Questions for Firaxis about Civ Rev?

[DanQ]

Originally posted by waab
Or you just want to brag about that you already have played the game :-D

Some more questions
1, 8 tiles = just the surrounding tiles around the city?

Correct, and not (necessarily) adjacent tiles to the city tile.

2, How much surrounding land does you controll correctly when you found a city (aka what need do I have for culture?)

You don't control as many tiles when you found a city as you do in CivII through IV but that makes sense given there aren't as many possible tiles to control per city period.

Of the two games I saw started -- one demoed, the other my own -- you control two tiles around your city tile (capital). An opportunity did not present itself in either case to found a second city so I'm not certain if later where your culture is sufficient if you can control more than that at the start. I suspect it would have to do, at least in part, with how close that next city site of yours was to your existing border and the borders of any others around.

3, Less tiles, does that mean smaller cities or more specialict cities (can I continue to grow beyond pop 8 and what do I gain with larger cities)?

Generally speaking, yes, from what I have seen generally smaller and over time more specialist cities are in store here. Yes, your cities can grow beyond a size 8. Specialists can and do exist in CivRev as well.

4, Improvments? Farms, mines and roads or something more?

There are tiles you can farm or mine. Roads are a bit of a different beast which I will talk about in an upcoming part of my preview.

[waab]

Originally posted by DanQ
Correct, and not (necessarily) adjacent tiles to the city tile.

This is something you have to explain a little more I think...

[DanQ]

Originally posted by waab
This is something you have to explain a little more I think...

The tiles that you control initially around your city once it's founded may not be directly adjacent to your city tile. I'll add a bit of a visual demonstration below. Where "C" is the city tile and "T" are tiles around it, below is what was 'common' in CivIII and CivIV's city borders given no external factors (e.g. strong close-by neighbour):

T T T
T C T
T T T

Modifying that for CivRev given the lower number of possible tiles to work per city, and 2 initially, instead of:

T
C
T

It is more apt to look something like this:

C T
   T

[waab]

Originally posted by DanQ

The tiles that you control initially around your city once it's founded may not be directly adjacent to your city tile.

Ok so you don't controll everything, but when you do it will look like:

Originally posted by DanQ

T T T
T C T
T T T

Or can it look like:

T T T
T C T T
T T

[DanQ]

It can look like the latter.

[banjodk]

I have a couple of questions

How many rivals are available in single player, and can you enable ai players in multi player? Maybe even exceed 4 players in this case?

[waab]

Originally posted by DanQ
It can look like the latter.

Do I decide what I will controll or how does it work?

[DanQ]

Originally posted by banjodk
How many rivals are available in single player,

Hmmm... I cannot recall exactly nor do I have it in my notes. I believe it's up to 6.

and can you enable ai players in multi player? Maybe even exceed 4 players in this case?

I don't believe you could exceed 4 players in this situation, but I'm not certain if that situation is possible in the first place.

Originally posted by waab
Do I decide what I will controll or how does it work?

There is some formula for determining what surrounding squares adjacent to your city tile you can control. The game will automatically place workers on these titles such as can be supported (i.e. you can control it and based on your city population size), but you can move assignments around across available tiles at your leisure.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Some Multiplayer questions:

First let me preface this by saying that I don't own a DS, but my son got one for his birthday in December.

My experience DS multiplayer boils down to him asking me to try to help him and his friend get the pokemon trading to work. Which means I actually read the manual on the DS.

I am considering a DS for myself, in part due to Civ Rev.

I understand there's several multiplayer options to the DS. Multiplayer where only one person needs the game but you both need to be in close proximity. Multiplayer where both/all need the game, but you both need to be in close proximity, or multiplayer over a wifi connection.

The question being, which one(s) will Civ Rev utilize on the DS?

[waab]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
I understand there's several multiplayer options to the DS. Multiplayer where only one person needs the game but you both need to be in close proximity. Multiplayer where both/all need the game, but you both need to be in close proximity, or multiplayer over a wifi connection.

The question being, which one(s) will Civ Rev utilize on the DS?

I second this question.

(if you go for a DS also I would recommend you to buy Advance Wars, turn based war. If you like turn based games.)

[DanQ]

Elizabeth to Appear on PolyCast!

2K Games Civilization Community Manager Elizabeth "2K_Elizabeth" Tobey is to appear on an upcoming episode of PolyCast, the official podcast of Apolyton Civilization Site. She will be answering questions about the up-and-coming Civilization: Revolution, the first Civ title being developed and marketed for console gamers.

Questions already posted in this thread will be considered for inclusion, but more are welcomed and encouraged. An ongoing detailed preview of the game on ACS is available for viewing to likely assisting in answering some gamer inquiries while hopefully generating others.

The podcast is to begin its shiny second season tomorrow.

[waab]

* Will all the versions get game of the week like the xbox360 version will get through Live?

* Will Civ:Rev come with some kind of editor or similar?

[Viper7]

Ok here goes a lot in hope that even some get answered altho I know they are hard (atleast the latter ones)

- will there be a open play mode (generated world, random starting points, custom rules, custom lenght and victory conditions etc etc. Since I like play these matches more than scenarios.

- The game will take some steps to become more console audience fitting, but will the game still have atleast nearly as much depth as in civ4.

- Mouse and keyboard, are they usable for consoles that can use them (ps3, wii and x360(?) )

- Demo bossible? (could bring more pll to buy the game)

- Custom Music tracks for consoles that support them? (ps3 and X360)

- Hotseat? (loved the feature on the pc even tho its a bit booring to wait for turn :P)

- Home trophies? live achievements? Psp functions?

[bantams]

yes how many if any xbox live achievment points can be earned?

whats the max number of players in a xbox live mp game?

[vovan]

Originally posted by bantams
yes how many if any xbox live achievment points can be earned?

According to MS guidelines, any game sold on a disc must have 1000 points. So very likely that is going to be the case.