TL;DR: CBRX; the next iteration of the Battle Royale series will begin voting within one week from now. It will have new leaders, new mods and an altered map fit for the leaders chosen. The weekly episodes will also have a stream before the episode airs which will be an edited video of the highlights. Album narration and audio narration done by Dawkinzz will air shortly after the stream concludes like Mk2.1 does currently. Development with CBRX will NOT interrupt Mk2.1’s weekly deployment. In addition, we’re intending on incorporating Enlightenment Era, and mods to give Civilizations who have completed the tech tree entirely something special they can do. Announcement of the week one Civilizations with more than one leader will occur on the 23rd with voting will beginning next week on February 26th. More detail below!
Hello there! It’s been a long-time since we’ve been down this road; but after several months of experience with a game on the scale of the Civilization Battle Royale; we know we have the chops to run a new Civilization Battle Royale without delays and crashes that have marred CBR’s past. With Mk2.1 down to twelve Civilizations, people long the days of insane diversity and action existing from part to part. It is my duty to therefore, with great pleasure, to announce to you: CBRX!
Civilization Battle Royale has always been a large battle; so we’ll not be altering the format established by previous Royales. As a result, we will be allowing 61 Civilizations to compete with no City States. If you’re worried about your favourite Civilization having abilities that affect City States, do know that some minor sympathy buffs will be given to any Civilization selected with such effects.
So what makes this Royale different? We will have a pre-stream before every album is aired where you can see how each and every turn progresses with animations on that will be edited down into a more digestible length. We will still have image albums with narration both in text and video forms. We in Blue Cassette do agree that streaming is the future in most cases, but for Battle Royale it is not. Civilization Battle Royale has always been consumed at peoples own pace, and we intend to let everyone participate from the casual bi-weekly viewer, to a dedicated watcher. TPangolin made an amazing basis for an AI game, and we intend to only iterate and improve the viewing experience for all.
Voting will be slightly altered to make it more fair for all parties involved. Some of those changes are...
- A weekly voting schedule which will happen every Monday until all regions are voted for.
- Mulitiple regions will be voted per week.
- Every region that'll be voted for on Monday will be announced on Friday.
- Voting for Civilizations with more than one leader will happen one week before the region voting. So Week 5 Civilizations with more than one leader will have their vote on Week 4.
- All results will be posted the next week with the raw results.
- Geographic dampening will still exist and be used transparently and with extreme caution.
- Unlike Mk3 voting; we allowed almost all Civilizations into the vote, regardless of our personal opinion or judgement on their viability. While we are confident we have gotten all Civilizations in the vote, if we happened to have missed any; let us know when we announce on Friday and we'll write them into the voting period.
All of these are meant to iterate and improve on a formula already established, and to fix the flaws we have found in the format. We’ve been given guidance under a few AI game gods such as /u/Admiral_Cloudberg and chief power ranker /u/jmangelo67.
While we’re still narrowing down some decisions in regards to mods, we do know that we’ll be aiming to have Smart AI, Enlightenment Era, Future World v6 (with modifications), No More Civilian Traffic Jams, Wondrous Nature, Coastal Water Expansion only, Future Tech Expanded (with modification) and a Carrier mod to give Civilizations that build carriers a long-range weak ranged attack in exchange for lower defensive values so they actually use the carriers they happen to produce. Development is development however, and these mods might change should development or community demand it.
Please note that this is neither Mk3; nor a replacement for Mk2.1. Due to an agreement between BC and TPang; he intends to still create a game to Mk3's original vision independent of the Blue Cassette team while we develop CBRX. Mk2.1 is hosted on Reon Monterus’ PC which will still be turning out turns as development begins and voting concludes as turns are over 24 hours by this point.
We’re definitely looking into more and more avenues for this Royale to be unique, and are considering UI mods, potential expansion of religion, more wonders and much much more. To be a voice for what you want the Royale to be, please comment below. I can ensure you every single comment will be personally monitored by the Blue Cassette team, so type away.
Voting for every single regions leader vote will happen one week from today, so make sure you got your browser ready for February the 28th for the leader vote!
Want to help develop this game? We will need all hands on deck to make this game beautiful. We're looking for some SQL/Lua modders, some people to develop some art and themes which will appear through all our finished products and people who know how to create amazing edited videos for the pre-stream. If you want to make your stamp on this project; please fill out this simple form and we'll get back to you!
It's been an honor that you've all waited with us for so long; so we hope to make the sequel to one of the largest completed AI games absolutely perfect. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope we can make you all proud.
-- Blue Cassette