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The Lord Bude posted:I still think baba yetu should have been one of the great works of music in civ V. Swahili is spoken on the eastern coast of Africa, the Kongo is on the west
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Oct 15, 2016 03:14
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General Morden posted:don't be a racist i don't think he's being racist, he just had a standard american education
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Oct 15, 2016 03:27
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Randarkman posted:Yeah not what I was saying. In IV you could totally do that in a custom game. Admittedly that was a bit easier to set up since leaders were little more than a combination of 2 generic attributes and a personality, but you could get some pretty cool combinations. I hope you can do that again in VI at some point, but since leaders are way more involved I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't an option (or had to be modded in). Alkydere fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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Oct 15, 2016 03:29
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Comstar posted:I hope pre-ordering this wasn't a mistake like Beyond Earth was for me. It's weird, I've watched more than a dozen hours of Civ VI gameplay and yet this is the kind of game where I still have no idea whether I will actually have fun with it. I got the Rising Tide BE expansion last week and I guess I will finish this game I'm playing before Civ VI comes out, but it almost feels more like a chore to do so
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Oct 15, 2016 03:31
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The Lord Bude posted:I still think baba yetu should have been one of the great works of music in civ V. They speak Kikongo (and Portuguese) in Kongo.
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Oct 15, 2016 03:31
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:It's weird, I've watched more than a dozen hours of Civ VI gameplay and yet this is the kind of game where I still have no idea whether I will actually have fun with it. As someone who wanted to love BE so goddamned hard, who continued to hype himself up for it...I have to admit that I feel Rising Tide pretty much made the game worse. It was more or less balanced vanilla, with a few niggling details here and there (like how Harmony was always a harder start due to having to clear aliens off of your land), and kinda bland but everything worked out fairly well. A few mods (including my favorite adding the SMAX leaders in to actually make the factions feel different because each one had a massive buff or two mixed with a massive debuff) made it a really nice game for a good "quick Civ V game with sci-fi theme", at least for me. Rising Tide added a whole bunch of really cool features. Like actually really, really cool. Each feature is rather shiny on the surface and adds so much to the world and storytelling...and would add to the gameplay if it weren't for the fact that each and every feature just made winning the game easier. Rising Tide's team accidentally knocked poor Balance out of the window when stuffing all these features in, and instead of trying to find space to him they took a hammer to Balance's fingers as it hung desperately from the windowsill. With all of the features put in you more or less just faceroll to victory no matter what you do. ...I just wanted to love BE so much. 
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Oct 15, 2016 03:42
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Super Jay Mann posted:I hope that confirms that this game has an actual functional Spectator mode this time around instead of all the finagling you had to do in Civ 5 just to kinda sorta guess at what the AIs were doing. Not 100% but I think the confirmed an observer mode way back
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Oct 15, 2016 03:42
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Who does everybody think is going to win the AI Battle Royale this Wednesday? I'm going with Russia. I think that their extra land will matter the most because Russia has potential to take its neighbor's good plots. So as long as Russia doesn't expand toward Monty, Gorgo, or Rome in the early game, they should fine. I also think that the Lavra beats Spain's religion bonus on an all AI Battle.
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Oct 15, 2016 03:49
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The Human Crouton posted:Who does everybody think is going to win the AI Battle Royale this Wednesday? There's also the fact that they get bonus resources on Tundra, which can help make some normally boneheaded settler decisions become good or even great. It always annoyed me that none of the V civs get bonuses on tundra, except for Denmark's "Gets a rifleman that gets a combat bonus when fighting over a forsaken frozen hellscape that you'd rather let the AI have anyways."
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Oct 15, 2016 03:52
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The White Dragon posted:i don't think he's being racist, he just had a standard american education Actually I just looked up Swahili in Wikipedia, and I could have sworn it listed Kongo as one of the places it was spoken. No offence intended. My point still stands - they should add a Swahili speaking civ and make baba yeti it's theme music. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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Oct 15, 2016 03:54
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Alkydere posted:There's also the fact that they get bonus resources on Tundra, which can help make some normally boneheaded settler decisions become good or even great. To be fair they did get a pretty powerful hill bonus on top of their worthless frozen hellscape stuff. Their larger issue is that rifles are worthless are V because GWI and Infantry replace them almost immediately.
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Oct 15, 2016 03:59
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The Lord Bude posted:Actually I just looked up Swahili in Wikipedia, and I could have sworn it listed Kongo as one of the places it was spoken. No offence intended.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:01
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Super Jay Mann posted:To be fair they did get a pretty powerful hill bonus on top of their worthless frozen hellscape stuff. Well, that's on top of the issue that Denmark are the trashiest of the trash-tier on V. As much as I love seeing Harold in V (because he'll fight a pathetic war against me and then be best friends afterwards), neither of his UUs or his UA are actually good enough to salvage anything. Especially when mixed with his start preference for worthless frozen hellscape. I'm honestly not sure who is more gimped: V's Harold or III's Shaka.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:02
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Alkydere posted:Especially when mixed with his start preference for worthless frozen hellscape. This kind of thing is why I've never seen Brazil do well as an AI. They have a start bias for jungles, and jungles in the early game are poo poo. Especially since the other guy with a start bias for jungles is Monty...
