Q&A mit Firaxis

[Piruparka]

Firaxis veranstaltet heute Abend ein Q&A auf Periscope, einer Alternative zu Twitch. Bei Reddit gibt es dazu bereits einen Thread mit vielen Fragen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comment...11am_pt2pm_et/

[Worf der Große]

Nothing really new was said. To the question of future games (civ6, BE 2.0 etc), Pete just said that Firaxis will continue to make the games that fans are interested in. Pete answered some questions like "what are your favorite books to read?". Someone asked if Sid's dino game will ever be released. Answer: maybe, who knows.

There were also a lot of civ questions:
1) "will the ancient era be longer?"
Pete's answer: civ has to carefully balance eras in terms of game pace but there are cool mods out there that already do this
2) "How about mixing history with fantasy?"
Pete's answer: that sounds cool. Fantasy does present a challenge to get players to understand it and care about it, whereas most people immediately have a sens of history.
3) "How about putting natural disasters in civ?"
Pete's answer: natural disasters take something away from the player's choices. When they happen to the other player, they are liked, but when they happen to you, they are not liked. So civ5 devs steered away from them.
4) "How about an official WW1 scenario in civ?"
Answer: that would be great. WW1 was a fascinating period in history. Official scenarios are difficult for the devs to do right.

One interesting question was "will Firaxis release a civ SDK (software development kit) to help modders?" Pete said that was a great idea and Firaxis would think about it. He said that doing the live stream on modding in BE made him realize how cool but also how daunting modding can be, especially to newbies.

Klingt nicht besonders interessant. Gibt es sonst noch irgendwo die Q&A in Textform?