How are they relevent is more interesting.Is Rome just a +10 this or that malus or deeper.

It sounds like they would be more than a modifier, but can't know that for sure until we see more. As for Civs I would really like to see the Byzantines represented. Maybe being a defensive cultural play style. 

Amplitude has a great knack for asymmetrical factions. The differences between faction playstyles in Endless Legend is one of the biggest things people referred to when comparing it to Civilization. I'm quite interested to see how Amplitude applies this to 60 cultures.

It will be interesting to see who is playable in the modern era hopefully my Olmecs arnt forced into a selection of western powers.

Yeah i'm trying to think of 10 major modern powers.

1: USA

2: Russia

3: China

4: Germany (Or will the european union be a single one?)

I guess we are going to have to see

Personally, I am espacially interested by this one sentence from the presentation : 

Begin as Ancient Egypt, then evolve into the Romans, the Khmers, or perhaps the Vikings—the choice is up to you.

If it means that the players will have big transitions in the gameplay by changing its civilisation, that could be really interesting. Any trade-off like "you were once a very military oriented faction and now you are opening to more cultural ways" could lead the game to be more dynamic than the current gameplay we have in Civ series, with one civ for the whole game.

It is absolutely wrong from a historical accuracy point of view (civilisations were transitionning over long period of time) but could be really fun in games.

Kantziko wrote:

Personally, I am espacially interested by this one sentence from the presentation : 

Begin as Ancient Egypt, then evolve into the Romans, the Khmers, or perhaps the Vikings—the choice is up to you.

Me too, the system seems very interesting and it reminds me an old game from Activision "Empires : Dawn of the Modern World. 

In this game you choose one civ among 4 (maybe more) and then, at a future era (III) you choose a new one (exemple : Franks --> France or Germany ; England --> US or UK ; ...) 

It was very cool and it's very good idea to implement a similar system in a 4X. Can't wait to see and play it !

Lot's of artwork was posted in another thread and its possible to see some more civilizations from them 

https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/168-general/threads/34386-let-s-see-some-gorgeous-looking-faction-cards-from-stream?page=1#post-285741

Does this mean that the maximum amount of players is 10? In the livestream it was mentioned you can pick a culture to prevent others from taking it.

I would imagine its 8 players maximum like endless legend. Since that seems to be the game that shares the most with Humankind in terms of design.

Still 10 civs between 8 players is tight. I imagine this would be somthing that is expanded upon with DLC

From the cards I think I can see Goths, Sarmatians, Phoencia/Carthage and 2 Chinese dynasties possibly Han and Ming.

If they don't have Sumerians I'll just think they're saving it for an expansion.   Because the Sumerians were a big deal.   

MasterofMobius wrote:

From the cards I think I can see Goths, Sarmatians, Phoencia/Carthage and 2 Chinese dynasties possibly Han and Ming.

also cards picks are geography based ... I mean steam picture with egypt upgrade

Hoping for some rarer civilizations/tribes like the Tainos or Arawaks .

I really hope the diplomatic system also takes this into account, as in other civilizations will see how you are evolving too and change how they perceive you. This could make for interesting alliance changes

EaglePursuit wrote:

Known:

Hittite

Egyptian

Olmec

Babylonians

Assyrians

Harappans Roman Greeks Chinese Nubians (you see the city Kerma with red pyramids at one point) Vikings France Khmer Germans Possibilities: Since they have the Harrapans as a group unto themselves, it's possible that India will provide more than 1 civilization (thank goodness). They might also provide the Maurya, Cholas, Gupta, Mughals, etc And while the Chinese were mentioned in some articles, it may also make sense to break them down by dynasty as well. We see the Olmec, so I expect to see Mayans, Aztecs, and Inca, if not other Meso and South Americans. I do wonder if they will opt for and North American tribes. They can be finicky about how they are represented in media.

Japanese and Korean units have cameos, too. And the Phoenicians may be in that one ancient-era ship loading screen.