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| − | Players choose 1 of 5 different colonist types during the Seeding. The colonist they choose provides a long-term benefit designed to specialize and provide replay value for each faction. The available colonists and corresponding bonuses are: aristocrats (energy), scientists(science), engineers (production), artists (culture),and refugees (food).
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| − | *Choose Colonists:
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| − | **Scientists: +2 Science in every City
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| − | **Refugees: +2 Food in every City
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| − | **Aristocrats: +3 Energy and +1 Health in every City
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| − | **Engineers: +2 Production in every City
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| − | *Ship Upgrades:
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| − | **Continental Surveyor - Reveal [[CivBE:Terrain:Coasts|Coasts]] on Map
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| − | **Retrograde Thrusters - Wider area for choosing where to land first City
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| − | **Tectonic Scanner - No technology is needed to see [[CivBE:Resources:Petroleum|Petroleum]], [[CivBE:Resources:Geothermal|Geothermal]], and [[CivBE:Resources:Titanium|Titanium]] resources
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| − | **Fusion Reactor - Begin with 100 Energy
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| − | **Lifeform Sensor - Reveal Alien Nests on Map
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| − | During the Seeding, players choose 1 of 5 pieces of equipment to carry aboard the spaceship, which provides an early game benefit.
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| − | **Hydroponics: Begin with an extra Population in your first City
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| − | **Laboratory: Begin with the [[CivBE:Techs:Pioneering|Pioneering]] technology
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| − | **Raw Materials: Begin with a [[CivBE:Buildings:Clinic|Clinic]] building in your first City
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| − | **Weapons Arsenal: Begin with a [[CivBE:Units:Soldier|Soldier]] unit
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| − | **Machinery: Begin with a [[CivBE:Units:Worker|Worker]] unit
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| − | Beyond Earth brings several new features to the Civilization franchise and makes changes to some already existing features. Otherwise the game is said to be instantly familiar to any experienced Civilization player, especially one acquainted with [[Civilization_V|Civilization 5]]. The new and changed features are discussed below.
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| − | Throughout a game of Beyond Earth, a player's faction will develop in several ways. Players can research technologies in the tech web, purchase virtues with culture, develop their affinities, and change the course of their faction through quests.
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| − | After a certain threshold of points is reached, a faction will adopt an affinity, which changes the faction's visual aesthetic. Additionally, delving deeper into an affinity grants abilities only available to that particular affinity, including unit upgrades and unique units.
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| − | The [[CivBE:Affinity:Harmony|Harmony]] affinity represents a faction's decision to adapt itself to the planet by essentially going native. Harmony players research alien-human hybrids and find ways to exist symbiotically with the alien flora and fauna.
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| − | The [[CivBE:Affinity:Purity|Purity]] affinity is a faction's attempt to preserve and perfect the human form, neither transforming into something alien or something robotic. Purity players discover new ways to protect themselves from hostile influences and create humans who are stronger and more resilient.
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| − | The [[CivBE:Affinity:Supremacy|Supremacy]] affinity believes in the transformative power of technology and its ability to save the human race. Supremacy players focus on shedding the mortal coil and embracing cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
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| − | Beyond Earth will feature a [[CivBE:Quests|quest system]] designed to dole out story as well as steer the player down specific paths. Many quests will have choices that give the player points in a particular affinity. The quest system will respond to the players' actions, giving the players quests based on what they've already done. Some of the quests include finding particular objects on the map, exploring undiscovered territory, or establishing a spy agency.
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| − | Unlike previous iterations of Civilization, Beyond Earth will not have a linear tech tree. The tree is being replaced with a tech web that players are not expected to fill out by the end of the game. There are three general directions in the tech web, each one associated with an affinity. Certain technologies will give players points in particular affinities.
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| − | The tech web is broken into stem and leaf technologies. Stem technologies act as nodes, connecting different branches of the web as well as inner and outer layers. Once players have researched a stem technology, they may research any leaf technology connected to that stem without any other prerequisites. Stem technologies are general in nature, such as [[CivBE:Techs:Chemistry|Chemistry]] or [[CivBE:Techs:Engineering|Engineering]]. The leaf techs associated with each stem are more specific, with names like [[CivBE:Techs:Tissue_Engineering|Tissue Engineering]] or [[CivBE:Techs:Swarm_Robotics|Swarm Robotics]].
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| − | For a full list of known Techs in Beyond Earth visit [[:Category:CivBE:Techs|CivBE:Techs]].
