Various suggestions to improve immersion.

[Gen.Washington]

Here are a couple suggestions I have that would improve immersion in game.
I’m not including anything that would be considered a major overhaul, I feel like that horse has been beat well to death.

-More flavorful text dialogue when interacting with the AI, both civs and independent powers.

-AI leaders approaching you during their turn to complement or antagonize the player.
In Civ V it was common for the AI to approach you and it made the leaders feel like actual people with personalities.

-Unique units having different models for each tier.
Feels weird having WW2 American marines fighting early 19th century French imperial guards in 1914 with the same combat strength.
Even slight differences between tiers would make this much less jarring.

-Option to watch combat during the AI’s turn.
AI is essentially forced into quick combat and there’s no option to focus the camera on combat. Makes it super hard to follow wars between AI and see where your troops are being attacked from.

I’ll add more as I think of it.

 

[ehecatzin]

-Unique units having different models for each tier.

It's very odd in comparison with regular units getting visible upgrades for each tier and UU's staying the same, also, to counterbalance your example, it also happens for early units, the Tercio is just so jarring when just 1 turn before we were on the Antiquity age, and now we start exploration I have a gunpowder unit??? They could certainly use some nuance. But I fear they might just decide is too much work, but I hope they at least give modders the ability, because Triiari, into Marius reformed legion, into Imperial legion would look incredible.

-AI leaders approaching you during their turn to complement or antagonize the player.
In Civ V it was common for the AI to approach you and it made the leaders feel like actual people with personalities.

OMG you are right, I had forgotten about it, they would sometimes just approach you like that...maybe they don't do it anymore because they are not addressing us, but the leader we choose? that said, more dialogue and interaction between leaders is needed, there's just too many nods and "hums" during diplomacy.

 

[Ryansinbela]

Yes I need text
How would it be flavored for the independents I haven’t done that yet

 

[Iceberg1er]

True earth map true earth map true earth map. It's completely boring to play random game map. Don't care about it at all. Virtually the only thing I enjoy is an earth map and sim of history and civilization as the name of the game implies. Just doing random building on random world can be done on every other game

There are a zillion options for building strategy games on fantasy lands. Civ WAS the only earth history based one. Now we are Harriet running in fantasy worlds. Not what anybody wants from sid Meier civilization