New XP announced

[Quasar1011]

Hey, it's not my concept. The "allied healing ability" was already in Civ 2, but was dropped for Civ 3.
They dropped plenty of good Civ 2 features, believe me!
And the foreign basing concept is from someone else on these boards, can't remember where I saw it.

Another thing they dropped from Civ 2 was the Sioux civilization. Seems if they need a new Civ for Conquests , the Sioux would balance out North America a bit.

[Louis XXIV]

You can mobilize. It halves production, but you can only build military units (meaning you build them faster)

You can mod the game to give Battleships "Blitz" ability

[The Templar]

Originally posted by Quasar1011
I want a battleship that can attack more than once per turn. Maybe I can mod that.

Flag battleship with blitz in the editor and you can attack more than once with it.

[player1]

Of course with having such Battleship, you lose the usefullness of multiple Detroyers.

[Randolph]

Sounds interesting, but I would have liked to hear more about improved AI. Even very cool new scenarios will only be moderately fun against the same annoying AI. At least make an option to make the AI more aggressive (big AI civs annex small ones, becoming more powerful), that wouldn't be too hard would it?

[Panag]

hi ,

more UU's , Japan could for example have both the sam and get in the modern era the Yamamoto or so

tirpitz > germany

de gaulle > france

minnesota > US

and so on

have a nice day

[Spiffor]

de gaulle > france

A carrier unit with 2 movement points, and which cannot carry planes

[player1]

Originally posted by Randolph
Sounds interesting, but I would have liked to hear more about improved AI. Even very cool new scenarios will only be moderately fun against the same annoying AI. At least make an option to make the AI more aggressive (big AI civs annex small ones, becoming more powerful), that wouldn't be too hard would it?

Just to know that even this "annoying AI", Civ3 is miles ahead from AIs in Civ2 or SMAC.
So even with current AI, you will probably have more enjoyable civ experince then with Civ2 scenarios.

Of course, only in case if C3C get all modability of Civ2.

P.S.
Only sure thing for now is that it we'll get locked alliances (similar feature in Civ2 is added by first events editor in Civ2:CiC XPack, although it was more like "locked wars")

[The Templar]

Originally posted by player1


Just to know that even this "annoying AI", Civ3 is miles ahead from AIs in Civ2 or SMAC.
So even with current AI, you will probably have more enjoyable civ experince then with Civ2 scenarios.

I have to agree, the AI in Civ3 is pretty good. I'm always worried some of the tweaks will dumb it down to Civ2 or SMAC level.

[statusperfect]

we need a military UU that can do worker actions.

or a settler/worker UU....

please firaxis

cheers

[Panag]

Originally posted by statusperfect
we need a military UU that can do worker actions.

or a settler/worker UU....

please firaxis

cheers

hi ,

, now that would be a great UU for Israel , .....

we have several units like that , nachal are workers & farmers with guns

Firaxis

have a nice day

[Randolph]

There's still lots of room for improvement, and I certainly don't see the fact that Civ3's AI is better than 2's or SMAC's as any reason to be satisfied with it or to stop improving it.
What I was trying to say was that IMHO the quality of the AI makes the game boring before the structure of the game does.

[CiverDan]

Regarding Fundamentalism. It was removed from the game for balance reasons before 9/11. No doubt it would have been removed after that if it hadn't already been removed by then though. I suspect the "islamic sultante" is just a "p.c." name for fundy but with different traits.

You wont see fascism since they want to sell the game in Germany.

Regarding natual events. About time..I suspect they held stuff like this back just so they could try to get us to buy another XP. I don't have RoN. bu at least it came with MP support.

[Louis XXIV]

Maybe they could call it Junta instead of Facism (although a Junta and Despotism are very similar)

[Azeem]

Originally posted by CiverDan
Regarding Fundamentalism. It was removed from the game for balance reasons before 9/11. No doubt it would have been removed after that if it hadn't already been removed by then though. I suspect the "islamic sultante" is just a "p.c." name for fundy but with different traits.

A "sultanate" is not necessarily a "fundamentalist" government, but a Middle Eastern monarchy. Adding "Islamic" to the name isn't really necessary as "sultanates" generally refer to monarchies of largely Muslim nations. Basically, it's nothing more than a monarchy of a Muslim nation. In a "sultanate", clerics don't really have complete control over the monarchy as would a real "fundamentalist" government would have. You could compare an "Islamic Sultanate" with the Christian Monarchies of the Middle Ages. They're religious in tradition, but there is still a ruler who is not necessarily a clergyman. Calling an "Islamic Sultanate" a "fundamentalist" government is a bit of a misnomer.