CivWiki Monday Newsletter for November 14, 2022
Good morning and happy Monday from New England!
Not a long newsletter this week, I can imagine everyone who plays Civ as a side gig is a bit preoccupied with real life, me included. So you don’t get a long newsletter this week especially since there’s like, five news this week total.
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Featured Image
This week’s featured image is from Liguria, in Lusitania. Another town adding to the country’s long resumé of building fancy buildings, this town feels reminescent of the colorful Cinque Terre villages on the Italian coast (which is literally in Liguria in Italy). While it’s still expanding, it’s a great place that faithfully recreates its source material and does it spectacularly, can’t wait to see more!
Featured Article
Vaults are extreme fortified defensive structures on Civ, designed to hold and protect prison or exile pearls. Since its debut in its primitive form on Civcraft 1.0, vaults have seen numerous upgrades, both in size as well as design due to new mechanics such as Snitches and Bastions. Vaults have played a large role in multinational server wars, including the Titan, Somber, Infinity and most recently Generic Wars; to prevent vaults and multinational wars from absorbing server politics, admins have taken various measures to prevent vaults on the borders of the server’s map and various other tactics to change the “vault meta”.
Vaults can generally be known with a deep obsidian hole down to bedrock, with various trenches acting as “rings” preventing attackers from reaching the center. At the center, a ground bunker containing a pyramid which hold the pearls. Additionally, a skybunker at skylimit allows attackers to defend above. So-called “vault scientists” attempt to optimize these components to make the best defensive vault possible. Many attempts to “break” vaults have been done using skybridge attacks, such as the one at Tinian, which take a considerable amount of time and attacking prowess to be able to successfully defeat defenders.
This week’s featured article picture is a render of the broken Holy Jaded Empire vault after the Infinity War.
Things That Happened This Week
Katipan Village in Lambat, taken by AK. The region is undergoing a massive revamp in anticipation of the upcoming arrival of the Great Overland Railway in Katipan station.
I’ve quite literally had trouble finding news this week, so both sections are going to be combined as one for this week, and moreso even next week. Also, I kind of have to phone it in this week since I’ve got a lot of work on my plate this weekend so I can’t quite give everyone a full report as required.
News
- A small scandal occurred when The Commonwealth tore down what’s known as “Watergate”, a wall of water in the ocean.
- This raised several concerns from other nations who actually appreciated the wall’s presence, even sending an ultimatum to the country to return it or else the water wall would arrive in the Commonwealth.
- ___TheBoss___ raided the Ila’Kyavul bunker on Sunday, with the Independent Southern Powers (I got it right this time!) being concerned for their own bunkers.
- An attempt was made by Ila’Kyavul for a pearl, but after his retreat, a skybridge campaign began on the Rozia bunker to pearl him.
- As of now, the ISPs called for u/KibbleTheBoss’ pearl and to return the looted materials, with the promise of turning himself in for a reduced sentence^TM.
- ComradeNick has won a full term as Judge in Mount Augusta, after a close election with recurring adversary Ahme63.
- Nara revealed the plot to its recent Halloween Murder Mystery and its winners, including its large amount of clues involved. It was discovered the murder of TolypeVelleda was a plot between several people.
- The Pigeon Crisis as mentioned last week was actually real and individuals from Doom City and Estalia stole the Yoahtl pigeon, creating a crisis in Altepetl.
- The nation of Arnen, headed by DockerImage, is established in West Kallos near Icenia.
- Norfland is established in Gang Shi, selling free beer. I guess they have a national anthem too?
- The Order of Ender was founded, a religion that aims to improve the world while improving the community. They’re aiming to build a community as well as help construct newfriend houses in the coming days.
- CivMarket has announced a building competition, offering existing plot owners as well as prospective ones to compete for diamonds and another plot.
Builds & Multimedia
- I bet Pavians are going to expect the Monument Group pictures to be here, but sorry, you only get the Pavian renders of town hall and the windmill today
- That’s a lot of Imperial Federation flags
- Another cool pastel-colored image of Lambat’s current territories
- Another roundup of this week’s featured images:
- Liguria in Lusitania is looking pretty sweet, as said before
- Rapidly expanding Katipan also has a great aesthetic as well
- tweetabix just posted a wonderful image of all of Norlund, refuses to elaborate, and just chills in CivReign discord
Memes
- I think it would have been even funnier if the Winterbourne website actually existed and wasn’t a PNG image. Anyway, ip logger
- Albert, the Imperial Federation Good Boy
- My addition for the week, Splatfest
- The cooler weekly update by wjkroeker, can’t hold a candle to that
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- The Cascadia Trading Post located in the +,- feels like a small secure mall, and prices are relatively competitive.
- The Monument Group in Pavia shows off several of their intricately decorated builds in Pavia.
Really Short Cry for Help
Sorry to steal this but, this is tweetabix’s hand-drawn sketch of Norlund’s community during CivRealms. Honestly, this is the best I’ve got for a “community picture” this week.
See, this is what you get when activity actually blows and there’s nothing happening on the server, and nobody else gives me news. Hope you learned your lesson for next week!
Speaking of next week, if you want to see your featured article for next week, fill out this form, and I’ll take a look at it and contact you if it’s being considered for next week.
Additionally, for all you aspiring essayists, I’m hoping to start a small op-ed column in preparation for a series of essays I’m hoping to do at the end of the year as sort of a wrap up of what we learned this year. DM me at @specificlanguage#2891 if you’re interested in writing literally opinions for the server or the genre.
But in the meantime,