The game system will stamp a big 'fail' mark on your forehead and deny you the ability to achieve any other success state if you don't intervene.Īdding some new rule (by player agreement or hypothetical patch) whereby capturing a capital allows you to force a Don't Continue Your Chosen Victory treaty on another civ still requires a certain amount of violent combat in order to establish the treaty. If you don't think you can get to a Victory before them you will fail if you do not, even if they have been your friend for the entire game or that you are pursuing the same goal. If you discover that another civilization is close to completing a science / Contact or idealogical victory, you are basically obliged to attack and stop them.
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That doesn't really solve the thematic problem identified in the video.
CIVILIZATION BEYOND EARTH 2 SERIES
The Civ series won't break out of this paradigm as long as it holds on to its historical framework.Įdit: Reposted to correct the fact I slightly misunderstood your comment. All the different peoples exist fundamentally in competition #2s are losers unchecked extractive-consumptive expansion is the only fuel of progress progress means higher-performance tech. So it's no wonder Civ:BE is an Americanized game.
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Not the historical reality of it, with its genocidal European plagues that cleared space in the New World and the complex socio-cultural struggles that ensued, but the view you find in textbooks written by Texan fundies: We (whoever is meant exactly by "we") found this new, empty continent and used its resources to the fullest to build a superior civilization!Īll resources used up? No prob, we will just buy up or appropriate those of other continents.Īll resources worldwide used up? No prob, we will just go to another Earth and carry on!
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The Civilization series has always run on the American expansionist historical narrative.Īs pointed out by a sci-fi writer himself SF and, by extension, culture at large treats space colonization as an analogue of the Western colonization of North America.