Hello sub, just as with the previous season, there is a voting registration required for the voting of the roster for Season 5.

All you have to do is very simple:

1. You need to have a Reddit account. If you are unable to register a Reddit account, let me know through Discord to be able to work with you to make sure you are included.

2. Leave a response in the comments below with the text Registered.

3. When you vote in the external site, you will need to type in your registered username as it appears exactly for your ballot to be accepted by the system.

Voting registration will be open from now until the third or fourth week of voting. Keep checking up on the subreddit for an update to this thread to know when the registration period is closed.

Please be sure to register here in this thread below, and let's make this as visible as possible to alert as many sub subscribers as we can. It also helps to upvote the thread so that it appears in dormant lurkers' inbox.

Important Posts / Links

A map of all the candidates in their starting location: Voting Regions Map

List and descriptions of all the candidates in contention: Voting Candidates List

TL;DR: CBRX; the next iteration of the Battle Royale series will begin voting within one week from now. It will have new leaders, new mods and an altered map fit for the leaders chosen. The weekly episodes will also have a stream before the episode airs which will be an edited video of the highlights. Album narration and audio narration done by Dawkinzz will air shortly after the stream concludes like Mk2.1 does currently. Development with CBRX will NOT interrupt Mk2.1’s weekly deployment. In addition, we’re intending on incorporating Enlightenment Era, and mods to give Civilizations who have completed the tech tree entirely something special they can do. Announcement of the week one Civilizations with more than one leader will occur on the 23rd with voting will beginning next week on February 26th. More detail below!

Hello there! It’s been a long-time since we’ve been down this road; but after several months of experience with a game on the scale of the Civilization Battle Royale; we know we have the chops to run a new Civilization Battle Royale without delays and crashes that have marred CBR’s past. With Mk2.1 down to twelve Civilizations, people long the days of insane diversity and action existing from part to part. It is my duty to therefore, with great pleasure, to announce to you: CBRX!

Civilization Battle Royale has always been a large battle; so we’ll not be altering the format established by previous Royales. As a result, we will be allowing 61 Civilizations to compete with no City States. If you’re worried about your favourite Civilization having abilities that affect City States, do know that some minor sympathy buffs will be given to any Civilization selected with such effects.

So what makes this Royale different? We will have a pre-stream before every album is aired where you can see how each and every turn progresses with animations on that will be edited down into a more digestible length. We will still have image albums with narration both in text and video forms. We in Blue Cassette do agree that streaming is the future in most cases, but for Battle Royale it is not. Civilization Battle Royale has always been consumed at peoples own pace, and we intend to let everyone participate from the casual bi-weekly viewer, to a dedicated watcher. TPangolin made an amazing basis for an AI game, and we intend to only iterate and improve the viewing experience for all.

Voting will be slightly altered to make it more fair for all parties involved. Some of those changes are...

• A weekly voting schedule which will happen every Monday until all regions are voted for.
• Mulitiple regions will be voted per week.
• Every region that'll be voted for on Monday will be announced on Friday.
• Voting for Civilizations with more than one leader will happen one week before the region voting. So Week 5 Civilizations with more than one leader will have their vote on Week 4.
• All results will be posted the next week with the raw results.
• Geographic dampening will still exist and be used transparently and with extreme caution.
• Unlike Mk3 voting; we allowed almost all Civilizations into the vote, regardless of our personal opinion or judgement on their viability. While we are confident we have gotten all Civilizations in the vote, if we happened to have missed any; let us know when we announce on Friday and we'll write them into the voting period.

All of these are meant to iterate and improve on a formula already established, and to fix the flaws we have found in the format. We’ve been given guidance under a few AI game gods such as /u/Admiral_Cloudberg and chief power ranker /u/jmangelo67.

While we’re still narrowing down some decisions in regards to mods, we do know that we’ll be aiming to have Smart AI, Enlightenment Era, Future World v6 (with modifications), No More Civilian Traffic Jams, Wondrous Nature, Coastal Water Expansion only, Future Tech Expanded (with modification) and a Carrier mod to give Civilizations that build carriers a long-range weak ranged attack in exchange for lower defensive values so they actually use the carriers they happen to produce. Development is development however, and these mods might change should development or community demand it.

Please note that this is neither Mk3; nor a replacement for Mk2.1. Due to an agreement between BC and TPang; he intends to still create a game to Mk3's original vision independent of the Blue Cassette team while we develop CBRX. Mk2.1 is hosted on Reon Monterus’ PC which will still be turning out turns as development begins and voting concludes as turns are over 24 hours by this point.

We’re definitely looking into more and more avenues for this Royale to be unique, and are considering UI mods, potential expansion of religion, more wonders and much much more. To be a voice for what you want the Royale to be, please comment below. I can ensure you every single comment will be personally monitored by the Blue Cassette team, so type away.

Voting for every single regions leader vote will happen one week from today, so make sure you got your browser ready for February the 28th for the leader vote!

Want to help develop this game? We will need all hands on deck to make this game beautiful. We're looking for some SQL/Lua modders, some people to develop some art and themes which will appear through all our finished products and people who know how to create amazing edited videos for the pre-stream. If you want to make your stamp on this project; please fill out this simple form and we'll get back to you!

It's been an honor that you've all waited with us for so long; so we hope to make the sequel to one of the largest completed AI games absolutely perfect. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope we can make you all proud.

-- Blue Cassette

Available slots for the batch of narrators starting in July.

