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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 17 Oct 2010 à 11:47 »

Merci  Bot 

De rien 

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Civilization 6 : Les premières copies d'écran dévoilés.

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 20:42 »

L'idée d'agrandir le bouton fin de tour c'est pas mal car sans turn timer il y en a encore qui comprenne pas...

Effectivement 

Mais espérons qu'ils ne vont pas nous faire le coup du 1 US$ = 1 € de Steam

Ca serait quand même ballot qu'on paye plus cher nos Age d'or

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 20:25 »

Bah dans l'encyclopédie de civ il est dit que le palais est une merveille ... donc par supposition ... donc faut que je perde ma capital pour pouvoir reconstruire le palais donc ca sent la parti immortel en faisant attention de ne perdre que la capital

A voir, en gardant cette possibilité là pour la fin

ET aussi je capte pas le succès des mousquetaires un peu compliqué leur descriptif...

NB : J'ai trouver un beug dans civ5 avec la carte immense pas moyen d'avoir plus 70 villes c'est relou

NB2 : Sympa t'as pub pour notepad ++ en même temps il est gratuit et pratique

Oui pour notepad++, puis surtout pas de souci d'encodage avec lui.
Un fichier UTF-8 (sans bom) reste sans bom alors qu'avec d'autre il fini en UTF-8 "normal" voir pire 

Pour les 70 villes, oui espérons qu'ils vont corriger cela rapidement.

Pour le Mousquetaire apparemment de ce que j'en comprend il faut que l'unité Mousquetaire ai deux autres mousquetaire qui ont le bonus de contournement à coté d'elle quand elle tue une unité ennemie.
(A vérifier mais ce dois être cela)

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 20:17 »

Autre question Maitre BOT pour le succès toute les merveilles est ce que le palais est considéré comme une merveille ?

ET aussi je capte pas le succès des mousquetaires un peu compliqué leur descriptif...

Alors là, tu me pose une colle 

Je peux même pas regarder car je dois télécharger le jeu vu que mon DD à crasher et ca vas me prendre 3 bon jours 

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 20:09 »

Normal le jeu ne serai plus synchro avec les autres .... OSS xD

Oui 

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 19:54 »

Bonjour,

Il est possible d'en savoir plus sur la correction a faire ?

Salut Yoshi  Je sais pas ca dépends 

Allez si je suis gentil 
Alors en fait il faut quitter Civilization V,
puis remplacer 0 par 1 à la ligne CIRCUMNAVIGATE_FREE_MOVES
du fichier GlobalDefines.xml
Qui se trouve dans :
Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\Assets\Gameplay\XML


( Remettre la valeur sur 0 une fois le succès obtenu surtout ! )




Ensuite relancer Civilization V et jouer en faisant le tour du monde
(je l'ai fait en caravelle sur une carte Terre pour ma part)


Attention : Il ne faut pas oublier de remettre la valeur à 0 du fichier une fois le succès obtenu !

Sinon on s'expose à des soucis si l'on joue en multijoueur !

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Civilization V / Civilization 6 : Les premières copies d'écran dévoilés.

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 13:28 »

Certains nous font partager avec humour ce qu'ils imaginent pour Civ VI


Vue de l'interface (Carte Visa requise)
Par Tupisac

Since Civ 5 is so successful and allowed so many new people to finally understand and enjoy the game - there are already some screenshots from new Civ 6:

D'autres images sont visible sur le sujet First screenshot from Civ VI! de CivFanatics 


Comme cette unité "Marine" 

Strength: 40
Movement: 2
Hammers: 300
Special ability: Old fashion ass kicking
Tech: Tomb Raiding

Civilopedia:

They're ruthless, they're insanely sexy and they're ready to kick some ass. Armed and dangerious - The Marine units are back! They don't fear getting wet, they don't fear getting dirty and they will do whatever you command them to do. No army is complete without the marines.

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les Succès Steam

« le: 16 Oct 2010 à 12:54 »

La guerre de Cent Ans
Résistez pendant 100 tours ou plus au cours d'une seule et même guerre.

Quelqu'un a réussi la guerre de 100 ans ? Faut déclarer la guerre ou faut subir une guerre de 100 tour ?

