{"id":4318,"date":"2013-07-20T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:15:01","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-225-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/20\/three-moves-ahead-episode-225-brave-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 225: Brave New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/three-moves-ahead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img3.imageshack.us\/img3\/5442\/itunescounters.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMovesAhead\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t done a podcast post in a while, and since I was finally on one about a game that people have heard of, I thought I should link you all to the show we did about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/3ma\/episodes\/brave-new-world\">Civilization V: Brave New World<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rob opens the show with an interesting question: Do the additions that BNW makes to <em>Civilization V<\/em> push the game in a Frankenstein direction? Are systems being cobbled up on top of systems, risking making the tight original design an unholy and unwieldy mess?<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the show for our particular answer there, since it&#8217;s a bit of yes and a bit of no, but it is almost impossible to talk about the changes in BNW without reference to seemingly incomplete systems that were introduced in <em>Gods &#038; Kings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is always a risk, of course, when you have multiple discreet systems and then try to integrate them. My game has gotten much slower and I have to drop down to Warlord difficulty for a while just to get my bearings. The addition of caravans and proper trade routes has done a lot to both enthrall and confuse me, all the while forcing me to build more camels instead of libraries or granaries. The Great Works feature is pretty cool, but it would be nice if maybe the tourism was more visible on the map somehow; I can see culture (roughly) by my borders, I can see the trade connections, I can see the religion but I can&#8217;t see Iroquois tourists visiting The Louvre in Jakarta. (And I&#8217;m still not clear on how a great work of writing brings tourists, but this is one of those Civ fudges that we all live with.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting watching Civ evolve over the years, though, seriously, I&#8217;d love for the series to get a big long rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t done a podcast post in a while, and since I was finally on one about a game that people have heard of, I thought I should link you all to the show we did about Civilization V: Brave New World. Rob opens the show with an interesting question: Do the additions that BNW makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,126,127],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-17E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}