2K Games has announced Sid Meier's Civilization V for release on PC this autumn.
We popped over to Baltimore-based developer Firaxis recently to check on the game's progress and will have a full preview and interview to present in a few weeks.
In the meantime, you can check out the first Civilization V screenshots on Eurogamer now.
We can also reveal that Civ V (or "Civvy" if you like) puts you back in the role of a world leader, guiding one of 18 civilisations from the dawn of man to the space age, and that you will be doing war, diplomacy, research and reality TV in between. Most of those.
You will also pit your wits against some of the greatest and most notorious leaders of this or any age, although full details are still to be announced.
We do know, however, that City States will present a new diplomatic battleground, and that you will continue to manage relationships with other leaders by bribing them, trading and kicking their heads off.
When all else fails war will take place on "vast, realistic and diverse landscapes", and this time you will be able to fall back on ranged bombardment, too, loosing off rounds from behind the front lines.
Perhaps adopting from the BAFTA-winning successes of Civilization Revolution on consoles, the developer is also promising a more intuitive interface suitable for veterans and newcomers alike, with a range of "trusted advisors" to walk you through things if you get stuck.
Interestingly, Firaxis also mentions "new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilisation, extensive modding capabilities, and intensely competitive multiplayer".
Modders and multiplayer fans will be able to take advantage of an in-game community hub for playing via internet or email, and for sharing scenarios, comparing scores and achievements and accessing fan-sites.
Unlike a lot of modern PC games, Civ V also promises LAN and hotseat multiplayer support, so you really can fill your boots.
Twitter or Facebook exclusive ???
:elephant
Hard to improve on IV, though I have no problem with new ones coming out. I don't think of them as refinements of the same game so much as each game is an opportunity to focus on different elements of empire-building.
What's the likelihood of this actually coming out this year?
The thread over at Paradox:
http://forum.paradoxpla.../showthread.php?t=461436
has a Danish person quoting from an interveiw for a Danish mag:
http://forum.paradoxpla...0794244&postcount=25
I just wrote down the main points of the article.
- Switch from squares to hexagons changing the way the game plays. More room for maneuvers and more tactical options.
- Changes to combat. More depth in combat, no more stacking of units. This will lead to bigger focus on terrain.
- Inspired by Panzer General.
- Reintroduction of Bombardment, now archers and siege equipment can shoot over melee units.
- Better diplomatic AI.
- More diplomatic options between players.
- Less "cheating" AI.
- Religion is not a factor anymore.
- Resources are not infinite. For example one source of horse only supplies enough horses for 1 unit, but when that horseman dies the horses will respawn as a unit. (this confused me alittle, i guess we will have to watch it in action)
- City States as a sort of small countries that never develop beyond their single city. They can provide bonusses if you befriend them, or you can take over their land.
- Civics are out, now there is something called "Social Policies".
- About the same amount of wonders, the tech tree will feel familiar. Great People still in.
- Some victory conditions changed. For example in Conquest you only have to capture all the other capitals. Eliminates boring mop up phase.
- Unique Civ leader bonusses, no more standard "Spiritual" or "Financial".
- DirectX 11 support.
- Built in webbrowser. Sid Meier is also working on a facebook application of Civilization.
Twitter or Facebook exclusive ???
SHIT GETTING REALQuoteThe thread over at Paradox:
http://forum.paradoxpla.../showthread.php?t=461436
has a Danish person quoting from an interveiw for a Danish mag:
http://forum.paradoxpla...0794244&postcount=25
I just wrote down the main points of the article.
- Switch from squares to hexagons changing the way the game plays. More room for maneuvers and more tactical options.
- Changes to combat. More depth in combat, no more stacking of units. This will lead to bigger focus on terrain.
- Inspired by Panzer General.
- Reintroduction of Bombardment, now archers and siege equipment can shoot over melee units.
- Better diplomatic AI.
- More diplomatic options between players.
- Less "cheating" AI.
- Religion is not a factor anymore.
- Resources are not infinite. For example one source of horse only supplies enough horses for 1 unit, but when that horseman dies the horses will respawn as a unit. (this confused me alittle, i guess we will have to watch it in action)
- City States as a sort of small countries that never develop beyond their single city. They can provide bonusses if you befriend them, or you can take over their land.
