This diplomacy system remedies several complaints I had with Beyond Earth. If a leader doesn’t have a strong opinion either way, they’ll be harder to sway. This leads to alliances, new relationships to leverage, and easier deal propositions. But manage your civ with a wise leader’s acumen, and surrounding dignitaries will join out of admiration. Build up a big enough army and they’ll accept your deals in awe. Those figures will, in turn, come to fear or respect you. Much like culture or energy, this resource accumulates through various perks and buildings, as well as through deals with other leaders. Through this new diplomacy system, you strike international deals, manage alliances, and change your own leader’s personality traits by spending diplomatic capital. Investing in new personality traits can result in a variety of perks. One by one, I watched my longstanding relationships deteriorate through Rising Tide’s new diplomacy system, a feature which, in the grand scheme of things, is just as significant as sea colonization. Holding out for victory while I built my alien beacon would not be easy.Īnd just like that, my prediction rang true: all of my allies declared war. I knew enemy armies would come with advanced weapons of their own, and ocean cities have lower defense ratings than their land counterparts. I moved my city back down along the coast, toward a more defensible area with mountains at my back. Then, 150 turns later, with my Deep Space Telescope sailing through the stars, I prepped my civilization for the final stages of a Contact victory. But as the years passed and my people developed new technologies, I moved it up along the coast, where clusters of Firaxite deposits increased my naval unit production. My first floating city, for example, landed in the center of a great lake. While continental settlements still grow out from the center, forming clean circles of multicolored tiles, oceanic territories take on a snaking, amorphous shape in their search for better resources.Īnd because citizens can still only work tiles within three spaces of the nearest city, building a seafaring province can mean dealing with loss: short term gains are far more valuable at sea, where resources are ephemeral, and cities might abandon farms, generators, and academies in an instant.įloating metropolises can travel across water, one hexagonal tile at a time, in any direction you choose. The result is a dichotomy between your thinking on land and your approach at sea. It takes a few turns, depending on the city’s production rating, but these floating metropolises can travel across water, one hexagonal tile at a time, in any direction you choose.
This feature would be novel enough on its own, but Firaxis wasn’t content to duplicate land tactics in a maritime setting. The Chungsu faction is one of the few that can land on water immediately. So while naval combat and exploration are still key factors in any smart ruler’s strategy, this expansion brings cities–complete with all their commerce, resources, and hardworking people–into the waves. For the first time, Rising Tide lets you colonize the seas.
There’s a sense of otherworldliness here that earlier Civilizations don’t contain.Īlthough there are still five paths to victory, both peaceful and otherwise, the methods of reaching them have changed. This is a world of exo suits, plasma weapons, and sterile, bulbous architecture. The chariots and compound bows of human history are absent. And despite a few cloying issues, Rising Tide’s changes make for a more balanced, and more memorable, empire-building experience.Īs in Beyond Earth, Rising Tide puts you in the throne–or council chamber, depending on the leader you choose to be–as you guide your civilization to victory on alien planets in the distant future. It doesn’t just add content to the sci-fi strategy game–it reimagines certain systems altogether, and brings real characters into the formula. Of all the things Civilization: Beyond Earth’s first expansion accomplishes, the greatest is this: it sorts through centuries of war, politics, and future technology, to reveal the personalities behind it all.ĭeveloper Firaxis Games has a reputation for making bold expansions, and Rising Tide is no exception.
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