Jul 27, 2017

Civilization 6 update finally adds a restart button, Nubia DLC out now

Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

Nubia joins Civilization 6's cast today, along with a scenario which pits the ancient Nile civilization against its neighbor to the north, Egypt. That DLC will set you back five bucks (or £4.50) if you don't have the Deluxe Edition, and will appeal to fans of slinging missiles: Nubia is graced with +50% Production toward ranged units, which also earn promotions at double the normal rate, and the Pitati Archer, a stronger, faster (harder and better) unit to replace the normal archer.

The complete civ description is available on the DLC's Steam page. For those uninterested in high-quality ancient arrows, there's more news: Nubia's release joins a patch that adds, finally, a restart button which regenerates the map, and a function that saves game configs so they can be reused. At least one mod can be unchecked now.

The update also brings a bunch of balance changes, such as a +10 price increase for archers (Nubia-related inflation?) and a 25 percent decrease to the cost for spies, as well as UI and AI tweaks. There might be another mod or two to untick, especially if the trade route chooser has actually improved. It now auto selects the last completed route, which is a start.

The full patch notes are on Steam. Though its base price hasn't yet dropped from $60, Civ 6 is currently 33% off.

Jul 27, 2017

Civilization VI 'Summer 2017 Update' Available Now

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The Summer 2017 update for Civilization VI is available now for PC players and coming soon for Mac and Linux. There’s one new feature, in particular, that a number of you have been asking for: A restart button to regenerate the map using your current game settings, and the ability to save game configuration settings for future games. In addition, there are balance changes to District costs, some civ-specific adjustments, and a warning when your cities can bombard nearby enemy units.

A complete list of the changes is below:

[NEW]

Nubia

Civ Unique Ability: +50% Production toward Ranged units. All Ranged units earn promotions 50% faster. Mines over strategic resources are +1 Production. Mines over bonus and luxury resources are +2 Gold.
Queen Amanitore Unique Ability: Kandake of Meroë - +20% Production on all districts rising to +40% if the city contains a Nubian Pyramid adjacent to the City Center.
Pitati Archer: Replaces the Archer. Stronger than the Archer with +1 Movement.
Nubian Pyramid: Improvement. +1 Faith. Receives additional yields from adjacent districts. +1 Food if adjacent to a city center. For all other districts that award adjacency bonuses: +1 of the appropriate yield if that district is adjacent. Desert, Desert Hills, Floodplains.
Jebel Barkal Wonder
Unlocked at Iron Working. Awards 2 free Iron and +4 Faith to Cities within 6 tiles.
‘Gifts of the Nile’ Scenario
The Nile River is the life-blood of not one ancient civilization, but two: Egypt and Nubia. Although these neighbors and trade partners shared a common river valley and supreme deity (Amun) they were often in direct competition if not outright war. In this head-to-head competitive scenario, you will take the role of one of these powers to see who can truly become the most worthy disciple of the great god Amun by being the first player to create 7 Temples in his honor.
Added Restart button to regenerate the map
Added the saving of game setup configurations to reuse when starting future games

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[GENERAL BALANCE CHANGES]

Reduced the cost of the Aqueduct by 30%, and Sewers by 50%
Reduced cost of all other districts by 10%
Increased the discount for districts you have less of from 25% to 40%
Increased costs of district buildings by 10% (except Aerodrome buildings), and increased per settler cost bump by 50%
Reduced cost of all spies by 25%
The Hanging Gardens now provides +2 Housing in city it is built
Walls now provide Tourism, and do not have Maintenance
Battering Ram and Siege Tower now upgrade to the Medic support unit, and no longer are functional against a city with Urban Defenses
Gave St George an additional Charge
Updated Monarchy's Medieval Wall bonus to: "+50% Production toward defensive buildings. +1 Housing for each level of wall."
Proselytizer Apostle Promotion only evicts 75% of existing pressure of other religions, not 100%.
Press Gangs will now unlock with Exploration and Native Conquest with Colonialism.
Increased Anti-Air strength values by 5 across the board. Increased Destroyer AA strength to match other units of the same era.
Balance Change to Archer (cost +10) and Maryannu Chariot Archer (cost -20, combat +2, ranged strength +2)
Increased cost to repair city outer defenses
Moved “Urban Defenses” from Civil Engineering to Steel

[CIV & LEADER SPECIFIC BALANCE CHANGES]

Thunderbolt of the North gains +50% production of naval melee units
Stave Church gains +1 Production for all Coastal resources in the city

Spain
Treasure Fleet civ ability has its gold for intercontinental trade boosted from +4 to +6.
Mission: increase from +1 Science to +2 Science if next to a Campus.
Scythia’s heal down from 50 to 30.
Kongo: 50% more Great People points rather than double.
Greece: Award an envoy whenever they complete an Acropolis.
France: Catherine’s Flying Squadron now awards a free Spy when the extra capacity is earned at Castles. All spies start as Agents with a free promotion.

