Civilization VI

[Valmy]

*yawn*  Cue linear progression like in the previous 5 titles.  They're not even trying to reinvent the genre.  Same old recycled formula.

Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.

One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe.

[Monoriu]

I hope they get rid of the over the top road maintenance thing.  Just make roads degrade and need a worker touch up now and then.

In Civ 1 (and I think 2 as well), one of the most annoying features was that tiles would get polluted every now and then.  A settler (no worker back then) was needed to clean it up.  It became constant and unfun whack a mole.  One of their best moves was to remove it and replace it with sanitation.  I hope they never implement anything that requires worker maintenance. 

[Valmy]

I hope they get rid of the over the top road maintenance thing.  Just make roads degrade and need a worker touch up now and then.

In Civ 1 (and I think 2 as well), one of the most annoying features was that tiles would get polluted every now and then.  A settler (no worker back then) was needed to clean it up.  It became constant and unfun whack a mole.  One of their best moves was to remove it and replace it with sanitation.  I hope they never implement anything that requires worker maintenance. 

Seems like I could put them on auto-cleanup mode.

[Darth Wagtaros]

*yawn*  Cue linear progression like in the previous 5 titles.  They're not even trying to reinvent the genre.  Same old recycled formula.

Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.

One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe.

Well said Chairman.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I never played civ 1.

took me quite a few games before it dawned on me that you had to fortify your cities by putting units inside... lol

[mongers]

I like the look of this but won't have the PC power to play it, so I'll stick with Civ V.

[Martinus]

Theodore Roosvelt announced as the American leader. Can't wait for the freakout from many quarters.

[Valmy]

Theodore Roosvelt announced as the American leader. Can't wait for the freakout from many quarters.

He will build Wildlife preserve improvements and speak softly in the diplomacy screen.

[KRonn]

I'm looking forward to this. I like the changes, units, warfare, diplomacy, resources and city building. Those are all good. For the most part I've liked the changes in the different versions, especially Civ V with handling of units and warfare. Civ V was probably my favorite.

[The Brain]

Will Gustavus Adolphus look like Erik XIV this time around?

[Grey Fox]

There's 60 or so turn footage available all over youtube.

The art is growing on me but I hate that brown UI.

[DGuller]

It can't be worse than Beyond the Earth UI.  Who ever thought that various shades of blue mixed with black would make for a pretty interface?

[Martinus]

Yeah just saw the footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qzC5cUQcFk

The art does not look that bad when seen in action. And they will probably buff it up a bit before the release. The upside is probably that it will run on slower machines.

[Martinus]

From what I understand, tech and civics have now been completely decoupled - you use culture to unlock stuff like chivalry, democracy or military tradition - if they make it more like the CiV: BE tech web in that you move towards more autocratic or democratic etc sides then it would avoid grallon's complaint of linear developments.

[Martinus]

From Civfanatics:

Civics

- Social Policies are now replaced with Civics, which in essence belong to their own seperate tech tree and utilise Culture.
- Like Technologies, each individual Civic has their own unique in-game sidequest. Like techs, some of these you'll get through playing the game regularly, and some will require some extra effort.
- Advancing throughout the Civics tree allows you to unlock buildings, wonders, and other bonuses

-- Policies

- Advancing throughout the Civics tree allows you to unlock new policy cards you can have in your "deck"
- New "Deck" mechanic. Throughout the game you gain Policy Cards which you can slot in and out of your deck for specialisation purposes.
- The Policies you unlock give you a new card to slot into your "Deck".
- Policies come in four flavours: Military, Economy, Diplomacy, and "Wild".
- You can change your policy cards for free every time you unlock a Civic, or with gold whenever you want.

-- Governments

- Advancing throughout the Civics tree allows you to unlock new forms of government.
- In addition to providing certain built-in bonuses, each government has a different configuration of slots for policies. (i.e One government might have more "Military" slots, whereas another might not have slots for Military policies at all and instead focus on Economy and Diplomacy.)