Peaceful Golden Age has been implemented!

[The diplomat]

Check out the new Development Diary. Here is the Quote:

"If the attributes of the Wonders you've completed match your Civ's strengths, you will trigger a Golden Age. For example, the Chinese are "Militaristic" and "Industrious". If they build The Art of War and Hoover Dam, this satisfies both strengths and a Golden Age would begin. A far better tact for the Chinese would be to build the Great Wall, which satisfies both strengths at once and would immediately trigger a Chinese Golden Age upon completion."

This is way cool. They listened to our suggestions about adding a peaceful Golden Age!

[Ralf]

Originally posted by The diplomat
This is way cool. They listened to our suggestions about adding a peaceful Golden Age!

Great! Check it out at http://www.civ3.com/devupdate.cfm

[jerkwaterbox]

so every civ will get 2 golden ages?

[The diplomat]

So, as I understand it, there are 2 ways to trigger a GA. If you are militaristic, you can trigger a GA when your Special Unit wins a fight. If you are peaceful, you can now trigger a GA by building certain Wonders. This makes so much sense, because it no longer forces the peaceful play to start a war just for a GA. And it rewards a good builder!

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by jerkwaterbox
so every civ will get 2 golden ages?

No, it is still 1 as I understand it. It is "either or". A civ can only have 1 GA. But this gives builders another way other than war!

[Haphazard]

An interesting point hidden in the update is:

"Small Wonders are a new type of Wonder that can be built by every civ, but only once.
.....
Also, Small Wonders in a city are destroyed when that city is captured, whereas Great Wonders can be captured. "

You could interpret that as you only get one chance to build a minor wonder. Lose it, and its gone forever!
Or you might be able to build a new one if Firaxis are feeling nice!


Rob

From civ of the week:

"Ironically, they were called Immortals because they would often perish quickly in combat, only to be immediately replaced by fresh troops, giving the illusion that their forces never dropped in strength. Apparently, "Expendables" didn't have quite the same ring to it. "

[sekong]

what?

What? CHinese are military and industrial??
They must did some big changes? Or just a typo?
In the older list. Chinese was Scientifical and Industrial.. ((

[Bereta_Eder]

Great about the GAs

[Ralf]

Originally posted by jerkwaterbox
so every civ will get 2 golden ages?

No, each Civ only gets one Golden Age opportunity.

But by choosing wonders according to civ-abilities, and when to build them, you are given the freedom to decide when to trigger your golden age.

Above peaceful golden age trigger is in fact so good, that I hope they scrap the specific units trigger. Its not needed. What do you guys think? I want to be able to fight with those specific units, without risking having a forced upon Golden Age, then I perhaps not ready for it.

[sekong]

breaking news

Comfirmed.. They are changing Civ attributes.
A result appear from our widely request of a peaceful
trigger of Golden age.

[ixnay]

I looked at the table of civ-abilities - refresh my memory - the chinese are listed as mil/ind and the germans as mil/sci. Were they always like that?

[isaac brock]

I also like how great leaders can hurry the wonders. kind of like alien artifacts...

[Steve Clark]

(posted in a new thread)

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Ralf
Above peaceful golden age trigger is in fact so good, that I hope they scrap the specific units trigger. Its not needed. What do you guys think? I want to be able to fight with those specific units, without risking having a forced upon Golden Age, then I perhaps not ready for it.

I agree. I may be in a war where I may HAVE to use my UU like legion or hoplite in order to prevail, why should my GA start at that random time? Arbitrary

(this way we would be forced to hold back our best units in a war )

[Rhysie]

Originally posted by isaac brock
I also like how great leaders can hurry the wonders. kind of like alien artifacts...

I got the impression it was more that you could rush-buy the wonders if you had a leader present, rather than sacrificing the leader for the wonder ala alien artifact/caravan.

Sort of like the leader directs the hired labour in the construction, and without the leader it would just be a huge mess and they wouldn't be able to organise the speedy construction.

I think it would be much more realistic done the way I interpreted it.