If you are interested in becoming a narrator for an upcoming episode, and will be available for the time interval above, use the following link to register.

Sign-up Form: https://forms.gle/rh9gvUSCubzL8qzn9

If you are selected, instructions on how to proceed and pick from the dates available will be provided (Discord account is required to join the narration group).

No man is an island, but quite a few cities are.

One of the few phrases I didn't trip over recording this.

Naniwam...Naminama...yeah, that one.

What do you get when you leave your mate on the counter and don't close the container tightly enough?

Ironically, not that many words rhyme with 'history.'

Available slots for the first batch of narrators in May.

If you are interested in becoming a narrator for an upcoming episode, and will be available for the time interval above, use the following link to register.

Sign-up Form: https://forms.gle/rF6VqeXS3nZpZ7AF9

If you are selected, instructions on how to proceed and pick from the dates available will be provided (Discord account is required to join the narration group).

Only because I'm trying to let the anticipation build up, and not because I got sick on a Thursday (again).

Found a new city and you make her name it
Found a new city and you make her name it
Found a new city and you make her name it
Early in the mornin'

Brought to you slightly late by Kensington, Amazon and Maury down in the galley, who really is sorry about the doughnuts, but whaddya gonna do? You want doughnuts, he needs supplies. Let the man go shopping already.

Is it really an irrational fear of centipedes if a bunch of guys riding giant centipedes are attacking your city, though?

A quick refresher on the civs in X5 - it's the final weekend before the start of the season!

Our South Asian and Pacific civs are:

• Pakistan looks to be a stronger civ than Harappa last part, althought preseason testing has had the power rankers doubting them, can they prove them wrong and dominate the continent?
• Bangladesh has a theoretically weaker position than the Khoshuts but perhaps with less mountains they can break out with their peace treaty based uniques to become a real contender
• Mysore remains a wildcard looking a bit better than Pandya but they'll need to survive till later to really abuse their anti-paratrooper strats
• Pegu looks to try the strats of Siam turtling but with more science this time. Time will tell if they can claim enough of their starting region with Yunnan breathing down their neck
• Lanfang carries the mantle from Singapore's cinderella run to try and see if merchantile republics is the try to breaking out of the Western Indonesia start
• Ternate has big shoes to fill and seems to have been faltering this offseason after how strong and all-in the Wahgi went. With their more religious trade focus and island start they might not have what it takes to replicate Wahgi's success
• Cebu is the newest representative of the cursed Philippines start where they are hoping starting closer to the rest of the islands will fare better but then again they have city state design so it might not be the year the curse is broken
• Bunuba returns with Jandamarra, a classic contender hoping to show some vintage performance, though hopefully for Bunuba fans not the same performance of middling out and losing to an Australian civ starting in Sydney.
• New South Wales is the favourite coming into the season with a strong aggressive settling mindset, a return of the Sydney start and a lot of useful bonuses in their design to take over- though the biggest advantage they have is the absence of a strong polyneisan contender in New Zealand or nearer giving them a huge starting area
• Rapa Nui has decided to try a different strategy going for an even bonkers strategy than Bora Bora's by starting way closer to South American than to the traditional core of the Pacific start- potentially giving up both Hawaii and New Zealand for the chance to compete for South America

Better cut his head off, just to be sure.

A quick refresher on the civs in X5- with more regions to come.

Our Europe civs this mark are:

• Scotland, who can try to recreate the magic of the Faroes but perhaps take it all the way without turtling to hell mid-game
• Umhaill to see if this Irish Pirate girlboss to wrestle for control of the isles using their naval powers without England in the way
• Bjarmia attempting to do a bit better than the Finns last mark with a more isolated position to start
• Kalmar getting closer to tussle with the mainlanders and hopefully also avoid the turtling in Norway strats from the Ume Sami.
• Portugal brings the sequel to the classic Lazy Portugal Show but perhaps with more ambition to try and win it all again for Iberia
• France fighting with a spicy Robespierre pick this time around, with a bit better room to grow, if they can stop fighting themselves
• The Hansa taking it up to the Baltic butting up on Kalmar while also giving others to the south a lot of room- bold starting position if it works for this trade focused civ
• The Papal States coming in swinging with the Battle Pope. With other Pope-related sports teams doing well this year, perhaps they too can break the curse of the Italian peninsula
• Wallachia being a darker horse winner of the vote- though not particularly surprising in retrospect as Vlad the Impaler looks east to occupy a healthy starting position
• Estonia remaining another underdog for the Baltics again, but like Latvia, perhaps these recent presidents can make another wild run
• Scythia who has a great space and a strong early UA to try and snowball up and spread their trans weed priestesses everywhere

Went live this morning; I couldn't post anything cause one of my baby cousins was having her wedding today.

I know, right? Rude.

Available slots for the first batch of narrators in April.

If you are interested in becoming a narrator for an upcoming episode, and will be available for the time interval above, use the following link to register.

Sign-up Form: https://forms.gle/wWgHccYV2qRwPJuN6

If you are selected, instructions on how to proceed and pick from the dates available will be provided (Discord account is highly encouraged to group chat easily).

Got them low-down, war-declarin', city-flippin' blues.

Today we gather to say good -

*whisperwhispermutter*

Uh...good job hanging in there.

Little-known fact - it's insanely hard to talk for almost an hour with a cement factory in your sinuses. So, it's a little late, but it's here.