Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[Psquit]

Space favelas

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

Not only hexes for the map and box art but people's clothing as well?

Well, he was a soldier. It's clearly tactical gear.

 

[Shadenuat]

Some modern designs, esp visual ones, are like infectious desease. Using hexes to show that stuff is futurustic is one of those. Because it's not a very common shape, and it's insect'y and bees. And bees are futuristic.

 

[Tytus]

Some modern designs, esp visual ones, are like infectious desease. Using hexes to show that stuff is futurustic is one of those. Because it's not a very common shape, and it's insect'y and bees. And bees are futuristic.

 

[Zeriel]

 

[sser]

Bees won't even exist in the future.

 

[thesheeep]

Which will make them retro-futuristic.

 

[Azira]

Also known as "pretentious bullshit".

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Rejinaldo Leonardo Pedro Bolivar de Alencar-Araripe with this long and fancy name, is the leader of Brasilia, one of the eight factions that sponsor space exploration in the game and also known as "The Organization of South American States" (Organization of Southern States Americans, in free translation).

Regarded as one of the top soldiers in the Western Hemisphere, the leader of Brasilia is strong in the military, health and production area, but diplomacy and growth are areas with which he is not really familiar.

What the fuck is that name, that's NOT a brazilian name. Race traitor?

Also, FUCK THE OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN STATES! BRAZIL DOESN'T NEED THOSE FAGGOTS!

"Rejinaldo began as a soldier, but eventually grew to become an officer. Throughout his career, he became both a successful military leader and a deep theoretical. Their notes appearing in the game are part of his work called 'Principles of Modern War', which is the most comprehensive military writing since von Clauswitz 'On War', "explain the designers of the game, Will Miller and David McDonough in an interview with UOL Jogos.

"Brasilia was severely affected by rising sea level flooded the Amazon. But that opened the interior of the region for trade and turned out to be not as severe as for other factions" explained the designer duo.
The region is also a power in space exploration, "to be in the equatorial region, Brasilia can easily launch rockets and was the first nation to send a colonization expedition to a nearby planet,"

Also, rising sea levels flooding the amazon. What the fuck did I just read? Uh, the interior can be traded with, through this big-ass sea-sized river going through it, since, like, forever.

The part about being a space-power I like.

So this guy is huehuehue Santiago with a dick.

 

[DeepOcean]

WTF?Organization of the South American States? Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia make a militarist faction that want to conquer space? Well...that is quite an optimist thinking.

Well good to know that Brazil conquered the other south american faggots.

BRAZILLIAN IMPERIALISM!

 

[Psquit]

Brazil conquering someone? top kek

More likely the other organizations wanted janitors for their space toilets

 

[Psquit]

More than enough. our country It's not as big as brazil but then again im a filthy argentinian that is jelly about glorious tropical rainforest brazilian favela empire.

 

[Psquit]

Dont worry The Brazilian Slaughter. We argies will treat you like one of us, when your government leave you behind with the favela machete rape squad...

We accept him One of us gooble gobble we accept him one of us gooble gobble!

 

[Raghar]

I actually don't understand how Brazil can be so hilariously incompetent. Also theirs lack of aggressive anti-european policy is showing.

 

[maverick]

Rejinaldo WTF

And Brasilia being affected by a flood on the Amazon river? I'm starting to think I won't be buying this game :D

 

[Drax]

Geopolitics! Words! Excitement!
meh...

 

[Space Satan]

lodie is a descendant of the nobility and the privileged elite of the old families of France, Spain and Italy. She is rich by her family properties in agriculture, food processing, textiles and pharmacies. This privilege has provided her with the best education in the old continent, which has caused that to be a character of a great cultural heritage.

She also controls the media and has used to elevate her personal popularity and to ensure its position as the mind behind the expeditions into space. What's more Élodie personally supervised the creation of 'The Canon', the definitive collection of Western art, with works, letters, and music ... All these elements replicated to become a scale of cultural collections in Most expeditions.

