🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵3d ago

Okay so... @Doran_Eirok has been playing a game for me during our nightly voice chats, and something funny happened last night.

In "Sid Meier's Pirates!", the area is somewhat randomly generated, placing landmarks and treasure locations in a new place each playthrough so you can't just cheat and look up the location. You have to use clues on a map given to you to find the area with the loot. Maps have coastlines and landmarks drawn on them to give you an idea of how to navigate, and what to look for.

This is one of the maps Dorey has been given.

Thank you, game. Very helpful xD

#pirates #SidMeier #videogames #funny #game #humor

Rock Paper ShotgunMay 19
The long awaited Civilization 7 Test of Time update is here, bringing a huge suite of changes with it - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-long-awaited-civilization-7-test-of-time-update-is-here-bringing-a-huge-suite-of-changes-with-it #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #SidMeier'sCivilizationVII #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #NintendoSwitch2 #NintendoSwitch #XboxSeriesX/S #SinglePlayer #FiraxisGames #Simulation #Strategy #XboxOne #Mac #PS4 #PS5 #PC #2K
The long awaited Civilization 7 Test of Time update is here, bringing a huge suite of changes with it

Changes like the new Triumphs and revamped Victories.

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Rock Paper ShotgunMay 7
Civilization 7 devs Firaxis finally slap a release date on the Test of Time update, acting on "over a year's worth of listening" to moans about the Age system - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/civilization-7-devs-firaxis-finally-slap-a-release-date-on-the-test-of-time-update-acting-on-over-a-years-worth-of-listening-to-moans-about-the-age-system #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #SidMeier'sCivilizationVII #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #NintendoSwitch2 #NintendoSwitch #XboxSeriesX/S #PC
Civilization 7 devs Firaxis finally slap a release date on the Test of Time update, acting on "over a year's worth of listening" to moans about the Age system

Civilization 7's Test of Time update, which offers players the chance to play as one society through a whole game, releases this May.

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Rock Paper ShotgunApr 17
Firaxis reveal Civilization 7's not good enough at building attack maths, tanking its late-game performance - a patch/tutor is here - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/firaxis-reveal-civilization-7s-not-good-enough-at-building-attack-maths-tanking-its-late-game-performance-a-patchtutor-is-here #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #SidMeier'sCivilizationVII #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #SinglePlayer #FiraxisGames #Simulation #Strategy #2K
Firaxis reveal Civilization 7's not good enough at building attack maths, tanking its late-game performance - a patch/tutor is here

Civilization 7's latest patch fixes late-game performance drops caused by inefficient maths.

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DesertFOXFeb 22

Mit der Windows 95 Demo ging soeben mein 444. Upload im Internet Archive online! Das freut mich! Und irgendwie hat es ausgerechnet "Sid Meier's Colonization" diese Woche an die Spitze meiner Zugriffszahlen geschafft mit insgesamt fast 1.600 Downloads. Wieso??? 😜

https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas

#InternetArchive #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #FloppyDisk #Diskette #90er #80er #SidMeier

Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 16

@bookstodon

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop…”

—Iain M. Banks, EXCESSION (1996)

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 16

“Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION was one of the most addicting games of my life… I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Iain M. Banks shared the addiction and that his Culture novel EXCESSION was in part inspired by it.”

—Peter Tieryas on how Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION helped inspire Iain M. Banks’s 1996 Culture novel EXCESSION

@bookstodon

https://reactormag.com/on-iain-m-banks-and-the-video-game-that-inspired-excession-sid-meier-civilization/

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier

On Iain M. Banks and the Video Game that Inspired Excession - Reactor

Sid Meier’s Civilization was one of the most addicting games of my life. I feel like I could have learned several new programming languages in the weeks and months I spent building pixelated empires, warring with foreign nations, pursuing brand new technology, and losing everything in an inferno of digital destruction. I was pleasantly surprised Read More »

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Cyber-JohanFeb 15

Sid Meier on His Legacy, Game Design, & the Appeal of Turn-Based Strategy: BIG TALK w. Adam Sessler

#gaming #sidmeier #civilization #development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyH24CHTlHA

Sid Meier on His Legacy, Game Design, & the Appeal of Turn-Based Strategy: BIG TALK w. Adam Sessler

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Rock Paper ShotgunFeb 3
Civilization 7's big Test of Time update that'll bring back playing as one civ for the whole game is set to drop this spring - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/civilization-7s-big-test-of-time-update-thatll-bring-back-playing-as-one-civ-for-the-whole-game-is-set-to-drop-this-spring #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #SidMeier'sCivilizationVII #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #FiraxisGames #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Strategy #2K
Civilization 7's big Test of Time update that'll bring back playing as one civ for the whole game is set to drop this spring

Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have announced that they're aiming to drop a big update with in-depth feature overhauls dubbed Test of Time this spring.

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ComputerBaseJan 30
Humble Bundle: Mit Sid Meier durch die Zeitalter https://www.computerbase.de/news/gaming/humble-bundle-mit-sid-meier-durch-die-zeitalter.95969/ #Humble #Steam #SidMeier #Civ
Humble Bundle: Mit Sid Meier durch die Zeitalter

Auf Humble gibt es aktuell das „Die Sid Meier Collection“-Bundle. Es bietet mehr als nur die obligatorische Civilization-Reihe.

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