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[aebbeka]

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

The Egyptians discovered the guitar technology long before anyone else did. Is Elvis still going to be one of the advisors?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by donarumo
Does it not look like this Egyptian worker is playing a guitar? I know he isn't but it looks that way.

No, it does not. It does look as if he is digging, and he may also be animated, we don't know.

[ixnay]

I'm sure he is animated and is in the process of digging a road. But it does sort of look like he has a guitar.

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

That, of course, is the special "Rock Star" unit, that when built, causes teenage girls from other civilizations to defect to yours.

Or not.


Dan

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
That, of course, is the special "Rock Star" unit, that when built, causes teenage girls from other civilizations to defect to yours.

Elvis is in Civ3 in disguise as a worker.

[Shiva]

Got to say I love the replay screen.

[Steve Clark]

Originally posted by 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.

You must not have been playing Civ2 with the HiRes (or several others) custom graphics, as thousands of others have been playing with.

[d_dudy]

actually, i think it is a guitar

[jsw363]

The forests look MUCH improved. I also really like the mountain ranges. However, the shallows still look too acqua for me as does the irrigation.

I wonder if you can capture other units besides workers? I bet that you can since it didn't say "workers captured." That makes it kind of risky sending in workers to connect roads with another civ doesn't it?

[Skanky Burns]

Just a question about the mountain ranges. Ive noticed that they are now joined together, which looks good. What i was wondering was when you have 4 mountain tiles together forming a square, does the middle still form a 'valley' or will it have a bigger 'peak' than normal mountains??

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by jsw363
The forests look MUCH improved. I also really like the mountain ranges. However, the shallows still look too acqua for me as does the irrigation.

I wonder if you can capture other units besides workers? I bet that you can since it didn't say "workers captured." That makes it kind of risky sending in workers to connect roads with another civ doesn't it?

Any unit with a defensive rating of zero is captured automatically when an enemy unit moves onto their square (unless there is another unit with a nonzero defensive value also on that square for defense)


Dan

[Slax]

Things are looking good. I like the detail of having a delta where a river empties into the sea!

Two requests:

1. A few more screenshots at the actual screen resolution.

2. Improve the look of irrigated tiles.

[jsw363]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS Any unit with a defensive rating of zero is captured automatically when an enemy unit moves onto their square (unless there is another unit with a nonzero defensive value also on that square for defense)

Thanks Dan! Wow, so many posts today.
So now we are left to speculate what other units have defense ratings of zero besides the worker. We know that there is a modern worker unit that will have no defense rating. Settlers also most likely have no defense. Leaders have no defense. (I read that somewhere). I've also read about the possiblity of some sort of manned catapult unit, implying perhaps that the manning unit has no defense. I've read speculation that there aren't any diplomats, so who knows about them. There are no caravans. Spies probably have some defensive capacity, but who knows if they're even in the game. Anyone else have any suggestions?

Capturable units:
Settler
Worker
Leader
Diplomat?
Spy?
Catapult manning unit?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
...And you might as well know that Diplomats and Spies have gone the way of the caravan as well; this is all abstracted to advisor screens and game interfaces.

Dan

Seems like there wont be any diplomats/spies any more... so you wont be able to capture them

Im guessing that any sort of artillery type unit will also be capturable...

[kaminwx]

The screens are looking pretty good, but I just don't like the new irrigation look. It looks like there is swamp all over the land mass. The farmland look of civ2 is much better. Any comments on this, Dan?