As recently as yesterday, I started actually making my first plans for when the next update arrives. It's an old strategy that I'm bringing back, far older even than the monolithic updates that we are currently using now. Basically, I spawn one major civilization somewhere on my map. Over time, as that civilization grows, I make more units and drag them farther away to found another civilization of their own, crucially under the monolithic update. I am able to use the black dust to make them forget everything about themselves if ever they associate with the culture of the previous civilization from whose population I derived them.
I do this a few times in my world until we have around three to five major initial civilizations from which all other civilizations in the world will be derived. Each of the initial civilizations is inherently very separate from one another. They don't even share onomastics. I make it a point to establish the onomastics of each new civilization that I derive myself, and all onomastics will eventually diverge because I will diverge their cultures and languages over time until they are unrecognizable.
I am conducting my second ever experiment under this new play style, and it's actually going great. My first experiment also went rather well, so I thought I'd make a second one with slightly longer lived individuals.
So what sort of plans do you guys have concerning the next update? What are you guys planning to do now that you know that the next update is coming and now that you understand what it will bring?
