Easter Eggs in CivIII Conquests?

[punkbass2000]

I'm sure they just picked arbitrary times. Probably 12 and 5/6. In any case, they clearly know their target demographic

[Muad'Dib]

I find that funny. You have a programmer siting at his desk and thinks, "What if we do this and add that???"

[Modo44]

Yeah, they get bored and do stuff, but the bugs remain. Really cool.

[justjake73]

Originally posted by justjake73


Just saw it, 12:15 AM

[conmcb25]

BTW I have been meaning to look this up:

"Elvis Presley's Birthday - January 8, 1935"

In case anyone wants to play a regicide game on that day

[punkbass2000]

Originally posted by Modo44
Yeah, they get bored and do stuff, but the bugs remain. Really cool.

Yeah, bugs are way easier to fix than adding brief lines of text!

[Modo44]

Originally posted by punkbass2000
Yeah, bugs are way easier to fix than adding brief lines of text!

I take that as sarcasm. Right?

Well, bugs are difficult to find, true. But introducing numerous witty brief lines of text doesn't really help finding bugs, does it?

[punkbass2000]

I doubt it hurts. How many different things have found so far, a dozen? Probably didn't take up more than five minutes and could easily enough have already been overtime or even free time sacrificed. I'm just saying that I recognize that C3C is buggy, but this is probably not a great influence on that fact and that it generally bothers me how often people complain about it, but to each their own.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by conmcb25
BTW I have been meaning to look this up:

"Elvis Presley's Birthday - January 8, 1935"

In case anyone wants to play a regicide game on that day

Or simply change your computer's date to that date the next time you re playing regicide

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by joncnunn
The bigest Easter Egg in conquests is when you win all nine conquests.

There's also some cool city names on some of the lists and cool diplomacy sayings.

Install the RAD video tools and go to Conquests\Art\Movies
there you are

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Modo44

I take that as sarcasm. Right?

Well, bugs are difficult to find, true. But introducing numerous witty brief lines of text doesn't really help finding bugs, does it?

Aye I can see how that'd add to all of those clutterings but if those programmers had any common sense they'd type up notes next to those lines stating what those were for.

[Daddy-O]

Originally posted by Dry

Talking about city names, I remember the city of 'not Constantinople' for the Byzantines

A reference to the "They Might Be Giants" song of the same name?

[Barinthus]

I have always thought it was a reference to the fact that Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul are all pretty much the same city.

[gunkulator]

Without question "Not Constantinople" is a reference to They Might Be Giants' "Instanbul (not Constantinople)". TMBG is mainly popular with computer nerds and other geeks, i.e. the same audience as Civ.

[Rommel2D]

Except that its an old Tin Pan Alley song, which might appeal to history geeks who never heard of TMBG...