New information from Gamestar.de preview

[lockstep]

Browsing the november edition of the German gamestar magazine, I found a Civilization 4 preview that contains some information that may be new (at least it was for me, but I'm getting old and forgetful):

• Revolts due to foreign cultural influence last a few turns and can be suppressed by sending in the military. If your response is not sufficient, the city will flip eventually.
• A single unit may be promoted up to 20 times, and promotion benefits carry over if the unit is upgraded.
• Golden ages last 8 turns.
• Hamlets (which are described as tile improvements like farms, although they may simply represent worked tiles on the map) will develop into villages and hereby increase your cash income. (The preview is a bit vague here.)

All things considered, the reviewer is quite enthusiastic about Civ4's gameplay and states that it has the chance to displace Civ2 as his personal favourite of the civ franchise.

[Nikolai]

Re: New information from Gamestar.de preview

Originally posted by lockstep
Browsing the november edition of the German gamestar magazine, I found a Civilization 4 preview that contains some information that may be new (at least it was for me, but I'm getting old and forgetful):[*]Revolts due to foreign cultural influence last a few turns and can be suppressed by sending in the military. If your response is not sufficient, the city will flip eventually.

So, flipping is in again now?

[*]A single unit may be promoted up to 20 times, and promotion benefits carry over if the unit is upgraded.

[*]Golden ages last 8 turns.

So short? Hopefully there's a reason for that...

][*]Hamlets (which are described as tile improvements like farms, although they may simply represent worked tiles on the map) will develop into villages and hereby increase your cash income. (The preview is a bit vague here.)

Villages in, that's another point to the List. I think we had it in the last one, and at least we had it in the old one.

[LordShiva]

Re: New information from Gamestar.de preview

Originally posted by lockstep

• Revolts due to foreign cultural influence last a few turns and can be suppressed by sending in the military. If your response is not sufficient, the city will flip eventually.

Originally posted by lockstep

• Hamlets (which are described as tile improvements like farms, although they may simply represent worked tiles on the map) will develop into villages and hereby increase your cash income. (The preview is a bit vague here.)

[Robert]

So, culture swapping is still in, but now you can prevent it. That sounds good! I always like culture-swapping, though it's good if you can mange it a little bit more.

@Nikolai: The golden ages dure shorter because you can have more golden ages then one.

[Nikolai]

I see. I hope it's dependent on what kind of game you're playing though. Like if you play an Epic game, with more turns on same amount of time, you'll get longer GAs.

[Solver]

Culture flipping sounds good. You get a revolt-warning for it, you can try and prevent it, and I do not doubt it that there is anyway an option to turn that off.

[Stuie]

Re: Re: New information from Gamestar.de preview

Originally posted by Nikolai

[*]Golden ages last 8 turns.

So short? Hopefully there's a reason for that...

Probably to compensate for the ability to have more than one GA per game.

Glad to hear unit promos carryover when upgraded. And I like the new implementation of flipping - sense a Prague Spring coming on? Send in the troops!

[sophist]

Re: Re: New information from Gamestar.de preview

Originally posted by Nikolai

[*]Golden ages last 8 turns.

So short? Hopefully there's a reason for that...

As posted above, partly because there can be more than one. In addition, a 20 turn Golden Age might be too powerful in comparison to the other things you can use Great People for, resulting in players only using them for GAs.

Originally posted by Nikolai
I see. I hope it's dependent on what kind of game you're playing though. Like if you play an Epic game, with more turns on same amount of time, you'll get longer GAs.

In an Epic game, you'll probably have more Great People.

[H Tower]

Using the military to crush a revolt in a democracy?

[MarkG]

dont mean to go OT but bush used the military to crush a flood

[vStauffenberg]

Originally posted by H Tower
Using the military to crush a revolt in a democracy?

in a democracy, protests usually get crushed by "police forces". does that make a difference?

[Nikolai]

No.

[Nikolai]

Re: Re: Re: New information from Gamestar.de preview

Originally posted by sophist
In an Epic game, you'll probably have more Great People.

Good point.

[The diplomat]

It makes sense that Golden Ages are shorter since civs can have several GAs. In fact, 20 turn GAs would be unbalancing especially with civs that get the Great People bonus. Having 2 or 3 20 turn GAs in a game would give you a huge advantage.

[Nikolai]

I get it, I get it.