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Greetings everyone. I have not posted in a while because I stopped playing Civ III due to its myriad of problems. But then I tried out the latest patch to see what's fixed and what's not. The game seems improved but still has some seriously annoying issues, namely:
1. Missed City Messages: the game will focus on a city and the little bongo thump sounds, but the message is not always displayed.
2. Lack of Feedback on Battles: First, there's no sound effects for battles, so you might miss the fact that a battle is even taking place. And if the AI attacks from a city, you don't see what's attacking, you only see your unit's health bar decline. AND if you attack into a city, you don't see what you are attacking or what kind of damage you are doing to the attacked unit.
3. Lack of Visual Prompt for Active Units: You find yourself staring in a state of hypnosis, waiting for something, anything, to happen. Then you realize one of your units up in a corner of the screen has been waiting for orders this whole time. Why not make them blink, as in Civ 1 and 2? The thin white circle is just not eye-catching enough.
4. Bombardment is Still Useless: 19 times out of 20 (no exaggeration) I get a message that "Bombardment Failed." This is especially annoying as the English when your Special Unit, the Man O'War, goes to pound a city and continuously fails. I see no way to change this in the editor, either. Also, like the missed city messages, there is sometimes no message at all to tell you what your bombardment did.
5. STILL No Way to Start in Historic Locations: This is an utter disgrace. There are downloadable tools to help with this (thank you, Gramphos), but they are somewhat involved processes. Can you imagine if you had to do to this in a game like Europa Universalis where there are hundreds of nations to arrange geographically? In Civ I and II, you clicked one button while starting the game and, magically, all the Civs started where they should. What's the problem here?
For the first time in ten years, there is no Civ game on my hard drive. This is because the game is now more annoying than it is fun. I don't plan on buying the expansion pack unless these issues are addressed. Adding more stuff to an annoying game only makes it more annoying. Please Firaxis, address these simple issues, and make the game fun again.
Note: Number of times the word "annoying" appears in this post: 5
1. Missed City Messages: the game will focus on a city and the little bongo thump sounds, but the message is not always displayed.
2. Lack of Feedback on Battles: First, there's no sound effects for battles, so you might miss the fact that a battle is even taking place. And if the AI attacks from a city, you don't see what's attacking, you only see your unit's health bar decline. AND if you attack into a city, you don't see what you are attacking or what kind of damage you are doing to the attacked unit.
3. Lack of Visual Prompt for Active Units: You find yourself staring in a state of hypnosis, waiting for something, anything, to happen. Then you realize one of your units up in a corner of the screen has been waiting for orders this whole time. Why not make them blink, as in Civ 1 and 2? The thin white circle is just not eye-catching enough.
4. Bombardment is Still Useless: 19 times out of 20 (no exaggeration) I get a message that "Bombardment Failed." This is especially annoying as the English when your Special Unit, the Man O'War, goes to pound a city and continuously fails. I see no way to change this in the editor, either. Also, like the missed city messages, there is sometimes no message at all to tell you what your bombardment did.
5. STILL No Way to Start in Historic Locations: This is an utter disgrace. There are downloadable tools to help with this (thank you, Gramphos), but they are somewhat involved processes. Can you imagine if you had to do to this in a game like Europa Universalis where there are hundreds of nations to arrange geographically? In Civ I and II, you clicked one button while starting the game and, magically, all the Civs started where they should. What's the problem here?
For the first time in ten years, there is no Civ game on my hard drive. This is because the game is now more annoying than it is fun. I don't plan on buying the expansion pack unless these issues are addressed. Adding more stuff to an annoying game only makes it more annoying. Please Firaxis, address these simple issues, and make the game fun again.
Note: Number of times the word "annoying" appears in this post: 5
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