Gametrailers interview with ingame footage

[Geo]

A video interview with both co-lead designers (David McDonough and Will Miller) with some ingame footage mixed in.

Link to the gametrailers page

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Tech tree at around 1:00 in the video.
Looks like there are 85 techs at present, and they're "divided" between main branches with subsidiary leafs on the branches.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmmm.  Why does it alter the link to be incomplete and try to embed?

<a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/3tedfv/sid-meier-s-civilization--beyond-earth-first-look-gameplay-interview" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/3tedfv/sid-meier-s-civilization--beyond-earth-first-look-gameplay-interview</a>

[Geo]

I'm trying to find that out. Sofar no succes.
It works on CFC, so no idea what's going on here.

Edit: embedding or direct linking (to the video itself) doesn't work. I can only offer the link to the video page. It does start to play automatically though.

[BlaneckW]

I would think that biospheres would be an easier thing to implement than terraforming, which would give the "purity approach" a lick of sense at least. 

[Dio]

I would think that biospheres would be an easier thing to implement than terraforming, which would give the "purity approach" a lick of sense at least.

Who ever said that this game had to make rational sense?

[BlaneckW]

In my opinion, nonsensicality precludes strategy.  Biospheres could be a more primitive terraforming option in Alpha Centauri - not sure about this game.

[Buster's Uncle]

Whoever said that this was a strategy game?

[BlaneckW]

Whoever said that this was a strategy game?

oh god lol

You can see what I mean thought, right? You're going to make a few biospheres long before you begin the major work of terraforming, climate control or genetically engineering yourself.  It's probably one of the first things you can do!  It's the easier of options, has nothing to do with one's preferences.  It's not a philosophical or ethical question!

Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.

[Geo]

Hmmm.  Why does it alter the link to be incomplete and try to embed?

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/3tedfv/sid-meier-s-civilization--beyond-earth-first-look-gameplay-interview

Now this is weird. At my Tablet, both movies show up as a blank video rectangle (because I don't have the correct app on it), but on my desktop at most the link underneath the video rectangle shows up. And not even that from this post of yours, BUncle.

Regarding biospheres, I reckon the playable factions start with the knowledge of how to construct and maintain them, otherwise their voyage through the void wouldn't have been possible.

[BU Admin]

Weird.  I'm getting same in Chrome in another theme.

[Buster's Uncle]

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