era too fast

[Dendrazzik]

Yah, the era going to fast...only a few turns and you already finished the first neolithic...

[Tombstone]

I'd agree with this, I find the pacing to be too fast, I'm hoping thats just because of the settings that the opendev is on and that there will be comprehensive setting tweaking possible in full release to slow the game down.

[Dendrazzik]

same...i barely enjoyed the first era lol...i killed 2 deers and that was it...

[Grayswandir]

The Neolithic seems to be just an opportunity to choose where your first outpost and cities will be. the next Classical is much longer.

[Dendrazzik]

i went to classical era pretty quickly as well...i don't know...i wish we could spend more time in neolithic....doing war to close tribes and so on for food...taking ''slave labour''....you know...lol...discover agriculture THEN pass from nomadic to sedentary civ...

[Many-Named]

iirc you can delay it and still gain from that delay, someone more knowledgeable will certainly be able to explain it but I have seen it on yt

[The Doctor]

There are absolutely benefits to delaying advancing to a new era in the game. Fame determines who wins in this game and the more fame you earn per era, the better. However, you have to balance that with the chance that the culture you want or even need will be claimed by an AI. IMO, it's a very interesting game mechanic.

[Kotli]

You can go to next age once you completed enough of the objectives (stars).
Not going to the next era lets you complete more objectives for score points.
Note theres extra reasons to not rush in Neolithic.
1. getting units/population via gaining food from exploring the map and killing stuff.
2. completing all 3 objectives lets you pick a bonus trait of +1 to food, production or science per population in cities/outposts. This is a good bonus.
Downside to delaying is the other factions in game might take the culture you want stopping you from taking them.

[Dendrazzik]

interesting...thanks to explain it to me!

[ParakeetRiot]

The hunting era star is the main problem I have with the neolithic era. It is way too easy to hunt three deer then progress to the ancient era.

[GoldenTalon]

Originally posted by Kotli:

You can go to next age once you completed enough of the objectives (stars).
Not going to the next era lets you complete more objectives for score points.
Note theres extra reasons to not rush in Neolithic.
1. getting units/population via gaining food from exploring the map and killing stuff.
2. completing all 3 objectives lets you pick a bonus trait of +1 to food, production or science per population in cities/outposts. This is a good bonus.
Downside to delaying is the other factions in game might take the culture you want stopping you from taking them.

I rushed in one game and thought it was too fast. You're right about the +1 food bonus.

[Zevkk]

Originally posted by Kotli:

You can go to next age once you completed enough of the objectives (stars).
Not going to the next era lets you complete more objectives for score points.
Note theres extra reasons to not rush in Neolithic.
1. getting units/population via gaining food from exploring the map and killing stuff.
2. completing all 3 objectives lets you pick a bonus trait of +1 to food, production or science per population in cities/outposts. This is a good bonus.
Downside to delaying is the other factions in game might take the culture you want stopping you from taking them.

Actually, you just need to finish the Science collectible one for the legacy trait bonus. You can ignore the other two and still get the trait.

[Nova]

Originally posted by Dendrazzik:

Yah, the era going to fast...only a few turns and you already finished the first neolithic...

I totally agree. The current era progression feels like civ6 on multiplayer mode.

[Dendrazzik]

it seems to be overhype...

[The Doctor]

They've certainly been told that era progression is much too fast on the Open dev boards so perhaps they'll slow it down. A lot of folks have been saying it is so it's going to be noticed. How to slow it down though? I don't know as we all seem to have different ideas how that should be done.

[Dendrazzik]

we need more TECHS also....