GR11: Welcome old world!
Yes, LAN would be cool.
Yepp, but I am a bit sad that they focus only on ancient/classic times. Civilization has always been about the epic quest of humanity - creating a civ that ''stands the test of time' and 'lead people to the stars'.
Maybe they will add expansions that implements additional ages.
TT_TT_TT_TT: well if the "old" times are really fleshed out it might be nice as well. Depending on my mood and playstyle in given playthrough i sometimes found the earlier stages passing "too fast" in CIV without that much meaningful happening. Also really important for me would be how the AI turns out - while never being that much of a strong point of CIV in CIV 6 i was utterly disappointed by it
I always tried to solve it playing CIV in very "low speeds", specially in CIV IV and V., this is, playing the game with the higher number of turns possible ( Marathon, Epic, etc...)
Other option since CIV II was to play a scen instead. A more focused in time game. But I have never really been a fan of scens in the Civilization games, the meat of the game is the random sandbox epic campaign. Although scens are very convenient and enrich the game.
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