Got a game going with Venice, world map as standard. Finding it a bit too easy. Started on King difficulty thinking it would be quite a challenge, but i'm way ahead going into the modern era, despite narrowly missing out on a fair few important wonders. Making 450 gpt, 20k in the bank, i have far more units that i could ever need, happiness is at 65, and my capital is at size 38. My two nearest rivals are boycotted through resolutions, and the only resource i dont have access to, silk, has been banned. However, i dont have tanks, and it seems everyone else does. But I should get a diplomatic dictory within the next 10 turns or so anyway. 

Have enjoyed this playthrough but it's been quite slow. It's already 2000 and im only just seeing planes. It's also been a bit too peaceful and with little excitement, which in some ways i miss from Civ4. I quite miss the emergent late game arms race dynamic, where superpowers stockpile and stack vast numbers of tanks. 

One very minor random thing i dont like about Civ is the text dialogue between leaders. It's too informal, and the information it conveys isnt always specific enough.

Argh. I need to get up for work at 05:45. 

And they're doing a midnight release.


Arrrrggggghhhhhh.

That good?

Bit early for impressions from people who've just got it I reckon. I know Bollockoff is playing RIGHT THIS SECOND

And as of yet I haven't seen any equivalent to wonders, which is a shame. It seems a misstep to compare Beyond Earth to Alpha Centauri too much but AlphaC did a great job of capturing the advancement of humanity socially as well as technologically with some great FMVs and memorable faction leaders. A complaint of XCOM as well in that characterization and the strength of the narrative is actually pretty weak. Maybe they fired someone years back.

I played a bit more Civ5 again recently. The more i play the fonder my memories of Civ4 become. I realise there's oh so many improvements in 5, but all my games seem to play out in the same way, that being far too peacefully. 

Can't decide if i'm buying BE. Was certain i would until yesterday, but the reviews haven't sold me.

Bollockoff wrote:

And as of yet I haven't seen any equivalent to wonders, which is a shame. It seems a misstep to compare Beyond Earth to Alpha Centauri too much but AlphaC did a great job of capturing the advancement of humanity socially as well as technologically with some great FMVs and memorable faction leaders. A complaint of XCOM as well in that characterization and the strength of the narrative is actually pretty weak. Maybe they fired someone years back.

I only bought it because I thought it was pretty much AC 2. Is it not? May have to have a think before opening it then.

Right, there are wonders. They just aren't particularly wondrous.

- Adjustments to the difficulty still don't actually improve the AI. It simply gives them a bigger headstart. This was also a problem with Civ5, but i'd been hoping for improvement

Look at the quest log and click on the Victories tab. It gives you a progress report on yours and other factions progress towards each victory type.

Weird. 3 turns before and it doesn't look like anyone is anywhere near winning. Maybe a glitch.

Domination is the only victory i've never had. I'm not even sure it's possible unless you pick a warmonger civ, which is a shame because war is where the fun lies.

Dom is the trickiest victory no question. The art is to basically always puppet unless it's in a great location for resources/production. Make a beeline for cities with luxuries you don't have and with wonders. Sometimes you should just get rid of cities. Raze them if you can deal with the diplomatic repercussions or a good trick is to gift it for resources to Civs that are far away from you or just weak.

This being released has boosted sales of Endless Legend. Which is hilarious.

Fantasy 4X game that's gotten solid reviews all over. Steam users love it. PC Gamer gave it a slightly higher score than Beyond Earth.