cIV E3 stuff

[vovan]

Next up we have the buildings:


[?] denotes icons which I have no idea what they are.


Oxford University -6 [?] +100% [?] (National Wonder)
- Can turn 1 citizen happy??

The Great Library (World Wonder)
+2 Free Scientist [great people??]
- Half Cost with [?]

The Sistine Chapel (World Wonder)
+2 [?] per specialist in all cities
- Half Cost with [?]

The Manhattan Project (World Wonder)
- Enables Nukes (for all players)

[vovan]

Resources. No popups, but here you can probably figure them out yourself.

[vovan]

Promotions.

Here's the ones that pop up:

Sentry
+1 Visibility Range

Mobility
-1 Terrain Movement Cost

Drill I
+1 Extra First Strike Chance

Navigation I
+1 Movement Range

Navigation II
+1 Movement Range

Guerilla I
- +20% Hills Defense

Guerilla II
- Double Movement in Hills
- +30% Hills Defense

Medic II
- Heals units in Adjacent Tiles Extra 10% per turn

Flanking I
- +10% withdrawal chance

Flanking II
- +20% withdrawal chance

Barrage III??
- +50% Collateral Damage
- +10% vs Gunpowder Units

Accuracy
- +10% City Bombard Damage

[vovan]

Finally, check out the top-left corner of the one screenie with the game in it... Just below the money indicator. Obviously you can adjust science / culture spending there, without drilling into any menus.



That's about all the interesting info I was able to extract from the videos. That should be enough work for Locutus to incorporate into the info thread though.

Enjoy.

[The diplomat]

those videos are great. The graphics in civ4 look sweat. If the concepts like religion and civics are implemented right, this game is going to rock!

[Locutus]

Wow, vovan, you're eye-sight is clearly better than mine, I can't read most of the stuff in those images. I don't suppose you (or anyone else who can read the text) are willing to have a swing at the tech tree?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Download links, for use in emergencies only (please don't spread them outside this thread). Please don't sue me, Gamespot :

Thank you

[vovan]

Originally posted by Locutus
Wow, vovan, you're eye-sight is clearly better than mine, I can't read most of the stuff in those images. I don't suppose you (or anyone else who can read the text) are willing to have a swing at the tech tree?

Well, the fact of the matter is, I had to shrink the images some to post them. When they are blown up to full screen on the video player, you can more easily tell what it says. The problem with the tech tree is, they don't have it in the high quality videos and the long one is too fuzzy to tell what the techs are...

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
The interview says, that an SDK (software development kit) for game and AI will be released. An SDK is a well documented library (in binary code) with a set of functions, that can be linked to your own code and in a defined form influence the behavior of the game. It is not the source code of the game, just like the Windows SDK is not the source code of Windows.

That said, such an SDK is a great tool and most likely sufficient to mod the game at hearts content without handing out the ability to introduce bugs into the vital part of the engine. The said DLL you can create is a good compromise between bug prevention and moddability.

SDK is probably the most abused term in the history of computer gaming, I've seen it being used to refer to anything from a scenario editor right down to the full source code. If Soren explains it as "basically the game and the AI code that people can use to compile a seperate DLL", then he *is* referring to the actual source code. Not the full game, I'm sure: the graphics engine and network code and stuff like that probably won't be included (Gamebryo is a licensed product so Firaxis couldn't release that code if they wanted to), but as long as Firaxis keeps supporting the game (as opposed to what Activision did) that's not the sort of code fans will want to change anyway. But IF the entire core of the game itself is exposed (big if, but that *is* what it sounds like), the possibilities are literally endless...

Anyone wanna convert Civ4 into a football manager?

[alva]

Originally posted by vovan
Some of the other units you get popups for:


Work Boat
- Cannot enter Ocean
- Can create fishing boats, create whaling boats, create offshore platform

Ooh, I like that.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Ornery.

Thanks, fixed.

Originally posted by vovan
Well, the fact of the matter is, I had to shrink the images some to post them. When they are blown up to full screen on the video player, you can more easily tell what it says. The problem with the tech tree is, they don't have it in the high quality videos and the long one is too fuzzy to tell what the techs are...

Oh, okay. Well, thanks a ton for posting the stuff that *was* readable anyway, even with the HD-videos in full-screen I can still barely read what they say...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by alva

Work Boat
- Cannot enter Ocean

Ooh, I like that.

As I read it the first time I kinda read it as it couldn't enter water squares

[vovan]

Originally posted by Adagio
As I read it the first time I kinda read it as it couldn't enter water squares

Wouldn't be much of a boat then, eh?

[Shogun Gunner]

I tell you what I'm liking the most is the "Promotinos" concept in cIV.

Instead of the simple Conscript - Regular - Veteren - Elite

we are getting a variety of "upgrades" that create a different texture of units combining into an army. That seems to hold a lot of promise and interest on my part.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Locutus
THEY WILL BE RELEASING THE SOURCE CODE OF THE GAME AS WELL!

Ehhh... I highly doubt that... The most I have hopes for is some header files to define the APIs. I highliy doubt they will release actual source files.