How many civs do you expect to play with on average?

[Akron]

Trial two.

This should help determine for Firaxis how many people will need screens that are compatible with 8+ civs at a time.

[isaac brock]

I don't really think it'll help firaxis decide. Civ will be going gold very soon.

[Akron]

Originally posted by isaac brock
I don't really think it'll help firaxis decide. Civ will be going gold very soon.

True, but I'm sure that they could piece together some barely adequate matrix for diplomacy or whatever other screens.

[isaac brock]

If they intended to set up a barely-adequate matrix, they've already done it. If not, it's not going to happen.

[lockstep]

Originally posted by isaac brock
If they intended to set up a barely-adequate matrix, they've already done it. If not, it's not going to happen.

I´d rather say, if not, Firaxis really should add this feature in the first patch.

[Jahi]

16 here! every time i play with 8 only 2 of the 8 pose any serious challenge. so i figure with 16 mabey 4 civs will give me a run for the money

[ixnay]

16 - the more the merrier!

[jdd2007]

probably 10

[SerapisIV]

At least 10 civs...I almost never play on maps smaller then Large. I'm too much of a builder to enjoy small maps

[old dog]

The maximum -- 16 -- assuming that the AI is up to it.

But I doubt that I'll play on an extremely big map, and it may turn out that the AI is suited to handling 16 civs only on the largest size world.

[Akron]

Actually, on the largest size world (other than custom sizes) with 16 civs, , the ai will have over 50% more space to expand than on the largest map in civ2 with 7 civs, given that both have similar percentages of inhabitable land.

Given that your playing with 16 civs and that about 30% of the map can be inhabited by cities (this includes the water squares in the city radius), each civ should have about 600 squares to play around with, if the world is evenly divided. Thats about 29 cities per civ!

[JellyDonut]

9-12. Gives it a little more variety but doesn't crowd the whole place. My computer's not exactly the fastest one on the block either.

[Crouchback]

I'd love to take down the full 16 (and I hope the screens can cope), but I've got a AMD K6-3D 300MHz CPU and it'll fry before my hapless opponents.

So it's just 8 for me.

David

[SITS]

I would normally play with all 16 civs on a huge map. Which would be fun!

[cyril25376]

I will play only with 6-8 civs on standard or small maps because I do not have the time for the big maps.(job, girl friend ...)