Civ3: Your Greatest Fear/Hope

[Snapcase on Snapcase]

Greatest Fear: After playing a few games and finding it to be the same old stuff, except playing much slower with hardly imporved graphics at all, I look at the customisation tools and find that (a) Units are only modifiable using 3D Studio MAX, (b) Everything which was easy to change during the last game is now a bugger to change, including a buggy and incomprehensible "elevation system", and (c) That the few files that are customisable are only so within a range of three or four colours, because the game uses the other colours for shading. Oh, whoops, that was SMAC!

[MrFun]

Greatest fear: it will be too difficult, just as in Civ I and Civ II to maintain a real, massive army because military costs are based on each city rather than the entire civilization. It will also take longer to produce each successive unit (each city only able to support specific number of units rather than whole civilization supporting a realistic military force)

Greatest hope: they will increase the length of the game a little by more years or more turns. They will have larger sizes for each map size.

[Mark_Everson]

Greatest Hope:

Truely competitive AI, or even close

(At least give us a deity level you can't win hands down every time )

Greatest Fear:

Same old bumbling AI with a few tweaks.
In which case I probably won't buy it...

[This message has been edited by Mark_Everson (edited January 18, 2001).]