I don't know what to think.
I love Civ, but this all sounds like a couple of college kids passing a bong back and forth and one-upping each other.
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"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
It's all fun and games until Gandhi starts WWIII with China. 
It honestly sounds a lot like EVE Online.
It honestly sounds a lot like EVE Online.
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I'm kind of confused about what you'll actually be doing in the game. Like what parts are broken up into these sessions and what remains afterwards? Is it like a persistent map RTS kind of game? It made it sounds like that from saying
Are you all members of a civilization, like different city-states? Does everyone run a civilization, or only the popular/best players?
I have a confused.
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If you are not online 24 hours a day to lead your city, you can delegate orders to other players and have them carried out.
Are you all members of a civilization, like different city-states? Does everyone run a civilization, or only the popular/best players?
I have a confused.
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The whole "Someone wins and we start over" thing sounds... worrisome.
One of civ's major features is the technological advances over time. But if I'm using assault rifles in an ancient civilization, it pretty much defeats the purpose.
And I don't love the idea of a brand new map each time. I like the world evolving. I like there being new things to explore and find. I don't like the idea of the past having no influence on the present geography.
IDK, I'll try and wait to judge it until we learn anything concrete about it. They're making it clear, from that info, that it's very early in development.
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Also, how the hell are you supposed to compete if you come into a session late? How long do these sessions last? These are important questions. If each session is going to be 6 months, you have no chance of winning if you join the game 3 months in.
Also, if you keep your personal progression, what are you progressing in? Players with a bunch of sessions under their belt are going to either have a huge advantage, or progression won't mean much. In EVE, you can become competitive fast by spending your first month or so in specialized training. But EVE doesn't have victory conditions to rate those against. Just survival, profit, etc.
Edited, Aug 7th 2013 3:27pm by idiggory
One of civ's major features is the technological advances over time. But if I'm using assault rifles in an ancient civilization, it pretty much defeats the purpose.
And I don't love the idea of a brand new map each time. I like the world evolving. I like there being new things to explore and find. I don't like the idea of the past having no influence on the present geography.
IDK, I'll try and wait to judge it until we learn anything concrete about it. They're making it clear, from that info, that it's very early in development.
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Also, how the hell are you supposed to compete if you come into a session late? How long do these sessions last? These are important questions. If each session is going to be 6 months, you have no chance of winning if you join the game 3 months in.
Also, if you keep your personal progression, what are you progressing in? Players with a bunch of sessions under their belt are going to either have a huge advantage, or progression won't mean much. In EVE, you can become competitive fast by spending your first month or so in specialized training. But EVE doesn't have victory conditions to rate those against. Just survival, profit, etc.
Edited, Aug 7th 2013 3:27pm by idiggory
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
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Sounds like the objective modes from FPS games: get objective, first team to meet objective wins, game restarts with new objective, repeat.
The maps will probably be the game zones, and you'll get different objectives based on to which zone you travel.
Edited, Aug 7th 2013 3:27pm by Shaowstrike
The maps will probably be the game zones, and you'll get different objectives based on to which zone you travel.
Edited, Aug 7th 2013 3:27pm by Shaowstrike
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I like the idea of an evolving, but persistent, world with objectives. I don't think I like the idea of a MMO that hits reset on the world every so often.
IDrownFish wrote:
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lolgaxe wrote:
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I think that was kinda my question too, like what all resets? The whole game? Do you get some kind of persistent character across several scenarios in that case? Like even a screen that displays like a record/scorecard detailing past glories and failures? Are you actually in the world you build at all? Like having an avatar, or is it just you watching from above? Kinda looks like the second one, but I see peoples! I want to click on them!
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someproteinguy wrote:
Like even a screen that displays like a record/scorecard detailing past glories and failures?
"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
I like the idea of an evolving, but persistent, world with objectives. I don't think I like the idea of a MMO that hits reset on the world every so often.
I'd think of it more like a set of servers, each with its own progression/game going on. Each game starts in the ancient age, and players are assigned to one of four civilizations (or maybe they can pick, no way to know, but you'd have to have some sort of balance in terms of players or it wont work). Each player is part of a larger team (really large, it sounds like). Depending on the stage a given civilization is in, it'll have certain broad goals to reach. Each player does their small part in working towards that goal. That could be running around scouting in the early game. Building structures, farms, mines, etc, and of course fighting with barbarians or other civilizations.
What you choose to do when you log in would be up to you, but the civilization with more people doing useful things that need to be done will advance faster and gain more advantages over time. Think of it more like a massive minecraft game, but with goals to achieve, and everyone working together to achieve those goals. I imagine each "game" might last months or even years.
Not sure how they'll handle positions and whatnot. I suppose they'll have to do some testing to figure out how constrained or open this system needs to be to work. It does sound pretty ambitious though. If they pull it off, it'll be pretty amazing. If they don't, it'll suck badly and die.
King Nobby wrote:
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My problem is ultimately with the resetting world and the idea of the "winner."
Right now, there are 4 civs at launch, and 4 ages. Civs can be absorbed into another civ if they grow too weak, by not working together.
When the world resets, your gold, items, and clothing are lost. There will be some things that carry over, but they haven't decided what exactly.
But, frankly, I'm just not interested in a game that resets. A persistent world that changes forever? I'm 100% on board. A world that's going to have a winner and start over? A world where you probably have no chance of winning if you weren't involved from the start? I'm just not interested.
Right now, there are 4 civs at launch, and 4 ages. Civs can be absorbed into another civ if they grow too weak, by not working together.
When the world resets, your gold, items, and clothing are lost. There will be some things that carry over, but they haven't decided what exactly.