Salut et bienvenue 
Je pense que le succès est buggé comme certains autres car il affiche que personne ne l'as eu. (0 %)
En fin de liste sur http://steamcommunity.com/stats/CivV/achievements/?l=french

Dans les Succès buggés, malgré qu'il affiche 0,1% il existe aussi "Magellan" qui ne peux s'avoir qu'en corrigeant un fichier XML   


Edit: 87 pas mal ! 

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Civilization V / Podcast 15 : Modding

« le: 11 Oct 2010 à 23:37 »

Episode 15 : Le SDK de Civilization V.

Elizabeth Tobey reçoit Shaun Seckman (Modding Programmer) et, Eric Jordan (Tools Programmer) qui nous parle des outils de modifications du jeu : Le SDK.

 

Elizabeth Tobey: Welcome to the Civilization V podcast series. I’m Elizabeth Tobey, and today I’m talking with part of the Firaxis team: Shaun Seckman, Modding Programmer, and Eric Jordan, Tools Programmer. As you’ll soon discover by listening to this episode, Civilization V is more moddable than ever – and while you may have heard “better than ever!” claims before in game marketing materials, this time, it’s really, really, mindblowingly the truth. And these guys are super psyched about it.

Shaun Seckman: My name is Shaun Seckman, by the way, and I’m the modding programmer on Civ V. The way that Civ V is a lot more moddable than Civ IV would be in Civ IV you could only have one mod running at a time and that really limited the way that modders were able to deliver content. What usually happened is you would have this subset of modders that would be called mod modders and they would just combine multiple mods together. In Civ V you don’t need to do this. You can enable and disable as many mods as you want and mix and match them however you want. So if I have a zombie mod and I have a pirates mod I can enable both of them and play a game with zombies and pirates.

ET: Eric and Jordan wanted to give modders – and those who installed mods – the most freedom possible in the game. As Shaun put it, he wanted to “give gamers the power to do pretty much whatever they wanted.” To do this, the modding tools had to not only be robust and expansive, but they also had to be very accessible and easy for someone who wasn’t an advanced coder to use.

Eric Jordan: Hi I’m Eric Jordan. I’m a tools programmer on Civ V. I think another important goal with the modding is to bring it more to the forefront. Before, you would have to go online, go to a forum, and sort of patch in a mod. Now with Shaun’s in-game mod browser it will be easy and accessible for everyone to explore the mod community. Another important goal is the ease of content creation – the barrier to entry. That’s one thing that I focused on a lot with the Civ V world builder. The idea of making it easy and intuitive for someone to step in and start making changes.

ET: The devil is always in the details – and in this case, those details are the exact tools that Eric and Shaun are placing in modders hands. So what exactly are these amazing modding tools that will be included in Civilization V?

SS: Well everybody already knows about the world builder being a separate application this time. Some of the other tools we’re giving them is art conversion tools. They’re basically given the exact same art pipeline that we are using in-house. So everything that we use to create our leader heads, our units, our improvements, and even the terrain, they’re gonna have at their fingertips to do pretty much the same thing. It’s professional-level tools. The other thing we’re giving them is a tool called Mod Buddy. It’s gonna be the central program where they can add all of the files for their mod, edit LUA files, game rules, and pretty much all the arbitrary files, and then package that up into one single Civ V mod file – and that single file is what’s gonna get uploaded to the community hub or passed around in whatever means they want.

EJ: Another exciting tool we’re gonna be providing to modders is the Civ V live tuner. The tuner is a separate application that, when enabled in the config file, can attach to Civ V and modify the game or observe the game as it’s running. So, for example, you could type in a script command and have that execute in the game. You could also observe values to see what’s going on behind the scenes or to see where performance problems might be coming from. It also gives you little cheats so you can help debug your game or mod. So you could plop down a unit or a new city and it really kinda opens the doors to trying out all different scenarios and seeing how they work in a mod. A lot of our tools are also packaged together. We have a meta tool called Nexus. The dictionary definition of ‘nexus’ is just this meeting point of a whole bunch of different things and that’s exactly what the tool does. What the tool does is it integrates the game – it uses the actual game engine – but it also provides a user-friendly interface for doing everything from modifying unit formations to looking at particle effects and seeing how they work in the engine or building your own terrain tile pieces. So it’s a really exciting tool that we’re happy to provide.

ET: Shaun mentioned the World Builder earlier – and it deserves a description unto itself. Some of you may know what it is, and for others, it’s a brand new concept – but no matter what your comfort level with the tool and the modding scene, chances are, you’ll want to at least try out what these guys have built in Civ V.

