End Time; 2000 AD or 3000 AD?

[icet]

Please take this poll and post your views regarding the end time of the game. Should it be 2000 or something AD or 3000 or something AD?

[Trifna]

If Civ starts covering up to more than the ACTUAL time, it will mean that the developers will balance the game so that all is used while if it finishes with 2000 techs, it'll mean that we will play through history (with no science fiction, maybe only very predictable things).

[Optimizer]

I refuse to answer this poll because there are too few options.

[lajzar]

Yeah, no bananas

[Mart]

what i like about Call to Power is that it ends somewhere in the future. I voted 3000AD

[Fosse]

Didn't we all complain about the last poll having no "near future" option around 2050 AD?

I'm not casting a vote, but I'll say that I agree that near and very predictable future is all that should be done, and more focus should be put into making Industrial and Modern ages more playable and fun, instead of tacking on sci-fi.

[icet]

Regardless of what our views are I am sure that the end time of Civilization 4 will be 3000 something AD.

[Plotinus]

Why are you so sure? They've never extended the timespan of the game yet, and we're already on the second expansion pack to the third game...

[icet]

I feel sure because a majority wishes the game end time extended to 3000 AD and most also wish some other features of Call to Power in Civilization 4 and I think that the makers will take into account the needs of the majority of their customers.

[Trifna]

Why are you so sure that a majority wished the game to extend to 3000 AD? This is your second gratuitous affirmation, be careful it drowns credibility of your sentences...

We don't have a market analysis.

[icet]

You can get an idea by watching the results of the polls and views of the people in the forums.

[icet]

You can get an idea by watching the results of the polls and views of the people in the forums.

[Fosse]

True, but if you go back and look at what was said in polls and forums of the Civ 3 List you'll see that the majority of Apolyton posters is hardly the determining factor in game design.

I do think that, as a committed community to the Civ series and TBS genre, that our opinions carry some weight. But I also recognize that it isn't nearly as much as we'd like. For one thing, we have a tendancy to say things like "I want to to have an ultra detailed economy model where I can change the price of CD players," or "I want to see the game play for 1 year = 1 turn from 4000 BC to 3000 AD." As a community, we're a little insane.


The fact that a dozen more people voted for a 3000 ending rather than a 2000 ending - with no option in between - doesn't strike me as compelling evidence that Civ 4 is going into the year 3000.

[lajzar]

You know, if you looked at the list that was generated just before civ3, you would have found a similar majority in favour of an exgtended endgame. There are many other things that a huge number of people were in favour of in that list.

Very few of them got implemented.

I guess that means that regardless of what we say here, they didn't really listen to their customers.

[DarkCloud]

icet, we already did a poll about this- that's why a lot of people are complaining

In fact, here's the link http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=104021

and that poll was more comprehensive than yours.

Please check out this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105391

for more information on the polls already conducted here.

Oh and by the way, welcome to apolyton!