But, frankly, I'm just not interested in a game that resets. A persistent world that changes forever? I'm 100% on board. A world that's going to have a winner and start over? A world where you probably have no chance of winning if you weren't involved from the start? I'm just not interested.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
gbaji wrote:
idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
I like the idea of an evolving, but persistent, world with objectives. I don't think I like the idea of a MMO that hits reset on the world every so often.
I'd think of it more like a set of servers, each with its own progression/game going on. Each game starts in the ancient age, and players are assigned to one of four civilizations (or maybe they can pick, no way to know, but you'd have to have some sort of balance in terms of players or it wont work). Each player is part of a larger team (really large, it sounds like). Depending on the stage a given civilization is in, it'll have certain broad goals to reach. Each player does their small part in working towards that goal. That could be running around scouting in the early game. Building structures, farms, mines, etc, and of course fighting with barbarians or other civilizations.
What you choose to do when you log in would be up to you, but the civilization with more people doing useful things that need to be done will advance faster and gain more advantages over time. Think of it more like a massive minecraft game, but with goals to achieve, and everyone working together to achieve those goals. I imagine each "game" might last months or even years.
Not sure how they'll handle positions and whatnot. I suppose they'll have to do some testing to figure out how constrained or open this system needs to be to work. It does sound pretty ambitious though. If they pull it off, it'll be pretty amazing. If they don't, it'll suck badly and die.
I have to agree with digg that the whole reset concept just gives me pause. Of course, I've been wrong about this type of thing in the past so I guess only time will tell.
I might find it interesting if I could hire companions as time went on. For instance, I build a farm myself until it reaches a point where the income stream lets me hire a companion who then manages the farm to keep things going with just some minor tweaking needed by me, maybe on a daily basis. Then I go off and build something else, or attack something and take it over, or whatever, like a mine, or a barracks . . . or a brothel. Yeah, gotta have brothels as an option . . . I'm going off track here . . .
"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
Well, they said that right now, anyone can craft any item in the game. But if you spend your skill points in crafting, you'll be better at it, etc.
My impression is that the idea was more about community projects, not individual ones. In that the test of the empire is how well the citizens work together. And it's less about creating your own stuff, but more about creating stuff for the city. They specified it wouldn't be a game about building a player house, but would be about making the city more grandiose. Or something along those lines - I'm honestly too lazy to go get the link from Kotaku.
Little I read really made me love it. It's a little too "GO GO COMMUNITY" and then the idea of just losing all my progress when someone wins wasn't pleasant. And I'm honestly not interested in any game that competitive. Maybe it'll really appeal to classic Civ players? I have difficulty justifying that much time in anything you can actually "win." Idk, I'm just imagining if WoW just reset after downing the Lich King, and it was alternate timeline Cataclysm or something, and you didn't get to keep your gold, or your items, or your levels. And it's just not interesting to me.
My impression is that the idea was more about community projects, not individual ones. In that the test of the empire is how well the citizens work together. And it's less about creating your own stuff, but more about creating stuff for the city. They specified it wouldn't be a game about building a player house, but would be about making the city more grandiose. Or something along those lines - I'm honestly too lazy to go get the link from Kotaku.
Little I read really made me love it. It's a little too "GO GO COMMUNITY" and then the idea of just losing all my progress when someone wins wasn't pleasant. And I'm honestly not interested in any game that competitive. Maybe it'll really appeal to classic Civ players? I have difficulty justifying that much time in anything you can actually "win." Idk, I'm just imagining if WoW just reset after downing the Lich King, and it was alternate timeline Cataclysm or something, and you didn't get to keep your gold, or your items, or your levels. And it's just not interesting to me.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
It sounds to me a lot like the ladder system in Diablo 2, where every six months a race to see who can level the highest would reset, and you would have to make a new character and start the race again. This strikes me as a more community-oriented version of that. It was phenomenally popular with the players, but not really for me.
idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
But, frankly, I'm just not interested in a game that resets. A persistent world that changes forever? I'm 100% on board. A world that's going to have a winner and start over? A world where you probably have no chance of winning if you weren't involved from the start? I'm just not interested.
Given the type of game they're trying to create, you can't have a persistent world that lasts forever because of the bolded bit. It's not about improving your character, but about collectively building the best civilization. Therefore, there kinda has to be an endpoint for two reasons:
1. Can't just keep inventing more stuff for civilizations to develop. It's not as easy as adding more levels and gear and tougher monsters.
2. As you say, once a civilization gets sufficiently far ahead, the odds of the other civs catching up is nearly zero.
I think it will appeal to folks who like to play games like civilization. It's not like you keep anything from one game to the next, yet amazingly, lots of people play game after game. Because it's not about keeping what you built in the last game. It's about developing better strategies for winning the next one. How this can translate into a massively multiplayer version? No clue. But it is an interesting concept, if for no other reason than it does turn the concept of player reward focus that's common in such games upside down. One can also argue that the less direct player/character rewards the better the game will be. If the only thing you gain from the game is the satisfaction of your civilization winning you'll actually work with everyone on your civ to win. If there are player rewards for doing certain things, or perks you can earn to carry over from game to game, people will do those instead of helping their side win. Which I suppose is interesting from a sociological perspective, but would probably result in a frustrating game that will fail.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
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If it's only being planned for SK...
Then why the hell are there such extensive English interviews on it?
Then why the hell are there such extensive English interviews on it?
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
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Because it's Civ, and no one knew that it was for SK only. 2K jumped at the free publicity for the game since the articles will probably be translated into Korean at some point.
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"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
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