EJ: So the world builder – it’s a really big tool. There’s a lot of features in it. Well first of all, the world builder can activate and deactivate mods in the exact same way the game can. So if you have a mod that introduces a new unit type, for example, you can actually go into the world builder and tell the world builder, “this is the mod you're using now” and it will get that information. So you can actually build maps directly for your mod. Starting out, when you're starting a new map, you have multiple options for how you want to do that. You can run a map script just like the game uses. It has these random map scripts for generating maps. You can choose one of them. You can build your own map script for a starting point. You could start with a blank map. You could take an old Civ IV map and you could convert that into a Civ V map and start with that. Once you've started with the map you can change anything on it - terrain types, feature types, resource types. You can also run utilities that will do things randomly for you. You might want to randomly distribute the resources or maybe you set it so there are no resources on the map itself but every time it loads it gets a new random resource spread. There are also full scenario tools for building scenarios with multiple teams and players and city-states. You can set up diplomacy, you can plop down units and cities and things like unit health or something like that. You can change the victory types, the year the game starts in, just about everything.

SS: One of the cool things worth noting is if you're currently playing a game in Civ, at any point in time you can hit escape and go to the in-game menu and actually save that current mapout as a world builder map which is really useful for if you find yourself in just a really interesting situation and you think it would be a good tactical map that you want to send out to other people and let them try it out. I found it to be really fun in the past.

ET: I don’t think I’m alone when I say that Civilization is my favorite series, and I have enjoyed several mods in previous games, but before now, I would never have dreamed of actually creating one on my own. But these tools aren’t just for the most hardcore – they are built so that newcomers can easily crack open the mod tools, fiddle around, and make something awesome.

SS: I think probably one of the first things that the new modder is going to be doing is opening up world builder and creating their first map. The new world builder that we have is very user-friendly. I’ve played around with it and the learning curve is not really that high. It’s a lot lower than Civ IV’s world builder. The other thing that we’re gonna have available when we ship is a Civ V wiki that will contain all the documentation for modding as well as some beginner guides and some examples for when they want to go beyond just creating a map and actually modifying the LUA scripts to create new civilizations or maybe even do a total conversion DLL mod if they wanted to.

EJ: Also on the design front I have to borrow some advice from Sid. One important point that Sid makes is that you should make sure that the person having the most fun is the player and not the designer. I think it’s a very easy mistake for a lot of first time modders to make, is to make a mod that’s really conceptually interesting, is really interesting to build, but isn’t that interesting to play. So that’s an important pitfall to watch out for.

ET: Having spent so much time creating and testing these mod tools, Surely Sean and Eric had their own hopes and dreams for future mods.

EJ: I think that mods can be a really amazing thing for both the modders themselves and the game. For the modders it provides them an opportunity to be creative and explore that creativity and for me that’s what got me into game development in the first place. So I really hope that this helps other people in creating games and having that same experience that I get to have every day.

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Civilization V / Podcast 14 : Victories Galore

« le: 11 Oct 2010 à 23:29 »

Episode 14 : Les victoires.

Elizabeth Tobey reçoit  Jon Shafer (Lead Designer) qui nous parle des conditions de victoires du jeu.

 

Elizabeth Tobey: Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the Civilization V Podcast Series. My name’s Elizabeth Tobey, and today, I’m back with Jon Shafer to discuss a very important aspect of Civilization: How you win. There are several different roads to victory in the game, and Jon has insight into not only what each are, but how best you should achieve them.

