5821

It’s definitely more cramped – the default percent of tiles that are land tiles is something like 28! I recommend increasing that to around 40, at least. And decreasing the amount of desert and mountain tiles will open up more space for cities.

5822

Hmmm, 28%. Suspiciously like the real world. ;-)

I rather like it cramped myself, though I might consider reducing the amount of desert and perhaps mountains.

5823

Tried to make it work, but there is no directly called ‘PublicMaps’ So where is it supposed to go, I’ve tried quite a few places, but nothing spawns the Perfect world into the list when I host a MP game…

Any takers?

Urk, apperantly the take on MP maps is only for hotseat, what crap.

5824

Have anyone tried this mod? Large Scale Mod

5825

Expansion announced, per RPS. I’m on mobile so no link, sorry. Religion, diplomacy, nine new Civs. My question is will they finish MP?

“Late spring” release date.

5826

Religion-focused, (looks like a new kind of civic system, with religions you can “level up” with new traits), espionage, nine new civs, new stuff (buildings, techs, units, wonders), expanded city-states, out “late spring 2012.”

Excited!!!

5827

Why did RPS mis-spell CiviliZation?

5828

Damn Brits need to learn English!

5829

Looking through the feature list I think I see why we stopped getting big patches - and I’m cool with that (I feel CiV is pretty damn solid right now, though I’m not the best player so the AI still gives me a run for my money).

There is a LOT of awesome packed in here, this is a day 1 purchase for me easily.

5830

I know they use S for Z a lot over there, but this is a game title - why are they changing the title of the game? Do they correctly use FEAR 3 instead of F3AR or whatever the hell? Maybe that’s a bad example. You know what I mean.

5831

Might as well c-and-p from the press release

Tons of New Stuff. I know I just mentioned it, but I want to draw attention to just how many new things we’ve got here: 27 new units, 13 new buildings, 9 new wonders, and 9 new playable civilizations. Among the new civilizations are the Netherlands (William I, Prince of Orange), the Celts (Boudicca), and the Mayans (Pacal the Great).

Religion. That’s right; quite possibly the most requested major addition to the game is coming in the Gods & Kings expansion. Using the new “Faith” resource, you’ll be able to found your own religion and grow it from a simple Pantheon of the Gods to a world-spanning fully-customized religion.

Reworked Combat System. The expansion has a reworked combat system along with an AI that places more emphasis on balanced army composition. Among the changes to the combat system is the addition of melee naval units, which will force you to really rethink the way you execute your naval assaults.

Enhanced Diplomacy, with Espionage. In addition to being able to establish embassies with your rival civilizations, spies will now be an important part of how you conduct your foreign affairs. Surveilling foreign cities, stealing advanced techs, and garnering influence with city-states are some of the things you’ll be able to do with this new powerful mechanic.

New City-States. With religion being added to the game, it only made sense to introduce Religious city-states which will interact with your religion in special ways. In addition, Mercantile city-states will be attractive for those of you who love to grow your civilization’s treasury. All city-states will use the greatly expanded quest system, making city-states more dynamic and diplomatic victories more challenging, while decreasing the importance of gold when dealing with city-states.

New Scenarios. Three new scenarios will be coming in Civilization V: Gods & Kings. Experience the fall of Rome, explore the medieval era, and my personal favorite: a unique scenario in a Victorian science-fiction setting.

Damn, that is a lot of stuff. I’m in.

5832

It’s a writefag thing, I think. Tom does it too.

As for Fear 3 & RPS, they have called it Fear 3, F.E.A.R. 3, F.3.A.R, Fthreear and probably other things that I don’t want to know about.

5833

Sweet Jesus, we finally get an expansion! Hopefully, this will be the “Beyond the Sword” expansion for CiV.

I wonder what the price point of this is going to be? $40?

5834

Lol, and the Civfanatics forum is getting slammed to the point it’s telling me to try again later.

5835

Big pics of religion and espionage screens. The religion screen also confirms that Byzantium will be one of the new civs.

5836

Religion! Finally!

I’m in!

5837

It looks like you can customize each religion, which is awesome.

I always felt that the identical-religions-with-different-names of Civ IV was a gigantic copout. Though, to be fair, even touching religion in the first place was a big risk.

5838

If they can make the AI work, this might be worth something finally.

5839

Maybe we’ll get Pitboss and animations in MP?

5840

Looks awesome. I’m going to have to find time to shoehorn in Civ V once this comes out, and that’s a big chunk of time. I suppose I can do without my Diablo II retro-gaming, and stop buying more Steam sales to add to the to-play pile.