Apolyton Weekly Survey III: New Feautures

[Solver]

This thread is our thrid Apolyton Survey, where the word "weekly" is to be taken in the broadest sense .

By now, we probably know, at least in general terms, about most Civ4 feautures, so:

Which new or improved feautures in Civ4 are you most looking forward to?

Feel free to speculate about the details of how the new feautures work, what effect they will have on gameplay and whether the new feautures will help make Civ4 as good as we all want it to be.

[Spiffor]

If the modability delivers on its promise, then Civ4 will have an extremely long and interesting life. The fact that the community can program AI behaviour and script events allows for fantastic community packs.

I look forward to it more than any other aspect

[Ninot]

even tho i think it'll have the least impact on the game, I'm most looking forward to Religion.

I like to roleplay my games, and I cant think of anything adding more to that dimension than going on holy crusades and whatnot.

[Kuciwalker]

The modding, of course.

[Maquiladora]

I really hope moddability doesnt turn out to be civ4s best feature.

I voted for reduced MM (compared to civ3), otherwise i might not play it at all.

[Tiberius]

Civics

[Dale]

Modding.

[Tiberius]

I have to say that I really agree with Maquiladora on this one. If moddability turns out to be civ4's best feature, it means that the vanilla game would really suck and it needs other people to make it good.

While moddability can give games a longer life, I prefer to play the unmodded version as long as possible and only when I get bored of it I try some variations.

[Robert]

Improved resource system.

[GeoModder]

I look most forward to reducing micro management.
The less tedious tasks to do, the more attention can be devoted to more pleasing parts of the game.

[alva]

where the word "weekly" is to be taken in the broadest sense .

Meh, you can't pre-empt jokes in your first sentence...That's just not done.

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The whole game really, it was time for a new version.
If I have to name one, iI would have to say"combat".

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Tiberius
I have to say that I really agree with Maquiladora on this one. If moddability turns out to be civ4's best feature, it means that the vanilla game would really suck and it needs other people to make it good.

I disagree. Moddability can and will be the best feature even if the vanilla is amazing, because with the amount they are talking about, the game can be extended to a very extreme degree, not to mention converted into practically a different game. I have some very exciting ideas for the SDK, if it is as broad as I hope it is.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by GeoModder
I look most forward to reducing micro management.
The less tedious tasks to do, the more attention can be devoted to more pleasing parts of the game.

What if you consider MM a pleaseing part of the game? I enjoy trying to squeeze the most from a limited amount of land. MM is the best way to do this.

[Kuciwalker]

Then go play Victoria : tongue :

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Then go play Victoria : tongue :

It ain't easy to squeeze everything out of oyur country in Victoria. I played a game as Haiti, and I barelymanage to increase the GNP tenfold in one century (and the population fivefold).

I couldn't make Haiti into an economic Juggernaught despite my best efforts