Your time and biochemical energy is yours to do with as you please... I'm just pointing this out so that I can gloat later.
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Gori the Grey
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But it's not the right voice/dialogue, is it?
In the game it says "Would you like to make a trade agreement with England?" and there's a real long hover on the Eng- of England.
TheMarshmallowBear
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Dully noted.. *writes down* gloat...if...features...were..hinted... SEE YOU SOON! Mwuahaha!Your time and biochemical energy is yours to do with as you please... I'm just pointing this out so that I can gloat later.
Trav'ling Canuck
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What will they highlight in the Civ 6 video?
I expect they'll mention the following:
I doubt they'll mention:
I expect they'll mention the following:
- "unstacking the city" - districts and wonders moved to the map
- one of the following graphics-related innovations:
- Wonder completion animations (I know Civ 4 had a variation of these, but not centered on the map where the wonder is located)
- Day / Night cycle
- separate Civics innovations tree
- Eurekas / Inspirations
- Leader agendas
- Governors
- Time line / Historic Moments
- Emergencies
- National Parks
- Engineering projects (canals, etc.)
- Sean Bean - Baba Yetu and trade-agreement-with-England got highlighted, so why not?
I doubt they'll mention:
- Amenities / Housing - there's been no comment on previous "happiness" mechanics, so will be interesting to see if they highlight Civ 6's approach
- Loyalty - I suspect it's reception was too controversial to highlight
- Builders - not a large enough change from Workers to warrant mentioning for a general audience, I don't expect
- Religious combat, i.e. lightning bolts - I doubt this is what they want people to remember from Civ 6
- Spies / espionage - these existed in previous iterations of the series, although they were given heightened attention in Civ 6
- Leader uniques - they didn't mentioned civilization uniques previously
- multiple leaders for some Civs and multiple Civs for Eleanor - multiple leaders was done before, although combined with leader uniques it had a different impact in Civ 6
- Dark Ages - we're heard nothing about past versions of Golden Ages, so would be surprised to see their reversed-version highlighted
- Climate Change and Natural Disasters - previous mechanics for pollution weren't highlighted, and I'm not sure they'll highlight a negative mechanic anyway
- Power needed for modern cities - another negative, in a way
- Civ-specific artwork for units and buildings - they have more interesting things to reflect on
ombak
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I think they might highlight the song again, Sogno di Volare for Civ 6.
Gori the Grey
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Some larger trendlines so far:
Leaders: they feature choosing the first 15 in 1, fully 3D in 4, speaking their own language in 5.
Maps: they feature isometric in 2 and hex in 5
Cultural Matters: Culture itself and reactive borders in 3, Religion in 4, Great Works and Archeology in 5
Sid himself is featured prominently in 1 and 4 and appears (in a way, as an advisor) in 3.
Leaders: they feature choosing the first 15 in 1, fully 3D in 4, speaking their own language in 5.
Maps: they feature isometric in 2 and hex in 5
Cultural Matters: Culture itself and reactive borders in 3, Religion in 4, Great Works and Archeology in 5
Sid himself is featured prominently in 1 and 4 and appears (in a way, as an advisor) in 3.
Leyrann
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Speaking of, maybe I'm just stupid, but what changed between 1 and 2 aside from the orientation of the squares? Or does 'isometric' mean you're not looking with a pure top-down view, but rather at an angle?
@Leyrann , it's a little obscure if you're not familiar with certain technical specialties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection
Civ1 does look more like a piece of standard graph paper, with only horizontal and vertical lines.
Civ1 does look more like a piece of standard graph paper, with only horizontal and vertical lines.
Lord Lakely
Idea Fountain
This all sets up the introduction of the big new core features when we hit the Civ VII one in two weeks.
And probably the return of a few quirky staples along the way.
Cooleatack
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I'm guessing they will mention the musical progression through the ages, districts, season passes, and game modes
Gori the Grey
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Re: maps, maybe they will have spherical map. Evidently you can do it if you put some number of pentagons in. Just make those impassible tiles (if the AI can't handle the switch-up for movement of units).
Next advance in leaders: you can slot your own face in. I got nothin'.
TheMarshmallowBear
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I feel like the use of spherical map actually screws with the coordinates system more so than anything else.
Gori the Grey
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I myself don't need a spherical map. But if the sequence of videos is focusing on map advances in preparation for a Civ VII map advance (which itself is just a guess, of course), I'd have to think that that map advance would be a spherical map, since some people do claim they would like that.
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Today's Civ V tweet
Trav'ling Canuck
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Only faster pre-railroad. In Civ 1, movement by railroad cost nothing, so units could move as far as the railroad stretched. Sid no doubt knew his (American) Civil War and industrial era war history and knew how the railroad changed army logistics such that the whole country, effectively, was located at the end of the railhead.
Leyrann
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I think they just mean unit movement was changed to 2 default, 4 for ranged, from 1 default, 2 for ranged.
Which, by the way, makes maps feel smaller just like ranged attacks and larger city range (21 to 37 tiles) does. Which is why we need larger maps, rather than still sticking with ~10k tiles maximum.
Which, by the way, makes maps feel smaller just like ranged attacks and larger city range (21 to 37 tiles) does. Which is why we need larger maps, rather than still sticking with ~10k tiles maximum.
Leyrann
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So did they still not publish the Civ 6 video?
Or am I being impatient and is the gap not actually longer than between earlier posts?
Or am I being impatient and is the gap not actually longer than between earlier posts?
Their twitter didn't have one. The gap does seem to be longer: CivV one was uploaded two weeks ago, others were roughly a week apart.
