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Echoes of Earth

Story meets strategy in this bittersweet reimagining of Beyond Earth's premise. Echoes of Earth is a total conversion mod for Rising Tide where the Seeding is a multi-generational project by the people of Earth. After the seedships launched Earth continued to study everything they could to help the colonists survive on their new world. Every discovery Earth could make was transmitted toward the Seedships -- The Signal -- where it would catch up with the Seedships when they arrived on the new world.

When the colonists awoke they listened to words spoken centuries ago. Gazing across the vast space and time that separated them, they hoped that Earth still lived and The Signal was not the echoes of ghosts.

Echoes of Earth is a total conversion mod for Rising Tide. It completely replaces the technology web, buildings, building quests, virtues, diplomatic traits, improvements, orbital units and more! The four design pillars of Echoes of Earth are:

1. Remember Earth
   
2. Play the Map
   
3. Struggle to Survive
   
4. Dynamic Decision Making

The official guide contains a complete overview of all the new features with pictures.

To "double enable" the mod:

1. Select all the mods you want and click next
   
2. Don't click start game, instead hit escape to go back
   
3. Click next again, this is the second time enabling the mod
   
4. Now you can start/load a game and it will work correctly

1. Remember Earth
Earth's commitment did not end when the seedships were launched. The messages of the Signal streaked across space, ready to decode and read upon arrival at the new world. Earth channeled much of its dwindling resources into aiding your survival, and the time will come to repay that generosity. When the messages from Earth grow desperate, what will you do? Will you take the extra step to start sending help back - even if it may not be enough to save Earth?

2. Play the Map
Never before has the map been so critical in the choices you will face. What terrain and resources are nearby will determine what improvements you can make and what buildings are available. Specializing your cities to take advantage of the things they are uniquely suited to do will be key in growing an effective colony. Your technology and diplomatic trait choices will be shaped by what parts of your colony you want to benefit.

3. Struggle to Survive
Life is not easy on the new world. Energy will be scarce, Health will be a concern throughout the game and orbital units will require effort to sustain. Many yields are harder to come by. If your colony lacks for certain resources you will have to struggle to persevere with the constraint. The planet does not welcome you and survival will require foresight and cunning.

4. Dynamic Decision Making
No two games of Echoes of Earth will play out the same. From the moment you make planet fall you will need to form your strategy within the tools you have available. You will not be able to follow the same steps in every game. You will need to utilize your colony's strengths while mitigating its weaknesses. Even as your colony establishes itself on the new world its Affinity will shape its play style. Each Affinity has unique improvements, buildings and technologies that give it a fundamentally different play style than the alternatives.

• The official guide contains a complete overview of all the new features with pictures. It should be the first place you look for more information about the mod.
  
• Reddit discussion thread[redd.it] on /r/civbeyondearth
  
• CivFanatics discussion thread[forums.civfanatics.com].
  
• Alternative download[forums.civfanatics.com] location from CivFanatics.
  
• Development blog[mechanicsasmetaphor.wordpress.com]. Contains behind the scenes info and sneak peaks at future versions.

• Virtues that provide Diplomatic Capital from Resources and Alien Nests won't show up in the UI but do work (visual issue only).
  
• It is possible to stack more than 100% purchase discount for tiles.
  
• Other game play impacting mods are unlikely to work with Echoes of Earth because of how many parts of the game Echoes of Earth touches.