Extraterrestial Civs

[Zer0_T0lerance]

Might I add that I think extraterrestial civs should be added to the endgame. I think it would make the game more interesting and FUN!!! Some of these civs could be friendly and peaceful, but many are aggressive and warlike. But naturally all extraterrestial civs should begin in a neutral state, and you should try to make friends with as many of these civs as possible, and destroy those that betray you! This could make the endgame a lot like Star Trek! That should the shift the ultimate winning goal for the game to either conquer or bring peace to the galaxy (or universe), and will automatically set the stage for the game to progress well into the 3rd Millineum.

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Zero
[This message has been edited by Zero_Tolerance (edited November 08, 2000).]

[ContradictioN]

woooah! good idea! meeting aliens for the first time is most certainly a huge step for a civilization.

[DrFell]

i think an alein civ appearing late in the game could be a good idea, but i think the chances of it happening in the game should be quite low, say 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 games, so itd add an extra twist to the game. should be able to turn off alien civs tho.

[CivilizationCanuck]

Yep, customization is key, and as you can choose the lifeform rarity in AC (Fungus being a big problem, medium, or hardly on Planet) it would be good to have the option of Alien Encounter with some settings for highly probably or not at all.

[Zer0_T0lerance]

Oh, and on an endnote, I once watched a program on the History Channel (or was it the Discovery Channel) that aliens may have come to earth and taught the ancient egyptians the secrets of electricity; this may also mean that it was aliens that built the pyramids, not the egyptians, which may explain how the pyramids got there and why the egyptians were such an advanced civilization very early on. Of course, I don't have any evidence to support this theory, but if anyone does could you ppleeassee post it here? Thanx!

Just food for thought . . .

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Zero

[Deathwalker]

Though this is an interesting idea, contacting aliens, I do not think they should be a civ in there own rights. But having conact would be a interesting idea. Maybe it could be a wonder

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I have walked since the dawn of time and were ever I walk, death is sure to follow

[Tiberius]

Contacting aliens in the (very) late game could be an interesting idea. But aliens as a civ?? I don't know, maybe for scenarios or an option in a txt file.

If there will be aliens then make it possible to customize their behaviour: agressive or peaceful. It could be a possible way to win: defend Earth from invading aliens! Or trade with aliens for inter-galactic flight techs (but make it real-real hard), and only then could become the journey to Alpha Centauri possible!!

Be careful though, many don't like SF, so by default NO aliens. But as an option, yes, I'm for it.

[beyowulf]

quote: Originally posted by Tiberius on 11-09-2000 07:56 AM If there will be aliens then make it possible to customize their behaviour: agressive or peaceful. It could be a possible way to win: defend Earth from invading aliens!

I like that. You win, by virtue of the fact, that by the time the aliens are beat back, you are the last one standing. Or by then all the other civs have been thrown back into the dark ages. Sort of like what happened to Rome with invading barbarians, but not quite.

[Zer0_T0lerance]

quote: Originally posted by Deathwalker on 11-09-2000 06:44 AM Though this is an interesting idea, contacting aliens, I do not think they should be a civ in there own rights. But having conact would be a interesting idea. Maybe it could be a wonder

Oh, c'mon! Meeting aliens as a wonder??? How unrealistic can you get!!! Can no one here imagine how FUN and EXCITING war in space against aliens would be like?!?!?! Use your imaginations, guys (and gals)!!!

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Zero
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[The diplomat]

If the Sweep of Time concept is for real, then how about this:

In civ3, you might sometimes encounter or communicate with an alien race that knows of the Progenitors. Possibly an enemy of the Progenitors. The Progenitors would still be very enigmatic but this way, when you get a ship off to AC, the story would be set that somewhere out there lies a mysterious alien race called the Progenitors, that you would finally meet in SMACX.

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No permanent enemies, no permanent friends.

[airdrik]

I think that there could be alian civs on up to two planets/moons in our solar system (multiple warring alian civs on this planet/moon) that start out as primitive cives at about the time the civs on earth started appearing. After all, all civs have to start somewhere. You could costumize it in that you could choose how many alian civs there are, and how much earlier/later than the earth civs they start (having one or two cives that start about 20+ turns before the earth civs would eventually end up in the alian invasion scenerio as they would grow in tech a lot faster than any earth civ, fighting against 10+ other civs)

[Paulypav]

The concept of aliens is exciting, but making them into civs seems to encompass a whole new game rather than merely enchancing civ3. By adding alien civs, space exploration, choosing planets etc., you would be massively increasing what civ games cover at one time. My guess is that it would add more information than is really feasible for one game. I would really enjoy seeing a civ based game related solely to space. It would have to be much better than the scenarios for civ 2. I think the ideas given here would be a great basis for an entirely new game.

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they said.” — President Clinton

[airdrik]

I agree, Civ 3 should only encompass just Earth, or just Earth, the moon and Mars. They could make another game where you get to explore the galaxy/universe.

[N35t0r]

yeah, like some sort of add-on.

or have the option to continue once you've conquered the world.

[airdrik]

If it was an add on, then it would have to be a very BIG add on that has the maps for all the populatable planets/moons in the galaxy/universe as well as all the alian civs in the galaxy/universe, and it would get very tedious trying to populate evey planet one by one. That is why they should have a different game, where you start as 22th century earth (after world peace). Each planet would have %s of all the civs currently populating it, etc.