Dutch PC Zone Preview

[Mannamagnus]

The Dutch PC Zone has a very good preview of civ 3. With interviews with Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs. The interviewer went to the Firaxis studios and watched Jeff Briggs play for a while.

I don't know how much info is in there which isn't known already in this forum. One of the things new to me was that workers can be captured an turned into slaves and also that after the discovery of nationalism you can optimise your economy into either a peacetime-, war-, or global economy, where eg a peacetime economy wouldn't allow you to build "war" units.

Anyway, those of you who can will have to read it yourself. I think the article was well worth the money.

[Earthling7]

Re: Dutch PC Zone Preview

Originally posted by Mannamagnus
after the discovery of nationalism you can optimise your economy into either a peacetime-, war-, or global economy,

This is potentially interesting

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Do we know everything about this game already

[Slax]

Any screenshots ?

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
Do we know everything about this game already

Yes. I am afraid that playing the game is going to be like watching a movie after reading the book.

[Zopperoni]

Then don't read about it...let it come to you like a total surprise...

[Vrank Prins]

I'll be going home from work in about half an hour. See if I can buy a copy on the trainstation (Den Haag CS).
WOW.

[JellyDonut]

I think this should be a news item. Could anybody scan it for us or at least give us a rough outline?

[Jason Beaudoin]

Ya!... any other news about the different types of economies?

No military units during peacetime? How would you be able to build units for defence?



There must be more to it than that!

[JellyDonut]

It was confirmed by a Firaxian in some thread (I forget which one exactly) that Nationalism wasn't a government and that it's purpose was to allow one to mobilize the economy for war, peace, or normal. A war economy halves the cost of military units & buildings and doubles everything else. A peacetime economy does just the opposite. A normal economy keeps everything as it is.

[Earthling7]

The more I hear about this piece of software, the more I feel like playing it. It seems Firaxis has done a lot of work on this

[Vrank Prins]

I've read the article in the train backhome lastnight. Quite a few things of which I hadn't heard before. Unfortunately I didn't have time to work things out. But I can say really interesting. Not the least to hear Sid Meier say that he's from dutch ancestry and that still half his family is dutch. And yes Meier is a frequent appearing name in the Netherlands (and also in northern-Germany) it can mean both mower or miller.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

bs! Meier means overseer....

[Ribannah]

A meier is a sheriff (schout), bailiff (baljuw) or steward (rentmeester).
Now we only have to find the meaning of sid (buddha figure?).

[Vrank Prins]

You both must have looked in the "van Dale" (leading Dutch dictionary). Like I just have done. And yes it also (!!) can mean those things. Semantically in that meaning of the word, it derives from major (domus).
But from there the word over the centuries got a few other meanings too. You only have to listen to folksongs to find that out.