Whilst I'm not sure that I'd go with enabling a city to become coastal in that way -after all, Rome/Athens don't need Ostia/Pireius because of the scale of the tiles- but I was thinking of coastal forts the other day with regard to blockaded tiles and passing ships. In Colonization I, forts+fortresses fire on privateers/enemy vessals automatically when in range which I always liked as a mechanism.
That’s the most succinct critique of 6 I’ve ever heard. I did not like direction they took 5 in, so I’ve never touched 6 (except to listen to the leader musics, which are admittedly good).
Yeah same. Only wish the dev would hurry with those updates
For me, DoC, SoI/SoIX/SoIR, and RFCE are maybe 75% of my Civ playing, RFCCW is 10-15% (there's a lot I like about it, but I really don't like the way srpt vastly reduced tile yields), and V and III are the other 10-15%. III is mostly nostalgia, but there are still a lot of things I loved about it (changing leader outfits, the Conquests scenarios). With V, it's mostly the scenarios, especially Paradise Found (nostalgia plus I find it calming) and the Civil War one (which makes great use of 1UPT and tactics. The Confederacy in that scenario is probably the most interesting military game I've ever played in Civ. The Union there is fun, too, and I even conquered all the Confederate cities once, but the Confederacy is more of a tactical challenge)
There's a lot I liked about V. I think hexes work better than squares, I thought it was the prettiest Civ title (although Blue Marble in 4 is nice, too), and I loved the animated leaderheads. Civ IV, especially with RFC mods, has better gameplay, though.
Hot Take: Hexes in 4X games are horrible and the fact that they are now the standard ruins so many otherwise decent games. Yes, I would love to have an Earth map where it's literally impossible for a tile to be due north of another, I would love it if RFC used a tiling system that made the Earth look like it was scribbled by a toddler
It took me several games to get on board with Humankind’s design vision, and even still, I have a few big complaints (fixable through patches) about the game. However, it has enough interesting mechanics that kept me coming back for more, and I found the best way to enjoy Humankind was to treat each era as it’s own individual “mini-game”, as so much can change through the course of a single game.
The worst thing is that 1UPT fixes a problem that never even existed in the first place! It's the equivalent of banning button mashing in a fighting game. Of course you'll lose to spam when you refuse to counter what is being spammed.
This is probably my #1 problem with Civs V and VI, and why I stopped playing them entirely in favor of IV. It's like I'm playing a board game, but in a bad way.
Can you upload a save of that situation?
You mean like keep track of which direction a ship came into a city from and only let it move out of the city in that direction? If so, does that mean a newly built ship can move out of a city in any direction? Forts seem simple enough, just prevent ships from entering them, but cities seem a lot more of a headache.
I don't really care for the interface or icons, but I love the terrain and leaderheads.
Hexes are better, IMHO, because I didn't like how with squares, diagonal zig-zagging and a straight line both took the same number of movement points. Hexes fixed that problem.
If I were designing a civ game, I would probably do something like 3 combat units per tile, 4 in cities or on forts. That's a happy medium between 1UPT and stacks of doom.