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Oct 15, 2016 04:07
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I never had any problems as Denmark in V. The ski dudes don't do anythinget, but getting a unique longsword replacement one tech early was cool, and disembarking a catapult and firing on the same turn was fun. So I guess they weren't good, but I liked them.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:07
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Randarkman posted:Yeah not what I was saying. Civilization doesn't really strive for historical accuracy of any kind. It mostly just seeks to evoke a sense of history, and to celebrate historical figures. Same reason why Frederick Barbarossa is leader of Germany my friend, despite the kingdom he ruled being only barely related to modern day Germany.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:25
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Modern Germany's really only had one standout leader, though
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Oct 15, 2016 04:42
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You are referring of course to Angela Merkel, a lady so awesome that when she came to Brisbane for the G20, rather than stay cooped up in her hotel like every other world leader, she went clubbing and took selfies with random people.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:52
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The Lord Bude posted:You are referring of course to Angela Merkel, a lady so awesome that when she came to Brisbane for the G20, rather than stay cooped up in her hotel like every other world leader, she went clubbing and took selfies with random people. Living leaders don't count, or we'd have Hillary as America's alternate.
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Oct 15, 2016 04:58
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Kaiser Wilhelm certainly wasn't a great leader, but he was an influential one. Otto von Bismarck is also a pretty good leader for Germany, I think.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:10
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It's not a hard and fast rule is it? I'm sure they can't wait till they can add Elizabeth II to a civ game - I think she'd be a very good addition. I think FDR should be the alternate US leader, for symmetry.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:14
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Clearly Byzantine is talking about Paul von Hindenburg, the esteemed last true president of Germany 
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Oct 15, 2016 05:15
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sarah palin of america
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Oct 15, 2016 05:15
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The White Dragon posted:sarah palin of america Ronald Reagan of America: Bonus happiness in all cities, but the UI starts becoming increasingly obfuscated as the game goes on.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:24
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Does anyone know of an LP that's on higher than prince difficulty? Getting tired of watching people casually roll the game for their previews.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:26
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Alkydere posted:Ronald Reagan of America: Bonus happiness in all cities, but the UI starts becoming increasingly obfuscated as the game goes on. all camps within three tiles of a helicopter unit produce +1 food and +1 gold
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Oct 15, 2016 05:27
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ThirdEmperor posted:Does anyone know of an LP that's on higher than prince difficulty? Getting tired of watching people casually roll the game for their previews. The demo is locked to Prince.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:29
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drat that's lame, and hinders showing off their promised midgame when the player is already snowballing out of control by then against such flimsy opponents.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:31
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ThirdEmperor posted:Does anyone know of an LP that's on higher than prince difficulty? Getting tired of watching people casually roll the game for their previews. The dev stream from yesterday was played on Emperor, if that counts.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:31
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Judging from the streams, does it appear as though an experienced civ player should start on king? Or do you think the different mechanics are enough to make you want to start on prince?
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Oct 15, 2016 05:34
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You mean you all weren't talking about Willy Brandt
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Oct 15, 2016 05:35
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Super Jay Mann posted:The dev stream from yesterday was played on Emperor, if that counts. Yep, and it looks so much better than prince. Even though the developers play like my grandma learning how to use a moust, the fact remains that the emperor AI builds cities and units pretty fast. I think it will give anybody a decent challenge until they learn how to treat VI like an Excel sheet.
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Oct 15, 2016 05:56
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The Human Crouton posted:Yep, and it looks so much better than prince. Even though the developers play like my grandma learning how to use a moust, the fact remains that the emperor AI builds cities and units pretty fast. I think it will give anybody a decent challenge until they learn how to treat VI like an Excel sheet. I am finishing up the uploaded video from that stream and watching the devs play is agonizing. Dangit guys, get your hoplites adjacent to each other already so you get that bonus, stop keeping them so far apart, augh.
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Oct 15, 2016 06:00
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Roland Jones posted:I am finishing up the uploaded video from that stream and watching the devs play is agonizing. Dangit guys, get your hoplites adjacent to each other already so you get that bonus, stop keeping them so far apart, augh. It's weird, isn't it? You wonder how they can design a game and not know how it works. I understand that they have 300 versions over 3 years of the game in their head, but putting hoplites together isn't complicated. I'm sure the guy who invented chess isn't the best at it, but he probably remembered how to move the pieces.
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Oct 15, 2016 06:07
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Hey folks, anyone know if there are still any decent pre-order deals floating around? Thanks!
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Oct 15, 2016 07:50
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Vox Nihili posted:Hey folks, anyone know if there are still any decent pre-order deals floating around? Thanks! GamersGate has 30% off for either version if you buy using their "blue coins". (Requires level 2 in their dumb leveling system if you have to make a new account, and you'll still wind up paying $45/$60 for the coins since you can only buy them in increments as low as 5k/$5, but it's still a significant discount.)
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Oct 15, 2016 08:11
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Roland Jones posted:GamersGate has 30% off for either version if you buy using their "blue coins". (Requires level 2 in their dumb leveling system if you have to make a new account, and you'll still wind up paying $45/$60 for the coins since you can only buy them in increments as low as 5k/$5, but it's still a significant discount.) I saw this but apparently you need to jump through hoops to ~level up~ which is almost demeaning enough to make me want to pay the extra $15.
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Oct 15, 2016 08:21
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Vox Nihili posted:I saw this but apparently you need to jump through hoops to ~level up~ which is almost demeaning enough to make me want to pay the extra $15. It wasn't that hard for me to do it; I checked the FAQ, set five price alerts, and a few other things and hit 2 pretty quick. Not to say it's not dumb, mind. It really is pretty dumb. But it takes like five minutes if you have a list reference for what you need to do, which I think is worth $15/$20 personally.
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