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

[Seeker]

Screenshot #2 in Gallery

Look at the second screenshot in the gallery on the second page of the gallery (Babylonians 4000BC)...

look closely at the mountains and roads....yes, right next to each other there is a road going BEHIND/around a mountain, and right above it a road 'hovering' above a mountain..............

.......well at least we know it should be easy to fix.......

javascript:MM_openBrWindow('previewwin.cfm?mode=sc reenshot&img=images/screenshots/citymgt2.jpg&width=800&height=600','Screenshot','width=900,height=700')

[yin26]

...waits yin to come up and say that Dan should even resort to protest outside infogrames's offices if they dont allow the game to be playable without the cd

Naw. Somebody will release a crack, I'm sure. If Dan wants to protest anything, I'd suggest the release date, but he'd probably have better luck trying to walk on water...

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

WHERE ARE THE HEBREWS!!!!!????!?!??!!??!?!

I know some folks are disappointed that their civ didn't make it into the game

Let's just see what Sharon has to say about this ....




Now, great site... but why did you go with CFM?

I mean, AFAIK PHP is much better, and ASP is more widespread (and buggy and insecure )

And if you did decide to sue CFM, why are the pages static?? No DB queries, no includes or anything....

I'm a Cold Fusion junkie, what can I say. ASP is terrible IMHO, and I don't know enough about PHP to do a site.

And as for your second question, we don't really need a DB for anything, so hence no queries (keeps things zippier anyway), but the entire thing uses includes. Every piece, from the header to the little sidebars, to the gallery frames, is a self-contained component, and they're all included as need be.

Viva l'Allaire.


Dan

[MarkG]

And if you did decide to sue CFM, why are the pages static?? No DB queries, no includes or anything....

actually, they probably use cfm for the random screenshot that appear on the right and almost certainly(well, i would) for the layout

[Colonâ„¢]

"look closely at the mountains and roads....yes, right next to each other there is a road going BEHIND/around a mountain, and right above it a road 'hovering' above a mountain.............. "

You know, I saw a shot where a road was going over a sea-tile... very Jesus-like.

[yin26]

Ah, how sweet. Dan continues to ignore me. Old grudges, eh? That's fine. I still say the work you did is good if way overdue...as for future site maintenance...?

[Alantus]

ASHBERY76, the topic of skin color and Cleopatra is open to debate according to the information I have been exposed too.

What will all these posters do now that they can't post about guessing which Civs are in and which Civs are out? Maybe now the hot topic will be about golden ages or whether its better to be expansionistic and industrious or religious and something else. Cool chart

Nice site, I enjoyed it very much.

Alantus

[MarkG]

Re: Screenshot #2 in Gallery

Originally posted by Seeker
look closely at the mountains and roads....yes, right next to each other there is a road going BEHIND/around a mountain, and right above it a road 'hovering' above a mountain..............

i dont think it's "something to fix"
in other words, it's a "feature", not a "bug"


from the last one on the first page

[Seeker]

"You can trade goods with another civ as long as you have a road, harbor, or airport that connects your civilization with theirs. "

This is thing I like...he who builds the best transportation network, rules.

EDIT: WHOA!! Just saw civ-specific abilities chart....some interesting ideas but lets not go overboard here! This isn't age of empires....specifically,

"free tech at beginning of each era'

Philosophy wasn't bad enough but imagine the dude with this in an MP game...generally better productivity is also a little unbalancing, I mean why should player A have what is, in effect, X % more free howitzers than I do?

I will wait and see but they had better be doing some major play-balancing here to make this work.

Some of the individual things are cool little frills though I like 'improved ship promotions' or whatever (Brits I guess)

EDIT 2: I see there will be a 'Classic Civ' mode so we can turn off 'Civ of Empires'. Ochen khorosho.

EDIT 3: I can see how 'distinctive civs' can make the game more challenging though....playing as the Babylonians will be more difficult than playing as Russians, USA, Germans, etc. If your 'special unit' was only top of the line for the Bronze Age...(vs. opponents with modern era specials) that's good for SP.

About the whole site, nice picture of wonders, advisors....but I hope there will be some multi-player news soon (at least a good hotseat)

[Bereta_Eder]

woho! no anarchy during gov changing in religious civs??!!

I'll exploit THAT one to the fullest! democracy - communism swifts until no other civ is standing next to me without loosing on science and money. And all that without building the statue of liberty wonder (worthless in civ 2 INMHO- no offence )

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
I'm a Cold Fusion junkie, what can I say. ASP is terrible IMHO, and I don't know enough about PHP to do a site.

I don't know PHP that much either Yet...

You could have stilll called me. I'm a good webmaster. Just need that opportunity to find a good gig .. err... respectable job

And as for your second question, we don't really need a DB for anything, so hence no queries (keeps things zippier anyway), but the entire thing uses includes. Every piece, from the header to the little sidebars, to the gallery frames, is a self-contained component, and they're all included as need be.

That's what I thought, but then, there's shtml for that... but then again, it's your choise I just have only seen one other site other than this which uses CFM. I think it was Firaxis

Viva l'Allaire.

yep, I've got their software and HomeSite Rules baby

Now all the crapware is trying to be like it, Starting with 1st Page 2000 and dozens of others.

Atleast 1st page is free



Oh, well, just promise to call me for the Civ IV site, that is, if i'm not in your developement team by then Or hacking you for the Mossad



EDIT: I gotta learn how to type slower but right.....

[Colonâ„¢]

Hey Firaxis folks, there were things I noticed nothing about. Firstly the civ1 style replay feature and secondly those heaps of statistics, graphs an pie charts I'm having wet dreams about.
Could you please tell us (me, when it comes to the latter) anything about that?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Colon
the civ1 style replay feature

in of the "ask the team" features they have confirmed that this feature will exist

[Colonâ„¢]

Ah I missed that one... that's great really, but what about those statistics I promised myself?

[The diplomat]

WOW. The official site looks great. No wonder it took so long to put up.

Civ3 looks AMAZING. Firaxis: Keep up the good work!

The screenshots look so much better than the ones we've been looking at from previews. They have such a cool "painting" look, and they so well organized.

-Did anyone notice how borders roll over hills?

-The advisors seem to give really cool advice.

-I love the advisor screens. They are so well organized. Notice the diplo screen where you can see the relationships between all the civs at a glance. The trade screen is great too.

-I noticed in one screen, you can actually accept or refuse when a city rebels to come to your side. small detail but it adds a lot to the game feeling.

-The civ specific abilities look really cool. I think they really will add a lot to the game.

-the Golden Age feature is very cool.

Just lots of cool stuff.