For the month of September, we are still celebrating Civ’s 30th birthday! Our user zaphod2016 has written a story about his last conquest of the world with the Romans in the one and only Civ1, the original!
If you wondered how the original looked, or just want to be reminded of the good old times, have a look at his story here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/stories-tales-emperor-caesar-of-rome.673007/.
Civilization’s 30th birthday: Give Civ a present, get one back!
To celebrate the 30th birthday of Civilization, we are holding a contest: Give Civ a present, get one back!
How would you do this?
We are looking for any form of art, created for Civilization! Have you ever drawn something inspired by Civ? Made a sculpture? A lego set? Made a civ-themed party? A civ-themed photo of yourself? You can also show us your civ-love with a custom made video, a song or a poem (as video/audio)! Anything which qualifies as creative and nice is welcome!
There are three ways to win!
Details for the contest:
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We do encourage discussions about the entries. If you want to comment on an entry, please quote the respective entry, because anything what is not a contest-entry will be moved to a separate discussion thread.
The developers of Old World have released a new patch.
The patch notes can be found here. Besides various tweaks, also more bonus cards and events were added.
Discuss the new patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september-1.672965/
Happy birthday Civilization! 30 years ago, in September 1991, the original Civilization was released. We have followed Civ through the years, loved every installement, and we are still here, waiting for the next title to come. Congratulations, and let’s hope for 30 years of more turns!
It also seems that GOG is celebrating this anniversary!
Right now you get 75% discount on Civilization III complete (now 1.29€), 75% on Civilization IV complete (now 5€) and 75% on Alpha Centauri complete pack (now 1.29€).
Instead, we now get a sale at Steam! Civilization VI and both expansions, Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm, are heavily discounted until September 16. The base game is currently 8.99€, Rise & Fall 9.89€, and Gathering Storm 9.99€.
Soren Johnson has released his latest blog post about the development of Old World. You can find the blog post here. An excerpt:
“I used this opportunity to fix a couple other problems with the design. Players had complained that cities were too similar to each other, which was certainly a problem with yields coming less from the terrain itself, as with Civ. Thus, we attached four important city yields to each of the four core rural specialists – Farmers would produce Growth, Miners produce Training, Stonecutters produce Civics, and Woodcutters produce Science. (Cutting down trees produces Science because of, um, paper? Not all at because I had an extra yield in search of an extra specialist.) Now, cities would be differentiated by their specialists which were a result of their improvements which would largely be determined by their terrain, getting us back to how terrain leads to city specialization in Civ. It took some time to isolate the positive features of citizen placement and then port them back into Old World, but it’s nice to know that maybe citizens did serve a purpose back in 1991 after all.”
Discuss this blog post in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/soren-johnson-on-citizens-and-specialists-in-old-world.672889/
Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SorenJohnson/status/1432778901839831041
G4F-records, who made the sountrack for Humankind, are regularly releasing making-of videos about the sountrack. The latest: China, in total 4 videos are currently on Youtube (pre-colombian, Mongolian, European middle ages, and China). Have a look at their playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSL95m_Nazg&list=PLtzah_dj5hUWd89mBtwZfSEmKjMVW3FwY&index=5
Discuss the music in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/humankind-music-making-of.672888/
The three hundred-and-eighty-ninth episode of PolyCast, “How far will Humankind push Civ?“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus,
Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”, and guest host TheChrisD. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h02m55s | First impressions of Humankind.
– 00h43m41s | Civ VI gets iOS updates, and Firaxis is hiring a new narrative lead.
Forum Talk
– 00h49m19s | Do you have a multi-game enemy?
– 00h58m26s | Are barbarian Quadriremes a long-standing bug?
Senate
– 01h04m49s | Purchasing era score with Amani
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice; sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding.
A very dedicated Civ6 fan is building the Civ6 wonders in Minecraft. An article in PCGamesN today highlights the Great Lighthouse (on reddit). On the creators youtube channel you can find 6 more of the wonders (like the Hanging Gardens, from the screenshot here), and they plan to do more. This is how you can tell that someone really can’t get enough of Civ :).
Discuss the wonders in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ6-wonders-in-minecraft.672876/.