"Alexman" and "Trip": Your Questions, Their Answers

[Brutus66]

How much of your inspiration for new content, changes, fixes, tweaks, etc. comes from Apolyton posts?

Sometimes it seems like some poster's ideas are incorporated right into the game (for which we are grateful), but is it just coincidence or do you really read some of these suggestions?

[Nugog]

Originally posted by BigFree
I have a few Warlords PBEM's and PitBoss games going.

Will I have to use the Warlords CD to get into those games or will the BtS CD sufice?

And if not why not - it is really annoying having to keep changing the discs........

[Nugog]

When will you start working on SMAC2?

[playshogi]

1) Let's say you need 2 GP to start your 2nd golden age. You have 3 different GP available, but you want to save 1 of them for future use. Does the game make it easy to select which 2 GP you use, or will it be the game's random choice of 2?

2) Let's say you establish a fort on a resource in the tundra currently outside of your borders, (but will be within your borders after 2 more border pops). Will the fort keep the AI from founding a city nearby the fort? I guess, I want to use forts to stake out territory. Can I do that? (I hate it when the AI founds far flung cities in poor locations.)

[Will9]

Originally posted by JimMac
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Anyway, my two Qs:

1) Why did you decide to leave out the trade route buoys idea? The idea of being able to pillage/fight over trade routes sounds neat.

I can answer that.

1. It was made up

2. massive micromanagement


My queston is, did you accpect the 20+ threads at CFC about the HRE when it was decided to put the HRE in?

[MrWhereItsAt]

(I guess this may be answered in advance, or with a patch, but I'm sticking it here anyway).

This is MrWhereItsAt, formerly of Wellington, New Zealand, now hailing from Lausanne, Switzerland.

The civilopedia says that the founder of the Apostolic Palace is ALWAYS in the running for the election, however there is confusion about whether this actually happens or not. It doesn't seem clear whether the Apostolic Palace is intended to convey this benefit to its CONSTRUCTOR, its current OWNER, or is really just for those who at the time of the vote have the same state religion as the civ who built it, WHEN that civ built up.

Could you please explain the workings of the Apostolic palace and what makes a full/resident/non- member to clear this all up for good?

Second - what is the intended real benefit of Corporations: spreading them in your own cities to gain the extra resources, or spreading them in an enemy city to cripple them with maintenance?

(I have a third question burning in me - I'll mention it here in case someone else decides it's good enough to take on in their own questions. )

Corporations were provided in BtS and now give something MORE that can be done with Great People in the BtS focus time period - the post-Gunpowder era. Why were Great Prophets omitted from this system, since they continue to have the least use in the time period concerning BtS, yet due in a large part to early Wonders giving Great Prophet points are often the most common Great Person throughout the game?

Originally posted by playshogi
1) Let's say you need 2 GP to start your 2nd golden age. You have 3 different GP available, but you want to save 1 of them for future use. Does the game make it easy to select which 2 GP you use, or will it be the game's random choice of 2?

Good question there. I've put the GPs I want to spend in the same city when I spend them, and that's worked twice so far, but I'd love to see a real answer.

[patcon]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Corporations were provided in BtS and now give something MORE that can be done with Great People in the BtS focus time period - the post-Gunpowder era. Why were Great Prophets omitted from this system, since they continue to have the least use in the time period concerning BtS, yet due in a large part to early Wonders giving Great Prophet points are often the most common Great Person throughout the game?

Especially when it would be so easy to change "Great Prophets" to "Great Profits".
In Warlords (haven't been able to purchase BtS yet, it's supposedly in the stores today) I usually just end up settling a late-game Great Prophet in a city with limited production or to tweak a city which is just under a "nice" number of hammers, such as taking a 58 hpt city up to 60 hpt.

[monkspider]

1. It was disappointing to see so much progress made on palace views in the Vanilla game that they even were included in the instruction manual, yet were ultimately missing from the final game. There are some new files in BtS which seem to depict a middle eastern or Egyptian palace in BtS which would accompany the Mesoamerican and Asian palace seen in early pre-Vanilla screenshots. But still, there is no sign of the palace view. Why was this dropped, and is there any hope to see it in a future patch or in some future paid content?

2. In the same vein, what items were dropped from BtS during development that you wish you had the time to include?

[alva]

1) Let's say you need 2 GP to start your 2nd golden age. You have 3 different GP available, but you want to save 1 of them for future use. Does the game make it easy to select which 2 GP you use, or will it be the game's random choice of 2?

This is from long time ago, so be advised.
IIRC the one nearest will get used. So put the two you want to burn on the same tile and move the other one away from them. That should work.

[DrSpike]

That's what I always do.

[persian empire]

yo after i downloaded the patch 1.71 i think my civilization IV didnt work since does anybody know what to do

[LordGek]

Questions:

(Missed the rules at the start, please feel free to choose any 2 of the 3)

Great work guys, but, alas, there is always something to whine about (although, overall, a very solid release):

-How do they plan on remedying the "Poisoning Water Supply in Marathon Mode" issue? (as I see it there are a number of ways this could be fixed)

-Can the AI use Privateers?

-Is Infaltion currently being calculated incorrectly or is it more that players are simply not understanding how infation is calculated in the game?

Thanks!

[DanQ]

Thanks to everyone who has submitted questions so far!

For those still "thinking it over" , again you have until the end of this Friday (EDT) to submit them!

[DrSpike]

I thought of another important one:

How will the patch support for BtS compare to that for C3C, the equivalent x-pack for Civ3?

[PLATO]

When deciding what features to add to BTS, what sources did you look at (i.e. Apolyton? CivFanatics? etc...) or were these ideas that have been planned from the time of the original Civ IV release (and if so, how many were from forum "lists"?)?

What, in your opinion, is the single greatest advancement of BTS over Vanilla Civ IV or Warlords?