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Over on CivFanatics' forums there's a thread where Dan Magaha has made a map in Civ3 of pure desert with various units to test the combat model. Players are testing the combat and posting the results to see how often the famous 'spearman kills tank' result occurs, as well as several other combinations.
Two comments:
i) The results I saw after a brief look all seemed to make good sense; the statistical samples of each post were small, but putting several sets of results together and it starts to have greater significance. I didn't see one spearman kills tank.
ii) The tone of the thread was extremely constructive and cooperative with several comments of appreciation for the effort that Dan had put in.
Conclusion:
It's perfectly reasonable to be upset if Civ3 hasn't met our expectations, however, perhaps because of the frequency and tone from many posters expressing their critiques we are now having a less than positive dialogue with people from Firaxis. I, for one, enjoy reading the comments from other players but one of the particular highlights of these forums are the comments and interaction with the Firaxis people. I've seen the frequency and tone of their posts decrease and become increasingly defensive as more and more scorn is poured on Firaxis and Civ3.
Perhaps we need to be realistic. It's very cathartic to go on and on about how disappointing some aspects of Civ3 are, because many of us were pumped about the new version coming out. But if we continue like this we may lose out on a cooperative and fruitful relationship with Firaxis, and be left with a rather hollow discussion.
V
Two comments:
i) The results I saw after a brief look all seemed to make good sense; the statistical samples of each post were small, but putting several sets of results together and it starts to have greater significance. I didn't see one spearman kills tank.
ii) The tone of the thread was extremely constructive and cooperative with several comments of appreciation for the effort that Dan had put in.
Conclusion:
It's perfectly reasonable to be upset if Civ3 hasn't met our expectations, however, perhaps because of the frequency and tone from many posters expressing their critiques we are now having a less than positive dialogue with people from Firaxis. I, for one, enjoy reading the comments from other players but one of the particular highlights of these forums are the comments and interaction with the Firaxis people. I've seen the frequency and tone of their posts decrease and become increasingly defensive as more and more scorn is poured on Firaxis and Civ3.
Perhaps we need to be realistic. It's very cathartic to go on and on about how disappointing some aspects of Civ3 are, because many of us were pumped about the new version coming out. But if we continue like this we may lose out on a cooperative and fruitful relationship with Firaxis, and be left with a rather hollow discussion.
V
and here I thought this thread was about how to siege our office building...
when this is done, I will send them over and bombard until every desk is destroyed and everyone inside is reduced to 1 hitpoint, and than send in my modern armor.
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