20th November 2004, 10:14 PM
Quote:Well they should have added a option to dig a resservoir for irrigation! Thats happen to me a few times but I just explored till I found one planted a city started to get workers to link the waters , Atleast the areas near mountains have more fertile grasslands.Unless your stuck in a tundra which would suck , At that point you either find nice land to settle or restart from scratch.
Like I said the start up thing needs to be fixed.
Really all they need is a early ancient times research that allows you to get a resservior, Then it wouldnt hurt so bad.
Some way of making it easier... making sure rivers are always within decent reach of your starting town really is needed as long as you have to go to one. Most of the time it's okay, but not always...
Quote:Conquests has a new Intro movie , Starts off with a Samurai and then switches to a Roman legionaire finally changes again to american GI in Japan firing away his flame thrower. Speaking of which I havent seen any flame throwers yet?
All games have intro movies, so of course Civ III would have one... intresting that they changed it for the second expo, though. Didn't do that in Civ II.
Quote:I never got the space victory yet, Since I have only been in the modern age for two turns and then the game ended, I still won though.
Any suggestions to improve the amount of time it takes to boost scientific research?
I haven't either. Just go into the movies folder of the art folder and watch it... that is, as long you have the Bink player (Civ II also had a open file tree like that with everything accessible)... it's pretty cool.
Quote:Music well your right , Conquests has added a new song , Its nice stringed folk music gets you into the pioneer spirit. But you can only hear it in certain campaigns.
I'm not sure about the quantity thing, actually. I think Civ III actually has more. But it's not nearly as good, so that doesn't matter much... it's just 'there'. Civ II's is also somewhat ambient, but it's better music...
Oh, with Civ II it's got some tracks with the original game and then each of the expansion CDs added about the same amount more music. It's Redbook audio too -- runs in a CD player. 9 tracks for the classic, then 8 in the first expansion and 6 in the second. Only one problem: for some bizarre reason the Gold edition drops most of it. It's perfect otherwise, but all it's got are two of the original tracks (the 'win' and 'loss' ones) and then the six from Fantastic Worlds... utterly bizarre, but it's why I have Civ II fully copied to my HDD and I use the Fantastic Worlds CD to play it. Only disk with all the music.
Quote:As for changing gender you can do it but the avitar doesnt change , personally I remeber that CIV1 had the two avitars for man or women.
I would have liked it, Since Id probaily play Russia more if it werent for that ugly woman, Peter the great or Lenin Stalin would have been cool.
England and egypt as well , Elizabeth I is a ugly bitch , King Henry or Richard would have been nice.
Cleopatra isnt too bad , But Id like to see Ramsees or Khufu.
It definitely should be like Civ I or II where you can choose your gender and name both. It's stupid to be stuck with that one if you want to play as someone else... saves them time, but surprisingly lazy for a big game like this.
Quote:To be honnest I can see both sides on Artilery , but right now it could use a buff.
It should at least be able to kill things.
Quote:What Sid Said in a interview is that they made the AI remeber your abuses and dishonnoring your treaties, Asking for free passage but use it as a way for a sneek attack so fourth, You can do it once but not twice.The other civilizations that are in contact with your victim take note as well.
They still do annoying things like building cities RIGHT outside of your influence range on the edges of your continent, though... And I know I heard all about the great new diplomacy system in Civ III, but maybe I haven't played it enough but I fail to see the great improvement. Sure, in some ways it lets you do more (like being able to offer a specific offer for some specific request with resources and stuff), but the simpler Civ II system works well enough... yes, I guess Civ III is an improvement, but it's not as big as it was claimed, I think, and like other aspects it takes quite a bit of getting used to.
On the subject of 'getting used to', I still frequently seem to accidentally choose technologies... that box where you choose them has an annoying tendency to choose them when you want to open the civilopedia window, it seems.
Quote:There is a map editor and campaign editor but not in game.
But the map editor has the stupid error of not having a minimap! Inexplicable...
Quote:The Cinematics are not being put into games as much anymore,Look At blizzard the original starcraft had FMV all over its campaigns but in brood war now then only have the intro and episode endings, War3 III TFT Has a Intro and a ending FMV but its even less then usual.
It takes longer to make CG movies now so games have less of them (see SC vs WC3), but they definitely have them. What has gone out is FMV -- having live actors on video in games. The High Council was live actors, so I'm not surprised that they dropped it as that... but they have new councillors so I think that they should have had a High Council you could call that would have videos and speech about what they want and stuff! I liked it, and it was simpler than going to all their screens to look up what they wanted... also they responded to eachother to say what they thought of the other's ideas (like Economy and Science don't want you rasing the luxury rate while Luxury complains about it if it's low, Military wants troops while Diplomacy wants alliances, etc)
The Heralds (animated CG figures representing the nation that sent them) went because they cut the diplomacy screen from fullscreen. Too bad, as they weren't replaced with anything (there was already a picture of the leader of the other nation as well).
As for the Wonder Movies, I don't know why they removed them but they were great and helped make the wonders more worth all that time it takes to make them, so removing those was really dissapointing. I really liked them!