E3 video

[Guynemer]

My only concern is the sparseness of the tech tree. One of the great things about CivIV is the different strategies of approaching the tech tree.

This. I'd have to look at the Civ4 tree to be absolutely sure, but it seems like there are significantly fewer techs in the tree seen in the video.

[frenzyfol]

"Jungle gives 2 sick faces (sick faces are still in!?) "

They are not sick faces. They are apples. I think apples = bread = food

[frenzyfol]

edit: bread makes much more sense as an icon than apples..

[OzzyKP]

Yea, there definitely seems to be less tech than in Civ4. But then again we all think of BTS, which has more tech than in vanilla. So perhaps by the time they put out two or three expansion packs there will be a comparable amount of tech.

The Tech Tree:

It appears everyone knows how to farm - no Agriculture tech & no farm icon on the tree. Does the white axe icon next to both mining AND bronze working indicate that you need mining to chop, and bronze working to increase the hammer yield?

Also, Sailing now encompasses the ability to fish as well as build sailing vessels & harbors. Lighthouse moved to Optics, I think?

The first screen shot of the tech tree doesn't cover the first row of techs. You can see the scroll bar isn't all the way to the left.

[thyrwyn]

missed that...

[Kolbeg]

"I love the improvements to combat. I think they've hit the nail on the head with just about everything they've done so far."

I could not agree more!

[SpencerH]

It doesnt look as if there is any unit "facing" though.

[Boris Godunov]

Jon Schafer can analize me any day.

Game is looking good.

[Guynemer]

Boris sighting!

[SpencerH]

One point that hasnt been noted yet is that the single unit per hex will not be a combined-arms mixture of fighting types (queried in another thread). Such a setup will make the unit promotions that improve a units flexibility (if such exist in Ci V ) to deal with non-standard foes a better choice. i.e. instead of promoting a spearman to make it a super anti-cav specialist it might be more useful to give it a promotion that improves its chance of defeating an ax- or swordsman unit.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

apples are healtheir than bread

[Jaybe]

One point that hasnt been noted yet is that the single unit per hex will not be a combined-arms mixture of fighting types (queried in another thread). Such a setup will make the unit promotions that improve a units flexibility (if such exist in Ci V ) to deal with non-standard foes a better choice. i.e. instead of promoting a spearman to make it a super anti-cav specialist it might be more useful to give it a promotion that improves its chance of defeating an ax- or swordsman unit.

Yeah, enhance the unit with with some of their own swords or archers/muskets.