Of all the factions we have discussed so far, the Franco-Iberia is having a higher standard of living. Is a leader in green engineering and possesses astonishing level in urban design. They have founded the `green technology ', an ideology that enjoys extraordinary magnetism among the world's elite in terms of higher education of his lineage.

During the dissolution of the European Union, Franco-Iberia positioned itself as the protector and direct descendant of the best traditions of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and continues to support the culture of the old continent ... even exporting it.

Geographically territories includes mainly the former France and Spain , plus parts of Italy, and extends along the Mediterranean to include parts of North Africa.

It is said of them among his critics that usually have become `the Romans', in reference to its similarities to the Roman Empire.

This civilization is better positioned to take advantage in terms of culture and virtue than any other. Right now they get free 10 Virtues technology, which gives them a wide range of flexibility in the sense that you do not sacrifice scientific progress if you give priority to culture in your cities. In addition to its depth and its bonuses to Virtues, Franco-Iberia is able to respond to changing situations in the game more comfortable than many of the other factions form.

The great weakness of Franco-Iberia is that the faction has to focus on the culture to capitalize on their skills. Also if the choose to set yourselves also will weak in any area where you stand not focusing Virtues, so you can fall to the production or military might of other factions.

This means that getting the win with this faction requires a solid plan and a long-term strategy, and not getting distracted Virtues investing short-term objectives.

http://www.3djuegos.com/juegos/avanc...-beyond-earth/

What do you guys think? Personally, the ten free virtues makes them sound a little like Poland from Civ V in my book and she sounds like the new Deirdre Skye. Now three guesses what's coming Friday and the first two don't count.

edit: Correction, it is one free tech for every ten virtues adopted. Thank you Benjamin28.

edit: new source and a little more info

http://www.jeuxactu.com/civilization...odie-94222.htm

Our focus on France and Spain gave us a good basis for each of these objectives; rich cultural tradition and the history of social democracy in these two countries are indeed found to anchor this new entity a duo. In addition, we liked their location in the west of Europe, the Mediterranean. It allowed us to mix the North African influences to create multicultural identity that we offer with each faction. This new entity is an amalgam of people, lifestyles perfect base for a liberal democracy centered on domestic development, social welfare and cultural success. Of all factions of the game, this is probably where it is better to live!

In fact, it is possible to use the Franco-Iberian cultural power to invest heavily in Virtues. That would be like having a small military force in digital terms, but each of your units would be particularly strong. One can lead to another.

We have not really thought about it, but we wanted Elodie is a very sophisticated woman of great wisdom, who has dedicated his life to preserving the art and culture. She lived a long time, she knows what she likes and has very little time and respect for people ignorant or uninvolved.

We removed single units to let people build a custom early in the game the Franco-Iberian civilization is thus particularly flexible faction: they can use their cultural progression to generate technological advances. This implies other possibilities for the construction of settlements, even if you have to be disciplined in your choice of Virtues, not just select those that would provide a short-term gain. There are civilizations like the Franco-Iberian civilization in Civilization 5, and they are among the best in the game, their ability to achieve several types of victories. We hope that it will work the same way

 

[King Arthur]

I don't think they realise that in a social democracy, culture would be about rap music and movies, not 'old world' renaissance stuff.

Franco-Iberia should receive negative culture points because it's own people would reject this biddy's antiquated notions.

Also why do I get the sense that none of these people could exist in real life. They're like super-yuppies who excel at everything.

 

[Xu Fugui]

Space Satan, how much does Firaxis pay you to viral the codex?

Regarding the civ I think that their background and fluff in general is just plain unimaginative. Now, I have not been following the updates much at all so I don't know what has been revealed or not but for some reason I expected something different. With "the great mistake" pretty much annihilating Europe I think there'd be a reaction to that and a change in the political climate. Maybe a step backwards to some sort of neo-monarchy or maybe even a complete rethinking of the system in favour of perhaps a real democracy and the abolishment of nations in favour of a more decentralized society since merely electing figureheads and giving away too much power was what could have lead into the "great mistake" or if the situation is dire I'd expect a system that puts safety and stability over liberty and humanism with a strong militaristic tone to ensure what remains is safeguarded. With the European Union dissolved you'd expect more tension and thus more nationalism, expansionism and power hungry leaders if things haven't changed all that much, but nah, apparently liberal "socialistic" plutocracies remains in charge even when things have gone to total shit.

