Importantly, that competition can also be won without being completely adversarial. On its own, diplomatic favour seems like a clear way to understand how much international influence a civ has, and it adds some welcome structure and competition to the diplomatic game. You can pick the civ-maybe you really need the extra route, so you pick yourself-and then you can start spending favour, essentially giving yourself more votes. Maybe thereвЂ™s a resolution where the targeted civ gets another trade route, and everyone trading with them gets extra gold. Say some resolutions have been put before the worldвЂ™s civs, so you go through them and the pick the ones you want to vote on. It's a new resource that lets you boost influence when voting in the World Congress and can lead to a new diplomatic victory. As a credit to humanity, I was rewarded appropriately: with a big stack of diplomatic favour.Дiplomatic favour is a common reward in such emergencies, but can be earned in other ways and traded with fellow civs. I sympathised with Japan, having dealt with my own volcanic eruption a few turns before, so I was extremely helpful. In this case, Japan needed gold to repair the damage, which could be offered as a gift or via a project that could be undertaken in one of my cities.

Like other emergencies, it set tasks for participating civs and then doled out rewards depending on how much effort you've put in. One of its cities was near a volcano that had erupted, creating an emergency that was brought before the World Congress. Like Rise and Fall, Gathering Storm adds more features to the World Congress and diplomacy, offering up more opportunities for civs to work together and compete. With my scouts sent out, I filled my rolodex with other civs and, eventually, the World Congress was established. I could even see storm clouds in the fog of war, or at least little drawings of them, so I knew where they were even if I didnвЂ™t have cities or troops there at the time. Even when they werenвЂ™t affecting me, messages about droughts and storms reached my civilisation, like an ancient Weather Channel. At least that's certainly what I thought as I merrily built next to rumbling mountains filled with scorching lava.Д¬limate change, arguably the headline attraction, doesnвЂ™t start affecting the game until the Industrial era, when civs can start to exploit natural fossil fuels, but that doesnвЂ™t mean bad weather and natural disasters canвЂ™t kick off at any time. All these places are actually good places to settle near, giving you access to more resources and more fertile soil. DonвЂ™t build underneath a volcano, donвЂ™t make your home on a flood plain and donвЂ™t get a beachfront property. Initially, these threats are unpredictable and unstoppable, but you can avoid them with a bit of common sense.

Volcanic eruptions, rivers bursting their banks, rising sea levels-there are quite a few ways for Mother Nature to enact her revenge.

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