Civilization V Announced, Now With Hexes!

[A Black Falcon]

Implementing stuff like that would be really interesting, Weltall, I agree... really interesting, but really hard to implement.

I mean, they haven't even really managed to do national borders right yet. I understand that in the past things did not used to really be like they are now, with every country having specifically marked boundaries and the whole earth being covered with countries, but still, in any civilization things were more formal than they are in the games I think... in Civ I and II the only "borders" you have are the spaces within your cities' zones, which don't include a lot of space that should be considered to be part of your "country" really. Of course determining these lines is really hard, as any study of history would show... borders are an incredibly difficult thing to define, groups of people constantly shift and move and get displaced and merge, and more. A game like Civilization really cannot model that. So, what do you do? I'm not sure...

I know that Civ III started trying to model borders more, with the culturally-influenced borders system, but it's far from perfect, that's for sure.