- Civics are out, now there is something called "Social Policies".
- About the same amount of wonders, the tech tree will feel familiar. Great People still in.
- Some victory conditions changed. For example in Conquest you only have to capture all the other capitals. Eliminates boring mop up phase.
- Unique Civ leader bonusses, no more standard "Spiritual" or "Financial".
- DirectX 11 support.
- Built in webbrowser. Sid Meier is also working on a facebook application of Civilization.
DX11
NO STACKING
RELIGION GONE
amazing :bow2
Sid Meier's Civilization® V is the fifth offering in the multi-award winning Civilization strategy game series featuring the famous "just one more turn" addictive gameplay that has made it one of the greatest game series of all time.
In Civilization V, players strive to become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age, waging war, conducting diplomacy, discovering new technologies, going head-to-head with some of history’s greatest leaders, and building the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
* Believable World: More than just a strategy game -- the expanded visuals and immersive audio invite would-be kings to take up the reigns of power and forge a mighty empire. Civilization V offers a limitless variety of vast, realistic and diverse landscapes for players to explore, battle over and claim as their own.
* Inviting Presentation: An intuitive interface eases both new players and Civ veterans into the game. Guided by a set of trusted advisors who will explain game functionality and provide counsel for significant decisions, even first-time players will be confident in the choices they make.
* Huge Battles: Combat is more exciting and engaging than ever before. Wars between empires feel massive with armies spreading across the landscape. The addition of ranged bombardment allows players to fire weapons from behind the front lines, challenging players to develop clever new strategies to guarantee victory on the battlefield.
* In-Game Community Hub: Compete with Civ players from all over the globe via the Internet and Play by Email, or compete locally in Hotseat and LAN matches, offering endless ways to rule the world. The game itself now serves as the hub of community activity, featuring the ability to share scenarios, compare scores, brag about achievements and visit one of the thriving Civ fansites without leaving the game. It’s now easier than ever for players to become involved in the global Civ Community.
* Modability: With unprecedented modding tools, players will have unlimited options for modifying Civilization V any way they like
What makes me sad is the lack of balance between turn based strategy and real time strategy on pc.The only RTS games I ever really liked was Rise of Nations. It still had all of the conventions of an RTS but since it was wrapped up in a Civ style wrapper I found it enjoyable. I also agree. Warcraft 3 and games like that, where it reduces the number of units for a battle are the only other style ones I can tolerate. League of Legends I can tolerate and play because of this aspect also.
With turn based it seems there's Civ and Alpha Centauri and... uh, Tropico. And then there's rts', which has like a gazillion games in its genre.
Honestly, Warcraft 3 is the rts I liked the most because of (I know this is cheesy) its emphasis on story and great writing melded with the rts combat.
Honestly, Warcraft 3 is the rts I liked the most because of (I know this is cheesy) its emphasis on story and great writing melded with the rts combat.
I'm not a big fan of RTS games (used to be) but I haven't given a lot of games a chance. Last one I played was either Halo Wars or the beta for the last Red Alert. Halo Wars was too easy even for me, and Red Alert 3 (I think it was 3) was just being thrown into a multiplayer match confused.
I'm eager to try out company of heroes whenever I stop making excuses like I've been doing for, uh, two or three years now.
It doesn't help that the last set of turn based games before they died got even more hardcore rather than trying to teach newcomers how to play the games. Which only served to turn people off more.
I, like many others, have been playing Civilization games for well over a decade. Over this time I've developed several habits and ticks that have become ingrained in my play style. I habitually name my first city 'WillisCool', the second city 'WillisVeryCool' and (should any metropolis be founded near a particularly disputed border) the third: 'F***theRomans'. Or indeed any other civilisation I wish to textually bait. Civilization V, however, horror of horrors, does not let you rename cities.
This caused great pain and anger during my first turns within Firaxis' latest. It was such a break with tradition that my first city had been forcibly called Paris that I physically shook with emotion. Oddly enough, this was a pattern that would continue on a larger scale throughout repeated sorties in Civ V's hexagonal worlds. The game's core concept seems to be to shake you out of accustomed patterns of play, erasing your accustomed Civ-building 'racing line' and insisting that you come at everything from a slightly different angle.
