The Firaxis community manager Gilgamesch has noted today in the forum that tomorrow (August 27), the Civ6 online services (presumably multiplayer and potentially mod workshop) will be shortly offline (2h).
For more info please see this thread.
EDIT: The downtime is over.
AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla.
Surprisingly, Brennus of The Celts won a very rare Diplomatic victory in Wildcard Game 2. In hindsight, the result was not that shocking considering the overwhelming presence of less peaceful leaders in this game. Regardless, Brennus is not renowned for being a successful leader in AI Survivor. Favorite Sury of Khmer was quickly dispatched this time with Brennus gaining most or all of the Khmer spoils leading to an overwhelming advantage he never gave up. The Raging Barbarians were more impactful this round, with Alexander of Greece losing a city to the invasion and DeGaulle of France having some early issues expanding, until he built the Great Wall. Only Brennus advances to the playoff round. Read more about the first wildcard game here.
Playoff Game 1 is here and it is all high stakes for the remaining leaders from now on. The peaceniks and aggressors are evenly matched in this game with three leaders on each side. The field has been whittled down to the strongest performing leaders this season, so predictions may be tougher. This game is highlighted by three strong performers historically in Mansa Musa of Mali, Gilgamesh of Sumeria, and Pacal of The Mayans. Lincoln of America, Hammurabi of Babylon, and Elizabeth I of England round out the field. (Note that the Raging Barbs option is turned off for the Playoffs, as it is only used for the Wildcard games.) Be sure to make your picks in the picking context.
Sullla’s AI Survivor Season 8 continues Friday, August 30th on Sullla’s Twitch Channel at noon EST.
We welcome you to join the fun by discussing here
Civilization 7 has been announced, and the whole forum knows (nearly) only 1 topic: Civ switching. In Civ7 you pick a leader, and one civilization from the antiquity to play through the antiquity. When arriving to the age of exploration, you will stay with your leader, but pick another civilization (from a set of exploration age civs), and the same for the modern age. Some of these civs are marked as being the “historical choice”, based on your previous civ.
As expect, a part of the forum is livid, with the main thread racking up 40 pages already, and this is a short summary:
Our member paisley_trees, a history student and civ enthusiast, has been discussing this in-depth (see video and thread here), in a very balanced way, and made alternative suggestions for the wording. The wording of “historical choice” has also caused issues from a Native American point of view, as there are concerns that colonized people might be replaced by colonizers (there is currently no indication that this will happen). The video and its suggestion addresses this.
It seems that roughly 50% of the forum population would prefer if you could keep your civ (and another 25% really don’t want to have this mechanism), but on the other hand, 75% will anyways still buy Civ7, even if they might not like this mechanic.
This has obviously contributed to the civ communities main hobby before a new release, which is guessing for new civilizations. We might (not confirmed) be getting 15 civs per age, in total 45, of which 15 have already been revealed or identified. A separate thread is currently discussing which civ might be following whom. The community manager Sarah has also confirmed that new in-depth reveals will be coming, and we are looking very much forward to hear more about the civ-switching (although we don’t know if the first reveal will be about this).
And that is the “short” summary.
AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla.
In what I now call “The Year of the Peacemongers” Pericles of Greece won a space victory in Wildcard Game 1. Pericles is the sole leader to advance to the Playoffs from this matchup. The only true warmonger on the map, Catherine of Russia, was quickly dispatched early game. Poor Hatshepsut (Hatty) of Egypt failed once again to score any points this game, despite getting out to a very impressive start. Hatty was eventually excised from this game late by Zara of Ethiopia, who played strong but not enough to overtake Pericles’s tech lead. Hatty remains the only leader never to score a point in AI Survivor. Surprisingly, raging barbarians were not very impactful on this map except for Asoka, who did have some early issues. Read more about the first wildcard game here.
Wildcard Game 2 is a reverse makeup of leaders than the first Wildcard Game. Almost all the leaders are either warmongers or at least aggressive, except for Washington of America. Suryavaram of Khmer is the most decorated in this matchup, but this appears to be anyone’s game. Raging Barbarians are again online for this matchup so expect some earlier shenanigans from those uncivilized brutes. Be sure to make your picks in the picking context.
Sullla’s AI Survivor Season 8 continues Friday, August 23rd on Sullla’s Twitch Channel at noon EST.
We welcome you to join the fun by discussing here
The Civ VII gameplay reveal is happening today! Prior to that is the Gamescon Opening Night Live event, which promises to have at least a mention of Civ VII as well. Watch them via these links!
Can’t watch it live or want to discuss your favorite details with fellow CivFanatics? Head to the Civ VII forums! They are sure to have many posts discussing every aspect of what is shared!
The four-hundred-and-thirty-seventh episode of PolyCast, “Starting to Get Rolling“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h01m24s | August 20th Civilization VII Gameplay Reveal
– 00h08m00s | Study the Past, Civs 4,5, and 6
– 00h17m30s | July Challenge of the Month: Live Yongle Reaction
Forum Talk
– 00h21m49s | AI Navies
Research Lab
– 00h31m06s | Civ VII: 1UPT or SOD?
– 00h42m01s | Civilization VII Top Unique Unit Requests
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on August 3, 2024.
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.
RSS feeds should be active again, as well.
Astute CivFanatics had noticed on Civilization VII’s Steam page that Civ VII “Requires 3rd Party Account: 2K Account,” leading to questions of whether that was a hard requirement to play the game. Firaxis has now clarified that the 2K Account will only be required for multiplayer, and will not be required for single-player or launching the game.
Combined with the earlier news about Civ VI no longer including the 2K launcher, and the same applying for Civ VII, this has provided some degree of clarity about Civ VII’s requirements ahead of the Gamescon announcements expected next Tuesday.
Discuss this multiplayer-only 2K account requirement in this thread.