HUGE CIVILIZATION 7 UPDATES - New Districts, Special Towns & Empires!

[@TeaGarrison]

Dude, I've been watching your videos for years, as well as other civ creator's, and this is the first time I've seen anyone explicitly mention what 4X refers to.

[@JumboPixel]

That’s actually not that unusual! Maybe quite common. I usually struggle to remember all four (not exterminate, explore or expand). Writing this right now I can’t recall the fourth, and I only just finished reading it😅

[@blastyfreak]

​@@JumboPixelexploit the world!!!

[@Hedgehog1039]

Although this stuff really excites me, every time I see the map it makes me sad because the rivers just vanish when built around... I loved how cities looked when they were built along rivers before but now it seems that it is only the navigable rivers - which just look like long blobby lakes after the connecting rivers disappear. The way buildings would sit inside a meander always looked cool to me... I look forward to the game though!

[@CrazyNights1015]

Not much of a fan of hard build limits. I love to play my Civ games on massive world maps and create large empires. I'll be a little disappointed if Civ 7 has a lot of barriers to be able to do that

[@irisacenavarro4978]

I think it works like Amenities, wherein as your city and empire grows, they need more things to satisfy them.

[@ANGVS-BEEF]

I think there will probably be a setting that you can turn it off

[@Emiltat]

They are not hard limits, you can build above it

[@OptimusCrime4444]

This is not a hard limit. You get -5 happiness empire wide per settlement over the cap up to a total of -35 (iirc). So you can technically still to it but you need a ton of extra happiness.

[@hagron5702]

I share your concern. One of the reason I didn't enjoy Civ5 as much.

[@mirandabee2323]

Always good to hear from you and to hear about Civ. :)

[@marcduhamel-guitar1985]

Thx for this, Jumbo! Happy to hear specialists and Happiness are back in this version. Still not planning on buying on release, but some features look pretty neat. Thx for the updates!

[@dylanhunt2579]

Not a huge fan of only having 3 eras. I liked how different an empire could become based on golden/dark ages and how those helped build a more detailed story. I feel like the detail between ages is lost by decreasing their number.

[@brianbrunt3636]

Room for expansions im sure

[@citizenrick1443]

Got to say your videos are great. Short, sharp, to the point. Keep it up!

[@starfox300]

I am not happy about the settlement cap though. It makes no logical sense for the global population to become unhappy as you expand. I was so glad that wasnt the case in Civ 6 and now this nonsense is back

[@Cramblit]

It's a soft build limit, and it does make sense for that time, that's why you saw large empires crumble in a relatively short amount of time. You can however work around it, and ignore it if you plan too. It simulates the fact that long distance in those times were a very real problem for governing. People on the eastern end of your empire may start to get their own customs, ideas, ideologies that don't jive with your capital, and ruler. Especially so if they are bordering another empire. This is all simplified down to a "soft cap" to simulate all those thousands of variables into 1 little package. Personally I prefer when mechanics actually go into this, but games these days are so dumbed down and utterly shallow. I don't expect anything more than these simple mechanics.

[@vakistania]

Honestly buying the Founder's edition, didn't know that it included 8 more civs and 4 more leaders down the line. Still too expensive really, but the game looks amazing.

[@Tartime]

I'm a little concerned with the soft build limit as I only ever play TSL large earth map. I like to expand my empire across the world.

[@MenwithHill]

All these changes remind me so much of the City Lights mod for CVI, in the best way. I'm so hype.

[@TonyG_Film]

I always wondered what 4X meant. Thanks.

[@TECHNICALfalcon]

I just hope you can still gain map control even if you can build cities , I hope you can make forts some how or a military outpost which just stops people from settling good areas as quick ,

[@JumboPixel]

Fair! They might’ve been a bit cheesy sometimes, but I loved the Citadel in Civ 5. My favorite great person improvement by far

[@TECHNICALfalcon]

@ I loved them in civ 5 , I was hoping we would get them in civ 6 at some point as they were always a fun . I think a citadel / fort would be amazing as a commander ability , have it kinda like vampire castles in placement . I think it would add such a fun layer to wars especially holding choke points . I also hope zombies make a come back in some way as the more military focussed games can change things up loads!

[@cecarter10]

This is a small question, but maybe you can answer it. On the minimap are we able to see the borders of our empire or is it just the cities.

[@JumboPixel]

Small, but still a great question. At this stage they’ve been very quiet on the minimap. I don’t think I could see it on the version I played at their press event in August. You can see the latest version briefly in a few clips in this video. I hope it improves & we get options & layers.

[@ungrim97]

Really happy with the changes. However I was excited for Civ VI too, but it isn't the features that keep me from playing it. Its the multiplayer issues that cause me not to play it. Constant desyncs causing long waits between turns, uneven start locations leading one player to crash out early swamped by surrounding barbs and civs whilst another player has vast open space and some city states to buff them. None of these issues appear to have been highlighted as being tackled.

[@Bakarost]

Have they changed or modified the civ changing part?

[@gorgustus]

theres so many bots

[@JumboPixel]

They love my talented performances and beauty, what can I say?

