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    How can custom Civ3 units be better than Civ2?

    For those that have no idea as to how good custom units can look in Civ2, take a look at these...



    (With apologies for posting Captain Nemo's battleship units for his new WW2 scenario without his permission.)

    I am left to wonder when looking at the above .gif if or how this can be improved upon in Civ3 (or should it)? I mean, the purpose of unit graphics is to tell what they are quickly and to be historically accurate. Is this just one of many areas that they got right in Civ2 and thus should not be screwed with for Civ3?
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    With all due respect , have you seen the civ3 units posted on the preview site?? They are absolutely amazing!!!!!

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    G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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    • #3
      Just look at the new civ3 units on the official website...that should answer your question.

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      • #4
        With all due respect, you had forgotten that I saw them when they were first announced and had made several comments. But if you get your heads out of the clouds, just take those new Civ3 units and scale them down to the size you see above (which represents the actual game scale), will they look any better? I think not. What you are looking at with the Civ3 units are full-rendered size graphics that are for show only, not part of the game, as was discussed. So there.

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        • #5
          Maybe, but look again at the animated units. They look like they might be at the actual game size. If so, then they are much much better than any custom units in civ2!

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          No permanent enemies, no permanent friends.
          'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
          G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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          • #6
            But animation does not make it a better looking unit, imo. Don't you think it's kind of useless to have a warrior wielding his axe over and over again in a TBS game while you are thinking of your moves? If animating a unit is an option, I will turn off the animation first thing. So take that tank, forget about animation and shrink it down to the game scale. Is it better than what we see above (which presumably takes a whole lot less resources)? The point I'm trying to get at is slick animated graphics are not important for the game, especially if they take resources away from things that are truly important (AI and customizability).

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            • #7
              Personally I dont care much for unit-animations in turnbased strategy-games. Unit-related sounds is more important "alive-factors" for me. Nevertheless, I think Firaxis more or less must include lots of map- and unit-animation eye-candy, in Civ-3.

              They must try to counter-act some RTS-loving game-magazine reviewers, who otherwise is likely to instinctively rant down on the lack of RTS-style animated bells and whistles. I just hope that these animations are optional - and that Firaxis dont try to push the animation concept one horrific/ridicules step further: A twist/turn and zoomable fullscale 3D globe-map.

              [This message has been edited by Ralf (edited January 26, 2001).]

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              • #8
                Do you really think that the warrior is going to be constantly wielding his axe over and over again while you are playing? What you are seeing is probably just the animation for one particular action, in this case most likely attack.
                Slick units will make the game better because it will make the game more appealing visually. Plus animations will make the game more immersive. Completely static units can often completely kill the mood. Since the animations can be turned off, everybody should be happy, right?

                IMO, I want very crisp graphics AND good gameplay. The game should have both, and I am pleased that this is what Firaxis is aiming for.

                Just because the game is a strategy game does not mean that it should not have great graphics!

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                No permanent enemies, no permanent friends.
                'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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                • #9
                  quote:

                  Originally posted by The diplomat on 01-26-2001 05:55 PM
                  Since the animations can be turned off, everybody should be happy, right?


                  OK, thats good enough for me. Animations it shall be.

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                  • #10
                    Having just revisited the official website, I wonder... has anybody given any thought to the fact that Warriors and Riflemen -- regardless of what civilization they belong to, Japanese, Zulu or Russian -- are white?

                    I suppose Civ II had the same problem, but it wasn't as obvious.
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                    • #11
                      come on, that's not a problem! skin color's of absolutely NO importance to civ (to anything else? bah!) , even if unique features are included. That warrior's got a funny beard and between his legs... what's that???
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                      $RPLC1. Do you care^
                      to exchange knowledge with us?'^
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                      _'OK, let's exchange knowledge.'

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                      • #12
                        See people, see? I wasn't the only one to notice that anomality between the Warrior's legs!

                        I'm starting to suspect it's because Firaxis wants some fundamentalist group to notice it, raise a big holler about how games are corrupting the youth, and meanwhile give lots and lots of media publicity to Firaxis.
                        "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
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                        • #13
                          I'm sorry folks, I've been looking at the new warrior and I don't see anything between the warriors legs - except the animal hide he wears.
                          Come on people, get your mind out of the gutter.

                          I for one like the unit animation of the CIV3 units. As stated earlier, this is the year 2001 - animations should be better than CIV2.

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                          • #14
                            I honestly don't hope that they spend all of their efforts to polish up graphics. I see little point in having phanlax lunging their spears all the way. However, improving/customizing a basic unit as new technologies are discovered is a good idea. I really like the concept of Unit Workshop in SMAC even if the user interface is awful.

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                            • #15
                              I agree Transcend.

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