What's all this about civs with multiple leaders?

[Groucho Marx]

Hang on... I've just thought of something. City lists are determined by the civ rather than the leader, right? So if we see a city list which is very reminiscent of the civ at the time of the announced leader, it means that there is less chance of another leader for the same civ.

To some extent, we already have this, as we know that Xi'an is the first city in the Chinese list, rather than Beijing or Nanjing. A stronger piece of evidence against multiple leaders would be if the Japanese capital was announced as Kamakura (Hojo Tokimune's seat of power) rather than Kyoto or Tokyo.

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Besides I have my reservations if they are willing to go through the trouble of providing new assets for multiple leaders and have enough time for it to be released in October.

 

[Loaf Warden]

Hang on... I've just thought of something. City lists are determined by the civ rather than the leader, right? So if we see a city list which is very reminiscent of the civ at the time of the announced leader, it means that there is less chance of another leader for the same civ.

To some extent, we already have this, as we know that Xi'an is the first city in the Chinese list, rather than Beijing or Nanjing. A stronger piece of evidence against multiple leaders would be if the Japanese capital was announced as Kamakura (Hojo Tokimune's seat of power) rather than Kyoto or Tokyo.

I'm not sure there's any way to know that yet. For all we know, city lists are attached to the leader, so that Qin Shi Huang's capital is Xi'an, but maybe there'll be a DLC with a Ming or Qing emperor later where the capital is Beijing (for example). Or maybe the city list itself is attached to the civ, but the leaders have some kind of coding that specifies which city gets founded first (and therefore becomes the capital) based on which leader appears. We don't even know yet whether multiple leaders will be a thing, let alone what implications that might or might not have for the city lists.

 

[stealth_nsk]

City list could be attached to leader, or, more chances - capital could depend on the leader.