Civilization V isn't simply piling in a barrage of new features and calling it a sequel. In fact, it's actively removing recent additions to the canon. Religion is out on its arse, while many of the features added in Civ IV expansions are similarly erased. This iteration is all about looking deeply at the features that form the bedrock of Civ, yet are so often skimmed over by players or simply left to sustain themselves in rarely frequented menu screens. It's about repackaging the more bewildering things into something palatable, and ensuring that the player is tooled-up and informed enough to deal with them.
As a Civ player I've always been lovingly bewildered and somewhat out of my depth: forever proud of building the Sistine Chapel, yet somehow blind to the starving millions. At some point, Firaxis must have put a Civ player like me in a blank-walled room and asked him politely what he didn't really understand but pretended to anyway in social circles and on internet forums.
He'd have said things like: the way individual tiles work, which style of government he should choose and the use and abuse of luxuries and resources. If he's anything like me, then he'd also reveal a slight unease when it came to naval manoeuvres - and given time, in that small white room in Maryland, he'd break down and through incessant tears admit that he's totally rubbish at combat, and especially crap at keeping track of his myriad of upgraded units.
Civ V soothes these worries. Not by evaporating them, but by explaining them better and giving you clear reasons to engage with them, pulling their roles into sharper focus through active use.
To explain, let's highlight something that in a previous Civ game I'd have had completely automated. Say you notice a particularly fruitful-looking resource spot where you can mine iron. First off, you'll need it within your borders - and to absorb it you can now speed the growth of your Empire by purchasing new tiles through your city screen rather than simply waiting for culture and population growth to do the job. This not only encourages a reinforced appreciation of the fruitfulness and roles of Civ's different (and newly hexagonal) tiles but will also lead you to order a worker to go and busy themselves so you can mine yourself some ore.
Automation is tucked away to some degree within the UI and it's clear that Firaxis wants you to become intimate with the individual advantages and disadvantages of your randomly assigned land-mass through the worker, previously the lowliest of your units. This is further underlined by the game's more stringent approach to resources. The amount of mounted units you can create, for example, directly correlates to the limited number of horses your nation contains - meaning that their acquisition is a necessity, yet if you have a surfeit of the equine beauties then it can suddenly be an even bigger bartering chip (or prompt for an early war) with your neighbours than before.
Similarly, when one of your cities screams for a certain luxury, say ivory, then your eyes will be anxiously scanning the desert or tundra your people laughably call home, before inevitably eyeing up the Romans next door with their green fields and plentiful elephants.
What is increasingly looking like Civ V's triumph, then, is rendering its less glamorous constituent parts interesting, fun and comprehensible. Another example is the constant worry of the research and institution of a blanket society variant (Feudalism! Nationalism! Communism!). This has been given extra texture, depth and control through a social policy screen that lets you sit in multiple camps (where applicable) as well as unlock various new civil branches within each structure of rule.
As for an Iron Age warrior being buried beneath a pile of units and waking up in the manner of California Man, worriedly blinking in the light of nuclear explosions and aeroplanes buzzing overhead... The idiots among us can't let that happen now, either.
In fact, this move away from tiled-up unit-spam, the overall reduced numbers of military units and (more importantly) the way that the game underlines the way units develop through XP-gathering and consequent upgrades, makes you an awful lot more aware of just what kinds of firepower your Civ is brandishing.
And as for the old complexities of piling your little chaps into boats and setting them off across a few tiles of water for a jolly boy's holiday beating up Roman scum, at a certain point of maritime tech, discovery units develop the ability to travel short distances in self-created boats. The days of countless turns in which you were nothing but a glorified ferry operator seem to have been partly erased.
If there's something within Civ V that I'm yet to be convinced by then it's City States: independent, one-city power blocks that are there to be allied with or trampled underfoot. On one hand, they provide an excellent way of expanding early on without the need to build Settlers (an alternative being to establish them as puppet regimes) but to an extent they also seem to get in the way of the traditional argy-bargy with the civilisations that are your direct competitors.
It's more fun to start research pacts, secrecy pacts and "why don't you give me the contents of your Treasury" pacts with the big boys than piddly old Warsaw. Although, as is the way with Civilization, if you don't want Warsaw and his chums in your game then they be turned off before the game begins.
