Sid Meier's Civilization Series (Main Titles)

Oh, Harbors. How you will make those heretofore disgustingly worthless water tiles better after this patch. I am in love.

As an aside, I tried the Poland scenario on Prince difficulty and got really badly stomped. I was finally getting to the point where I could reliably hold off the barbarian invaders, but then they went and sacked Vienna, which I was totally unable to prevent, having started in the north center of the map. Kind of crappy balance if you ask me.

barbarian horseriders are the stuff of nightmares for me

So, uh. I purchased the Deluxe Edition way back when, but never actually downloaded the game until today (I got a shiny new computer capable of running it). From what I understand, the Deluxe Edition is supposed to give you the Aztecs, plus the current four paid DLC packs, yes?

Because I have the Aztecs, but the other four are not in my Steam library and nothing I do fixes that.

Try actually running the game and see if they're in the leader list. Because I brought the pass and the new Civs have come through fine.

Or at least Curtin and Australia have. Don't care about the others

Hey, does anyone know when the new Civ 5 Battle Royale starts and when the old one will continue?

The Deluxe Edition is getting more content. Two DLC packs, three leaders from Africa and SE Asia, and associated scenarios.

Three civs total or three civs each?

Three leaders total. Don't know if it's three new civs, or if one of them will be an alternate leader for a country we already have, like a Kongolese leader who can actually pursue a religious victory.

Ordinarily, I would prefer all new civs to new leaders for old civs, but I can definitely get behind the alternate Kongo leader idea.

How come there's no separate page (or basically almost no reference altogether) to Cavemen 2 Cosmon?
Seriously, that's basically THE ONE TRUE mod for Civ 4.

It's a mod I've never heard of for a game that's ten years old, and having googled it it seems to have no story (meaning it's not very tropable), so why would we have a page for it?

A tip for anyone trying to get You're the Demonstrably Greatest: you don't actually have to play the scenario on Deity; you just have to complete it within Deity's time limit. Taking the whole map and scoring at least 200 points in 37 turns is still pretty damn challenging regardless of difficulty level, but at least you can make the combat a bit easier.

For African leaders, I hope they put in Nzinga as the leader of Angola and Menelik II for Ethiopia.

Which leaders do you think are likely to turn up in future DLC?

Vikings in Space!

All hail the Crab God.

Quick question. Have been replaying some Civ V, and was doing some stuff more for the lulz (and trying to get Nobunaga-sempai to recognise me ).

Let me set the scenario. I'm two or three tech levels ahead (maybe even more) of the owner of a given city and it both cases I've done this they were rather underdeveloped for the owner's tech base. So I put my conquering hat on and take some cities from the AI. At this point I have gold to burn so I just go on a spending spree and bring one or more of the cities up to my tech level. And then I sell the cities.

So the question I have then is, from the perspective of the AI (or another human player if it was a multi-player match), what happens then? Do they get the production, gold and science bonuses from the building I built/purchased even if they don't have the tech for them? Do they get locked but become useable once the tech is researched? Or did I just throw away a lot of gold when I sold the cities.

I think they get the bonuses from the buildings you built even though they don't have the tech. Like when you conquer a Wonder even though you don't have the tech for it - if you manage to grab the Colossus before researching Iron Working, I am pretty positive you get the extra trade route and the bonus gold.

Yes.

Buildings and Wonders don't really care whether or not their owners are technologically advanced enough to use them. That means it is entirely possible for a civ stuck in the Medieval era to get the all the benefits and resource generation of an Information era city if they can conquer it.

And somehow the Youtube comments were even worse than I expected.

What are they saying this time? Not a real country? She didn't really rule? Pandering to the SJW crowd?

Pretty much the usual bingo, although the most prominent are, obviously, "why not [better country]?" and "clearly they just wanted female rulers instead of interesting ones". With the added flavor of criticizing her looks because, hey, there is no such thing as a "new low" for a YT comment section.

When does the DLC come out?

This is very cool. Ah, Nubia - the oft unappreciated center of the Nile Valley.

I especially applaud them for, while she was apparently given an oblique reference in the Bible, actually doing some historical research and not just making her hat the thing the Bible mentions about her. And I love that they made me do research as well - now that's the Sid Meier's Civilization that always drew me in.

I also like that they're doing rulers who are known to have a huge impact, but whose exact characteristics are vague because of a lack of direct recording of their reign again - which is something you hit a lot of when you go off the beaten path for Civs, but is important if you want to do more than just the same old ones over and over.

edited 25th Jul '17 9:20:04 AM by KnownUnknown

Some people have noted that the flat land bonuses are going to make them overpowered,that might well be true

Of course providing racial, gender, and body type diversity all in one update brings the roaches out of the woodwork.

Actually, strike that, roaches at least feed spiders.