If you could bring one thing from an earlier Civ version to CIV...

[Theben]

Originally posted by mrp
also the civ 3 or civ 2 scenarios always played better than the civ 4 ones. civ 4 scenarios seem to exclude happy resources or health resources. or you get low amount of turns and low production. the ancient ones are the worst of the bunch.

Obviously you don't remember the 1st CivII scenarios.

[Pinchak]

Evolving Leader Heads.

Indeed. There is just something wrong with seeing THE LEADER OF A MODERN NATION dressed in animal skins. On the flip side of that, you got to wonder how guys like Mao and Churchill found such spiffy looking suits in the year 3500 BC.

Petty yes, but does alot for the "emersion" factor.

Throne Room

Another part I miss. This however should also "evolve" with time. Not even the leader of North Korea still sits in a torch lit cave.


Another aspect I miss is the "city view". You know, the one where you could see an panaramic view of any city complete with all the buildings and wonders. Now, it could be argued that the map renditioning has taken over for this... but IMO it never seems to get across the grandness of a mega city with multiple wonders (in fact, I notice sometimes wonders get "bumped" out of sight to make room for newer ones).

[Reiko]

I would like to see some stuff from the call to power civ games. For example underwater cities and tubes. Would also like to see the space cities, bombers, fighters and battleships.

[LzPrst]

Throne Room

-Improved food moving mechanism. (caravan type thing elaborated)

[Kuciwalker]

Petty yes, but does alot for the "emersion" factor.

What exactly is this "emersion" factor?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Reiko
I would like to see some stuff from the call to power civ games. For example underwater cities and tubes. Would also like to see the space cities, bombers, fighters and battleships.

I hate you.

[LordShiva]

CtP2

SMAC

[Kuciwalker]

We need
- vomit
smiley.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
What exactly is this "emersion" factor?

"Emersion" is a mispelling of "immersion", I am sure.

Just as I am almost sure you realized that.

[Kuciwalker]

The point was for Pinchak to realize that

[Pinchak]

When these forums get a spell check, my posts will have correct spelling.

[Chronus9]

The Caravan - Wonder building as an empire, not a single city, was great. I also liked having to work (i.e. move camels, especially past enemy units) for some of my trade cash flow. I like having units with a non-military purpose.

Naval Ship Shore Bombardment - Attacking land units with ships was great. Destroying land improvements (from Civ 3) was even better! Now?

Civ 2 Scenarios - They were just so creative and top notch. Atlantis, Jules Verne, Alien Invasion . . . not to mention many fan created ones like that Deep Space Nine one (can't recall the name). All were extremely fun and felt like getting a new game without having to learn it.

With all that said, I have to agree with the others above . . . Civ 4 is still king!

[nbarclay]

I thought of something else I really miss. If I recall correctly, in Civ III, when a naval unit uncovered a water tile, you could continue to see what was on the tile for the remainder of the turn. In Civ IV, if you move a ship along a diagonal, and you don't move it just one square at a time, you may never see ships at all because you never stop with them in view. That can be a royal pain from a management perspective. Since aerial reconnaissance already has a mechanism for tiles to be visible for the remainder of the turn but not in later turns, it shouldn't be hard to have the same concept apply to what ships can see.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Pinchak
When these forums get a spell check, my posts will have correct spelling.

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has a spelling checker that works on this forum.

[Pinchak]

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has a spelling checker that works on this forum.

Thanks, but I'm not too concerned. Only passive agressive asses like Crudwalker actually take the time to point out spelling errors in a general forum about a computer game.

I think Hauptman sums it up best in his sig...

"The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?...So with that said: if you can not read my post because of spelling, then who is really the stupid one?..."