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nurgles_herald wrote:

Sorry if this is against forum rules, here's a stream of me vibing with Bruno and just talking about Game Design in Humankind.

https://youtube.com/live/m64MsTFAa98?feature=share

tl;dw- I think that the game is honestly probably one of the best *designed* 4Xs I've ever played, but unfortunately it has some serious problems in the front end.  Some of the massive deltas kinda make it feel like the design intent was for the player to *organically* discover the power of snowballing, but I think if we just had a better tutorial and a few adjustments here and there this really could still be a Civ killer.

On the note of scoring surplus, I think if it got assigned at either end of turn or on buyrushing it would align meaningfully more with what I perceive to be the design space of Humankind really- to be as open and welcoming as possible to newer players while being as interesting as possible to invested ones.

Maybe late game infrastructure actually should be *worse* but you can build it all in an existing city by just bringing a builder or settler to the city in question and clicking something?  I dunno, I get that you guys wanna get around the late game infrastructure problem and mad props for attempting to tackle it, but most people don't know how much random nonsense stuff hurts them in a 4x.

Hey!! Thanks for sharing it (and no, it is not going against the rules)!
I will try to get some free time to check the full video 🥰

Guys, stop making this sound even better! Dinosaurs, mecha, and kaiju? How many more boxes do you want to tick for me?

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The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

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DNLH wrote:
I assume it's just Dr. Hammond digging through the stuff at the bottom, providing the state with ride-able raptors.

Dinosaur Cavalry makes every game at least 50% better. Change my mind.

Can we have a "meca" version for Contemporary Era?

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DNLH wrote:
I assume it's just Dr. Hammond digging through the stuff at the bottom, providing the state with ride-able raptors.

Dinosaur Cavalry makes every game at least 50% better. Change my mind.

Hey,

Thanks for the feedback. It's an interesting idea.

Not sure if the Strip Mine bonus is possible at a technical level... I think bonuses to the resource yields are processed at the city level, not tied directly to tiles, but I could be mistaken.

Short answer to this suggestion: No.

Slightly longer answer: We had extensive discussions about the name of this era before we settled on Early Modern, for reasons along the same lines as what A1y0sh4 and xuzheqi point out (though perhaps a slightly opposite reasoning: Renaissance being to specific for us.) So it's extremely unlikely to change.

Thanks for mentioning this. I don't know if it's intended behavior, so I send the question to the game designers. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Well, we are making a change to the requirements, but it's perhaps not exactly what you suggested here. In the new system, you will still need at least one copy of each required strategic resource, but from there any resources you are missing simly increase the industry cost of the unit or structure.