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[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune
Didn´t you play the earlier civs? They looked totally different there; not just slightly.

You will learn to notice the difference.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by SerapisIV
They must have kept the Civ2 concept of not giving extra trade benefit for railroads

But they now seem to give too generous road benefits.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Gramphos

You will learn to notice the difference.

You didn´t get my meaning; I prefer the old style aesthetically. Happy and unhappy people looking quite identical is boring.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune
You didn´t get my meaning; I prefer the old style aesthetically. Happy and unhappy people looking quite identical is boring.

You will be able to edit the graphics and place the old graphics in the place of them if you like to, just don't make me use them.

[wotan321]

...and did you notice the roads are no longer various widths? Does that attribute go away in the modern era, or has it been taken out of the game?

[lockstep]

I think the new style is due to the need to identify foreign citizens in cities captured by your civ. It can´t be mere chance that french citizens are pink even in the city view.

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Wow, I'm really surprised no one picked up on the fireworks over the city in the one map screen...

As far mines go, you can mine grasslands (and even desert) now, you just don't get as nice a shield bonus as when you mine hills and mountains. If you dislike this, you can of course change it in the editor.

Dan

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
As far mines go, you can mine grasslands (and even desert) now, you just don't get as nice a shield bonus as when you mine hills and mountains. If you dislike this, you can of course change it in the editor.

Dan

Is it the same shield bonus for all grassland, or does it depend on an attribute of the tile that is set when the map is generated?

[EnochF]

And the Hospital is now a city improvement. (But what effect does it have?)

[faded glory]

no need to so much

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
Wow, I'm really surprised no one picked up on the fireworks over the city in the one map screen...

That is what the blue things are, I couldn’t just make it out (as it didn't animate) Is it We love the President day? I hope there is other animations for it if you haven't discovered Gunpowder
Sory for quoting twice, the Computer wouldn't load the screenshots so that I could check them until I'd posted (IE insisted on crashing (I’ve been online to long without restarting))

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Gramphos

That is what the blue things are, I couldn’t just make it out (as it didn't animate) Is it We love the President day? I hope there is other animations for it if you haven't discovered Gunpowder
Sory for quoting twice, the Computer wouldn't load the screenshots so that I could check them until I'd posted (IE insisted on crashing (I’ve been online to long without restarting))

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. When your cities are in WLTKD there are fireworks above the city. Yes, this happens no matter whether you've gotten gunpowder or not, and yes we're aware that isn't historically accurate It's designed to let you know what cities are really doing well, and we thought it would be a little odd to only see that AFTER gunpowder.


Re: grassland mining, you set the bonuses on a global level in the editor, not at the per-tile level.

Hospitals allow you to grow to the third city level (i.e., past pop 12)

Dan

[donarumo]

Does it not look like this Egyption worker is playing a guitar? I know he isn't but it looks that way.

[aebbeka]

Here are two items that really stood out to me in these new screenshots:

Mountain Rages, you very rarely saw those in Civ2. It was either a small wad of mountains or one standing alone.
The other is the city screen. It shows all the land surrounding the city, not just the cities land. Sometimes when you have several cities and you're flipping through all of them, it's hard to tell where it's at. Hopefully this will fix that problem.

I have a feeling that October is going to go very very slow...

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
Ding ding ding, we have a winner. When your cities are in WLTKD there are fireworks above the city.

I won I won!!!!
I thought it was a Republic

Yes, this happens no matter whether you've gotten gunpowder or not, and yes we're aware that isn't historically accurate It's designed to let you know what cities are really doing well, and we thought it would be a little odd to only see that AFTER gunpowder.

Doesn't matter that mush, I just hoped that you had find some other cool animation to use before gunpowder, but as it may be tricky I like that it show all the time more then it being historically accurate.

Re: grassland mining, you set the bonuses on a global level in the editor, not at the per-tile level.

Good, I like that it is simple, but it could have been done as resources also, as you have the engine to do so.

Hospitals allow you to grow to the third city level (i.e., past pop 12)

Dan

Did I ask about that?
What will happen to the Sewer System?