Jon Shafer: So the victories in Civ V are – at least in terms of what they are – is similar to the previous games. So we have a diplomatic victory, we have a science victory, we have a culture victory and we have a military victory. Those are the four. You can also win if you have the high score when the game runs out of turns but that's kind of sad and not very impressive. The four victories in Civ V, like I said, are similar to what was in IV but the mechanics for them are all different. I'll go ahead and start with the military victory. Players familiar with Civ Rev will recognize this. To win a military victory you have to be the last player standing that has their capital – their original capital. So if you're able to take out everybody's capital then you can win that way. You don't have to wipe everybody out completely. So this is officially the domination victory in Civ V. It can be pretty interesting because you obviously can just have a surgical strike that will take out somebody's capital and you can try to hold on to that against the rest of the empire or you can try and take them out slowly and just wipe them out completely and take their capital and it'll be much easier to hold it that way but it will take longer and you'll have to spend more resources to do it, etc. One of the reason why we took this route with conquest or domination victory was fighting wars in Civ V does take longer than it has in previous games. You don't have the big stacks and just move them around 1 tile at a time until your big stack wipes out every unit they have and then you've killed them off. It does take a little bit more time and more planning to execute a war. We didn't want to have to force players to wipe out every single city, every single unit on the map to win for a military victory. So that kind of plays into what we thought was interesting in Civ Rev and also kind of responding to what we have in Civ V and embracing that. The cultural victory is based on the policies tree. Instead of just needing to accumulate a certain number of culture - a certain amount of culture in cities – you now have to complete 5 out of the 10 branches in the social policies tree. So finishing even that much is obviously fairly impressive. You're not gonna finish the whole tree of course. Once you've finished five branches you can construct the Utopia Project which is kind of like a wonder and it takes a while to build and once you've finished it you win the game. The thing we wanted to do is kind of make all the victories have different phases to them so you can recognize when somebody is getting close to winning so it shouldn't sneak up on you. That's kind of how the Utopia Project works for the culture victory. You will find out once somebody's finished all five of their branches and then they start the Utopia Project and you have a certain period of time where you can do something about that. Generally, beat them up. Third victory is science victory or space victory. The way this one works is more similar to the victory type in Civ IV where you need to build different spaceship parts. The difference with it in Civ V is that the parts themselves are constructed as units which then have to be sent to the capital and added to the capital to be combined with the spaceship. So instead of just finishing a spaceship part anywhere and it kind of just goes off into the ether, you actually have to build this unit and send him across the map and protect him and make sure it arrives safely. So that adds a new dimension to the space victory. It's more of a spacial challenge as opposed to, you know, “do I get to the end of the tech tree – do I have enough production to build these things quicker than everybody else? Ok.” There's a little bit more to it than that. Finally the fourth victory we'll talk about is the diplomatic victory. This one is probably the most different in that instead of just having votes based on population of different players in the game every civilization has exactly one vote. Not just that, but the city-states all have 1 vote. So you could be the largest Civ in the entire game and you could dwarf everyone else but in terms of the diplomatic victory you cannot win by yourself. It's just not possible. Now what makes it really interesting is that players that have been killed can be liberated and if you liberate a player it will then vote for you in the United Nations election to win the game. You can actually win a diplomatic victory by kind of being a white knight where you go around and save everybody. You re-capture these conquered city-states and liberate them and then they'll vote for you. So you can kind of actually almost role play that and have a really interesting game that way. Like in Civ IV you have to build the United Nations and there's a vote that's held every so often and whoever has the U.N. gets an extra vote so there's kind of an incentive to actually be the one to build it instead of just waiting for somebody else to do it. That one is pretty interesting. It's very dependent on, in particular, becoming friends with a lot of city-states because in addition to liberation, if you're the ally of a city-state it will vote for you. So there's kind of a lot of machination that goes on in trying to steal allies away from other players and a lot of interesting things involved there.

ET: As one would imagine, each of these victory conditions will result in a fairly different play style. Going for a cultural victory will require a distinctly different strategy than a domination victory. Particularly on the upper difficulties, this is crucial to a winning strategy. Jon explains how victory conditions can change play style and gives a couple tips on how to get ahead.

JS: The diplomatic victory, for example, is very reliant upon city-states like I said. If all the city-states are wiped out of the game, I forget the exact math, but it could be theoretically impossible to win a diplomatic victory just because the other players are not going to vote for you. It's not like Civ IV where you could threaten them or whatever. They kind of play it more as a game where they say, “I'm not gonna vote for you because voting for you will win the game for you. I have no interest in that, I want to win.” So you kind of have to go out on your own and make sure that you can get there and win by allying or liberating enough city-states. That's something that will also hold together in multiplayer as well. The diplomatic victory previous games is pretty much useless with regards to multiplayer because nobody's going to vote for anybody else but themselves and it just kind of didn't exist. So that makes it more interesting in multiplayer. And also the cultural victory, similar to previous games, you have to play a certain way to win that. If you're not building things culturally, if you're not getting Great Artists – that sort of thing – it's going to be impossible to win that way. A big thing with the cultural victory is that you generally can't be a huge “expansionistic” empire because the cost of your social policies is based on the size of your empire. The bigger the empire, the harder it is to change. I guess Russia would be a good example of that. It took much longer for them to kind of get out of feudalistic type of running their country. If you build lots and lots and lots of cities, if you conquer lots and lots of cities, you're not going to be able to win culture either. So you kind of have to plan ahead and make sure that each decision you make with regards to expansion is important. Military is obvious. You know, you go beat people up. The space race is kind of, as it has been in previous games, the default “you played well, you have a strong economy, you managed to fight off your opponents and made it down to the wire” victory. Obviously it rewards strong science. If you're the first to get to the techs that let you build the parts then it'll make it easier to win but it's not as focused a victory type as the other ones are.

