Ask The Civ Team - 09/14/01 Edition

[MarkG]

Originally posted by TechWins
Quite possibly all of the Civ's city might not cover all 3/4 of the land surface, so you could conquer all the Civ's before you get the domination victory.

possible, but the domination victory comes up when you control 3/4 of the population as well. i dont see how the domination victory wont come up at all times if you're going for military

[dennis580]

Last time I heard Firaxis said they were really leaning towards making two-thirds the requirement for a domination victory not three-fourths.

It looks like to me that Firaxis has not decided yet what percentage is required for you to get a total domination victory. All they said is a majority of the land mass. That could mean as little as 51%.

[TechWins]

but the domination victory comes up when you control 3/4 of the population as well.

Where did you read that at? Here is the quote from civ3.com, "The domination victory occurs if you control a majority of the world's land surface within your borders. This can be achieved through various means, either by cultural tactics or military ones, or a combination of both."

So I would imagine that my possibility holds true.

[MarkG]

hmmm, sorry, confused it with the UN council requirements

[dearmad]

Anyone noticed:

The CULTURE victory conditions are totally different now... you can win with either your whole CIV getting a score OR one city getting a score... and the totals have changed.

[TechWins]

Yes I did notice that, dearmad. I was a bit skeptical of the reliability of the previous info. So this comes to me as no surprise.

[Stuie]

"Spaceship victory is in the game (as said before)."

Mea culpa.

[Falconius]

Originally posted by MarkG
military victory is when you kill everyone. obviously if you're going for military victory the domination victory will come first but i guess you'll be given a choice to continue for military victory

From screenshots I've seen, you choose the victory conditions at the start of the game. If you choose more than one, then whichever one happens first is the one that ends the game.

[Falconius]

Originally posted by TechWins
Yes I did notice that, dearmad. I was a bit skeptical of the reliability of the previous info. So this comes to me as no surprise.

The previous info came straight from the horse's mouth (Jeff Briggs being the horse!). He told CG magazine that 100,000 CPs was the victory level. Of course, this started an intense eruption on this forum where people debated back and forth over whether it should be based on one city or the whole Civ. Maybe Firaxis took notice of this and made the adjustment.

Somebody up there is listening!

[Don K Hotay]

Originally posted by Lemmy

And i noticed you can set your governors per continent, i don't think this has ever been done before. Looks like the maps will be more realistic than ever.

I mean its a new feature, but I don't know how much use it will be. How many of you agree though that within a contient, it usually turns out that there are cities of varying industrial capacity? When playing Civ2 and CTP's, some cities happen to be blessed with hills and mountain ranges that can be mined for significantly more production, and these cities have the ability to pump out wonders and those high production requiring units, like battleships or nukes and what not. I myself refer to them as my industrial cities, and I always found it a pain in the ass to micromange production for each one seperately. I wish we could set governors based on production levels, commerce levels, food levels, science levels, and even a combination of these....sort of like in MOO2 where each colony was either an industrial, scientific, or farming colony (but there were no governors in MOO2).


Quixote

[Comrade Tribune]

[SIZE=1] It looks like to me that Firaxis has not decided yet what percentage is required for you to get a total domination victory. All they said is a majority of the land mass. That could mean as little as 51%.

Precisely. And this means the Brits are ruling the world now (because they controlled much more than half of the territory in the 19th century).

[Don K Hotay]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune


Precisely. And this means the Brits are ruling the world now (because they controlled much more than half of the territory in the 19th century).

Thats not true at all...they never controlled anywhere near 50% of earth's landmass

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Don K Hotay

Thats not true at all...they never controlled anywhere near 50% of earth's landmass

Admitted: I could be wrong. But they controlled most of Africa, Canada, India, Australia and some other places I forget.

Anybody has a map that shows "British Empire: Largest Extension"?

[monkspider]

Actually, the largest empire in the history of the world was the Mongol Golden Horde. I could be mistaken on this of course, but I believe they controlled virtually all of Asia, Russia, and even reached as far as Eastern Europe. If anyone could claim a domination victory it should be them.

[TechWins]

The previous info came straight from the horse's mouth (Jeff Briggs being the horse!). He told CG magazine that 100,000 CPs was the victory level.

Yes, that is true, but I didn't think it stand that way. I'm not saying that the info wasn't viable; it's just that it didn't sound of high-quality. Therefore, I thought that it would be changed.