Ultimately - with a UI that's frankly astounding, its polite hand-holding tutorials and event reminders somehow never becoming intrusive - there's little doubt that Civ V is onto something of a winner. The framework of classic Civ has been deconstructed, and its dustiest and most misunderstood parts have been ushered into the foreground, reappearing with a gleam, like the shiny C3PO when he throws his arms in the air at the end of Star Wars.
Established hacks will miss the religion, espionage and suchlike, and those features, surely, will be waiting in the wings as expansion packs. As for being able to name your city after how cool you are (or how cool you intend to be), I'm hoping this is an issue that can be dealt with before the September release, or at the very least in a post-release patch. WillisCool shall be triumphant once more. It has been written.
And as for the old complexities of piling your little chaps into boats and setting them off across a few tiles of water for a jolly boy's holiday beating up Roman scum, at a certain point of maritime tech, discovery units develop the ability to travel short distances in self-created boats. The days of countless turns in which you were nothing but a glorified ferry operator seem to have been partly erased.
QuoteOne of the biggest changes to the game is the new one-unit-per-hex restriction.QuoteCities will automatically defend themselves now, and can benefit from increased defense based on certain structures or technologies, so you don't necessarily need to garrison a unit for defense but you can if you want to.
:drool
Civ 5 is sounding like the best civ already.
That linked to a SCII review
http://www.giantbomb.com/civil-service-the-road-to-civ-v/17-3013/
Need to get a new PC before I can run Civ 5. Need to get money before I can get a new PC. Need to get a job before I can get money. :(same here :(
I'm interested in knowing what the difference between dual and qaud core is going to be. Will it be a much more noticeable a difference?
I haven't played a Civ game since the first one, which I loved.
Is it still turn based?
Stategy Game of the Year, real talk.Better than anything else released in September. :rock
Paul Bunyan
Chop down 1000 forest tiles, across any number of playthroughs.
Three Musketeers
Kill a unit with a French Musketeer when two other Musketeers are providing flanking bonuses.
He Threw A Car At My Head!
Have any city ransomed by Barbarians.
You shall not pass!
Defeat a tank with a spearman
Do no evil
Win a game without going to war or killing a single unit (Barbs included)
See you in hell
Raze and destroy every single city not built by you
Nostradamus
Win a space victory by 1566
The World is Flat
Lose to a space race victory before having entered the renaissance
I hate you all
Lose to a diplomatic victory while being less than friendly with every city state
All alone
Lose to a domination victory while only having 1 city
Better Dead than Red
Nuke every single city of another civ in the same turn.
Nostradamus
Win a space victory by 1566
AUGH
THIS OR DEAD RISING 2
ADFJF;DJF;AFJ
My sound card picked today to fucking quit out on me so no Civ for me. :-\
they should rename Napoleon "The Jets" because he cheats so fucking much
this is pretty awesome. seems a touch glacial though, even for civ.
The bad:
Turns are fairly long, even at the beginning. I'm scared to see how bad they will be in the modern era.
I'm more worried about the impressions on Quarter To Three that are saying they're moving through techs faster than they can make units. Like a Bowman might take 18 turns but it's 5-6 turns to research a new tech.
I'm more worried about the impressions on Quarter To Three that are saying they're moving through techs faster than they can make units. Like a Bowman might take 18 turns but it's 5-6 turns to research a new tech.
I defintly ran through that problem especially later in the game where a tank would take 96 turns but nuclear bomb technology only took like 15 moves
Use surplus gold to buy settlers and workers while you build improvements.
alot of people are down on this game. I kinda agree, after the 7 hour session straight yesterday I dont really want to pick it up again, lots of dumb shit things like the 18 move workers and such just doesnt make it fun
YESyou never played a good rts motherfucker? europa universalis 3
SLOW GAMING :bow
TAKE THAT RTS HOMOS
wait, what the fuck, it's past 11. fuck this game :'(:lol
Also is there any way to permantly disbale that intro movie? My PC refuses to skip it every. time.
Yup.
Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini
Also is there any way to permantly disbale that intro movie? My PC refuses to skip it every. time.
Yup.
Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\UserSettings.ini
:bow
Played til 2am last night. :-\
It seems to me that expansion only hinders you while all the other civs can expand with no penalty.
