I do have some questions.

[Martin]

I usually play Civ 6 on Marathon Speed, Huge or Large Map, on wet soggy lands. Usually Continents and Island.

Anyone know if there is a Marathon Speed, Huge or Large Maps and wet soggy land?

[plaguepenguin]

Some of the previewers showed some of the setup screen choices you can make. Well, none of the ones I saw were at all systematic in covering the setup choices, and I certainly can't remember which scattered bit of information I saw in which video. A dev diary on this topic would be most welcome.

You clearly can play on online speed, as opposed to standard, as several of the previewers do just that, to allow them to advance further into an age in fewer turns. This implies marathon will be available as well, because why not, if they allow any options beyond standard? It's simple arithmetic to make yields come out alright on a different speed.

I believe that maps at least as big as approx what Large is in 6, will be available. One previewer started Exploration on a home continent that had 8 total civs, and those civs not at all crowded together, which is why I say at least Large seems likely. Another previewer said that Huge won't be in 7, at least not yet.

Haven't seen the full list of map types, but they do have Continents, and every such map I have seen in play has a fair number of islands visible in Exploration. They also have Archipelago. We saw Terra Incognita in the Exploration dev livestream.

I don't recall seeing any button that let you dial wetness up or down. None of the videos I have seen had the previewer fiddle with such a setting, but not many of them showed the setup screen at all. I recall that the setup screen did have an "advanced setup" button, but I never saw a previewer click the button to reveal what any of those options might be.

Some of the civs do have starting biases that I assume would get you started near wetness.

[Martin]

Yeh sadly I saw the same screens in videos, but the version the streamers got is like a preview version or media/journalist version ie easy mode, abit buggy, stripped menus and gameplay.. they did the same thing with Civ 6. All the streamers were making videos on elite starting and best methods etc and none of it was worth using as the version released was even worse and a lot tougher.

[Martin]

According to the Dev Stream there's an:
Online, Quick, Standard, Epic and Marathon Game Speed.
Map Sizes in the dev stream there was tiny, small and standard sizes. (Could be multiplayer only)
You can have dynamic moves or standard, personally dislike dynamic as it lets the player who has the best ping etc to spam moves and effectively exploit the mechanic.
He didn't show the map types. I understand from potatoe that Pangaea has gone from the selection.

[Ulthar]

the marathon from CIV 6 felt like the same span of time, just slower research.

is there a way to really enjoy the feel of having musketeers before you rush into the next weapons upgrade and they are obsolete?