A part of the Civ dev team (Ed Beach, Dennis Shirk, Jason Johnson as well as regular forum resident Andrew Johnson) will be part of the Civ7 developer panel during this year’s PAX West, on Saturday at 11 AM Pacific time (2 PM Eastern time, 8 PM CET).
The dev panel will be streamed on the PAX Twitch channel, and you can surely also follow the discussion here.
The four-hundred-and-thirty-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Something to Believe In [Part 1]“ 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
– 00h01m43s | The Death of the 2K Launcher
– 00h04m24s | August Challenge of the Month: Rotating Redux
– 00h09m52s | Civilization VII Gameplay Reveal
– 00h11m22s | Ages
– 00h20m47s | Crisis
– 00h30m21s | Leaders
– 00h44m00s | Civics, Technologies, and Governments
– 00h52m27s | Diplomacy
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on August 24, 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.
Come join us to discuss this episode with us here.
Our member Henrique3d has made an overview over all the Civ7 wonders! There are quite many, and the look great too! For a high-resolution version of the image, and the discussion, please check here.
There are currently various Steam sales going on, most likely due to the recent Civ7 info.
Civ4 is currently discounted by 85%.
Civ5 is currently discounted by 75%.
Civ6 is currently discounted by 90%.
Millennia is currently discounted by 50% (see also thread here).
In case you want to play as a small-scale dictator before Civ7 gets around, you now have the option with Tropico 4!
The island dictatorship simulator is currently for free, for another 1 days and 15h from the time of this post.
Get it here, and discuss it with us here.
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.