So Basically We Have Civ 3...but in 3D?

[Solver]

Damn, you scare me. 150 hours on a single game. I can't imagine even the most epic game taking that much time .

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by yin26
I don't mean to say that the Civ series is dead by itself. I just mean that Firaxis doesn't seem on fire about it. I mean when you have a genius in the next room just looking at periodic builds, you have to ask yourself: WHY!?

Because they're looking for something fresh? So they let someone who shows talent have the reins, but are there to provide advice and experience?

btw, hi Yin.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Solver
Yes, I'd recommend you pass on the Civ3 expansions. There's better things to do while waiting for Civ4 .

PtW is the perfect Civ3 (SP). The game worked the way intended by the devs.

C3C is rather unfortunate. My understanding is that Firaxis didn't want to do the coding themselves (didn't want to do it at all?). The publishers brought in a third party and set them loose on a pile of code that could rightly be described as a house of cards. The house crashed and there was noone left around who felt ownership enough to fix it.

Still, it's a lovely set of scenarios.

[Aro]

Originally posted by Sirian


I got 150 hours on a single game.


..........................................

Holy cow! I have spent WAY too many hours gaming in my lifetime.


- Sirian

Same here, Sirian.
I have saves with 200, 250 hours. It's insane!

[Aro]

Originally posted by Aro


Same here, Sirian.
I have saves with 200, 250 hours. It's insane!

I forgot the attachment:

[General Ludd]

I wonder how many turns where spent waiting for the turn to process.

[Sirian]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I wonder how many turns where spent waiting for the turn to process.

The game I showed was a Huge map, played all the way to 2050. I turned off all anims for the last 150 turns, and STILL there was one small animation that the game would play for every unit each time one entered combat.

A goodly bit of the hours on the game I listed were indeed burnt on waiting for turns to process, or for AI units to move, or for pathfinding checks on added or removed roads, harbors, etc.


On the other hand, without REAL pathfinding, the AI would do immensely dumb things at times. (Like it did in Civ2!) So better to live with a slower but playable game than a lobotomized AI. Listen to some music while playing and the waits are filled with something else fun.


- Sirian

[Unspeakable Horror]

Originally posted by Maniac
I'd probably have an easy way out. Games aren't sold in cardboard boxes here. So there would be nothing to eat for me.

Plastic isn´t better than a cardboard box to eat

[Dale]

Yin: (Hi btw)

By the way, I reserve the right, should the game be good, to put various sauces of my choices on the cardboard.

I got about a hundred PC boxes out the back here at work you can eat. I can't fit them all in the bin.

Dale

[Maquiladora]

I remember when games came in edible boxes.

BTW Yin, you should try The Ages of Man, unofficial expansion for CtP2, if you would like to see effective innovation in a civ type game.

[notyoueither]

I think everyone has eaten part of a game, when we were two.

[notyoueither]

Well, at least chewed on it a little bit.

[GeoModder]

And deemed it rather untasty?

[yin26]

Well, I certainly appreciate (?) all you caring people who want to ensure that I get the proper nutrition. I never knew I had so many friends (?).

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by yin26
Well, I certainly appreciate (?) all you caring people who want to ensure that I get the proper nutrition. I never knew I had so many friends (?).

To be fair, you threw the first stone (betting on eating the game box).

Most of people love any challenge and a good bet.

If you are in need of a better friend, I'll do my best to send to you Maloox or any digestive helping medicine of your choice. There must be a wide offer of them on the next wave of SPAM mail I receive daily, next to some "helping with ladies" different kind of pills...