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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, another mistake bugged the new Greek ability. Here's how it should look: All governments unlocked from turn 1. Be fascist in 1000 B.C.? With the power of Plato, you can! It's up to the player to figure out when the extra Envoys are worth the relationship hit and possibly blocked policy slots.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And of course a typo ruined the punchline, lol. "Leadership" is meant to called "Arete" for Greece. It's a policy that scales with the number of great people earned. So you pursue Arete through a multitude of virtues and by bringing out your strengths through the other policies in the category.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having lots of fun adding policy flavor names and the research required is very satisfying. Civs have custom looks for units and buildings but doing something like that with text remains a missed opportunity so far. A little goodie for the classical antiquity fans:

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For comparison: Civ VI's YnAMP has twice the subscribers and has been out for about twice as long, yet only has about 20% as many comments. We hate plenty on impatient spammers and other bad-faith users but overall we're fairly blessed with being left unbothered, apparently.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mad respect to the Grimhammer modders who are not just taking a stance against AI-made mods but apparently also have full-time help desk jobs - these numbers are beyond imagination to me, lol

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did I miss this one or does your week start on a sunday and it meant "in 7-14 days"?

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a former chief prosecutor of the ICC liked to illustrate this idea: If you have nine enemies and one bullet, threatening to shoot will get you further than actually shooting. (except in that case the bullet was metaphorical)

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Star Wars Outlaws is the worst when it comes to SW games breaking naming conventions: - no colon - "Star Wars" not all caps - no trademark symbol in the name

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty Civ VI modder: the glass is sufficiently large to hold the official water but they still should have made it bigger so it is able to hold all the water I want to pour in on top Happy "asset limit is fixed" season, people! :)

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look, VeggieTales fans have gotten older, too

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can say from experience that stopping bleed by being aware of it isn't even that great, but I'd love a TTRPG where you can pick that as a trait only for the PC to catch an illness, curing which requires the doctor to analyze the PC's blood, triggering a side quest to give blood without knowing.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drinks at bar 1h Club 2h Civ 7h Sleep 2h someone who is good at health please help me manage my rest time. my hangover is killing me

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The programs have also iniated a network forum to help other interested departments. Looking at the list of participating colleges, there seems to be quite the strong interest particularly from technical unis, too: www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/liberalarts/...

philosophie.uni-hamburg.de

Liberal Arts and Sciences in Deutschland

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Freiburg started it 14 years ago (I was in the very first cohort of students there): uni-freiburg.de/studium/stud... Lüneburg started a sort of general ed extra semester, the studium generale, which was also successful enough to be turned into a whole degree: www.leuphana.de/college/bach...

uni-freiburg.de

Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) oder Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) – 1-Fach-Studiengang - Universität Freiburg

Die Universität Freiburg gehört zu den forschungsstärksten Universitäten Deutschlands, verfügt über herausragende Lehre und treibt den gesellschaftlichen Transfer von Wissen, Technologie und Bildung v...

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a significant demand for it among prospective students, among future employees, and society would benefit, too. However, it's running into a wall that is the stubbornness, pearl-clutching, and general reform aversion of the German university system with its overprivileged professors.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Liberal Arts is being trialed in Germany, too, following the extremely popular and successful model that has established itself widely in the Netherlands already. It seeks to re-establish the educational ideals of Humboldt which were once thought to be a necessary of the cornerstones of civic life.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And you also engineer *with* people (together with them, not using them as a material, I hope...) and a whole bunch of engineering disasters come down to the people involved not being sufficiently aware of social dynamics in an organization and what those dynamics mean for important decisions.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel this every time I see a map generator start with simulating tectonics. Like, just draw some random squiggly lines - it's just as plausible.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like, if the future is interfacing with all our tools through natural speech, idk, I'd probably start thinking about hiring the people who have studied fields where natural speech has always been the tool, who know best how to use language in its most nuanced and precise ways.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Isn't AI, as alleged by its apostles, transforming work into something where we becomes sort of a team leader, managing many different "agents" and making sure they operate cohesively, similar to leading people? The exact sort of job a liberal arts ed prepares for and is demanded for by companies?

