The next major Sid Meier’s Civilization VII update will make some fairly sizeable tweaks to Firaxis’ latest and not, so far, greatest 4X strategy sim. It’ll rearrange the workings of age transitions, with a view to providing a bit more continuity between epochs and helping you finish your to-do list before crossing the threshold. We can expect a new commander, too – Trưng Nhị, sister to existing Vietnamese leader Trưng Trắc.
Perhaps most significantly, the feature will re-introduce auto-explore mechanics for scouts. This piques my interest, inasmuch as I haven’t ever thought critically about auto-explore mechanics, and now that I do, I realise I regard them with a mixture of enthusiasm and spite.