Regarding unit size

[Mahdimael]

I'm talking Civ 4, not us, so zip it up.

To me, the units look massive. What I would like would be either a slider or option to make the units smaller. Right now everything looks gigantic vs the world.

Does anyone else have feelings on this subject?

[FrostyBoy]

I don't like it either

infact if I had it my way, mountains would be 100X bigger and units 2X smaller

[Donegeal]

Snoopy, you usally do have it your way...

[GAZ082]

Ive seen screenshots were the ratio terrain/unit size was perfect.

[Wise Ass]

I personally don't see me careing much. As long as my tanks can beat the giant spearmen I'll be content.

[Solver]

Snoopy, check your PMs already.

[Addled Platypus]

why not have some units in the same multi unit be smaller/taller
than each other

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I don't like it either

infact if I had it my way, mountains would be 100X bigger and units 2X smaller

[Zoid]

The units did look a bit big, I don´t like it. It looks all wrong...

[Gen. Atkinson]

You can't really put proportion into a game like this, e.g. A battleship is significantly bigger than a marine, and a tank is alot larger than a spearman. If you did make everything in proportion, your soldiers will be so small as to be indesquitishable.... indesernabible. unrecognisable from each other.

[Fosse]

I think that if the units were on the same scale as the resources (or at least the cows outside of St. Petersburg in the IGN screenshots) that everything would be fine.

But my guess is that they'll look fine if you zoom out enough. In all of the screens we've seen (excpet the globes) the camera seems much closer than it ever was in Civ 3. Zoomed out to views we're more used to might make the units look better.

[Cookie Monster]

Personally I like the unit size. Makes them easier to see, especially the detail. Now just make the terrain bigger in proportion and we have something.

[vovan]

It would appear like the units are such that the trees are up to their knees, and cows are about the size of their head. While it most certainly is impossible to have correct proportions, maybe making the terrain at least about twice bigger would make sense. But of course, you never know till you actually play it, whether it works out or not.

[GAZ082]

BTW, you will be able to zoom in and out, so dont cry.

[Shogun Gunner]

That's the thing about Civ3 that really ticked me off. In Civ2 you could zoom up or down very nicely. I think that STRONGLY contributed to playability. I'm glad to see that something like this is being included in cIV.