Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” – Krampus edition

By | December 6, 2024
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We are again back with the “Game Of The Month”, our monthly challenge for you to play the best Civ6 game ever. This time we have prepared you a game where you play as Tamar of Georgia on a small hot and arid Wetlands map with high sea level. You will play this game withh online speed on deity difficulty. You get abundant resources and a legendary start position, and quite a number of game modes enabled. Your target is to win a score victory after 200 turns, and you have until February 1 2025 to do this. For all the info and the savegame please check our thread here.

Civ7: New first look at Ibn Battuta, the main theme next week, and Civ7 most wanted!

By | December 5, 2024
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We got three new interesting pieces of information for Civ7 today!

As first, we got a look at Ibn Battuta. His most interesting skill is that he seems to be able to pick his attributes to his liking. He also gets increased sight for his units, and he can see some areas which other leades have explored. Accordingly, he likes leaders who explore a lot. For more info and the discussion on this interesting leader please check this thread.

The second important info is that the theme for Civ7, again composed by the master, Christopher Tin, will be revealed next week. There will be an orchestra live performance at the GameAwards, at Thursday, Dec 12, at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET / 12:30 AM GMT. Join us here for the excitement and discussion.

As 3rd important info, PCGamer has today published an article called “Civilization 7 is officially 2025’s Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign“.
It seems, as obvious from the title, that Civ7 was voted the most wanted by the PC gaming show, beating a lot of contenders.
Ed Beach also explains again the reason for the different eras, as they are hoping that more people will finish now a whole game, enjoying all the interesting mechanics of Civ7.

Join us for the discussion of this article here.

Civ7 Dev Diary #4 Emergent Narrative, and Playstation 5 gameplay trailer

By | December 4, 2024
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Firaxis has released today the 4th dev diary, talking about the events in the game. In Civ7, a story will develop for the player, based on your decisions. You will not only see historical event, but also what-if events based on your choices, leading to some unique combiations which you might rarely see. If you want to discuss the narrative in Civ7, then join us here.

As second interesting news item of the day, the official Playstation blog has released today a trailer showing gameplay on the PS5 (because Civ7 will also be released on all the consoles). Console controllers are not typically seen as the perfect choice to play strategy games, but in the video it looks rather smooth. If you want to comment on the trailer, then find us in this thread here.

Civ5 Hall Of Fame – New Gauntlets

By | December 4, 2024
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While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets.

For the G-Major CL we challenge you to play as Casimir III of Poland on a tiny “large islands” map on epic speed. You also need to play on King difficulty, and win a science victory. The deadline is December 31. For more details please check here.

For the G-Minor CCXXIII we challenge you to play as Wu Zetian on a small highlands map on quick speed. This game must be played on Warlods difficulty and must be won with a domination victory. Also here the deadline is December 31. For the details please check this thread.

Civ news of the day: Songhai Civ7 guide, and how the Switch took Firaxis multi-platform

By | December 3, 2024
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Today Firaxis gave us the official guide to the Songhai, the last exploration age civ. The Songhai are an economic and militaristic civ, with a starting bias for navigable rivers, plains, coast and desert. Most of their unique featurs such as improvements and units feature the water/rivers and give boni if on or adjacent to it. Curious? Check the details here.

In other news, GameIndustry.biz has published an article called “How Nintendo Switch has changed Firaxis’ approach to making Civilization“. In the article it is described how the Civ6 version on the Switch was a surprise hit, which as Firaxis led to directly go multi-platform for Civ7, and that they are directly involved in the console port. For the discussion of this news article please check here.

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | December 3, 2024
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 25 games were accepted since the previous update, with the highest highscores ever achieved in Civ4!

Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Small, Normal, Prince, Domination game for 440,603 points.

valergrad was the most active player during this update, submitting 10 games.​

Only one player was brave enough to take on Deity this update:
sossos – 1350 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Conquest game for 364,259 points.​

New Number One Entries:

A number of players gained number one positions:
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Standard, Epic, Immortal, Time game for 20,840 points.
nocho with a 1442 AD, Tiny, Marathon, Emperor, Space Colony game for 430,690 points.
valergrad with a 80 BC, Tiny, Quick, Monarch, Domination game for 119,911 points.
valergrad with a 360 BC, Small, Quick, Monarch, Conquest game for 111,355 points.
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2041 AD, Large, Marathon, Prince, Espionage game for 6,390 points.
Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Huge, Normal, Prince, Time game for 9,122 points.
valergrad with a 280 BC, Tiny, Quick, Prince, Domination game for 85,701 points.
valergrad with a 1340 AD, Duel, Quick, Noble, Diplomatic game for 66,388 points.
valergrad with a 1060 AD, Duel, Quick, Warlord, Diplomatic game for 49,092 points.
valergrad with a 1060 BC, Duel, Quick, Warlord, Religious game for 38,142 points.
valergrad with a 1460 AD, Duel, Quick, Warlord, Cultural game for 44,792 points.
valergrad with a 1180 BC, Small, Quick, Warlord, Conquest game for 35,148 points.
valergrad with a 1540 BC, Duel, Quick, Chieftain, Religious game for 28,574 points.
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A number of players gained a composite table High Score (i.e. Any Condition):
nocho with a 1595 AD, Small, Normal, Prince, game for 440,603 points.
valergrad with a 1715 AD, Duel, Quick, Noble, game for 237,047 points.
valergrad with a 80 BC, Tiny, Quick, Monarch, game for 119,911 points.

Discuss this update and congratulate all the winners in this thread.

Historians discuss… with the Firaxis historian, and a new video on crises in Civ7

By | December 2, 2024
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Civ6 streamer and history PhD student Paisley_Trees has together with a colleague interviewed Andrew Johnson during the CivGive charity stream last Sunday.
They discuss how they pick the civs in combination with making an interesting and balanced game, that they read the forums here (although that we need to discuss things earlier; although we had the right timing with Georgia), they discuss other leader possibilites in Civ7, and a lot more.
If you are really curious, you have to watch the video and discuss it with us here.

Firaxis has also released a short clip about crises in Civ7. As we know, everyone will at the same time be affected by crises, but they depend on the age, and apparently there will also be some crisis policies with positive impact (although most probably not). Discuss this video with us here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #188

By | December 1, 2024
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The “Game Of The Month” is our monthly competition for a high-score in a defined setting. This time we challenge you to play as ptolemaic Cleopatra on a standard size hot and arid low-sea level wetlands map. You get abundant resources and a legendary start, but you are playing on Immortal level with a disaster intensity of 3. You must finish with a culture or diplomatic victory, and the deadline is January 1, 2025. For the savegame and instructions please check out this thread.