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| − | [[CivBE:Virtues|Virtues]] take the place of social policies. Like social policies, they are purchased with culture points. Unlike social policies, there are a smaller number of virtues that run deeper. The 4 virtues are Might, Prosperity, Knowledge, and Industry. Players receive kickers for filling out particular virtues as well as for branching out wide. The wide kickers only require purchasing X number of virtues, for example. The designers intend for there to be strategies based on combinations of affinity and virtues, so that different factions with the same affinity will play differently.
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| − | Like previous Civilization games, players will spend much of their time choosing what to build. Cities, units, buildings, terrain improvements, and wonders are all still present in the game, although few details about each are known. Several building options are new or changed significantly.
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| − | When players first build cities, they begin as outposts which only have access to a single tile and cannot grow or be productive. Outposts add a new tile each turn until, after 6 turns, they transform into cities. Connecting outposts by trading routes can help speed up this process.
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| − | Early during the game, players will be prompted to choose between different stations. These are much like Civ5's city-states, in that players may curry favor with them in exchange for resources and other benefits. However, stations now only occupy a single tile. Example stations include biomechanical research labs and theoretical science think tanks.
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| − | Some wonders are necessary for victory and will take up a tile on the map. Known wonders not required for victory include the Gene Vault and the Panopticon.
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| − | Beyond Earth will feature a number of different map types known as [[CivBE:Terrain:Biomes|biomes]] that are distinct aesthetically as well as in their resource and terrain composition. However, no resources or terrain will be unique to any particular biome; only the frequency will vary. The three biomes mentioned most often in interviews are the lush biome, the fungal biome, and the arid biome.
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| − | The barbarians of old have been replaced with the planet's native alien life which will behave much like an AI-controlled faction. However, the native life is not sentient and there will be no explicit diplomacy. Some of the fauna live in nests and will attack anyone that gets too close, whereas other alien units are content to avoid the colonist factions. However, aggression on the part of any colonist faction will provoke indiscriminate aggression from the aliens. This can result in the appearance of Siege Worms, which are Dune-like creatures capable of taking on several units at once.
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| − | New to the Civilization series, Beyond Earth will include an orbital layer where players can deploy satellites. [[CivBE:Units:Orbital|Satellites]] will only exist over specific regions of the map and two satellites cannot occupy the same region. Satellites provide bonuses to the region beneath, such as buffs to military units, terraforming capabilities, and the ability to spy on other factions. Satellites only last a finite time before their orbits degrade. They can also be shot down. When a satellite crashes, it can be recovered by any player for a benefit.
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| − | Little is known so far about the [[Resources_(CivBE)|resource]] system except that strategic resources still exist. Some resources available in previous versions of Civilization will be present, but new resources will appear as well. The known new resources are floatstone, firaxite, and xenomass. Each of these resources is available to all players but will have unique uses for a particular affinity. Purity players can exploit floatstone to build flying fortresses. Supremacy is associated with firaxite and Harmony with xenomass.
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| − | [[CivBE:Espionage|Espionage]] in CivBE is part of gameplay from as soon as you make contact with other factions. Contact is made upon the faction landing on the planet. An Agent is automatically implanted in each faction you have contact with, and can perform various missions such as stealing technology or establishing a network.
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| − | As in previous Civilization games, players can win by eliminating all other rival civilizations. It is not currently known if the Conquest victory follows the [[Civilization_V|Civilization 5]] model where players only need to conquer all rival capitals.
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| − | As an homage to Carl Sagan's [http://www.amazon.com/Contact-Carl-Sagan/dp/0671004107 book] of the same name, this victory condition involves building a beacon that attracts the attention of the sentient species who formerly occupied the planet. The Contact victory can be pursued by factions of any affinity. The developers have suggested that pursuing this victory condition involves completing quests that reveal information about the sentient alien species.
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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the latest game in the Civilization series and a successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Like its predecessor, Beyond Earth takes Civilization's turn-based, 4X formula to an alien planet in humanity's future. Beyond Earth will run on a modified version of the Civ V engine and is due to be released fall 2014. Firaxians Will Miller and David McDonough are co-lead designers on the project.
At the beginning of the game, players make 3 choices that define the civilization they will lead. They choose a faction and corresponding faction leader, the type of colonists they wish to bring to the new planet, and the equipment their spaceship will carry.
At some point during setup, players will also select the difficulty level. The known difficulty levels are: Sputnik, Mercury, Gemini, Vostok, Soyuz, and Apollo.
The game includes 8 factions. Each faction represents the population of a colony ship sponsored by a powerful political entity on Earth. Factions are led by unique leaders chosen by the faction's sponsor. The 8 known factions are:
