A quick CivIII bit to put your minds at ease

[UltraSonix]

OK, I've tried to hold this off, but it's been 2 weeks +4 hours since the original announcement, and nothing's happened. What's going on?

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...

[Dienstag]

Maybe he meant "very soon" by Civ standards: 1 turn = 1 year

-Dienstag

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"Must...stop...checking Civ 3 site...3 times a day. ARRGGHH!!"

[UltraSonix]

quote: Maybe he meant "very soon" by Civ standards: 1 turn = 1 year

Damn it, you could be right!

quote: "Must...stop...checking Civ 3 site...3 times a day. ARRGGHH!!"

Likewise - I think if we do it anymore often, we'll bring down their server...

[Adm.Naismith]

"Real Soon Now" is probably a Firaxis internal joke on us...

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[Steve Clark]

The following what was posted at gamecenter.com and perhaps the source of the 2002 'rumour'.

quote: What We Want to See: Civilization III Hasbro Interactive announced Civilization III with great fanfare at last year's E3. Unfortunately, that was probably a bit premature. Civ III is going to happen; however, it's a safe bet that the project won't see the light of day until 2002. One problem is that Firaxis is committed to developing its dinosaur game for EA before it can fully concentrate on Civ III. The other, much larger issue is the mass defection of talent--including Civilization II and Alpha Centauri designer Brian Reynolds--to Big Huge Games. The good news is that, with Reynolds's departure, Sid Meier is actually going to design Civ III. The bad news: we're gonna be waiting a long, long time.

[UltraSonix]

That quote IS the source of the 2002 rumour - I started it and linked to it from a few threads.

It's a little bit ironic how "A quick CivIII bit to put your minds at ease" and actually made us all more restless, eh?

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...

[Fintilgin]

Well, when you're a game designer working on a project that takes multiple years then `Real Soon Now' IS several weeks or a month.

On the otherhand, when you're an overly eager fan then `Real Soon Now' is about fifteen minutes. TOPS.

My bet would be that we'll see something in early to mid-October. Now, um... if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check the Firaxis web-page again...

Joe

[The Mad Viking]

You will notice that Firaxis said "we never said the release date would be in 2002" he didn't indicate whether it would be 2001 or 2003.

Of course, he didn't deny 2002 either.

[UltraSonix]

Oh man, Viking! You had to bring that up!

*Ultra sighs and waits for the game patiently in the Apolyton Coffee Shop*

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...

[Roman]

Three weeks after "real soon" they could at least tell us exactly when.

[Alexander's Horse]

Hmmm, maybe the release of CTP2 will speed things up. If they keep delaying and CTP2 is any good at all, many civ 2 players will migrate across. I'm certainly going to buy CTP2 if the players' review are good.



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Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Your secret is safe with me.

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum19/HTML/002208-2.html?71#71

[UltraSonix]

quote: I'm certainly going to buy CTP2 if the players' review are good.

Same here - the only reason I didn't get CTP was that the mags in general thought it wasn't very good.

edit: maybe those bunch of people left Firaxis, all the web-designers left as well - just a thought.

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary...
[This message has been edited by UltraSonix (edited October 03, 2000).]

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

For those of you concerned about the site launch:

I'm sure you can all understand that there is a great deal of discussion and coordination that has to happen before we can open the site. There are a lot of people involved (including many folks from Hasbro) who are just making sure everything is copacetic before we go public with the site.

Please also keep in mind that as this will be a "preview site", we will be doing our best to address your questions and tell you what we can of the game, but it is not going to be the be-all, end-all of Civ sites by any means.

Just bear with us, the first step is always the hardest =)


As for this comment:

quote: Originally posted by UltraSonix on 10-03-2000 01:43 AM Same here - the only reason I didn't get CTP was that the mags in general thought it wasn't very good. edit: maybe those bunch of people left Firaxis, all the web-designers left as well - just a thought.

I think I can safely debunk that rumor =)



That's the Civ III team, picture taken yesterday...
[This message has been edited by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS (edited October 03, 2000).]

[The diplomat]

Now can we all stop bashing Firaxis!
They are going to give us a great game. It is hard but we need to be patient (especially me!) It would be nice if they could snap their fingers and out popped a game but it doesn't work that way. (I sometimes wonder if Sid ever wishes he could make a game just by snapping his fingers!) It takes time.

I am very happy with Dan's latest update. I am extremely excited about the preview site and for civ3.

now if I could just find something to do while waiting for civ3...

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[Shadowstrike]

Well, I hope our suggestions helped out with the design step... Can't wait until Civ3....

So, can you tell us if it uses a unit workshop model?