Civ should be real-time

[DarkCloud]

If they did what the Warlords series did and have an
RTS and a TBS game... I'd be glad with it... Ithink I'll bump an old thread on this

[JellyDonut]

Sigh...Civ is a TBS game, and to change it at this point would mean a drastic cut-back on the release date and NOBODY wants that.

[dainbramaged13]

Originally posted by UberKruX
SMACK

agreed

[Dauphin]

I think the poll result is emphatic.

[Dauphin]

Suggesting civ should be RTS is like suggesting chess should be RTS.

However, I can see the benefit of restricting peoples' turn times, a la chess clocks. Implementing in PBEM along the lines you have 24hrs from the moment of receipt of the file would be useful to keep games fluid.

Online games are just too time-consuming full-stop.

[MORON]

the existance of this thread should be a news item and the poly troll title be given.

[jerkwaterbox]

Civ turn-based? what kind of cheap drugs where you smoking when you came up with that one? i mean really.

[Mister Pleasant]

Civ an RTS game? I'll take a pass on that. Civ is about letting a long term strategy unfurl slowly. It's a game of history and strategy, not tactics. Besides, I always hated racing all over the AoE map repelling enemy attacks while launching my own attack. If I want to test my reflexes I'll hit my Playstation.

Yeah, RTS civ would be like RTS chess

[Simpleton]

Why can't all you RTS lovers just accept that not all games need to be real time to be fun???!!! You don't see turn-based fans going to the Warcraft, AOE, Starcraft forums and complain that it should be turn based! If you like RTS games great go play it but don't ***** about a style of game that I like. Leave Civ as it is!!
Power to the TBS!!!!

[tishco]

civ is about spending 10 minutes on one city sometimes, how are you going to do many citys real time.
AoE only had one small base.
empire earth is kinda like Call 2 power in rts

[Winston]

This poll somehow reminds me of the presidential election of Bulgaria in 1959...

[campmajor!]

Well, the results of this poll are clear:

Suggesting civ to be RTS is like cursing in the chuch!

[Cookie Monster]

If Civ3 was made into realtime that would be sacrilige and blasphemy!

[Father Beast]

RTS is fun and all, but lacks the depth possibilities of TBS, and especially civ.

I know people who nearly worship Starcraft, but they admit that they have played it out after a year or two. after five years, we are still plumbing the depths of what is possible in civ. That is something which just isn't possible in an RTS.

head over to the civ2 strategy forum great library. try some of those monsters of strategy and ask yourself if those would be possible in an RTS. the size 5 strategy? ICS even? Perfectionism? OCC? OCC size 1? being able to tweak your beakers so you discover monarchy on an oedo year?

I admit that many of these will not be the same in civ3, but we will find other strategies, equally unplayable in RTS form, for civ3.

for more thought check out my column "TBS - The thinking persons genre"

[Gramphos]

NEVER IN MY FOOT!!!!

I love Civ so mush just because it is turnbased. Simultanius turns are acceptable, but not Real wtime.