Will you use civ specific features

[lord of the mark]

Your current expectations of how you will deal with the option to turn-off/modify civ specific units, abilities, and golden ages.

[Urban Ranger]

I will play with them to see how they work first.

[marcuspeddle]

I will play them as they were designed by Firaxis. It's nice to have civs that are different from each other and if I want to change my play style I can choose a civ that will give me an advantage. Also, if I want a bigger challenge I can choose a civ that has non-military advantages and choose all military civs for my opponents. I wonder if it would be possible to edit those bonuses to set up a scenario where you have great religious or cultural bonuses but really heavy military bonuses. That could be a kind of pacifist scenario where you have to stay alive through diplomacy.

[Laszlo]

I agree, Urban Ranger. It will get a harsh trial by original and Civ2 players looking for game balance and a better time, but I trust Sid Meier and the rest of Firaxis know this well enough not to screw thiongs up.

[campmajor!]

I will play with them first, as designed by Firaxis.

If I do not like it, then I will turn them off.

[Footie Mad]

Yes and if I like them i'll keep them on.

[lockstep]

I really like the idea of civ-specific abilities. While the civs won´t be as distinct from each other as the SMAC factions, the slightly different strategies suitable for each civilization will certainly add to the replay value of Civ3.

And I´m looking forward to playing as the Religious-Industrious Egyptians.

[Adagio]

I have beenw aiting for that feature since they released Civ1, there' no way that I'm not going to try that

[BeBMan]

I´ll use them until I find out that they make the game totally unbalanced (what I doubt)

[ChrisShaffer]

I just hope we can randomize them, so the Germans aren't Commercial and Expansionist every time I play the game.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by ChrisShaffer
I just hope we can randomize them, so the Germans aren't Commercial and Expansionist every time I play the game.

I hope that too...Firaxis, are you thinking about making it random?

[Tventano]

For sure I will use them. I really appreciated it that in AC the everyone was different. Also for Civ it will give an even better feeling that the other leaders have some personality. It will make it that the choice is not negative, if I choose green, I know there are no Zulus, but positive, what kind of special feature and/or special unit and/or time for golden age I want to try now?

Ofcourse after half a year or so, editing will start. Probably some expansion pack and for sure quite some user produced countries will flood around.

[joseph1944]

Originally posted by campmajor!
I will play with them first, as designed by Firaxis.

I to will play with them on, and I will play as each Civ.

[tniem]

I am going to use them until I need to do otherwise.

As for how it is going to impact the game - I think it will help the game last. For years people will be building and tweaking the perfect civ. Instead of having one civ with different names, we actually have 16 different civs and that is only until the mod and scenarios makers get ahold of this and make so many more.

I really also believe that it will help scenario makers. They will be able to force the computer ai to focus on certain things and give them a bonus in certain areas. Certainly something that will aid developement.

[Pembleton]

I will probably turn off the special units but keep the ablities on for the first time(s) through.