Yeah the game slows to a crawl near the end. During my last game, it was getting to the point that I could do some household chores in between turns. :lol
Aarbia just offered me two cities while negotiating for peace, in a war I was losing. This is on king difficulty, btw. :-\
You guys have been asking for an update about what we're working on to improve the game, and today I am happy to give it to you.
This is the list of updates to the game that the developers have been working on the past couple weeks. This isn't necessarily the complete patch notes for the next patch, but it's what I have so far.
Keep in mind that these are just the first batch of changes that will go in to the first major patch. We're planning more improvements (such as the much-asked-for Hotseat and Pitboss) that will be coming in a later patch.
UI
Fix for production prompt that sometimes appears with newly created puppet states that could stop the player from being able to end the turn.
Aircraft banner corrections – now when you rebase an aircraft, the number will move with it.
Resource icons now come up with Ctrl-R again, instead of sharing the same button with Build Roads.
Selecting a great general will no longer cause yield icons to appear.
Added option to disable auto-unit cycling.
Fix for full-screen game when running dual monitors. Previously, the curser could scroll off the “open” side, and not be able to scroll the map in that direction.
Misc additional fixes to mouse controls, and other interface issues.
Rounded out financial information in the Economic Overview screen. Details now provided on the amount of gold provided by each city, the cost of buildings in each city, etc.
Auto-populate save menu with save file name
Allow selection of other cities by hex from within the city screen
Added detailed trade route info to Economic Overview screen
MODDING
Category list now displays correctly
GAMEPLAY
Workers - Added option to force workers to ignore manually made improvements (so they don’t change what you decide was best for a plot).
Workers - Fixed bug where number of turns to complete were incorrect in build action button tool-tip.
Economy - Fixed bug where players could disband a single unit, and not see the economic return until disbanding 1 more.
Economy – Increased city wealth setting to 25%
Economy – Multiple fixes to the way trade-routes are tabulated and recognized.
Economy - Can now sell Buildings in a city (to help lower maintenance for obsolete buildings later in the game).
Trade – Found and corrected a Trade problem that could cause your Resource inventory to multiply.
City States - Fixed a bug where you could not gift aircraft to city states.
Military - Medic promotion now only provides healing bonus for adjacent units.
Military – Fix for Minuteman movement.
Military – Correct promotions for “archer-like” units (horse archers, chariots).
Military - Embarked units will no longer slow enemy land units
Military - Improved unit cycling logic. Camera will jump around much less.
Balance - Engineers +1 hammer
AI
Military – Better handling of unit need (navy vs land, etc.) .
Military - AI will tend to build ships to deal with blockaded cities more often
Military – Corrected an issue hampering movement of AI armies, especially when in close proximity to enemy forces
Diplomacy – AI will be more reluctant to offer or accept open border agreements with more powerful opponents.
Diplomacy – Fix for never ending deals (peace, research agreements, etc).
City – City specialization and city focus improvements.
City - Cities that are Avoiding Growth will not grow while that option is selected
Workers – Priority of trading posts reduced, and rebalanced priorities on other improvements
Workers – Improved the path-finding mechanic when building route-to roads improved, including a large performance increase when evaluating road-pathing.
MULTIPLAYER
Exploit – Fix for gifting unit exploit
Chat – Color-coding, sound alerts, etc., added for in-game chat system, including a larger window.
Deals – Additional deal validation put in place to verify deals before they are committed
MISC
Research treaties that end because you declare war will no longer grant the free tech
Save/Load – Fix for corrupted saves being experienced by some players in late-game.
Map - Huge map crash-during-load fix that were reported on some specific systems.
Map – Terrain caching fix that could cause problems for certain video cards (the “glowing red orbs” seen on the map are an indicator of this).
Map – Fix for the low res terrain that appears the first time the game is run (terrain tiles would not load in anything but low-res the first time you play on some computer configurations)
Strategic View – Crash fix for units rendering in background.
Strategic View – Fix for selecting units either standing on a city plot, or garrisoned in the city plot.
Eyefinity – Better handling of leader scenes when using Eyefinity displays.
Tutorials – Many tutorial tweaks and adjustments.
Multiple crash fixes.
When the patch is actually released (no ETA right now; I'm working on that!) I'll unstick and close this thread.
Fix for production prompt that sometimes appears with newly created puppet states that could stop the player from being able to end the turn.
