![]() ![]() Brave New World introduces a handful of new civs, none more unique than Venice. And things get even more intriguing if you dare to take the challenge of Venice, a culture that has its expansion heavily limited, driving you to find other roads to victory. Even your earliest turns have a bearing on the game's final moments, and those final moments have grown so exciting. Your relationships with other civilizations (things established through trade, through peaceful years, through Declarations of Friendship) and your relationships with city-states (things established through rather expensive gifts and pledges to protect early on) afford you more delegates within the World Congress if you handle things correctly. You can place trade sanctions on countries, outlaw certain goods, conduct a World's Fair, and the like, and each action has reverberations that can help you to victory, enhancing (or detracting from) culture, or even gold production.īut again, none of this functions in a vacuum. Late in the game, there's a new World Congress that convenes at certain intervals, providing an opportunity to change the way the game is played. ![]() ![]() Nothing in this final game operates in a vacuum everything works together. Brave New World is in some ways a less elegant, slower-paced experience (a complete game on standard settings easily runs over 12 hours, though some of this is due to Civ V’s chronically. That's just one example of how the Civ V, with its final expansion, becomes a truly well-rounded game, one that's terrifically reflective of society. You're forced to protect those trade routes, and to consequently weigh the worth of distant trade against the amount you spend to keep that route alive. The most lucrative trade routes (naturally) lay far away, but they're risky, subjecting your poor caravans and cargo ships to barbarians and pirate ships. Meanwhile, you'll also get to gain religious influence in those countries, adding further virtue to the merits of the trade. In a nod toward reality, you can certainly gain gold for trading with other countries, but you'll also hand them some of your Research in the process, enhancing backwards cultures. Trade routes also return – albeit far earlier in the game – and they are far more than mere trade routes. ![]()
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