The greatest Civ game

[alva]

Civ 3 is miles ahead of the others IMHO.

It's a pity I threaw away both my CTP copies; seeing Locutus keeps defending them 'till the end , I would like to give them another chance.
Not gonna buy them again though

[rah]

Civ II MP, hands down best.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by cyclotron7
Civ3 is my favorite. I have CTP, and I find the PW system to be irksome in the extreme, especially since it made pillaging enemy roads, connects, fortresses, etc. useless. It removed an entire facet, pillaging, from the game.

AFAIK, in CTP (or was it 2, or both?) you can even choose exactly what improvement you want to pillage. You can, for instance, pillage the farm and leave the road intact. That's not possible in Civ3, I wish it was. What's really annoying in CtP(2) is, that you can't pillage an improvement until it's completely built.

[RGBVideo]

SMAC isn't a part of the Civ series.

Call To Power isn't either, smartass

[DrSpike]

CTP charts human advancement through historical ages......so it is a civ game, whereas SMAC (although in the same genre), has a sci-fi not a historical setting.

[Rasbelin]

Tuome,

yeah, yeah, but it's concidered as Civ series member too by the Civ community, unlike SMAC which isn't a Civ game like CtP and CtP2.

[Dauphin]

CtP1 is a "Civ" game (Civilization: Call to Power), CtP2 isn't (its just Call to Power II). At least thats what I understand the legal position to be with regards claims to the Civilization name.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Locutus
How?

Pillaging is actually a very important part of my strategy in CtP1 as well as in CtP2. In CtP2-MedMod it's even crucial. It's not like PW reserves are infinite or anything, pillaging is no more or less important than in Civ...

No, PW reserves are not unlimited...

But when I pillage a railroad connection, assuming my enemy has some PW points, he just completely rebuilds it in no time at all. Even though my soldiers completely surround the tile, their workers still get in and out unmolested, and finish the work.

Not only is this silly, but it completely takes the value out of pillaging. I can't interfere with a civ's workers anymore; they can apparently repair their great infrastructure without leaving their cities. It's absurd. PW was, indeed, one of the major reasons I gave up CTP.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
AFAIK, in CTP (or was it 2, or both?) you can even choose exactly what improvement you want to pillage. You can, for instance, pillage the farm and leave the road intact. That's not possible in Civ3, I wish it was. What's really annoying in CtP(2) is, that you can't pillage an improvement until it's completely built.

I don't remember what it was in CTP, but I know you could do that in Civ2. I wish it was in Civ3, too.

[Master Zen]

I voted for Civ2 MGE. Although Civ3 PtW is defenitely the best game in the series, Civ2 MGE was by far the greatest strategy game of its time. Even though the premise was the same, IMO it was miles ahead of Civ1, an already untoppable game in itself. Civ3 was an improvement over Civ2, but not as much as Civ2 was over Civ1.

Brian Reynolds, you are my hero. You are also guilty of making the single game/event/passtime which has taken most time out of my life than any other.

[Zoid]

Civ2 MGE

But I must agree with comrade Tassadars first post and Alexnm. Alpha Centauri is more Civ than those games put together.

[trickey]

Civ 3, Play the world. Give the game a chance, it's alot better than most people give it credit for.

[Method]

i gave it a chance, and no, no it's not.

[alva]

When did you last play it?

[Rasbelin]

TKG,

you've been playing so much SMAC that you're very fond of it. Well, that quite explains why you don't find Civ III or PtW as something fun and working, unlike me who finds it fun and working. Why? I'm not really playing only one or several titles, or just one single genre. That's why I'm not bound to any such scepticism.

You old conservative fart.