[@Bakarost]

Tell me your a child without telling me you are. Calling people bots because they disagree with you. Grow up

[@avicohen2k]

I always went wide. Micromanaging cities was my strength 😂

[@strangnet]

Are all news about civ 7 big, huge and massive?

[@TT-vd7rv]

Basically it's adopted the endless legends approach of district and town management. Amplitude made humankind to compete with civ 6. And then civ 7 basically copied humankind

[@theaverageavverix718]

Maybe it's too early to tell but fishing Quays seem a bit underpowered, do you think Sea specializing Civilizations will be included off the bat or layer down the lone with added features to make them more viable?

[@JumboPixel]

I had a couple of thoughts like that about one or two of them as well, but I held off. Firaxis reveal some Exploration Age gameplay tomorrow (Age 2/3). That should tell us a lot more about how valuable the oceans & seas will be in future ages. Perhaps the fishing village gets better in that age, with more to do in the seas?

[@wslayerem6996]

I just hope the ai is better in 7, but i doubt it will be.

[@JumboPixel]

The big question.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

If it is, it's more than gonna make up for the rest.

[@Emiltat]

All we know is that their ai team is alot bigger than the past and alot of systems are designed for the ai to use easier

[@aureliencaille9632]

Humankind was a good game, for the CIV game ;)

[@sley007]

will Civ7 for xbox support keyboard and mouse support??

[@JumboPixel]

Not sure sorry. We’ve seen both console & PC inputs, but I’m not sure about using them across their (traditional) platforms

[@gamber1171]

What about Crossplay? I have a PS5 and my friend has a PC.

[@starfox300]

This game looks like its gonna clap some major cheeks. Cant wait for february

[@PIVO255]

Do city names change when you change civilizations? In Humankind it was really annoying that all the cities had the same names

[@shanmtek12000]

They just need to drop a Beta. Let me get hands on.

[@JumboPixel]

Agreed!

[@fernandoduenas3192]

Question: can my brother and I play on different consoles. (Him: Xbox Series S Me: PS5)

[@OzzyAussie2924]

sadly looks like the game is more a city builder style game and less a civilisaiton game. i guess thats what so many people wanted. I dont like the look of filling all the tiles between one city to the next as that is just urban sprawl. i always role playedthat the cities were Provinces not just CIties . now they are definitly just citys and not provinces. expanding larger and larger until joining like one mega city with all surrounding areas

[@brianbrunt3636]

No doubt it's one beautiful game but 1. It's still over £100 for the deluxe version and 2. OK it looks good but how does it play beyond building a pretty city.

[@MegaRugster]

It will create wide weak civs. The gameplay I've seen so far is lacklustre. I'll just continue playing Civ 6.

[@JohnSmith-rr3jt]

Civ6 optimal builds were always tall and wide, abusing the audience chamber. Why have 15-20 mediocre cities, when you could have 7-8 insane ones.

[@jamesadams6360]

How is it "Tall" if you're still controlling wide swathes of land? I don't think the fantasy of a tall player was ever, "I'm doing this just to avoid micro-management." No, the fantasy was punching above your weight, à la Venice. I don't just want a tiny build queue. I want to BE tiny and cast a big shadow.

[@danielslinger9017]

Sounds like they half assed wonders. With all the bonuses the ai get on higher difficulties you could start a wonder first and still not finish it before the ai. Just give me my fucking wonder civ devs, no excuses.

[@osirisjohnson5165]

Its basically humankind

[@jimsanderson4180]

Hopefully not. In Civ a new tech makes a noticeable difference while nothing seems to make any difference to the gameplay in Humankind.

[@MrDavehef]

Go play that then.

[@osirisjohnson5165]

@ I tried didn’t like it

[@AlexandruBucur]

Having played Humankind, it is very much similar and at the same still old civ with other games influences too. It's a soup of different vegetables, not all to everyone's liking, but with dlc and mods it can become one of the best.

[@beforesunsetboxing6017]

Not a fan of the UI and its gold-gray color palette. Unfortunately Firaxis is developing this old-school, without including players in the process (no betas, no feedback, very little communication outside of sales-like pitches "you will love it"), along the principle of - "we know best what's good". But - the gameplay changes look good, I like them.

[@renyaoqin]

Had to say the UI is quite ugly

[@Transformer-x6t]

I ant to know can the changign civs thing be turned off. I won't buy the game if that stays as its absoutley absurd to think you can be Japan then suddenly turn into france. DUMB!!!

[@lite4998]

It still doesn’t look like a civ game, but a city builder game. Everything is so urban…

[@Aktarvata]

Civ has always been a city management game… that is the core of the game.

[@lite4998]

@@Aktarvata Amazing. And here I thought it was a 4x game.

[@corey1664]

Theres a lot going on right now, really bad to also tell us how civ 7 will completely miss our expectations. How about go away for a while

[@zondor8123]

Builders are useless, Ara and some other games doesn't use builders

[@CONSTANTINEXI63]

What do you mean? They usually are the backbone of Empires in Civ

[@Maria-t4w1f]

Watching your channel is like being immersed in a world of knowledge and beauty. Thank you for your dedication and talented performances!🙏🦜🏖