Can You Disable Civ Switching Yet?

[High Voltage]

Only way I will buy this game is if this feature is implemented. I want to play 1 civilisation through time . Has it been yet?

[Fleetwood]

Not yet and no confirmation that it will ever happen.

[Fatbill]

It will never happen: later game functionality is tied to late game civs.

If there were to be no switching, the game would not work.

[Cryten]

Yeah age and civ switching is fundamental to this games design. It is jarring but it is not going away. Might as well play 6 for the regular civ experience.

[anynamewilldo]

Bye. Close the door behind you.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Yeah, because playing as the Aztecs in the Atomic Age, or America in 4000 BC, was SO realistic and balanced. You can request it it you want, but personally, I find the Ages system better for two reasons: one, faction bonuses are replaced once they become obsolete, and two, I'm actually finishing games now.

[jariel]

i really hope that they dont get rid of civ switching, i would like them to do those at least half more and ad crisis lenght to half of the game play. If they at some point get rid of switching i will stop playing.

[steven777]

Well you can play China in all three ages. I think that's it.

[z3rk]

Just wait for civ 8, it will release much quicker than 7 after 6 and i'd bet they would sprinkle their head with the ash and come back to previous, tested and working solutions,
And if they don't then i guess the franchise can gets some rest and people would stick to 4, 5 & 6, and 500 that would play this one in a year or two. Who knows maybe some competition would pick up this mantle in the future.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Originally posted by z3rk:

Just wait for civ 8, it will release much quicker than 7 after 6 and i'd bet they would sprinkle their head with the ash and come back to previous, tested and working solutions,
And if they don't then i guess the franchise can gets some rest and people would stick to 4, 5 & 6, and 500 that would play this one in a year or two. Who knows maybe some competition would pick up this mantle in the future.

The competition already exists and has for some time. Amplitude's Endless franchise and Humankind (Endless Legend 2 is in development), Hooded Horse's Old World, and Paradox / Triumph's Age of Wonders. You could potentially include Millennia and Ara: History Untold, but I don't think they're very good.

Problem is, people don't look for alternatives when their "main" disappoints them, they just demand it be "fixed" on the forum. In particular, the amount of people I've seen praising Humankind has been bizarre; maybe if it had been this popular when it was actually being developed, it would've taken the crown from Civ after all. But no, everyone dunked on the "forced switching" and stuck with Civ 6.

[hrafnskald]

The closest you can come is one option:
Chinese civs.

Leader: Confucius

Ancient Era = Han
Exploration Era = Ming
Modern Era = Qing

You're still switching civilizations in game, and your bonuses and everything else still changes, but at least you keep the same geographical area across one game.

That said, this is only for one Civilization. Everyone else is changing who they are with each era.

[Esau]

Originally posted by Dark Sun Gwyndolin:

Originally posted by z3rk:

Just wait for civ 8, it will release much quicker than 7 after 6 and i'd bet they would sprinkle their head with the ash and come back to previous, tested and working solutions,
And if they don't then i guess the franchise can gets some rest and people would stick to 4, 5 & 6, and 500 that would play this one in a year or two. Who knows maybe some competition would pick up this mantle in the future.

The competition already exists and has for some time. Amplitude's Endless franchise and Humankind (Endless Legend 2 is in development), Hooded Horse's Old World, and Paradox / Triumph's Age of Wonders. You could potentially include Millennia and Ara: History Untold, but I don't think they're very good.

Problem is, people don't look for alternatives when their "main" disappoints them, they just demand it be "fixed" on the forum. In particular, the amount of people I've seen praising Humankind has been bizarre; maybe if it had been this popular when it was actually being developed, it would've taken the crown from Civ after all. But no, everyone dunked on the "forced switching" and stuck with Civ 6.

Yeah, I remember when Sim City 2013 was terrible and no one switched to the competitor a couple years later because it was so godawful they just gave up on the series. That would be crazy if that had happened.

[z3rk]

Originally posted by Dark Sun Gwyndolin:

Originally posted by z3rk:

Just wait for civ 8, it will release much quicker than 7 after 6 and i'd bet they would sprinkle their head with the ash and come back to previous, tested and working solutions,
And if they don't then i guess the franchise can gets some rest and people would stick to 4, 5 & 6, and 500 that would play this one in a year or two. Who knows maybe some competition would pick up this mantle in the future.

The competition already exists and has for some time. Amplitude's Endless franchise and Humankind (Endless Legend 2 is in development), Hooded Horse's Old World, and Paradox / Triumph's Age of Wonders. You could potentially include Millennia and Ara: History Untold, but I don't think they're very good.

Problem is, people don't look for alternatives when their "main" disappoints them, they just demand it be "fixed" on the forum. In particular, the amount of people I've seen praising Humankind has been bizarre; maybe if it had been this popular when it was actually being developed, it would've taken the crown from Civ after all. But no, everyone dunked on the "forced switching" and stuck with Civ 6.

Well it's not what i had in mind initially. Of course there is competition but they are sitting there in the shadows of the leader. Now for the situtation to change 2 scenarios would have to materialize,
First, competition comes up with a breakthrough in the genre that combats the leader position, gets traction and overcome the leader.
Second scenario, the leader who's been up there for some time either stagnates or goes into wrong direction, pushing away the core playerbase due to their strategy/politics/goals/whatever. In such situation people would complain, go back to previous iterations, wait or give up... OR, give a chance for one of the competitors (like the Old world that was hinted here and there) and that could lead us to the scenario number 1

So in essence, competition is everpresent but they remain as competition either until they come up with something great or the leader fails.

And as for the humankind, the amount of 'praise' the humankind received here was not because it suddenly became a great game...but the way civ 7 copied it, poorly only reminded people that it was not that bad now compared to what was delivered here.

Humankind was a mediocre game, with issues, with couple interesting ideas like the ages/diplomacy/combat/locking down wonders and districts. Firaxis obviously followed into that direction and tried, so it seems, to make every copied mechanic worse.
So, mediocre game gets now praise because it turns out they did better job in their initial game than what has been delivered here. Not that the humankind suddenly became great game.

[Sesikee]

Civ switching is a horrible design and whatever these guys were doing over there when designing, well, they need to stop.

[Eyn]

If they give us a powerfull scenario editor that let us play only one age but let's the possibilité to edit all Techs, the number of turn in ages, all units, maps etc... it will be able to have scenarios that looks like true Civilization's game.

That's the only chance to save this game.

[Mockingcrow]

Originally posted by Dark Sun Gwyndolin:

Yeah, because playing as the Aztecs in the Atomic Age, or America in 4000 BC, was SO realistic and balanced. You can request it it you want, but personally, I find the Ages system better for two reasons: one, faction bonuses are replaced once they become obsolete, and two, I'm actually finishing games now.

Yea, because eating hotdogs while standing on your head is incredibly difficult but possible....