Please, take a vote! Pre-realese an concept map-editor

[Ralf]

I give you right on one thing, Isedan - and that this idea is probably prematurely suggested.

Frankly, we dont know anything yet, even about the most basic Civ-3 design specs. There have been suggestions about hexagon-tiles, SMAC-style maps and whatnot. God knows what map-ideas the Firaxis-team finally decides to implement.
Lets at least wait for that basic preview on www.firaxis.com/civ3 that Firaxis Dan Magaha promised would roll out "real soon now".
After that i am gonna send them my suggestion. Try to live with it .

By the way: Is there anyone here who knows if there have been suggestions about additional terrain-types in Civ-3 (not special recourses - just new terrain-types)?

[UltraSonix]

I like the idea having new terrains, and I posted some suggestions at:

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum6/HTML/001493-2.html

quote: Other additions: *River delta - for land near large rivers, bays etc. Provides extra food obviously. *High tides - for seas squares, harnessing tidal energy on the square will give a bonous. *Coral reef - extra marine life?, economy bonus (more tourists) *Freshwater sea - was a special square in SMAC, but should be made a normal terrain type.

quote: Some more map squares: *sea caves/underground caves - both provides extra money because of tourism. *rock formations - (like the good ol' rock in the middle of Australia) - provides more tourism again. Also, the forests should be different in different parts of the world (they could just look different but do the smae thing) - eg rainforests, pine forests, bamboo forests, conifer forests, blah blah. There could also icebergs (not actually a square, but a unit of sorts), like I mentioned in my thread.

A bit related: http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum6/HTML/001455.html

quote: Some ideas for new terrain related stuff: Ocean-based volcanoes occassionally forming islands. Bushfires burning through forests in equitorial regions...

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[This message has been edited by UltraSonix (edited October 04, 2000).]

[Deathwalker]

Great idea, it would lets us get a feel about what to expect

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