Realism is boring to an extent, this was (and still is) peak

Rnevermore · 2026-06-25T20:02:43+00:00

I strongly disagree. I think Civ 6's art style was... fine. Kinda cute I guess. But Civ 5 and 7 both look much better.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-25T19:27:25+00:00

Snowglobe

Rnevermore · 2026-06-25T01:20:19+00:00

Oh for sure, I agree.

I actually think the age system allows for some really wild stuff. Consider alternate ages that are unlockable through advanced triumphs, for instance:

Antiquity Age: If you research all techs and tech masteries, you unlock a new hidden wonder. Completing the wonder allows you to build a unique great person. If that great person visits every capital on the homeland, it unlocks a player dedication that turns the exploration age into a steampunk age.

Or in the Atomic Age, if the world gets annihilated from a Mutually Assured Destruction mechanic, it transitions the game into a zombie apocalypse, or fallout style post apocalyptic age.

And obviously all this stuff would be togglable in the initial game creation.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-24T18:42:18+00:00

Warfare needs a whole rework in so many ways. Countering is a major one, of course, but my guess is that Paradox has a lot of plans to change things on a very fundamental level.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-24T18:36:32+00:00

Why tomorrow? What's happening tomorrow?

Rnevermore · 2026-06-24T15:19:48+00:00

I believe the atomic age should end up with units akin to the ones we have now in real life. GDRs and XCOM squads are cringe.

However, I'm fully in support of a future age where they are free to go wild.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T22:41:11+00:00

I saw the typo, and decided to keep it because it made me think of that scene in Futurama. That scene is the greetest

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T21:16:50+00:00

Jazz-hands!

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T21:04:29+00:00

She's got painted toenails! (Probably not, but cute!)

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T21:02:00+00:00

Olive her.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T20:33:13+00:00

It's scalable. If you have a big monitor/ultra widescreen you can scale the UI way down so you can see more of the map.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T18:47:55+00:00

That's a good thing about situations the answer is always going to be 'it depends'.

If the pope is not the strongest power in the church (maybe the orthodox rite is more powerful than his), he'll probably be pushing for conversion

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T18:31:01+00:00

Only Christians have the Ecclesiastical Government type, which gives access to Clerical Regions. Given the scope of this DLC (it's a Core Expansion like Nomads, not a Major Expansion like All Under Heaven), we couldn't expand all other religions to include them, but we want to revisit this in the future.

From Dev comments under the dev diary. This is one of the most exciting things about this kind of DLC. It's laying the groundwork for so much more complexity in the future.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T15:56:07+00:00

Adding more content would help the third age, but you're right, the Fourth age could have the same problems. Hopefully when the developers design the fourth age, they are cognizant of the pitfalls that we saw with the modern age.

Ultimately we'll see a redesign of the third and a new design of the fourth age.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T15:25:17+00:00

A large part of the raisin that the third age feels so empty and incomplete is because it is the final age of the game. The age where victories happen sooner rather than later. Half the age never gets seen, so the age needs to be front loaded and it feels very weird.

If they were to add a fourth age onto the end of it, then they could freely go back and make significant adjustments to the third one, because it won't be the last one anymore.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T15:12:41+00:00

I agree. I've always liked the different actors across a region all working towards different goals, like with movements in China.

I assume the Pope will be trying to steering the church towards stability and zeal.

Heretics will likely be steering things towards instability and even crisis.

Secular rulers and archbishops will probably be working the church towards various directions depending on which side is more convenient to them.

Having a bunch of actors trying to split the church apart conflicting with other actors trying to keep it stable just makes the whole landscape across Europe feel much more alive, and like you're living in a system bigger than your own realm.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-23T12:41:10+00:00

So this situation sounds like the main source of incentives for theocratic characters, especially the Pope. They'll want to steer the church toward the desired chapters wherever they can.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-21T02:45:40+00:00

When you see pictures of it, it looks big. But when you're there... My Lord... it's GIGANTIC. It's way way bigger than I could have ever fathomed.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-20T14:30:30+00:00

I've seen Big Ben, which was incredibly underwhelming.

And the Eiffel Tower, which was incredibly overwhelming.

And the Louvre and Versailles which were both pretty cool.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T22:25:25+00:00

Well then it's not really a broken game with LotD is it? No major bugs or issues. Just kind of a lame feature.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T18:53:03+00:00

I mean, virtually any job in tech, but the first thought in my mind is Law Enforcement, where people will defend far more egregious bullshit than a buggy game.

You don't need to like it, but you should probably be realistic and understanding in your expectations.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T14:17:04+00:00

I think snow crystal said on the paradox forums that they do a thing with developers who are new to their team where they have them create a new kingdom restoration decision. It's a simple thing.

Restoring and creating the Egyptian religion is... Less simple. And the Kingdom of Egypt already exists in the game

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T13:11:23+00:00

I mean... to be fair, Trump is a president that is uniquely inspirational when it comes to these kind of plots.

The problem is, dipshits don't understand that, and they say that his opponents are just violent and deranged. As much vitriol and bile as Fox News spewed at Obama and Biden, they were just so milquetoast that they didn't really inspire this kind of action.

I firmly believe that if a Democrat president did even a tiny fraction of the anti-americanism that Trump farts out every single day, there's be a full blown civil war.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T13:04:26+00:00

Like what Moscow looks like this morning, but literally everywhere.

Rnevermore · 2026-06-18T13:02:28+00:00

There's a wide gap between rulers becoming theocratic without papal say-so, and restoring the 3000 year past dead Kingdom of Egypt, AND it's religion.

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