Economy - Fixed bug where players could disband a single unit, and not see the economic return until disbanding 1 more.
City - Cities that are Avoiding Growth will not grow while that option is selected
Tutorials – Many tutorial tweaks and adjustments.
2K Games announces plans to release new DLC for Sid Meier's Civilization V next week on October 25. They will offer a Mongols Civilization and Scenario Pack that will be free to all owners of the turn-based strategy sequel as well as sales of a Babylonian Civilization Pack for $4.99 USD which was included for free with the Civilization V Digital Deluxe Edition.
# City - Make sure Puppets don't construct buildings that require Resources. (new 10/14)
# City - Add a Puppet city strategy that turns off training buildings and emphasizes gold. (new 10/14)
# Military – Defensive tactical AI update. When you are at war and threatening an enemy city, the AI will better utilize the garrison, as well as the surrounding terrain in defense of the target city. (new 10/20)
December Patch - Full Change List
Greetings Civ Forumers!
This morning I have a very exciting bit of info to give to you: The final complete list of changes going in to the next patch. I decided to create a fresh thread for this so it'll be easier for people to see the discussion of this version of the changes.
This patch is expected to release ahead of the DLC next week, so that means on or before December 16th.
Oh, and apologies for these patch notes not listing which changes are new since the last update; this is a rewritten list with all of the changes, and also provides more details about a lot of the items that you guys have been asking about.
Without further ado:
[AI]
[TACTICAL AI]
Proper evaluation of which enemy units can reach my units next turn.
Sorting enemy targets (within a class) by damage.
Combine bombardment fire from cities with other ranged fire where possible.
Never target a city for a ranged attack when they are already at (or going to be at) 1 health.
Have the tactical AI be more aggressive about fortifying units that aren't moving anyways.
Make all forms of guarding improvements the lowest priority tactical AI moves.
Don't mark tiles adjacent to enemy at sea as good for flank attacks -- there is no flanking at sea.
Update to tactical AI pillaging code - now prioritize enemy land resources and trade routes (never regular mines or farms). Always uses the check to make sure AI is not trying to pillage in an enemy dominance zone. Barbarians will still target everything.
Never use ranged units to provide flank bonuses.
Reduce chance of AI civs making "suicide" attacks.
Changes to better protect the capital or any city with an enemy within 5 tiles.
[VICTORY]
AI will be more aggressive about pursuing Diplo victory (bribing City States) if they are wealthy.
AI will be more aggressive about building Spaceship parts when going for Science victory.
[CIVS]
Tweak a few leader settings to be more likely to use their traits.
Adjust Napoleon to make more likely to go for culture.
[COMBAT/UNITS]
AI will not use Horse as defenders on hills as much.
AI will often build more defensive troops.
AI will more aggressively hunt barbs in the early game.
Slightly more naval units.
AI will now build ranged and mobile units more in line with the flavor settings for the team - in general, this means more mobile units.
AI now builds, deploys, and uses air units more effectively.
Allow AI to build more units if above Prince.
AI will be more likely to build and bring siege units in a city attack.
Better nuke targeting by AI.
Won't build AA if no air threat.
Allow AI or automated human explorers to move to edge of sight range and then explore again.
[EXPLORATION/EXPANSION]
AI will emphasize getting an Ocean going explorer unit when the time comes.
AI slightly more likely to settle off home continent.
AI should colonize other continents regularly.
AI second wave expansion more aggressive.
Improve the AI's chances of setting up protected bombard attacks.
Settlers: should handle watery maps better.
AI will grab goody huts on other land masses.
AI will grab empty barb camps more often.
[WORKERS/CITY AI]
Large Cities should be more willing to build happiness and gold buildings.
Workers prioritize repair builds higher than other builds.
AI will be more likely to build a wall on any city that was an original capital.
Builder tasking now calculates yields appropriately during golden ages and weighs tiles according to how much stuff they provide overall as well as their maximum yield of a certain type.
More likely to build up economy early.
Multiple worker AI improvements.
[MISC]
Factor GS into flavors more.
Disband obsolete units even if not losing money.
Upgrade units a bit more.
Tweak flavors of policies a bit.
Have AI factor Grand Strategy into picking policies.
AI will factor grand strategy into tech choices a bit more.