[MAP GENERATION]

Aluminum may now appear on Plains
Increased Lake generation
Updated Bonus and Strategic Sea resource generation
Fixed river generation on Inland Sea maps

[UI ENHANCEMENTS]

Combat Preview UI has received multiple improvements
The Civilopedia now shows the number of spies/envoys granted by a civic
Multi-turn unit movement paths shown when unit reselected
Add Relationships tab to city state Intel Reports which displays that city state's at war status with other civs and city states
A popup box is now used to modify deal item values
Added leader dialog for Gifts and Demands
Scenarios no longer display extraneous UI screens
Reports now displays great works, adjacency, and districts information
Trade Route chooser automatically selects previously completed trade route
Additional improvements to the Trade Route chooser
Added a turn blocker notification when city ranged attack is available
Tech and Civic Boosts now additionally appear in the notification panel above the turn advancer.
A Toggle Strategic View keybinding has been added

[DIPLOMACY ENHANCEMENTS]

Added tooltips explaining why you can or cannot declare each kind of war or undertake another diplomatic action.
“Are you sure you want to denounce?” confirmation added
Liberation changes:
- Liberating cities can now occur even if you got the city in a deal (peace deals are the most common case of this).
- A case where the Persian player didn't see "(cede)" or "(return)" besides cities on the peace deal screen has been fixed.
- When you liberate a city-state your military units are only kicked back from the first ring of hexes around the city; you aren't ejected from their territory entirely.

[AI TUNING]

Improved AI ability to move great works around to get theming
AI will now better handle air attacks
- Bombers will attack Districts, Improvements, and then Units in that preference
- Fighters will prefer to attack other air units
Improved desire to pillage cities
Improved city planning with regard to adjacency bonuses
During city attacks, concentrate unit attacks on more threatening units rather than spreading out
Fixed a bug that resulted in the AI overestimating the value of demand tribute
Adjust AI acceptance of embassies to be a bit more like what they already do for delegations
Specifically, they probably will reject it if they're unfriendly, will accept at neutral unless they have any other reason against it (close balance) and will generally accept it at friendly unless they have a strong reason against.
In evaluating deals, the AI will mark elements that are unacceptable at any price, and expose that to the player
Improve ability to utilize city-states, beyond just suzerainty
As a player approaches victory, AI will become less friendly and more aggressive

[MULTIPLAYER]

Improved stability after receiving a multiplayer join error
Fixed unnecessary host migration when exiting a LAN game
Fixed an occasional hang during wars in dynamic turn mode
Miscellaneous UI fixes and stability improvements

[BUG FIXES]

Fixed an issue where plot tooltips would show when we didn’t want them to
Fixed multiple issues with Air combat
City Banners were not reacting to population changed events
Barbarian camp art will now update as the game progresses into later eras
Fixed an issue where pillaged improvements lost their pantheon bonuses forever
District repair costs now computed properly based on both game speed and start era. Will always be 25% of the cost of creating a new district of that type.
Correct Alexander’s “To the World’s End” healing ability so it only triggers if the city has a COMPLETED wonder in it.
Wonders should always be repairable after they have been hit by a nuclear blast
Fixed issues with Reports screen totals not adding correctly
Additional bug fixes.