ET: It seems logical to think, if every victory takes a different play style, that things could get pretty dicey during the end game if you are unlucky enough to have to change which victory you are going for. I wanted to know if it was even possible (especially for a competitive player on an upper difficulty) to change victory goals mid-game and still conquer the world.

JS: Depends on the type of victory. Military – it could be more challenging if you aren't fighting early but it's definitely possible again because you only need the capitals. If you're opportunistic you can sneak in and win that way. Culture would be much more difficult. Like I said, if you do have a huge empire then you probably locked yourself out. If you're more of a medium or smaller sized empire it's theoretically possible but you kind of have to make sure that you're focusing on it from at least the mid-game. If it's, you know, 1800A.D. and you haven't started and built any temples you're probably in trouble. In the diplo – there's a fair amount of flexibility in the diplo one because, again, you can decide to liberate other players. The city-states, of course, you can befriend later in the game and take them away from other allied players. And also with the diplo, if you do liberate an AI player they will vote for you. So if somebody was killed off that way you can go and rescue them in that manner. So there's some of them that have more flexibility than others. We generally kind of wanted to allow for some movement but certain ones are more open to that than others.

ET: I’ve been talking a lot about victories, and the difficulty of achieving your goals, on higher levels – but, of course, Civ has many different difficulties, and the AI adapts depending on what level you are on. Regardless of difficulty, however, the AI always tries to stop you from winning – and, of course, win themselves.

JS: The AI will kind of try to guess as to what victory you're going for. It could be wrong. It probably will be wrong sometimes. Maybe once or twice ever. It tries to keep tabs on what you're doing and kind of which way you're trending. So if you do adopt a ton of social policies early they're going to probably say, “hmm, this guy's going for culture! What are we gonna do about that?” One thing that we wanted to make sure we didn't do is if an AI sees that you are getting closer to winning or that you are really strong, they're not all just going to gang up on you and start fighting you and try to kill you just because you're getting close to winning because that's something that we didn't feel was really a lot of fun. Some of the earlier Civ games have had that feature and it's not one of the more popular ones so we wanted to make sure we didn't have that. That being said, if you're going for a militaristic game and you're attacking a lot of players, you're conquering city-states – that is kind of where we take that away and then we say, “alright this guy is a threat not only to winning the game but killing me. I might want to do something about this.” And that's particularly true with the city-states where as you start attacking more and more of them they'll start to band together and fight you and if you take a city-state somebody's allied or friends with then they're much more likely to attack you and be angry with you, so you kind of have to manage how that goes. They do try to pay attention, they do adapt, but we try to be mindful making sure the game is fun and not exactly cutthroat. This is exactly like multiplayer. So we're trying to strike a balance there.

ET: Finally, I get into one last part of how one wins Civilization V – what Civilization you play as is key to a successful victory. Each Civ comes with distinct strengths and weaknesses that can be exploited to your benefit, and Jon highlights some of those very benefits.

JS: Yes! The Siamese and the Greeks are both kind of geared towards city-states in terms of their special bonus and certain other ones get bonuses in different areas. So, for example, France gets a culture bonus which is definitely going to be helpful in going for a culture victory. Other ones, depending on their units or their ability, are more militaristic. Each of them have unique strengths but we wanted to make sure that they all kind of had some leaning but not too strongly. So you can still win a culture victory if you don't play France but France will have a bit of a head start on that.

ET: To round out our Victory podcast, I ask Jon a personal question – what is his method of choice when aiming to win a game of Civilization V? How about his favorite strategy? What does the guru of Civilization V do when he wants to conquer the world?

