassland).

 

Impressive work knowing how Civ6 is difficult to mod such as. Some change in the realm of Civ, at last. It might give ideas to Firaxis ! Maybe an ancient era focused game before Civ7 ?

I don't get why the units starve though. They can die even in a tile of cows. Unless they have a lifespan like heros in NFP ?

I would love if once you have cities you can revert back to camps due to collapse.

 

Have you been looking At the Gates?

 

I'm liking what I see... good work.

It would be cool for the mechanic that allows you to place a satellite village also be applied when placing improvements around a city... could do away with builders, plus have a handy dandy road to the improvement.

As far as I can tell, resources collected by a unit are lost if the unit doesn't manage to transfer them back to a village... I propose a movement distance-limit on units (say 6 tiles from their spawn point) instead of a turn based limit... or the unit becomes passive and is forced to return to base and disbands on arrival... or transfer all resources on the unit to the closest friendly village on disbanding... or is immune to disbanding (or slowed) whilst in supply range of the main village.

Now this is just speculation, but I foresee a potential imbalance of an established civ being able to dominate a village civ by simply having units that don't time out... but that may be part of the incentive to establish a city.

Anyway, I'm just nit-picking. Otherwise this is great, and I look forward to giving it a spin in the future!

 

The amount of detail in this is insane. Good luck with the project, I hope I get to play it.

 

Very cool and interesting. Though it seems quite complex, I like simpler systems more.

Having said that, two questions:What about Archipelago? I believe there should be some way to island hop and get out there. A canoe unit would be suitable, nothing fancy needed, but I feel getting boxed in could be frustrating.

And how‘s the transition to the real game afterwards?

Each city contributed a share of their production to a central pool called „public works“. There was a slider that affected how much of it went there, I‘m not sure right now if that slider was empire-wide or city specific. The latter would be more flavourful, simulating either rural cities sending workers to the capital (for building Ziggurats) or the capital city sending its surplus to build up a endangered border town. Then you just go into a menu, chose the UI (inlcuding roads) and place it where you want.

It was so much better than Civilization‘s Worker/Builder Units. Less clicking.

 

Are you a wizard

 

I had the same Idea. Traits should basically be acquired based on Experience/Environment/Circumstances of a Civ. You can make that via Policies that are locked, and unlock them via lua (there is already a "ExplicitUnlock" Column in the Policies Systeme that's used by a Scenario - That's how I plan to, and probably, do it). So that a Civ could end up with more than just 2 Traits. But AI again... So perhaps Policies aren't a good Methode for that.

 

Boris also did, because a tribe didn’t randomly spawn saying “You know what, we are the Chinese”

 

In fact, if you started playing in 4000 BCE or so as a tribe named the:
Daxi
Majiabang
Yangshao
Hongshan
Dawenkou
How many would know that those are the early archeological groups in, respectively, the Three Gorges area, upper and lower Yellow River basin, northeastern coast, and the Yangtse Delta of China?

Yeah, we need a Pre-City (I'd say Neolithic but Humankind has that locked up for the moment) start in which you Develop your initial Traits, don't get handed to them based on what you Will Become several thousand years later . . .

 

Looks very promising and I hope at sometime we will get to try what you have created. As I'm inexperienced in the mod creation side, is it possible with the current tools to create an AI that can use these new mechanics?