[MISC]

Added new visualization for desert mountains

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Jul 27, 2017

Civilization VI 'Summer 2017 Update' Available Now

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[NEW]

Nubia

Civ Unique Ability: +50% Production toward Ranged units. All Ranged units earn promotions 50% faster. Mines over strategic resources are +1 Production. Mines over bonus and luxury resources are +2 Gold.
Queen Amanitore Unique Ability: Kandake of Meroë - +20% Production on all districts rising to +40% if the city contains a Nubian Pyramid adjacent to the City Center.
Pitati Archer: Replaces the Archer. Stronger than the Archer with +1 Movement.
Nubian Pyramid: Improvement. +1 Faith. Receives additional yields from adjacent districts. +1 Food if adjacent to a city center. For all other districts that award adjacency bonuses: +1 of the appropriate yield if that district is adjacent. Desert, Desert Hills, Floodplains.
Jebel Barkal Wonder
Unlocked at Iron Working. Awards 2 free Iron and +4 Faith to Cities within 6 tiles.
‘Gifts of the Nile’ Scenario
The Nile River is the life-blood of not one ancient civilization, but two: Egypt and Nubia. Although these neighbors and trade partners shared a common river valley and supreme deity (Amun) they were often in direct competition if not outright war. In this head-to-head competitive scenario, you will take the role of one of these powers to see who can truly become the most worthy disciple of the great god Amun by being the first player to create 7 Temples in his honor.
Added Restart button to regenerate the map
Added the saving of game setup configurations to reuse when starting future games

http://store.steampowered.com/app/645400

WATCH our First Look video on Nubia below:
https://youtu.be/lmYH3G0DIUQ
SUBSCRIBE to Civilization on YouTube ➜ http://2kgam.es/CivilizationYT

[GENERAL BALANCE CHANGES]

Reduced the cost of the Aqueduct by 30%, and Sewers by 50%
Reduced cost of all other districts by 10%
Increased the discount for districts you have less of from 25% to 40%
Increased costs of district buildings by 10% (except Aerodrome buildings), and increased per settler cost bump by 50%
Reduced cost of all spies by 25%
The Hanging Gardens now provides +2 Housing in city it is built
Walls now provide Tourism, and do not have Maintenance
Battering Ram and Siege Tower now upgrade to the Medic support unit, and no longer are functional against a city with Urban Defenses
Gave St George an additional Charge
Updated Monarchy's Medieval Wall bonus to: "+50% Production toward defensive buildings. +1 Housing for each level of wall."
Proselytizer Apostle Promotion only evicts 75% of existing pressure of other religions, not 100%.
Press Gangs will now unlock with Exploration and Native Conquest with Colonialism.
Increased Anti-Air strength values by 5 across the board. Increased Destroyer AA strength to match other units of the same era.
Balance Change to Archer (cost +10) and Maryannu Chariot Archer (cost -20, combat +2, ranged strength +2)
Increased cost to repair city outer defenses
Moved “Urban Defenses” from Civil Engineering to Steel

[CIV & LEADER SPECIFIC BALANCE CHANGES]

Thunderbolt of the North gains +50% production of naval melee units
Stave Church gains +1 Production for all Coastal resources in the city

Spain
Treasure Fleet civ ability has its gold for intercontinental trade boosted from +4 to +6.
Mission: increase from +1 Science to +2 Science if next to a Campus.
Scythia’s heal down from 50 to 30.
Kongo: 50% more Great People points rather than double.
Greece: Award an envoy whenever they complete an Acropolis.
France: Catherine’s Flying Squadron now awards a free Spy when the extra capacity is earned at Castles. All spies start as Agents with a free promotion.

[MAP GENERATION]

Aluminum may now appear on Plains
Increased Lake generation
Updated Bonus and Strategic Sea resource generation
Fixed river generation on Inland Sea maps

[UI ENHANCEMENTS]

Combat Preview UI has received multiple improvements
The Civilopedia now shows the number of spies/envoys granted by a civic
Multi-turn unit movement paths shown when unit reselected
Add Relationships tab to city state Intel Reports which displays that city state's at war status with other civs and city states
A popup box is now used to modify deal item values
Added leader dialog for Gifts and Demands
Scenarios no longer display extraneous UI screens
Reports now displays great works, adjacency, and districts information
Trade Route chooser automatically selects previously completed trade route
Additional improvements to the Trade Route chooser
Added a turn blocker notification when city ranged attack is available
Tech and Civic Boosts now additionally appear in the notification panel above the turn advancer.
A Toggle Strategic View keybinding has been added

[DIPLOMACY ENHANCEMENTS]

Added tooltips explaining why you can or cannot declare each kind of war or undertake another diplomatic action.
“Are you sure you want to denounce?” confirmation added
Liberation changes:
- Liberating cities can now occur even if you got the city in a deal (peace deals are the most common case of this).
- A case where the Persian player didn't see "(cede)" or "(return)" besides cities on the peace deal screen has been fixed.
- When you liberate a city-state your military units are only kicked back from the first ring of hexes around the city; you aren't ejected from their territory entirely.

