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http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/...eyond-earth-s-franco-iberia-faction-revealed/

Jello will propebly dig this faction.

 

Here are the eight factions, they have released profiles on some of them.

 

There might still be a rump EU faction actually, as the central and north European countries (including the UK) are missing, so would make a likely candidate for a DLC faction. The Arabian countries also seem to be missing, as well as Turkey, Greece and the Balkans (though the later might be thrown in with the Slavic Federation).

Yeah CIV 5 in the base version was not that great, though with the Expansions it is really fun to play, so I am also contemplating waiting on the final version.

 

As an addendum here are words from each of the faction leaders, a little Star Trek easter egg in the ARC one:

American Reclamation Corporation
Brazilia
Franco-Iberia
Kavithan Protectorate
Pan-Asian Cooperative
People's African Union
Polystralia
Slavic Federation (Nothing yet)

Looks to be plenty of room for expansion civilizations, unless some of the countries I am thinking of are already part of the above factions. I would be leaning Franco-Iberia, and would maybe consider ARC.

 

You just reminded me of when he came over here and referred to Ed Miliband as "Mr. Leader".



...

*wipes away tear*

I mean, to be fair, it was a perfectly understandable mistake. I guess. Still.

Funny.

 

Crusader Kings II. Again. Start new game as Eudes Capet in 867. 15 years old. Vassal to Welf duke of Anjou. Also my uncle. Can decide what education I get. Sweetness. Arrange betrothal with youngest daughter of Charles the Bald. Sweetness. Strong claim on Anjou. Sweetness. Stupid weak faction within Anjou presses my claim before I come of age. Stupidity. Gets demolished. Stupidity. Innocent Eudes imprisoned. Languishes. Raise ransom money. Uncle refuses. "Claims on my titles". Bummer. Languishes. Uncle Welf rebels against rightful king. Imprisoned. Languishes. Still refuses to releases me. Languishes. Uncle Welf dies. Heir refuses to ransom me. "Claims on my titles". Bummer. Languishes. Thirty years go by. Languishes. Die. Patiencequit.

 

New Interstellar trailer, nice touch when you go to the website and enter the password. Getting really excited for this one.

 

The2ndQuest have you seen this? Apparently, it's test footage for Fox's Deadpool movie from around 2011, done in all CGI with Ryan Reynolds doing Wade's voice. I honestly don't know if I'm okay with it or not.

 

Easly possible that some countries could host more then one faction. The US for example is hinted at haveing at least some kind of goverment "Seeding" project as well, whilst the ARC is just a private venture with goverment permission.


But yep there are still plenty of countries missing and I am pretty sure there will also be some kind of „imperialist“ movment down the line, unless the Slavic Union turn out to be that, since they have been hinted at being a heavly militaristic faction.

African Union and Polystralia are my favs so far.

 

"There are 47 percent of the fans who are going to like The Clone Wars no matter what."

 

What do you mean, exactly? The only thing you can influence as a kid is whether or not you adopt your guardian's culture, or become friends/rivals with someone. Otherwise it's just like, "I climbed the highest tower, I'm brave!" (or whatever) and you then deal with whatever your guardian chooses to that event. No choice involved.

"Yay, I'm ambitious!"
"Darn, my content tutor just beat it out of me"

Or whatever.

By choosing my own education I mainly just meant, "Yeah, I can pick whether I come of age with a diplo/martial/whatever education". I ended up being an ambitious brilliant strategist.

Not that it mattered.

But, generally speaking, your kids will pick up the traits of the guardian you give them. Or, rather, if the event around those traits fires, the guardian will nudge them in the direction of their own traits. It's possible for a temperate character to get your kid the gluttony trait, what with RNG and all, but they'll have tried to avoid it. Stat gain after 6 is based on the stats of the guardian, too. The non-genius child of two geniuses, educated by a genius, is likely to have stats at least on par with a "quick" character, despite their own shortcomings.

So if your own character is completely rubbish, it might be worth having a high stat courtier educate your kid just to give them a boost in that respect. I like sending my kids off to foreign courts. I don't worry about the culture switch, because -- thanks to RoI -- landed vassals that like you are SUPER LIKELY to adopt your culture if they're also ruling an area of your culture.

In my most recent Welsh game, for example, I had El Cid tutor my son (from the age of twelve, to simulate his being a squire). He turned Castilean... but once he came of age, and I landed him in Gwent, he switched back to Welsh within the space of about a year. And, even if he hadn't, once I started playing as him I'd have been able to make the switch myself.

That was a great game, actually. Pity it all went to **** in the early 1200s when the HRE (I frequently married my daughters to the Kaiser so I had a big ally to keep the English at bay) pressed his claim on the Kingdom, kicked my ass, reduced me to a duke and then destroyed the kingdom title when it became clear his heir would lose the election.

 

Decided to have another go at the same start.

Within the space of half a year:

Spoiler: OH NO, NOT AGAIN!

Needless to say, I was kind of livid.

Spoiler: But wait, YESSSSSS

So, yeah, a much better start.

And I'm now in the perfect position to avenge the death of Eudes' father (Robert the Strong) at the hands of Hastein, who is presently the ruler of Nantes.

I can smell an epic narrative brewing, already.

 

Hey, DigitalMessiah and blackmyron and any other people who appreciate damn fine coffee and Douglas firs...Have you checked out the Entire Mystery box set yet?

I'm torn, because it sold out on Amazon with a few copies available from third-party shops, and since it was independently produced it'll likely shoot up in price very soon... but I already have all the DVDs. I also have a... source... for the new content. So I dunno. I DON'T KNOW. Tell me what to do.

 

Good point about the ARC. If and when they have an expansion I was thinking maybe some form of the UK, Germany, or the Scandinavian countries would be a faction if they are not with Franco-Iberia. Same with Japan if they are not with the PAC. Also something from the Middle East.

 

Interesting stuff. The American Reclamation Corporation sounds vaguely interesting, though it is hard to tell if it is supposed to be an example of when corporations have too much power or if it is supposed to be an example of a corporation doing good.

The Franco-Iberia faction also is kinda interesting, for the reasons that Jello noted above. The idea of them trying to preserve the best parts of Western Civilization & culture is kinda cool too.

I am very surprised that there is no Northern European faction. I wouldn't mind seeing a faction composed of the UK, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, and maybe even Iceland & Canada. In the old Civs, I was always American, English, or Roman, so it would be cool to have their quasi-equivalents in the new Civ.

In terms of diversity (paging CooperTFN), the faction leaders are diverse and score very high. The ARC and Polystralia factions have multi-racial leaders, while the others are also all at least multicultural. However, I am surprised that there isn't (revealed yet at least) a leader that is Anglo/German/Nordic is appearance. I am all for diversity, but true diversity at it's best includes white people too.

I am sure that the Slavic Federation will be have a white leader, considering it sounds like a Russian/Eastern European faction.

Anyways, I am more excited for this Civ now. Interested too to see how much back history they continue to develop for each faction. I love worldbuilding like that!

--Adm. Nick