JS: Honestly I find them all pretty interesting. The diplo one in particular is pretty fun just because it is quite a bit different from anything that's been in an earlier Civ game. You can draw parallels to each of the other ones to earlier games but the diplo one is pretty unique mainly because it is so dependent on the city-states and the city-states are a brand new feature. That one is pretty cool. It can change quite a bit in the late game as you're getting closer to the end and how you spend your money and who's spending money where can really shake things up. So that one's probably the one I think is most interesting just because it's the newest and the freshest. I do think they're all fun though. Recently, I won a science victory a couple days ago. I'm going for military now. I've won a few culture games recently, and diplo I've liked so it was one of the first ones I won. They're all interesting. Try my hand at conquest this time.

ET: Thanks for joining us for this episode of the Civilization V podcast series. I hope we have given you more than enough food for thought as you strategize your first victories when Civ comes out on September 21st – only days away. Stay tuned for our fifteenth and final episode, where we look back on Civilization V’s development.

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Civilization V / Podcast 13 : The Wonderful World of Wonders

« le: 11 Oct 2010 à 23:21 »

Episode 13 : Les merveilles.

Elizabeth Tobey reçoit  Jon Shafer (Lead Designer) qui nous parle de l'importance des merveilles dans le jeu.

 

Elizabeth Tobey: Welcome to the Civilization V Podcast Series. In our thirteenth episode Jon Shafer and I discuss the wonderful world of wonders in Civ V. As usual, we start with the big questions: What are Wonders in this game? And why should anyone care about them?

Jon Shafer: Well the wonders are meant to represent the great wonders of the world that have been constructed since the beginning of time – or at least the beginning of the game – and they include a lot of things that you would expect like the great pyramids, or the Taj Mahal – those sorts of things. And also some more obscure ones that aren't as well known at least in the West. So we try to get a good range across all of time and all of the world. The wonders themselves – for anybody familiar with Civ, they will know this – but for those who aren't, wonders are kind of like buildings that you can construct in your cities that are real expensive, they take a while to build, but they have really strong powers for you. So instead of just giving you something that helps the city in a small way, it might help the city in a really big way or help the empire or spawn a Great Person or something cool like that. So they're just kind of neat things that players can construct and since there's only one of them in the game, as soon as somebody builds a wonder that one's gone. So only one, ever.

ET: Wonders have always been in Civ, but the Wonders available have varied not only in structure, but also in their bonuses. For a Civ player hell bent on winning, Wonders are not merely technical and cultural marvels – they are tools to an ultimate goal, and thusly, these bonuses are of the utmost importance. What Wonders the team decided to include, and how they balanced the bonuses, shapes a major part of Civilization V’s gameplay.

JS: Well like I said we want to get a good range across everything. So a lot of different flavor from different parts of the world. A wonder that's in Civ V that wasn't in Civ IV, for example, is the Himeji Castle which is new. It was in Civ Rev but not in PC Civ games. And we also wanted to think about what sorts of different wonders could provide interesting bonuses. In terms of the bonuses themselves there's a lot of different things that we consider. One thing is we just brainstorm and think about, “ok what would we need to have for a wonder ability?” And something like the Great Person system lends itself all to that. You build this wonder and it gives you a Great General. You build this wonder and it gives you a Great Scientist. Those sorts of things. So you try to draw upon the systems that are in the game and use those to make interesting powers for things that can be built and it can give you something really neat. Additionally we also have wonders that you just kind of have to have. Things like the pyramids, things like the colossus, things like the great lighthouse. We wanted to find abilities for those that made sense. So, for example, the traditional one for the colossus has always kind of been to increase commerce or gold in that city and that's kind of something that we've brought forward from previous versions of the game as well so that's kind of how the colossus works in Civ V. Another good example is the Great Wall. It looks cool on the map so we have it. It's been in previous games, it's a really neat part of history that we want to have in the game. And in terms of the ability, this one is pretty cool. It means that every unit that's an enemy of yours that moves through your territory has to spend double movement to do so. So it's a very powerful defensive wonder. Especially if you have a large empire and something's trying make their way through it, it can make things very challenging. It's always interesting when one of the AI players builds it and you think about it and you're like, “man I was going to attack that guy, ugh this is gonna suck.” We consider a lot of different things from history to “has been in Civ before” to what works well with what we have in the game now.

ET: Jon pointed out something that is key when dealing with Wonders: Each Wonder has the potential to drastically change the way not only you play, but how your opponents play against you. The Great Wall is a fantastic example of that, but there are, of course, others.