[AI TUNING]

Improved AI ability to move great works around to get theming
AI will now better handle air attacks
- Bombers will attack Districts, Improvements, and then Units in that preference
- Fighters will prefer to attack other air units
Improved desire to pillage cities
Improved city planning with regard to adjacency bonuses
During city attacks, concentrate unit attacks on more threatening units rather than spreading out
Fixed a bug that resulted in the AI overestimating the value of demand tribute
Adjust AI acceptance of embassies to be a bit more like what they already do for delegations
Specifically, they probably will reject it if they're unfriendly, will accept at neutral unless they have any other reason against it (close balance) and will generally accept it at friendly unless they have a strong reason against.
In evaluating deals, the AI will mark elements that are unacceptable at any price, and expose that to the player
Improve ability to utilize city-states, beyond just suzerainty
As a player approaches victory, AI will become less friendly and more aggressive

[MULTIPLAYER]

Improved stability after receiving a multiplayer join error
Fixed unnecessary host migration when exiting a LAN game
Fixed an occasional hang during wars in dynamic turn mode
Miscellaneous UI fixes and stability improvements

[BUG FIXES]

Fixed an issue where plot tooltips would show when we didn’t want them to
Fixed multiple issues with Air combat
City Banners were not reacting to population changed events
Barbarian camp art will now update as the game progresses into later eras
Fixed an issue where pillaged improvements lost their pantheon bonuses forever
District repair costs now computed properly based on both game speed and start era. Will always be 25% of the cost of creating a new district of that type.
Correct Alexander’s “To the World’s End” healing ability so it only triggers if the city has a COMPLETED wonder in it.
Wonders should always be repairable after they have been hit by a nuclear blast
Fixed issues with Reports screen totals not adding correctly
Additional bug fixes.

[MISC]

Added new visualization for desert mountains

Jul 25, 2017

Civilization VI: Kandake Amanitore Rules Nubia

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Amanitore, a Nubian Kandake (queen), was one of the last great builders within the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë. She ruled an area between the Nile and Atbara rivers.

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Many Kandake are described as warrior queens who led forces into battle, but references to Amanitore also point to an unprecedented time of growth through building. The sheer number of structures completed during her reign – the middle part of the first century – suggest this was a very prosperous time for the kingdom.

Amanitore was involved in restoring the large temple for Amun at Meroë and the Amun temple at Napata after it was destroyed by the Romans. Water retention reservoirs were erected at Meroë during her reign. Amun temples at Naqa and Amara were also built at this time.

UNIQUE UNIT: Pítati

Nubian warriors were widely respected as master archers (Pítati). In fact, the ancient Egyptian term for Nubia was “Ta-Seti,” which meant “Land of the Bow.” The Pítati were even used as mercenaries by neighboring kingdoms. The first recorded use of Nubian Pítati was by Weni of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, about 2300 BC. The Pítati replaces the Ancient Era Archer for Nubia. It is stronger and faster than the ancient Archer and upgrades to Crossbowman.

UNIQUE IMPROVEMENT: Nubian Pyramid

More than 200 Nubian Pyramids were built between 300 B.C. and A.D. 350. The Nubian Pyramid differs greatly from neighboring Egyptian edifices in that they are typically narrower at the base (measuring 26 feet, at most) and rise at a steeper angle (roughly 70 degrees) rising approximately 20-98 feet in height. An Egyptian Pyramid, by comparison, had foundations at least five times larger at 40-50 degree angles.

A Nubian Pyramid can be built on Desert, Desert Hills or in Floodplains regions. They provide Faith, as well as additional yields based on the adjacent District, or Food for the City Center.

SCENARIO: “The Gift of the Nile”

Nubia lies in modern-day Sudan, south of Egypt. So, for the new “Gifts of the Nile” Scenario, you lead either Nubia or Egypt to see who will control the Nile River. The winner is the first civilization to complete seven Temples dedicated to Amun in this 125-turn scenario.

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Jul 25, 2017

Civilization VI: Kandake Amanitore Rules Nubia

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Amanitore, a Nubian Kandake (queen), was one of the last great builders within the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë. She ruled an area between the Nile and Atbara rivers.

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UNIQUE UNIT: Pítati

UNIQUE IMPROVEMENT: Nubian Pyramid

SCENARIO: “The Gift of the Nile”