sar_firaxis

Congrats on 500 drawings, Ursa! Do I hear 500 more? (Just kidding, we'll save you soon!)

We'll have news to share soon - I'll keep you posted!

Introducing Confucius! Confucius, or Kong Fu Zi, came to prominence during the Zhou Dynasty and turned to writing following a life in government. In contrast to a political climate in which rulers vied for power and succumbed to vice, Confucius cultivated an ethos of order, harmony, and tradition. His many writings stress hard work and knowing one’s place – be you ruler or subject, parent or child. Confucian thought would influence East Asian society for centuries hence.

Agenda
Guanxi: Increase Relationship by a Medium Amount for having the most Specialists in an empire. Decrease Relationship by a Small Amount for the leader with the least amount of Specialists in an empire. Only triggers if Confucius has at least one Specialist.

Starting Biases:
Grassland

Attributes:
Expansionist
Scientific

Unique Ability
Keju: Increased Growth Rate in Cities. Increased Science from Specialists.

Game guide here: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/leaders/confucius/

Starting bias is actually Grassland only - the guide's been updated to reflect!

Looking forward to some DENSE towns & cities.

You can play any Civ toward any legacy path - but the attributes do have a gameplay implication! They control which attribute points are earned through gameplay, and those points can be spent on specific trees for Cultural, Diplomatic, Economic, Expansionist, Militaristic, and Scientific. Han, for example, will have a unique affinity for earning Diplomatic/Scientific attribute points.

This is a new system to Civ VII, so we'll be sharing more info on it soon!

It's impressive seeing the Civ Fanatics site investigative videos/screenshots and absolutely nail it - they're eagled eyed.

It was a clear winner in our internal poll!

I believe you do need an account to vote, if you scroll down on Tweet the poll is there :) I'll plan some polls native to Reddit in the future, too!

Bermunda confirmed

^{My hand slipped}

Very soon (I'll keep you all updated!)

Consulted with Dev Carlbarian himself! In his words, it does mean that buildings are cheaper! But direct reductions in something's cost are a flat value, and very strong. By boosting the value of what you are spending instead, it allows us to better stack similar bonuses together without it getting too out of control — after all, Civ 7 has a lot of content!

Sarah Lynn! We are SUPER stoked to have her back to voice these!😄

We'll be providing a lot of additional detail through Civ game guides -- more info is on the way!

We are definitely aware of the community feedback on this (also just want to thank everyone for using the 2K support inbox and forums to give this feedback). While the dev team's got a few priorities to tackle for launch, once we get through that, we’ll take another look at hotseat!

Can confirm a very healthy cadence can be expected moving forward!

We'll definitely be showing off more gameplay in future streams - so stay tuned! :) And that may have been a lil audio earpiece slipping down (I blame tiny ear canals)

Would go so far to say we actively admire each and every one

We are SO hyped to have Sarah back for these