JS: Well we tried to make sure that the different wonders had different themes to them. And this is especially true in the late part of the game when you're thinking more about victory and you don't want just some random ability that won't help you on the way to winning the game. So especially in the late game we wanted to make sure that all the wonders kind of related to specific victory types. So one example is the Brandenburg Gate which is new. What that does is when you finish it it gives you Great General which can be very useful militarily, obviously. You can take that to the front lines and it will boost the strength of your units which is very helpful if you're trying to win a conquest victory. So that's just one example of how we tried to fit a wonder to a specific path in the game and make sure that it made sense for what players would actually be doing.

ET: In Civilization V, Wonders are not only of the man made variety. The team created a new, and quite different, variation on Wonders – Natural Wonders. Now, exploring the land and sea has a very real purpose beyond scouting for enemies and a good location for your next city.

JS: So the original idea of the natural wonders actually came out of something that we were playing around with for victory. We originally had a few different things that you could do to contribute victory points to your total and there are different competitions throughout the game. One of the themes for them was exploration. So we wanted to have players have to go and find something in the world in order to compete with other players and kind of win in this manner. The natural wonders kind of came out of that. They're also inspired somewhat by the relics in Civ Rev where you have these things that are really cool and powerful out in the world and you go and find them and you get some cool bonus out of that. So they're kind of like the Tribal villages or what they are in Civ V now is called ancient ruins – known to the community as “goodie huts.” It's also what they're called in the code. We had to come up with some name that made sense. “Goodie huts” just don't have much flavor to them. So they're kind of upgraded versions of the goodie huts in some way. So you find a natural wonder and what it actually does for you is it boosts your happiness which can be very important. It contributes a certain amount to how much happiness you have in the empire which can keep you expanding or growing or whatever. And that can be particularly important as the game progresses and it becomes a little more difficult to find sources of happiness. So constructing caravels or whatever to go out and explore the world can be pretty useful in that manner. In addition to just finding other players and trading and that sort of thing, finding the natural wonders is another element of the game that's pretty cool that we brought to the exploration side of things.

ET: As with everything, Jon has some personal favorites (and so do others on the dev team) when it comes to Wonders. Personally, for me, the Hanging Gardens have always been a favorite (mostly because I think they look awesome.)

JS: One that is pretty neat that we're constantly fighting over in multiplayer is Stonehenge. Stonehenge, what it does is it gives a huge boost in culture. A lot of the early game culture buildings only give you, let's say 2 culture per turn. But Stonehenge will give you 8, which is really quite a bit. So what that will do is the borders of wherever you build it – typically your capital because you're trying to get it early and you don't have other cities – it will expand the borders of the capital very quickly so you get lots of resources and different things. It will also speed up your social policies quite a bit in the early part of the game. So it's a neat one that is worth grabbing especially if there are other humans in the game because everybody wants it so grabbing it first is pretty fun. Other than that I talked about the Great Wall earlier of course which is pretty neat. I like to be on the offense, so it's not as useful to me, so I like to make sure I have it so no one else can. That makes things a little bit easier for me.

ET: And so ends podcast number thirteen for Civilization V. Hopefully, you have more insight not only into the new Wonders of the game, but also why the team chose them, and how you’ll be able to effectively exploit them to conquer the world. Thanks for joining us, and we’ll be back soon with Episode 14.

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Civilization V / Re : Partagez vos Replays

« le: 10 Oct 2010 à 23:22 »

Je me permet de poster deux victoires d'ilmir (que je remercie pour son aide grace à sa grosse carte) pour exemple du dernier script d'upload :


Victoire Militaire avec Napoléon (par ilmir)

Lien : http://c5r.sgsgames.com/?game=1286660071n


Victoire Culturelle avec Gandhi (par ilmir)

Lien : http://c5r.sgsgames.com/?game=1286728243z

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Civilization V / Re : Re : Les offres d'achats Civilization 5

« le: 10 Oct 2010 à 22:45 »

mes potes m'ont fait la surprise d'une fête d'anniversaire avec civ V version collector (boîte) en cadeau!!!

Chanceux vas  et bon annif

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Civilization V / Re : Sid Meier's Civilization V Addiction - CivAnon

« le: 10 Oct 2010 à 20:49 »

Gagnant du Concours : Kevan Tucker avec : The Intervention

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Discussions Générales et Autres Jeux / Coupure/Maintenance Steam

« le: 10 Oct 2010 à 17:50 »

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