Which Civ will you play your first game as?

[JellyDonut]

Although my initial game will be as the French, as soon as I download a world map of the largest size, I'll try the English and Japanese. Their islands are small on a normal map so early seafaring is crucial to avoiding a stunted growth in your empire, but if your islands are huge, you'll have an average size empire and will be able to put off seafaring for a few more turns. And then I'll do some sensible exploration (in Civ 2, the English and Celt AIs would always colonize Greenland and Japan would stay with 1 or 2 cities, not even leaving the home islands, making them extremely easy to crush).

[Taso_84]

Mines a hard choice between being the Germans or the Greeks.
Illl decide in 24hrs

[Fidel]

Interesting preference for the smelly pink French. I was expecting 'Americans' as the choice no. 1.

[Steve Clark]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Hmmm...interesting point. This was entirely possible in Civ2, but in Civ3 we have to worry about animations and the sound effects. I wonder if it will indeed be possible to alter graphics?

Why do you ask this question, Boris? There have been many threads in the past year about exactly this, including stuff from Firaxis websites. I just don't understand after all of this time (and all of my constant ranting ) that folks still think we may not be able to alter graphics.

Now, the question still remains whether the tool will be provided to do animation or will be able to import from any one of our favorite 3rd-party software. But in any case, I don't care one way or the other regarding animation, so I know (as Firaxis has said) that I can replace ANY and ALL units with a non-animated units. Heck, I thought the many thousands of customize unit graphics that folks have developed for Civ2 are good enough. It will be just a matter of figuring out the mechanics dealing with the .gif files.

For example, do all of you know that there is a units.gif file developed for Civ2 that contains dozens of custom Viking units?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Steve Clark


Why do you ask this question, Boris? There have been many threads in the past year about exactly this, including stuff from Firaxis websites. I just don't understand after all of this time (and all of my constant ranting ) that folks still think we may not be able to alter graphics.

Now, the question still remains whether the tool will be provided to do animation or will be able to import from any one of our favorite 3rd-party software. But in any case, I don't care one way or the other regarding animation, so I know (as Firaxis has said) that I can replace ANY and ALL units with a non-animated units. Heck, I thought the many thousands of customize unit graphics that folks have developed for Civ2 are good enough. It will be just a matter of figuring out the mechanics dealing with the .gif files.

For example, do all of you know that there is a units.gif file developed for Civ2 that contains dozens of custom Viking units?

Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!

I haven't been around that long, only since late August of this year, so I hadn't seen anything about it. And I didn't say I think you wouldn't be able to, I just wasn't sure...

[Steve Clark]

Sorry, Boris, didn't mean to vent at you. I know there are quite of few folks here that have no experience with Civ2 (which still shocks the heck out of me). If those who haven't would just take a little to learn about how Civ2 have been customizable over the years, there would alot less misconceptions regarding Civ3. For example, replacing civs (or any other defaults) in Civ2 is routinely done (if it suits your preference). So all of this discussion about the 16 default civs in Civ3 is ludicrous, imo.

But to helpful (for once), this would be a good place to start.

http://csc.apolyton.net/

This shows just a small fraction of what have been done to customize Civ2 (and what to expect, I believe, for Civ3).

[Mars]

I'm starting as the americans and then working my way down the UUs til i get to the most "primitive" then i'll just play as anyone i choose.

[red_jon]

It is very disturbing that so many people picked the French. Freaks

[Inverse Icarus]

i couldnt play as the french because all that pink on the minimap induces vomiting.

[JellyDonut]

Originally posted by Jingo
i couldnt play as the french because all that pink on the minimap induces vomiting.

The Pink Knights of the Roundtable condemn your racist remark against people of the pink color!



We demand an apology!

[orange]

Originally posted by JellyDonut


The Pink Knights of the Roundtable condemn your racist remark against people of the pink color!



We demand an apology!

Yes, or you will suffer the rath of the Maginot Line

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by red_jon
It is very disturbing that so many people picked the French. Freaks

Hopefully this will not lead to a precipitous decline in the use of body soaps and an increase in unfortunate incidents of smelly cheeses, language snobbery and running away from fights!

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Steve Clark


Yes they are! Just change the name of the Iroquois (or whatever one you don't care to see - perhaps the French? ) to Vikings. Don't play with civ attributes or unique units on (they're irrelevant in the long run) and voila! You have your Vikings (or whatever other nationality you want).

Don't forget to change their cultural grouping as well so that their cities look right.

Anyway, in response to some talk of the second game, mine will be Japanese, huge random map, 16 civs, all options on.

[Ubik]

Originally posted by orange

Yes, or you will suffer the rath of the Maginot Line

HAHAHAHA

stop it, it's hurting

[Gothmog]

Romans
At this point I see no reason to change my CIV II habits. That of course could change once I get into CIV III.