Some proposed changes to Civ 7

• no more builders/workers
• tile improvement options occur immediately with city population growth
• no more external Civ 6 style districts
• buildings are built on tiles outside the city, two per tile
• no more Loyalty system
• Civ 6 disaster system persists in some form
• soft cap on Cities that can be settled, Happiness penalties for exceeding cap
• towns exist as resource colonies that can farm a single type of resource, but can only be changed once per era
• no more manual City Management of tiles, cities get all resources from all tiles owned
• city borders expand with population growth
• no more Amenities, now there's simply a general Happiness mechanic
• apparently no more Bonus or Luxury resources
• navigable rivers added
• no more global Great People, some Great People available in certain eras to specific civs
• specific civs have massive bonuses to build civ Specific wonders - ie Egypt & the Pyramids
• new Commander mechanic - General who can load/unload up to eight combat units inside them and march them to battle
• Commanders now upgrade, units don't
• no more Faith as a resource
• Religion doesn’t seem to be available in the first Age
• no more Religious Victory
• new Economic Victory has been added
• overhauled Diplomacy system where players have to spend Diplo currency to trade with opponents, Open Borders, etc
• new Humankind-like system where players choose an initial leader who stays permanent, but options are available to change or adapt civs with each Era change - Ancient Egypt can become Songhai or the Mongols (if horses found)
• game now divided into 3 eras - Ancient, Exploration, Modern
• all civs progress through era change simultaneously
• rubberbanding mechanics with era changes to try to avoid snowballing, opponents get to catch up on Tech Tree with era change, etc
• the end of each era presents a scripted Crisis that the player has to resolve
• the developers are trying to discourage speedrunning, each era lasts 125-150 turns on Standard
• multiplayer players are mad - Ancient era only allows 5 players to start then map & # of civs expands as new eras progress
• no more hot seat
• concern that Civ 7 will restrict modding possibilities even further
• game is launching with DRM Denuvo spyware
• lots of scummy preorder and DLC tactics - hiding two leaders behind preorders, planning something like 6 DLC packs over first half year of release, selling DLC tile set cosmetics, etc