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Was anyone else hoping America was going to have more cultural abilities?

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I feel like the buildings for the US are very generic, I mean most industrialized countries have them. And the prospector as the unique military unit, while a part of westward expansion seems uber specific to a handful of gold rushes. I was genuinely expecting the unique civilian unit would be some sort of a great merchant, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, with a variety of abilities that focus on gold but have culture, science or production as secondary yields. Either that or I was hoping the country's media pressence would be used given how widly exported American films, games and music are. I thought we'd see a return of the film studio from Civ 6 because I thought it was such an interesting concept that wasn't expanded enough on. Could've added a "Star/Starlette" unique unit that would comprise famous musicians, directors, actors, designers, etc.
 
I feel like the buildings for the US are very generic, I mean most industrialized countries have them. And the prospector as the unique military unit, while a part of westward expansion seems uber specific to a handful of gold rushes. I was genuinely expecting the unique civilian unit would be some sort of a great merchant, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, with a variety of abilities that focus on gold but have culture, science or production as secondary yields. Either that or I was hoping the country's media pressence would be used given how widly exported American films, games and music are. I thought we'd see a return of the film studio from Civ 6 because I thought it was such an interesting concept that wasn't expanded enough on. Could've added a "Star/Starlette" unique unit that would comprise famous musicians, directors, actors, designers, etc.
Culture doesn’t seem like it features in VII.
 
I feel like the buildings for the US are very generic, I mean most industrialized countries have them. And the prospector as the unique military unit, while a part of westward expansion seems uber specific to a handful of gold rushes. I was genuinely expecting the unique civilian unit would be some sort of a great merchant, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, with a variety of abilities that focus on gold but have culture, science or production as secondary yields. Either that or I was hoping the country's media pressence would be used given how widly exported American films, games and music are. I thought we'd see a return of the film studio from Civ 6 because I thought it was such an interesting concept that wasn't expanded enough on. Could've added a "Star/Starlette" unique unit that would comprise famous musicians, directors, actors, designers, etc.
Most of that is after the Third Age (which is done 50-60)…. and most of its success is a result of the US massive industry smashing everything else in WW 2 and being the world economy for a period of time.
 
Half of American stars are barely even American anyway :p

Could actually be a neat ability that. After a neighboring civ uses their civilian UU, America gain a copy of that Civilian UU. Much better representation of America being able to gather best and brightest the world over, which has long been one of America' great strength
 
Well given that it was shown off in the trailers, that the civic trees requires it, and that theres a victory called the culture victory Id say it's still a feature
Yes, it seems to enable other victory types. The cultural victory relies on archeology and city production.
 
Half of American stars are barely even American anyway :p

Could actually be a neat ability that. After a neighboring civ uses their civilian UU, America gain a copy of that Civilian UU.
You mean that would be more fitting for America then grabbing a resource an running away with it?
 
We had cultural America in Civ6 so I don't mind a switch-up. I also don't mind America being a civ I'm not excited to play. :p

And the prospector as the unique military unit, while a part of westward expansion seems uber specific to a handful of gold rushes.
The name is, yes, but I take it as a broader representative of the frontier settlers who generally drove America's westward expansion (not always legally).
 
More fitting, I don't know, but *equally* fitting, and anninteresting design space, yes.

That said, I'm perhaps for the first time in forever looking forward tomplaying America. This designnis flavorful and very much up my alley.
 
I think the only time I was excited to play as America was with Bullmoose Teddy, whose ability was both flavorful and innovative.
 
With every victory requiring a capstone project, production is even more universal than it already was. A culture-specific focus would've made it harder to go for science, domination, or economic victories. But the expectation is that America should be good at all of them. It's the civ whose focus is probably contested the most among fans in any 4X game they appear in.
 
The name is, yes, but I take it as a broader representative of the frontier settlers who generally drove America's westward expansion (not always legally).
I unfortunately think of the over-the-top villain in Toy Story 2 whenever I see the name of the unit. :crazyeye:

I feel like Abraham Lincoln's inclusion in the Leaders Pass was a hint towards making America more industrious in Civ 7.
 
Half of American stars are barely even American anyway :p

Could actually be a neat ability that. After a neighboring civ uses their civilian UU, America gain a copy of that Civilian UU. Much better representation of America being able to gather best and brightest the world over, which has long been one of America' great strength
I mean there's quite a few foreign born starts but the US is a nation of mostly immigrants. It also reinforce the idea that if you want to make it in showbusiness you're better off moving to the coutnry which I think makes a stronger case for a more culture focussed route
 
You could easily make America a powerhouse in Culture, Economy, Science, Military or even Diplomacy (yes, Diplomacy), but you can't make it a powerhouse in all of them -- it's a game. So you have to choose.
You're 100% right I just don't feel like industry is the countr's defining trait (not saying US industry is bad though)
 
You're 100% right I just don't feel like industry is the countr's defining trait (not saying US industry is bad though)
We could have won WW2 by dropping Jeeps on Berlin and burying the city in iron. We lend-leased over half the weapons used by our allies. Industry was the defining trait of America from the mid-1800s until the 1950s when we started to export our culture via Hollywood.
 
We could have won WW2 by dropping Jeeps on Berlin and burying the city in iron. We lend-leased over half the weapons used by our allies. Industry was the defining trait of America from the mid-1800s until the 1950s when we started to export our culture via Hollywood.
I'm not saying American indsutry isn't good but I feel like that's such a narrow point in time, and its a bit easy to flex industry when you're the only one not having their factories bombed. American culture was quite big then and is even bigger now
 
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