Aliens? What aliens?

[Inverse Icarus]

i'm not going to be a person who says the government is hiding alien bodies and craft from us in the middle of a desert.

sure, i believe that a government could have, and possible already has, made contact with alien life. it IS a possibility, but a longshot if you ask me.

and i honestly think that if such a contact was made, or if bodies were found (as many think), the government WOULD hide it from the public. imagine what it would do to religion.

DESTROY IT. YES.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Mister Pleasant
And just what DO you think happened at Roswell?

Not a lot...

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You place x amount of research/money into it and every turn you have a 1 in (y times x) chance of discovering an alien radio signal.

Yeah,great idea,and maybe we could give it some kind of strange name like SETI.

Alternatively you can fund a mission to Mars or one of the moons of Jupiter and get a 1 in z chance of discovering ancient bacteria.

Euh little question why do they have to be alternatives?
Both things are done now by the human civ.(NASA,ESA,...those ppl aren't sitting back and waiting for the stars to fall out of the sky )


strange ppl on his thread
so afraid for things to be to sci-fi/futuristic(even if those things are already getting a little dated)

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[Dauphin]

Why the ? Is it in the game already?

[shade]

strange ppl they are

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[PGM]

Aliens in civ3? Get real...

[ancient]

.. damn smac fans..

[KrazyHorse]

Hey, I like SMAC, but Civ is definitely not supposed to be about sci-fi.

[ixnay]

I believe I've heard something about SETI being a wonder in the game. Why not? It was in civ2.

[KrazyHorse]

That's fine with me, but SETI in Civ2 doesn't represent the actual discovery of aliens; just the search for them and the tech boost given by your efforts.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by UberKruX
imagine what it would do to religion.

DESTROY IT. YES.

You make that sound like a bad thing

[Mister Pleasant]

and i honestly think that if such a contact was made, or if bodies were found (as many think), the government WOULD hide it from the public. imagine what it would do to religion.

DESTROY IT. YES.

The only religions that would be destroyed are particularly virulent fundamentalist strains. Evangelical Christianity, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the like.

Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism and Islam (in their more moderate forms) are far too resilient to fall apart the first time something weird happens.

Hey, I like SMAC, but Civ is definitely not supposed to be about sci-fi.

Aliens in civ3? Get real...

And if aliens showed up tomorrow would they be in Civ3? If the government revealed the alien artifacts and bodies recovered at Roswell, would aliens then be historical?

We might suppose that in some alternate history, aliens do visit Earth, or there is an alien crash at Roswell that becomes public. Since Civ3 is about re-writing history, and we don't know that aliens could not visit us, there is no reason to disallow an alternate history to include aliens.

[civcop]

Oh dear...

The only religions that would be destroyed are particularly virulent fundamentalist strains. Evangelical Christianity, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the like.

Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism and Islam (in their more moderate forms) are far too resilient to fall apart the first time something weird happens.

I'm afraid that you have confused resiliancy with apostacy, but that is only my opinion. Further, evangelical Christianity is not "virulent" unless God Himself is "virulent". What is commonly known, or at least accepted in our parlance as evangelical Christianity is essentially following a literal interpretation of the Bible. That is not to say that everyone who claims to be an evangelical actually is one. Jerry Falwell's recent remarks, for example, were arrogant and idiotic. Falwell supposed to know the will of God and that is wrong.

As for aliens, as someone whose only experience with this gaming genre is Civ 2 (pity me), I would find the inclusion of aliens to be a bit much. Perhaps as a feature that can be selected the game could go well into the future and offer game play with aliens and other odd bits, but I wouldn't be interested. Nonetheless, if enough people want the feature, barring that Firaxis is out of time to add to the game, then democracy amongst gamers would prevail. Oh no, I fear I've just opened a can of MP worms!

[KrazyHorse]

Mr. Pleasant, if you want to write a mod with aliens in it, go right ahead; I might even play it. However, "aliens" have not (to common knowledge) played a part in Earth's history.

[Sarxis]

SO I take it there will NOT be aliens in CivIII?