Firaxis: 11 Things About Civ4, Part 2

[Robert]

Well, you can't be the first to discover each religion, at the first game

That's why he said "First games"

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by CyberShy
That's why he said "First games"

Oooops, I missed the plural. Time to change glasses?

[Adagio]

[q=Firaxis]You can even play with the A.I. by turning on Random Personalities. With that on, you don't know how the A.I. is going to react. Gandhi the Conqueror? Genghis Khan the Pacifist? Both could happen[/q]

Yay

[Edgar Newt]

Anybody know if you can set up a game for just the AI to play against each other? I tried -- without success -- to find a way to do that in Civ III. My Dad, 66 years young, likes to play Civ, but also would like to watch the AI play out the later stages of a game (too much micro for him in the later stages of Civ III; might not be as important given the purported changes of Civ IV).

Edit: To clarify, I am wondering whether Civ IV will allow the game to continue with 100% AI players. Perhaps, requiring the end of turn/space bar to signal movement to the next turn would allow a human player to observe the turn-by-turn action. I am no programmer, but to the extent it isn't cooked in from the start, I think it would be a fun thing to add.....

[Hamdinger]

I really like the idea of allowing a player to take over for an AI in a multiplayer game (already knew about the reverse, which is good too). I may not end up using it that often, but having the option is nice. It's a good sign when developers think of these things.

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith
Well, you can't be the first to discover each religion, at the first game, and I think you can't be the builder of *every* wonder on the table, so you can leave the "movie switch" ON for a few game...

smartarse

(thanks cybershy for emphasising my plural )

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith
IIRC is more related to cost/production time of improvement and turns needed for every research, and accelerated start.
Map size will probably be throw in, but not alone.

from the new IGN preview:

You can still get the epic feel of previous games but playing on larger maps with more enemies, but the standard seven-seat game shouldn't take more than 5-8 hours depending on how much you want to micromanage things.

so it does seem that size and level of your personal MM depth are the most important factors of game speed...
which means that i'll never finish a game under 1 hour because i tend to MM too much