The Off Topic is saved! Civ V announced

[OzzyKP]

Well whatever you call them, I'm not sure what the advantages are to switching to hexes either.

[ZEE]

lol nerd argument

[Kuciwalker]

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It is not effectively played with octagons. There is no possible octagonal tesselation that would correspond to the civ4 map. There is no meaningful interpretation of your claim beyond "civ4 is played with grid points that each have 8 neighbors", which is the literal statement of the mechanic, making your analogy both mathematically incorrect and redundant.

[Kuciwalker]

Conceptually speaking, Kuci, Civ can be considered a planer graph. The way that pieces move is point to point, in eight directions. It's only the graphics that make it a square grid.

No, it's not a planar graph because the graph cannot be drawn without intersecting edges.

[Kuciwalker]

Well whatever you call them, I'm not sure what the advantages are to switching to hexes either.

Hexagonal tessellation results in a planar graph, plus it results in all moves represent equal distances (rather than diagonal moves representing ~1.4 times as much distance as orthogonal ones).

[Guynemer]

lol nerd argument

I swear to ****ing Christ, if you people make me agree with AAHZ, I am going to lose my ****ing **** all over each and every one of you miserable ********ers.

[Drake Tungsten]

This is a nerd argument that needs to happen. Kuci is combating retardation, in the finest tradition of the Poly OT.

[ricketyclik]

Oh alright, I take it all back, it's not effectively octagonal.

I should have said "I don't see the advantage of going to hexagonal, as it reduces the contact tiles from each tile from 8 to 6".

Happy with that?

[Kuciwalker]

Oh alright, I take it all back, it's not effectively octagonal.

I should have said "I don't see the advantage of going to hexagonal, as it reduces the contact tiles from each tile from 8 to 6".

Happy with that?

Yes. The advantage is that infinite 6-regular planar graphs exist while infinite 8-regular planar graphs do not. Therefore hexes can represent real-world movement while tiles cannot (unless you permit fractional moves).

[Solomwi]

I swear to ****ing Christ, if you people make me agree with AAHZ, I am going to lose my ****ing **** all over each and every one of you miserable ********ers.

This is why, when people ask who I share a birthday with (which nobody does), I skip Lincoln and Darwin, and proudly say "Mother****ing Guynemer."

[Asher]

I want an analog civ game. I want archers to shoot farther than melee.

MAKE IT HAPPEN SOMEONE.

[Wiglaf]

I agree that Trip is an attractive piece. If anyone is the lead designer to finally implement a 'gay marriage' civic, he is the one to do it, no pun intended.

[Dinner]

Poly needs to revamp the front page to be more like CFC where people can quickly and easily see the latest news, the latest patches, the lastest team games, the lastest mods, etc... That way when new people see our front page they see everything Civ related they want to see and are tempted to visit the forums and make some new posts. That's the single greatest thing we can do to attract new blood.

[Wiglaf]

I can't read any of your posts anymore without thinking, man, here is another douche comment coming my way, better not read too much of it, too late.

[MikeH]

Which is something only a nerd would actually give a crap about.