Hey Firaxis!

[Urban Ranger]

Who wants plama rifles when you can have quantum disintegrators?

[Flandrien]

I want isotropic wormhole generators !

[Adm.Naismith]

technophile, wasn't you asking for First Person Civ some time ago, with anything showed from the point of view of the King (diplomatic meeting, city view, etc.)?

You make funny of me once, twice will be too much

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[Grumbold]

First person Civ, now there's an idea. Your councillors tell you their reports verbally (and only once) until you discover writing, then you get written reports which are out of date because they have to be couriered back to your palace. The map does not become available until you discover mapmaking and send out explorers to report back with new information. Dragons are reported just off the edge of the known world in all directions until superstition dies down. Eventually you get a big office with a nice red button to press anytime you get bored of hearing your generals tell you why you need more armies despite having a budget twice the size of the rest of the world already. An altogether different experience, but could be fun

[loinburger]

quote: Originally posted by Adm.Naismith on 02-19-2001 07:46 AM technophile, wasn't you asking for First Person Civ some time ago, with anything showed from the point of view of the King (diplomatic meeting, city view, etc.)?

Yeah, I think the idea went something like "Everybody likes first person shooters, so how about we let the King or Emperor or whoever is in charge run around with a railgun killing enemy units? It would greatly add to the gameplay."
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[Theben]

Yes, but I don't think you were the one behind including aliens in Civ3, that nearby gave me a heart attack.

[monolith94]

How about adding a special "madican" terrain?

[Cyclotron]

What Civ3 needs... is fashion.

What else has played such a dominant role in world politics and civil happiness? If people wore moccasins you can bet Kruschev (I know that's spelled wrong) wouldn't be so keen on banging his shoe on the table. Certainly, fashions have signaled economic shifts and trends. With a fashion factor in Civ3, more realism, depth, and retro feeling could be used to augment this great game.

Fashion would have far reaching consequences in all parts of society. For example: In the late 1900s you should be able to measure the morale of your troops with a special "mood ring" feature that appears on the icons. All units so upgraded would recieve a 25% attack bonus, as enemy units would be impressed and less likely to fight after seeing how stylish and trendy the enemy forces are. Also around this time a new "disco bar" improvement could be build, increasing trendiness and happiness. Building lots of these makes you less trendy with other nations after disco goes out of style, but having a lot also increases the chance of getting the "John Travolta" leader unit.

Of course, everry time a style went out of fashion massive civil disorder would occur, bringing down democracies and such. To balance this, fashions could be offered as bribes to less trendy nations, increasing cash from exports while increasing world happiness due to the closing of the "fashion gap."

And in addition to all this, the final win-the-game project should be the "Ultimate look." What will happen when this new trend is released upon humanity? Only time and lots of People magazines will tell...

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"Any shred of compassion left in me was snuffed out forever when they cast me into the flames..."
- Marsil, called the Pretender
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[young newbie forever]

no..... update......yet......god...help....us.
*big shotgun bang and a loud fall* ................silence

[Henrik]

You still there young newbie forever?
*Henrik finds body and quickly resurect it from the dead*

"Thou shalt suffer the long waiting as everyone else!"
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[Chronus]

Eeeegads ... what a crowd!

The other post talked about budgies (Australian birds) cats & dogs. This one mentions shrimp and wizards!

So ... where shall we go next? ;-)

[MrFun]

How about pet squids and purple dogs?

[Trachmir]

I want Atlantis as a civ... you start with the entire tech tree researched, but every turn there is a 75% chance all land that you inhabit sinks and you civ dies.

[tmarcl]

You guys have way too much time on your hands. Why aren't you doing something constructive with your energy, like playing Civ 2?

At least I have an excuse, I leant my game to a friend two weeks ago. Then they asked me to help them move. Now they won't talk to me. What I most want now is for a shrimp wizard to blast me away with a plasma rifle for my stupidity.

Marc (In my friends' defense, they aren't 'not talking to me', we just haven't had a chance to connect. I do trust them to return the game. Giving it up in the first place, however, was incredibly stupid on my part. Maybe we should start a thread on how to handle Civ withdrawl?)

[loinburger]

Easy. Buy Masters of Orion II.