In the 220th “Game Of The Month” for Civilization 4 you will compete as Saladin on Monarch level, to see who of you civ-fanatics does best! The map is a standard-size ice age map with tropical climate. You have until October 11 to win this game and to send in your best savegame. Find all the details here:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/botm-220-saladin-monarch-starts-11-sept.673102/
Still don’t have Civ6? Now is a great time to get it in this big Civ6 sale at Epic Games! Sale ends on September 23.
Civilization VI – $8.99 (Regular price $59.99)
Civilization VI: Platinum Edition – $14.39 (Regular price $79.99)
Civilization VI: Anthology Edition – $29.99 (Regular price $99.99)
IGN has started a Twitter poll about the best video game of all time.
Civ4 is in there, on the lower left, paired against Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.
Currently it’s 29% Civ, 71% Assassin’s Creed.
If you have a Twitter account, help us beat Assassin’s Creed! Vote here! There are right now another 22h left to vote. The winner of this small poll will be matched against winner of the duel The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time vs the Elder Scolls V: Skyrim.
Discuss this in our thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/ign-twitter-poll-best-video-game-of-all-time-24h-to-vote-civ4.673174/.
The developers of Old World have released a new patch.
They have made various tweaks to the religious components and also added more events, among other things.
Discuss this patch in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september.673147/
Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mohawkgames/status/1436075294314704896
The current “Game Of The Month” for Civilization 6 is out! In this monthly competition you can see if you can play a pre-defined starting position better than your fellow civ-fanatics. The game #118 is set on Prince level with Cleopatra of Egypt. For all other details please have a look at the thread here.
May the best player win!
Soren Johnson has added a new blog post, about why the characters were added to Old World. Have a read here: https://www.designer-notes.com/?p=1714
An excerpt:
“Simply put, characters add a dynamism to Old World that prevents it from reaching ECS, the usual fate of most 4X games. The most obvious way characters disrupt the game’s stability is via diplomacy. Simply having foreign leaders actually change – from death or abdication or even deposition – over the course of the game makes a huge difference. Perhaps you have a great relationship with Phillip of Greece but not so much with his heir, Alexander, because you offended him at a dinner years before? The latter’s eventual ascension (unless, say, some unfortunate accident might come to pass) will mean that your diplomatic status with Greece could go from good to bad. The amazing thing about this outcome is that it flows completely naturally from having real characters who age and die; players aren’t shocked when relations change and, indeed, expect them to change.
It is hard to articulate how significant a departure this is from a tension that has always bedeviled Civ games – that players expect diplomacy to be predictable, but predictable diplomacy inevitably becomes boring. Players will frequently rant over “unpredictable” or “random” AI leaders who suddenly go from being a friend to an enemy. These shifts are necessary for games to not slowly calcify from their earliest diplomatic states, but there are few ways to make these changes thematically palatable when the leaders never change. Civ games have experimented with all sorts of opinion modifiers that give a reason why a leader might change their opinion of you, but the most natural reason is that there is now simply a new leader who has a new set of relationships, memories, and opinions.”
Discuss this blog post in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/soren-johnson-on-characters.673117/
Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SorenJohnson/status/1435440586052579329
Mohawk Games have released the offical manual for Old World: It’s a 100 pages long PDF document with all the basic explanations you need for the game. The manual has been made with the help of a Velociryx, https://www.twitch.tv/velociryx, the author of the SMAC/X strategy guide.
You can find the manual here, and you can leave comments in our forum here.
Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mohawkgames/status/1435313578219819020
Amplitude has given us a reminder that there is a community vote in the the official map creation contest: The map with the most subscriptions will win the community prize. So if you like one of the many new maps for Humankind best, go here, download it, and help the creator win the prize!
May the best map win!
