world builder?

[Wolf33]

Will Civ5 feature a world builder akin to the one in Civ4? or is this knowledge not quite known to anyone just yet?

 

[ShaqFu]

Unknown, but I'd wager with certainty that there will be one.

 

[Wolf33]

Awesome, I always had great fun playing around in the world builder!

 

[Ddude97]

I'm pretty sure its confrimed to be out of game, like the civ 3 editor

 

[mjs0]

I thought a standalone (rather than integrated) world builder had been announced for Civ5.
In particular I remember it being said that it will support the import of Civ4 maps.

EDIT: Aha...A source

JS: Something that I personally think is really cool is the stand-alone world builder. This is something we’ve talked a little bit about before, but it’s incredibly powerful.

It has undo and redo. You can import Civ 4 maps into the world builder and convert them into Civ 5 maps, including all the units and cities and stuff on it -- the conversion process will just do that for you automatically.

 

[MisterBarca]

Does "stand-alone" mean we cannot tweak games in-progress? I used to like to add extra barbarians and give the AI civilizations extra military units to promote warfare

 

[Ahriman]

Does "stand-alone" mean we cannot tweak games in-progress? I used to like to add extra barbarians and give the AI civilizations extra military units to promote warfare

Almost certainly you won't be able to do this.
But you can save the game, exit, load the game in the editor, adjust, resave, and then load the new version in the game.

 

[MisterBarca]

Almost certainly you won't be able to do this.
But you can save the game, exit, load the game in the editor, adjust, resave, and then load the new version in the game.

Oh, thanks! So I guess I can still do what I used to do, except it will be a lot more time-consuming

 

[ShaqFu]

Almost certainly you won't be able to do this.
But you can save the game, exit, load the game in the editor, adjust, resave, and then load the new version in the game.

Wasn't one of the tech demos someone filling a huge map with units, then going in-game and watching it not crawl?

 

[Ahriman]

I don't know, I didn't see that.
I am not 100% sure, it is simply what seems most likely.
Its also possible that they were still doing the same thing basically; adding things in an editor window, saving, loading, showing. And not necessarily including the intermediate steps in whatever video they made.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

I don't know, I didn't see that.
I am not 100% sure, it is simply what seems most likely.
Its also possible that they were still doing the same thing basically; adding things in an editor window, saving, loading, showing. And not necessarily including the intermediate steps in whatever video they made.

Does anyone edit a game in progress anyways? I for one almost never did since I considered it cheating.

 

[kiwitt]

I thought a standalone (rather than integrated) world builder had been announced for Civ5.
In particular I remember it being said that it will support the import of Civ4 maps.

EDIT: Aha...A source

I don't think it will support my map ... my cities are right next to each other.

 

[SeismoGraf]

Imo the lets-play-god-button was a bit too accessible in Civ4. Sometimes I just couldn't resist to take a quick look. Later I usually set the "lock modifiable assets" option Civ4 has, to combat that temptation.

 

[Wezqu]

Heres a review where they state that there is a map editor and even little how it works.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationv/news.html?sid=6275474&mode=previews

 

[bestrfcplayer]

I hope they don't have world builder. I think that world builder is just a way for n00bs at civ to be good.

 

[12agnar0k]

Almost certainly you won't be able to do this.
But you can save the game, exit, load the game in the editor, adjust, resave, and then load the new version in the game.

Incorrect,

Their is a stand alone, outside the game, full world builder, with more features than ever before and very easy to use.

But their is also a "tweak" modifier in-game, which allows you to edit certain things from inside the game. Not able to do all the things the world builder can, but I'm sure it will serve its purpose for little bits of cheating.

Both of these have been confirmed, so yes their is an outside world builder, but their is an inside world tweaker too.

 

[GlobularFoody]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...6275474&mode=previews&tag=topslot;title;3

Gamespot did a story about the editor. I'd prefer an ingame WB myself but this looks good too.

 

[Dale]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...6275474&mode=previews&tag=topslot;title;3

Gamespot did a story about the editor. I'd prefer an ingame WB myself but this looks good too.

Don't ya hate it when someone beats you to posting that in this thread by 2 hours?

 

[12agnar0k]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...6275474&mode=previews&tag=topslot;title;3

Gamespot did a story about the editor. I'd prefer an ingame WB myself but this looks good too.

Again, while the world builder itself is not ingame, they did take the few people who liked having it ingame in mind, and provided a little mini-world builder, or world tweaker, inside the game.

 

[kiwitt]

If it is going to be really good, ... a Road to War for Civ V should not take too long.

The Event scripting is what I really want to get a handle on.