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As far as I know it was first a German colony and it was the German colonizers who in an attempt to establish a racial hierarchy ended up reading the different socioeconomic groups as ethnicities and applied ranked privileges and oppression. Belgian admins continued this system.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ok as a brain cleanse with stuff from the real world, I found something though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappin...

en.wikipedia.org

Flapping - Wikipedia

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I thought maybe there's a map that could be edited for a super quick meme and found this and I am definitely not explaining to anyone outside this site why I had to giggle right away

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"car asking char a question" - if it happens twice it's officially a consonant shift. Another tough day for descriptivists.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just curious, why Draenei so low even though they featured quite a bit in WC3 TFT already?

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I never played retail - only classic - and everytime I see a WoW veteran glaze Classic/Forever, I get scared about retail and think it must be some pit of unimaginable horrors, lol.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

because that would lead to the conclusion "keep it out of the hands of bad actors" and that wouldn't go very well for these people. They wouldn't be the chosen ones, they'd be in jail.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the fact that it's hard to find actually appropiate analogies in real history isn't exactly calming...

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And yet none of the 51 posts is about the bitcoin/AI astrologer who all started it this time so we're still just scratching the surface of this gate to hell

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's what I wanted to avoid. So here, players get something they have to interact with and sell through diplomatic trade, immersing them in actually running an export-oriented economy. And it's all just a simple sentence rather than a whole essay of conditions (also no "this is doubled", lol).

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Protectionism as an economic policy came from the theory of Mercantilism, which emphasizes export of manufactured goods and the import of hard currency in return. This could've just been "+1 Gold on all improved resources." That's the kind of bonus you usually see in modern civ games.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Encouraging a Civ player to interact with various mechanics to emulate a real-world phenomenon organically is quite difficult. The temptation to just make a stacking yield bonus is real. But holy shit does it feel good when you push through and find a great idea for a systems-driven bonus.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

also: predicting AI capabilities, somehow

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At some point it has been decided that "kill 20 boars" is bad MMO design but it's what allowed the levelling journey to be social. If 90% of my questing is spent grinding mobs, then I can quest with friends. It's even better with friends! It's much harder to stay synced under modern quest design.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

everyone talking about psychic damage as if Stranger In A Strange Land hadn't existed for over half a century already

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

and with the matching background, too, straight out of SWTOR's settings

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ah fuck I’ve just realized I’ve not got myself a piece of specific art from Civ, which is something I try to do for all the games I’ve worked on. recs for artists who can do similar to Civ 6 portrait style specifically? I know exactly what I want for this haha

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just know @docksecky.bsky.social is basically our resident civ 6 fan artist. As for matching the game's style as closely as possible, modder Leugi has done some incredible 2D art that fits in really well:

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thanks a lot for it all, I hope the narrative system will be built upon more in the future, I'd love to see design in civ explore more beyond yield-based mechanics into the space of storylets and condition-based dynamics. I hope you got some final Shakespeare treats for us in with England/Elizabeth.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Civ has lots of diversity" The diversity:

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you interested in Civ VII, in game design, and seeing unreasonably long wall of text posts *not* generated by AI? Then I might have something for you, my thoughts on how Civ VII could improve beyond "RETVRN TO V / VII" but by actually embracing its innovations: old.reddit.com/r/civ/commen...

old.reddit.com

Committing to Innovation - 6 Ideas to Make Civ 7's Vision Shine

*Preface: don't bother with this post if you don't like to read, but for once you have the opportunity to read a longer post about the game's...

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Empires die by suicide" but for corporations

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

California truly is a paradise* *place where cognitohazards cursing your bloodline for all of eternity lurk at every corner

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

America: pls read the room Euros:

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know he's got dementia and everything he posts is done by soul-sold aides because anyone with two brain cells would've realized that Lake New York is a) the proper analogue and b) something Trump would absolutely love and be on board with.

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It is not *not* a Trainwiz reference

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JNR (Civ Modding) @jnr-modding.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game Modder: the glass is Thomas the Tank Engine

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