AI don't send a barb expedition if defenses are critical.
AI less likely to pick a city on an inland sea for serious naval production.
Additional pathfinder optimization.
[GAMEPLAY]
[CITY/BUILDINGS]
Added "National Treasury" national wonder, which requires Markets in all cities. Provides +8 Gold per turn to the city in which it's built.
Added “Circus Maximus” national wonder, which requires Colosseums in all cities.. Provides 5 Happiness.
Library now has no specialist slots.
Wat now has two specialist slots.
Public school now has 1 Science per pop, +1 free Great Scientist point, +1 Culture for 3 gold maintenance.
Observatory now has 1 specialist slot.
Research Lab has two specialist slots.
Public school now provides 1 beaker per pop for 3 gold maintenance.
Watermill now provides +2 good and +1 production for 2 gold maintenance.
Paper Maker now has no specialist slots.
Circus now has +2 happiness and no maintenance.
Theatre now has +5 happiness.
Stadium now has +5 happiness.
Reduced production cost and maintenance for the Courthouse.
Courthouse can now be purchased in a city (although it is expensive).
Removed maintenance from city defense buildings (Walls, Castle, Military Base).
City defense buildings now help cities heal.
Increased city strength ramp-up based on technology.
Reduced effects of Forbidden Palace and Meritocracy (Happiness per city).
Reduced amount of food needed for cities to grow at larger sizes.
Buildings can now no longer provide more Happiness than there is population in a city (wonders are excluded from this).
Ironworks now gives 10 hammers instead of a % bonus.
National College now gives +5 science in addition to the % bonus.
Hermitage gives 5 culture in addition to its previous bonus.
Raze/Unraze exploit fixed.
Cities being razed are unhappy about it (only during the razing process).
Cities heal more quickly.
[UNITS/PROMOTIONS]
Cavalry can now go obsolete with Combustion.
Stealth bombers cannot use carriers.
Only allow one upgrade per unit from a goody hut.
Add second embarkation promotion ("Defensive Embarkation").
Amount of damage done during naval combat increased.
All melee horse units get penalty attacking cities.
Increased city attack penalty for mounted and armor units to 50% (from 40%).
Lancers (and Lancer UUs) upgrade to helicopter.
Lowered combat value of Horseman and Companion Cavalry.
Promotions must be picked the turn they're earned.
Can no longer promote a unit that has fought during the turn (instead, the promotion comes up the beginning of the following turn).
Catapults and Trebuchets now weaker against units but stronger VS cities.
Reduced effectiveness of Archers & Crossbowmen (and their UUs) VS cities.
Reduced some combat bonuses: flanking (15 to 10), Great Generals (25 to 20), Discipline (15 to 10), Military Tradition (2x to 1.5x).
Remove requirement for aluminum on Mobile SAM.
Lower open terrain penalty to 10% .
Marsh is now 3 moves to enter (Chariots do not move quickly through it anymore).
Cavalry now upgrade to tanks.
[CITY STATES]
Reduced bonuses from Maritime city-states - Friends: +2 food in capital, +0 food in other cities - Allies: +3 food in capital, +1 food in other cities
Only the first 3 units gifted to a city-state will earn Influence now.
Killing a barb inside a city-state's territory now gives a 5-turn buffer where there is no Influence intrusion penalty.
[HAPPINESS]
If an empire reaches -20 Happiness, it goes into revolt, and rebels start appearing throughout the empire, based on the number of cities.
Amount of Happiness needed to trigger a Golden Age reduced.
Amount of Happiness needed to trigger a Golden Age now increases as the number of cities in the empire goes up.
[POLICIES]
Landed Elite (Tradition Branch) now reduces culture cost of border growth by 2/3.
Monarchy (Tradition Branch) now provides +1 Gold per 2 pop in the Capital..
Liberty now provides a Settler training bonus to only the capital, and not every city.
Tradition now provides +50% growth in the capital.
Theocracy now reduces Unhappiness by 25% .
Reformation now gives a 10-turn GA.
Adopting Rationalism now gives a 4-turn GA.
[TECH TREE]
Add link between Military Science and Dynamite.
Add link between Civil Service and Education.
Add link between Economics and Scientific Theory.
Add link between Chivalry and Acoustics.
