Mind worms

[Hippi]

Civ3 does indeed need some mind worms to increase the gameplay. Mind worms could migrate from Alpha Centari and arrive in the 20th century.

[Prince]

I think modern barbarians - guerillas, cities/city clusters wanting independance, terrorists - would be far better suited to this game if you want stuff like that.

[Fresno]

Originally posted by Prince
I think modern barbarians - guerillas, cities/city clusters wanting independance, terrorists - would be far better suited to this game if you want stuff like that.

I especially like the city clusters wanting independence. So you could include younger civilizations and keep the game historically accurate.

[DaShi]

How about genetically engineered monsters, cloned dinosaurs, or, best of all, Alien Invaders?

I might buy CivIII, if these features were fully implemented.

[CB2034]

How about 2mice. One really smart and the other one goofy and named after a finger on your hand, and they try to take over the world the whole time your are playing and every once in a while they come up with a good plan but it backfires. That would be way cool.

[Prince]

I don't think you should be interested in Civ if you want that stuff

[Fresno]

That's true; civ is a game about history; let's keep it that way.

I only like the city-clusters thing because it would add historical accuracy.

[Prince]

Originally posted by Fresno
That's true; civ is a game about history; let's keep it that way.

I only like the city-clusters thing because it would add historical accuracy.

But of course, so would guerillas (Cuban revolution.. Che Guevara, etc). The Civ2 patriots and fanatics were kinda cool! And in Civ1, later ages also had barbarians, I can still see it: "Guerilla uprising near..."

[Fresno]

Yes, and I also still don't understand why they removed the fundamentalism-government. Why not adding some governments instead (like feudalism, aristocracy, fascism, and so on)?

In some aspects, Civ1 and 2 were better then Civ3.

[Ironikinit]

I suspect that fundamentalism was removed because it was too powerful in Civ 2. Additionally, I can't think of a major power that has used a fundamentalist government since, say, the industrial revolution. There easily could be many that have, I just can't think of any. Fascism and communism work out to be pretty much the same thing, so there's not much point in putting in a whole other government for fascism.

I'm glad someone made fun of DaShi. Good work, CB2034.

[GeneralTacticus]

I agree with the idea of adding fanatics/guerillas, but I think in Civ II they were way too common. Does the U.S. periodically have to deal with guerilla attacks on San Fransisco?? Terrorist activities should basically be damaging military units, blowing up improvements or killing people. Kind of like random bombardment. And there should be a spy mission to root out terrorists.
As for fanatics, I think the main effect of them cropping up should be to cause unhappiness, damage infrastructure and scare people.

[GeneralTacticus]

Also, on the subject of Fundy, if they left it as it was it would be even more powerful, cos of culture and money. They would have a whole stack of cultural improvements that they could build with no maintenance, and they'd have the money to buy all their tech from everyone else.

[Fresno]

Fascism and communism work out to be pretty much the same thing, so there's not much point in putting in a whole other government for fascism.

You're right if you mean it were dictatorial governments. But further, they weren't that similar.

By the way, I don't think Hitler and Mussolini would like it that they are called communists now...

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Fresno
That's true; civ is a game about history; let's keep it that way.

I only like the city-clusters thing because it would add historical accuracy.

Nonsense! It's about civilization. So if I wanted to start of society of cybernetic monkey/donkey halfbreeds, I should be able to.

[Fresno]

Your reaction surprises me; everything in the game shows it is about history. If you think not, just read chapter 4 of the Civ1 manual; that says it all.