Gort posted:

Wait a second - if you trade food or production to one of your cities, is that food just created from nothingness? I assumed you were just redistributing existing goods, not creating them out of thin air! A tradition strategy as Venice where all your bought city-states trade Venice food might be insanely good - Venice would grow large with half-unhappiness citizens, and use its own trade routes to make money.

Can't wait to get off work and try it.

Skyl3lazer posted:

You can swap them with people, look under the greats works section and there's a way to trade them with other civs.

Gabriel Pope posted:

Jesuit Education: May build Universities, Public Schools, and Research Labs with Faith.

Prism posted:

But does the price go up as you buy more of them, like it does for Faith-bought Great People?

Fryhtaning posted:

There have been like 3 explanation in the last couple of pages - just read back and all shall be answered. Starting with this one.

Triskelli posted:

Looks like Bazookas still have a 1-tile ranged attack like gatling guns and machine guns. Was kinda hoping they would be bumped back up to two tiles in the face of how fast units are moving at the end of the game.

Also! Some modders got a look at the XML code, and here's a handy guide to curating Great Works for fun and profit!

Museum
Museum requirements are picked at random! Try experimenting!

Hermitage
Only holds Great Works
Each Work should be from a different Era
Each Work should be from a different Player
Gives +3 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Oxford University
Holds Great Works and Artifacts
Each Exhibit should be from a foreign Civ
Gives +2 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Sistine Chapel
Only holds Great Works
Each Work should be from the same Era
Each Work should be from the same Player
Gives +2 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Lourve
Should contain an equal number of Artifacts and Great Works of Art
Each Exhibit should be from a different Era
Each Exhibit should be from a different Player
Gives +4 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Great Library
Holds Great Works and Artifacts
Each Exhibit should be from a different Era
Each Exhibit should be from a different Player
Gives +2 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Sydney Opera House
Holds Great Works and Artifacts
Each Exhibit should be from a different Era
Each Exhibit should be from the same Player
Gives +2 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Uffizi
Only holds Great Works
Each Work should be from the same Era
Each Work should be from the same Player
Gives +3 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Globe Theater
Holds Great Works and Artifacts
Each Exhibit should be from the same Era
Each Exhibit should be from the same Player
Gives +2 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Broadway
Holds Great Works and Artifacts
Each Exhibit should be from the same Era
Each Exhibit should be from the same Player
Gives +3 bonus Culture and Tourism if properly curated

Poizen Jam posted:

Just so no-one thinks I'm nuts- this is kind of annoying as all hell.




Great writer in city, city has a free spot, no option to create great work of writing. I'm thinking it has to be related to a gameplay feature, like no more works to create, since the icon is flat out missing rather than greyed out.

JVNO posted:

-Vanilla lancers? As opposed to a unique lancer...?

RyokoTK posted:

I'm relatively new to Civ 5, but I love this game. It's a lot of fun!

RyokoTK posted:

These are pretty bad games, aren't they.

RyokoTK posted:

In fairness, I've been playing Civ games for about 20 years (I skipped 4, though), so I already knew they were bad, they're just also fun despite being bad.

The White Dragon posted:

It's hardly a great city, but I'm assuming that's your best option since you aren't really showing us anywhere else.

The White Dragon posted:

I would move your right-side plan to be adjacent to Mt. Fuji.

The White Dragon posted:

Luxury resources imo. Which ones are in your capital? It's really close and there's a ton of it nearby so I'm just kinda assuming that one of your spawns was Gold.

MMM Whatchya Say posted:

Echo Chamber posted:

This is good news but not surprising because he designed the two expansions for Civ5.

Rakthar posted:

For those that are digging it, what about it appeals?

StashAugustine posted:

Did Soren Johnson not do the Civ 4 xpacs?

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I have to say that my initial reaction to that art style was negative. It's much more cartoony, which isn't inherently a bad thing but majorly informs the tone of the game, and I'm not sure I want a cartoony Civ game.

The Human Crouton posted:

Art style turns me off immediately. In a small part because I don't like it, but mostly because I fear they will make my favorite game cutesy, simple game.

Gabriel Pope posted:

What I'm hoping: active research will help with the "science wins everything" by keeping civs that are less than 100% science competitive in their own domains, so science civs can't just out-culture culture civs and out-military military civs by getting to all the good techs first.

What will actually happen: there will be several hilariously broken science acceleration research bonuses and the post-release metagame revolves around whatever arbitrary activity contributes active research for Writing and Education etc.

DOOMocrat posted:

Can't wait for somebody to pull a Diablo 3 by loading this thing into paint.net and turning the brightness down, with posts of "THERE, FIXED!"

DOOMocrat posted:

Bright does not equal low poly or badly lit. I spent entirely too much on a nice IPS monitor, bring on the technicolor triremes.

Skyl3lazer posted:

Has anyone complaining this looks like Clash of Clans actually ever seen what Clash of Clans looks like? They're not even close to similar.

The Human Crouton posted:

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

It is good. With a game like Civ, making a competent plays-to-win AI is the kind of thing that would require multiple people with Ph.Ds in expert systems and so on to implement. There's no way that Firaxis is going to devote that kind of effort; they'd get much better returns by just making the PvP systems more robust (which they probably won't do either, of course). Simulationist AIs are hard enough as it is, but they're still much, much easier than "fellow board game player" AIs.