Firaxis has released another Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”, appropriate for the time of the year: Ides of March. You are obviously playing as Julius Caesar on a pretty much standard setup, besides epic speed and Secret Societies are enabled. You need to win in any way, besides a score victory, and you can choose Prince or Emperor difficulty. You have until April 9 to finish this challenge. For more information please check this thread.
The Civ5 Battle Royale is huge but the concept of the show is pretty simple! On a massive world map, 61 AI Civilizations got at it to see which one can be the last one standing. All Civilizations are chosen by the audience of the civbattleroyale reddit group and part of the fun is helping narrate the story collectively along with original content and putting your support behind one of the competitors. No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of their 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory. Three seasons have been recorded so far, and the 4th one is about to start on March 20. If you are interested in following, then join us in our thread here.
And we are now at the 17th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.
This time the devs talk essentially about how wonders and other monumental buildings are getting into the game, from the initial decision what to include, through the whole design process.
Check it out, and discuss it with us here.
Electronic Arts is making the news this weekend as they’ve released a huge amount of classic games in their catalog ie the entire Command & Conquer collection, Sim City 3000, Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and many more including a very important one to a lot of people on this site Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (already available though via GOG)! On top of that they’ve put them all on sale at mega low prices! Check out the sale here, and discuss it with us here.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update brings changes to the AI, a new map script, city production can be automated, and character portraits will now be gradually aging (see the picture).
Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too).
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
The demo of Millennia has been quite a success, and the devs have now published the first diary after the release. Well, not really a dev diary, but rather the list of recent changes, which should be meaningful for the players. The long list includes a bunch of graphical changes which are definitely visible in the new screenshots, and burried in the long list also some adjustments to the “Raiders”. Have a look at the long list here.
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 14 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Noble, Space Colony game for 287,479 points.
nocho was the most active player during this update, submitting 3 games.
adityavs was the most active player during this update, submitting 3 games.
Only 2 players were brave enough to take on Deity this update:
fizbankovi – 1884 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Domination game for 178,044 points.
Lcpl Jack Jones – 2050 AD, Standard, Quick, Deity, Time game for 26,339 points.
New Number One Entries:
A number of players gained number one positions:
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Standard, Quick, Deity, Time game for 26,339 points.
nocho with a 1040 AD, Tiny, Epic, Emperor, Diplomatic game for 240,108 points.
nocho with a 1400 AD, Small, Epic, Noble, Space Colony game for 287,479 points.
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Huge, Quick, Settler, Time game for 9,307 points.
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A number of players gained a composite table High Score (i.e. Any Condition):
nocho with a 1400 AD, Small, Epic, Noble, game for 287,479 points.
nocho with a 1040 AD, Tiny, Epic, Emperor, game for 240,108 points.
Gauntlet Updates
Congratulations to nocho for winning G-Minor 275 with a date of 1040AD.
New Gauntlet Starting
G-Minor 276 – Espionage, Noble, Ancient, Tiny, Epic, Oasis, (check thread for hte options)
Firaxis has announced that they will be running a live stream for the latest Civ6 Monthly Challenge, “The Head Of Cyrus”. The live stream will happen on March 8, 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 8 PM CET, and can be found on the Firaxis Youtube channel and Twitch channel.