Aggressiveness determines the AI's tendency to launch and maintain war and its general attitude during diplomacy.Each civ has three personality traits, each with three possible values (two weighted, and a neutral or 'balanced' middle): These are coded as part of the civilization, and do not vary between individual leaders. a Japanese monarch is a Shogun, and a German democrat is a Chancellor).Ī civilization's artificial intelligence is guided by preset personality traits, similar to those featured in the original Civilization. Unlike the original Civilization, a leader's government titles can vary by gender ('King' vs 'Queen'), and several leaders have custom titles under specific governments (eg. Depending on the user's settings, the portrait is accompanied by an animated herald dressed in the civ's livery. If not disabled in custom rules, when a civ is vanquished, a new civ of the same color group can appear in unclaimed territory it begins with the standard Settlers and few, if any, advances.Įach civilization has one male and one female leader, represented by a stylized portrait in the Diplomacy screen. A game that has less than seven active civs can spawn additional players through civil wars.

Only one civ of each color group can be present on the map at a time, meaning a maximum of seven playable civs will be active in any game. A civilization's color determines its order of action during the turn: White acts first and Purple acts last, with the barbarians following after all other civs. As in the original Civilization, civs are grouped into one of seven colors (plus Barbarians).

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