Research overflow now works correctly (extra beakers after completing a tech will rollover to the next tech).
[GENERAL]
Fixed bug where clicking on a city plot wouldn't select the garrison.
Natural wonders now award culture (if worked) and happiness (if in border) if that trait is assigned to a wonder in XML.
Players must now always adopt Policies immediately, and cannot defer picking until later.
Have culture cost for policies never go down (trading away cities to reduce culture cost exploit). Razing cities will not raise your policy cost ceiling.
Reduced culture needed for first plot acquisition from 20 to 15.
3 new Natural Wonders and rarity code for both base game and New World scenario.
Reduced points from Wonders (40 to 25) & Cities (10 to 8), increased points for pop by 1 (3 to 4).
[DIPLOMACY]
AI's attitude towards you is now visible in the diplo screen and diplo drop-down.
Added info tooltip for an AI leader's mood. Lists things that are making an AI player happy/upset.
New diplo system: Declaration of Friendship (public declaration with diplomatic repercussions).
New diplo system: Denounce (public declaration with diplomatic repercussions).
New custom leader responses (Serious Expansion Warning, Aggressive Military, Luxury Exchange, Borders Exchange, Gift Request, etc.).
Not agreeing to a friend's request now results in a relations hit.
Third party AIs can now respond when a player makes a DoF or denounces someone. What they say is based on the situation - e.g. if you make friends with someone they don't like, they'll scold you.
AI leaders will now sometimes ask their friends to denounce one of their enemies as a show of support, and refusing to denounce someone when an AI asks can now make them very upset.
AI is now capable of denouncing friends (aka, backstabbing) and added backstabbing info to diplo overview screen.
[UI]
Add XP bar for air units, do not allow XP for air units attacking a city that is already down to its last hit-point.
Change ActivePlayer's name to "You" in single player in score list.
Added game option to disable automated workers from removing features.
Fixed bug where Happiness from garrisoned units wasn't being listed in Happiness info tooltip.
Load Map function will now display correct size and type of saved map.
New “Angry Genghis” loading screen (replaces the “fluffy-bunny Genghis” loading screen).
Added setup options to allow players to defer choosing Policies and Promotions right away.
Show the river penalty when attacking city across river (the penalty was there but was not being shown in the preview).
Global politics screen updated to reflect new diplo system.
Can no longer Force End Turn (shift-enter) through blocking notifications. CAN now use it to skip over units which need orders.
Multiple tweaks and bug fixes.
[MISC]
Fix small bugs with adding long roads around existing features.
Fixed bombard arrow across world wrap.
[MODDING]
Parent category counts now include counts of child categories.
Selecting/deselecting a category now automatically selects/deselects it's children and its parent.
Tweaked category name truncation to better fit names.
Hide categories w/ no children and a count of 0.
Added support for fallback languages (if mod is not translated, fall-back to English so text keys are not showing).
The pager for the installed mods tab of the mods browser is now displayed in the correct location.
Long values for properties such as "Special Thanks" will no longer extend past the edge browser frame.
Categories refresh much faster now in the mods browser.
Multiple additional tweaks and fixes to the mod browser.
Support for mods that perform major restructuring of the tech tree including adding, deleting, and updating techs, buildings, and units.
Added GameEvents system for overriding Gameplay DLL specific functionality.
Fixed "Reload Landmark System" mod flag to now refresh landmarks defined in "ArtDefine_Landmarks".
Multiple SDK updates (new version to go live shortly).
[SERIALIZATION/SAVES]
Fixed save format which causes saves to increase the memory footprint of the game drastically when loading frequently over the course of the game. This heightened the risk of late-game our of memory crashes significantly.
I really want to play CIV V but I'm waiting for Nvidia to optimize the SLI performance. The game runs really well on 1 card but barely improves with another.
:omg that's awesome, and quite unrealistic, but awesome nonetheless. Thanks GR, you're a doll.
Lastly, a question regarding all three: do I collect/start collecting these resources the minute my cities cover them, or when workers are assigned to them? holy shit why did I buy this game I'm not even grasping the simplest concepts of the game. Thought it'd be more akin to other RTSes. Excuse me, I'm gonna lie in bed in a fetal position.Basic food/production/gold is collected when (on your city screen) one of your citizens is assigned to that tile.