Anyway, I think they're getting way too detailed with their civ leaders. Alpha Centauri was intelligently evocative and did well to play on its strengths like atmosphere, good writing and neat visuals. I don't at all get the same impression from what I've seen of this so far. Everything seems so much blander and both visuals and writing seems to have been done by someone who have bought both the retardo honeycomb future with Star Trek earthtones and globalist propaganda completely. I'm not sure if I like the focus of these recent updates either, if I didn't know otherwise I wouldn't think that this was being set on another planet with all the things they got going here on earth.

 

[Spectacle]

I don't think they realise that in a social democracy, culture would be about rap music and movies, not 'old world' renaissance stuff.

Nope. In real world social democracies where culture is funded by the government, the allocation of that funding is controlled by a cultural elite with highbrow tastes. It is free market forces that have given us rap music.

 

[King Arthur]

I don't think they realise that in a social democracy, culture would be about rap music and movies, not 'old world' renaissance stuff.

Nope. In real world social democracies where culture is funded by the government, the allocation of that funding is controlled by a cultural elite with highbrow tastes. It is free market forces that have given us rap music.

I know what you mean, but I figured by the mentions of "high living standards" and "multiculturalism" they are probably referring to modern welfare states like Sweden when they say social democracy, although to be honest I just kind of skim this stuff.

 

[oscar]

So the Negroes and Arabs stop raping and burning cars and start lapping up classical music, Homer and Proust.

So far these factions have seemed pretty bland and 'soft' compared to both SMAC and Pandora. Where's the fascists, Marxists, anarchists, religious movements or new radical movements that would likely emerge in the face of a global disaster?

 

[King Arthur]

Rather than invent super-yuppie characters, they should simply base their characters on real life leaders. Let's compare:

Firaxis leader

lodie is a descendant of the nobility and the privileged elite of the old families of France, Spain and Italy. She is rich by her family properties in agriculture, food processing, textiles and pharmacies. This privilege has provided her with the best education in the old continent, which has caused that to be a character of a great cultural heritage.

She also controls the media and has used to elevate her personal popularity and to ensure its position as the mind behind the expeditions into space. What's more Élodie personally supervised the creation of 'The Canon', the definitive collection of Western art, with works, letters, and music ... All these elements replicated to become a scale of cultural collections in Most expeditions.

Real life leader

Portugal, whose malfunctioning parliamentary regime had been overthrown
by a military coup in 1926, was governed after the early 1930s by a
reclusive economics professor of integrist Catholic views, Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar. Dr. Salazar leaned even more than Franco toward cautious
quietism. Where Franco subjected Spain’s fascist party to his personal
control, Salazar abolished outright in July 1934 the nearest thing
Portugal had to an authentic fascist movement, Rolão Preto’s blue-shirted
National Syndicalists. The Portuguese fascists, Salazar complained, were
“always feverish, excited and discontented . . . shouting, faced with the
impossible: More! More!”9 Salazar preferred to control his population
through such “organic” institutions traditionally powerful in Portugal as
the Church.

They're throwing real life aside so that they can run with their 'optimistic' fantasy. That would be fine except their 'optimistic' fantasy is cartoonish and boring. Alpha Centauri regimes was all about ideologies -- that was cool. What's not cool is super-yuppie aficionados who are super smart and control the media and everything.

 

[Spectacle]

So the Negroes and Arabs stop raping and burning cars and start lapping up classical music, Homer and Proust.

So far these factions have seemed pretty bland and 'soft' compared to both SMAC and Pandora. Where's the fascists, Marxists, anarchists, religious movements or new radical movements that would likely emerge in the face of a global disaster?

Reserved for DLC.

 

[yeye]

They made the mistake of linking factions with geography. You can't add a fascist faction when you'd have to say where it's located. You can't really add any kind of interesting faction. Actually, you could do that, if you had some balls.