I know realistically, Civilizations are supposed to change with history...

But I'd rather stick with mechanized Sumerian War Cart tanks, thanks.

I think it's a nice vision. But hard for an established audience to accept and it's not implemented well in the fantasy of be any civ based on how you develop.

I've bought my wife each Civ from 1 on, until 7 was available. She did not want 7 in any way, shape, or form. In fact, she recently reverted to Civ 3, as that is her personal favorite version. She plays Civ 3 a lot!

My personal favorite Civ? FreeCiv.

Yes, I'm old. My wife is older but much cooler than me.

It's good to "have a vision" with a game...

But limiting players freedom is always bad. Paradox does a good job of it, an absolute mess of toggles and options for how you want the rules/requirements, and an easy to access cheat menu while in game.

If people want the game as devs intended, it's right there nice and easy. If you want to change something tho, just go for it

Speaking as one:

Sometimes, the creative director is wrong.

Did they give up on finishing civ 7? Lol

They were trying to copy Humankind, which tanked because of this system lol

I mean... Yeah? It's not even a good idea on paper to have the civ change to a totally different civ every new era. That is fucking dumb and they should have listened to the focus testers that said as much.

I think that section is about that you have to change civ when the era changes. So you can't even play as China from start to finish, you have to start again at each age.

I haven't played with 7 yet though

“We got feedback in some of our focus testing before the game shipped that there was going to be some level of controversy here, but we didn’t realize quite how strongly players identified with the idea of, ‘I need to take some people and grow them and have that specific civilization cultural set be what’s growing to face the challenges of world history,’” he added.

This is the situation I am in. I am an avid Civ player since Civ I. I can probably express my time playing the franchise in terms of person-years.

Every new Civ takes a while to get used to. I bought Civ VII on release, just like all the others. I started a game, and I think I was China, led by Cleopatra, or something. And it instantly took me out of the game. It flipped a switch on my enthusiasm. I don't think I even finished it. If anything, over the past year, I have been playing a lot more Civ VI. I mean, it's equally absurd to have Cleopatra lead Egypt for 6000 years, isn't it? But for some reason, that isn't as jarring.

Maybe I should try it again, but I have less time for games as I get older anyway.

Playable? Yes, I read some people already like it, it has some interesting mechanics for sure.

Finished and as good as a predecessor? Not yet, the last era wasn't even released yet, the game feels very unfinished. Basically the game will be released in parts as a lot of dlcs.

This Apple port was developed by a different studio, mainline civ development is not affected by this.

Is civ7 in a playable state yet? I hear it was a shitstorm at release.

You can run the full version there

I wonder how nice it would be on a steam deck.

Finally a novelization of One Man One Jar.

It would be interesting if there were more ways of losing pop tho

Ye kinda for the meme, it's way too much, pop are just one of the most important resource

-1 pop is harsh

Gives tourism, and also -1 pop to the capital of the city which has more tourists there (lol)

This game wins at 'pointless online features'. Who wants a chat room in a single player game??

Edit: Played it for a while. It's a hidden mmo. Instant uninstall for me

Big number good, bigger number getting more bigger faster better

I’d love to hear from people who enjoy these sorts of games. They absolutely baffle me, as someone who loves games for a wide variety of reasons.

Sorry, I realize I could have been more clear with my question.

So, I wasn't interested in the new mechanic of switching civilizations multiple times throughout the game and I'm glad they added an option to turn that off. However, are the other prominent mechanics of the game different or improved (although that might be too subjective) enough from 6 for me to give it a try, or should I just stick to 6 for now?

Afaik the last age is still not included, so no Giant Death Robot, I'm still waiting.

Well. Like any game vs. software release, this is not an uodate, just a new game. A different interpretation of Civ game concept.

Is there a point? Yes if you want to play this new game. If you like cov6, then no.