its up, im not kiding!! CIV3.COM GOES LIVE

[Provost Harrison]

I am impressed

The graphics are now coming together very nicely, the roads weave around mountains and valleys, tuck behind them and wrap around them forming those windy alpine roads you get

So it was indeed the Aztecs who are the other civ. I had speculated this many months ago due to the sightings of their cities on the map. I thought that the Spanish were in rather than the Babylonians though.

I enjoyed reading through that site. I was enthusiastic about the game before but this has helped alleviate some of my doubts. I had a feeling that there was a lot to this game that people didn't appreciate at first. I am now on full excitement mode waiting for this game to come out. You even seem to have shut up the biggest critic

So:

[The Mad Viking]

I'm very pleased. The city views look awesome, and the palace in a big improvement on the pathetice Civ2 Throne Room. The map view is good, if short of beautiful, and I glad they have borders.

It appears I will still be micromanaging each city to get my shields to work out evenly at completion of a unit/improvement. Or will leftover shields be carried onto the next turns production? Its great that units will be Civ not city supported! All kinds of small improvements and the [option of Civ specific units is great. Trade and diplomacy look to be greatly enhanced!

(Although I was reading last night about how the camel revolutionized trade (and even de-invented the wheel). I'm going to miss the camel...

I'm ready to buy. Need to get a new 'puter tho... so Civ3 will cost me over $1000

[Grim Legacy]

It sure looks good. I was ready to order online, but doubts about getting the special edition prevented a swift choice, hehe.

Hopefully, this new site will be updated more often than once a month (or less)!

Ah I actually don't care - just get the game out!

[Eli]

Originally posted by Grim Legacy
Hopefully, this new site will be updated more often than once a month (or less)!

Since they have "Civ of the week", I guess that the site will be updated once a week.

[Grim Legacy]

Originally posted by Eli


Since they have "Civ of the week", I guess that the site will be updated once a week.

LOL pretty clever...HOWEVER, a pre-cooked rotational Civ-ot-Week does not necessarily mean that there will also be editorial content added each week! And that is of course the kind of update that i would be looking for.

[CapTVK]

Was right about the "colonies"="depots"

I guess my hunch was right about the colonies being the RR equivalent of depots. In combination with the roads requirement this will be an interesting feature. I also like the fact that you have to connect a road to a resource before it works, another ICS damper!
If you read questions to the civ team you'll also read that pillaging is far more destructive. If you destroy a specific road that civ loses access to that resource. I hope this also works with various flight units (bombers).


Now we can start whining about the release, this year or next year?

[War4ever]

the game is very ctp ish.... i guess thats the way civ will be from now on.....oh well it looks decent but some of the graphics look a little weak...

now just release the damm game so i can master it as quick as possible.... we want mp we want mp

[jglidewell]

River Movement

Nice job!!

I have many questions but one that is nagging me from the Screensaver. Since the river is between the tiles than are there movement bonuses??

[jglidewell]

Outstanding interface

The interface - s are really outstanding and are very pleasing to see. They are uncluttered and do not strain my eyes.

[Imran Siddiqui]

WONDERFUL!

Some good new information and what AMAZING graphics! Civ3 is looking very very good! Optimists Unite!

[The Mad Viking]

Notwithstanding my satisfaction with the changes to the gameplay, I will have to organize a Viking raid upon the offices of Firaxis, for not including the Viking civilization!

[shum00]

I don't know if this was known or not, but by looking at the second screenshot on the second page of the gallery it seems that corruption and waste can occur in the capital... Not very important but I just decided to bring it up

[tniem]

Originally posted by Tingkai
The site looks great. The only thing I wonder about is why the gallery pop-up windows are designed for a 1024x768 setting. Seems to me, 800x600 is more standard. But this is a minor point.

That is because the game is going to require 1024x768. No reason to take screen shots and make them smaller so that they can be seen in a full window on a resolution that is not supported by the game.

I don?t know if this has been mentioned before, but the tech tree shows horseback riding requires warrior code and the wheel. That makes sense in terms of military history, but it could mean a big change to my standard opening moves.

Remember a discussion about this about a week ago. Basically it ended with someone pointing out that this is acurate in the Middle East while another person said that north of China there were horseback riders before chariots were cooked up. We will see how it works and it should be fun

[KrazyHorse]

BTW, I don't know if anybody else has done this yet, but I want to congratulate Dan on building a very nice site, even if it was *ahem* slightly long in coming. Lots of useful information, lots of pretty pictures (except for the stupid-looking mountains), lots of everything. I can't wait for them to reveal the Japanese leader and resolve the Genghis/Japanese guy debate.

[genghisvick]

Now, all we have to do is wait for the game to come out.