Interview with Sid

[jglidewell]

''I was thinking something along the lines of a Railroad Tycoon II 3-D surface would look really nice and work really well.''

I have played only the original Tycoon then got the civ bug and never got around to getting II.

Since they have the code you just might be right.

Does everyone else think that II terrain is good for Civ III??

[raingoon]

I agree. I hope it'll be at least that good. Especially I hope the continents look like real continents, a la Civ I. NOT like in Civ 2, please!!!

[GaryGuanine]

Civ1 maps rule!!!!!

[Zanzin]

I never played Civ1, but I'd agree that the Civ2 continents didn't really look 'continent-ish' as we'd think of them in terms of the Earth. Did Civ1 kinda look more 'continent-ish'? Raingoon??

[Nikolai]

quote: Originally posted by GaryGuanine on 03-24-2001 04:55 AM Civ1 maps rule!!!!!

I have maybe misunderstood you Gary, but do you want that flat map with those square units???? Maybe I'm dumb, but...... I am!

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Who am I? What am I? Do we need Civ? Well....

[raingoon]

Zanzin, Civ I maps looked much more like continents. At first I thought the isometric perspective of Civ 2 made its continents look more stringy but even if you flattened out Civ 2 and made it like Civ I, the land masses would still look more like a world of large and small islands with no definitive oceans in between. If anything got me off Civ 2 it was the scarcity of real oceans and the predominance of those globule strings of land. No matter what variables I set Civ 2's map generator at, it never came close to matching the ability of Civ I's map generator to evoke a real world.

[Zanzin]

Raingoon,

thanks for the info.

WEll, Sid said in the interview that their resident mathematician had come up with a great algorithm that creates random maps....lets hope so!

[MrFun]

I read Sid Meier's interview, but frankly, I did not find any new information from it. I did learn anything that I did not already know from the forum.

oh well (sigh)

[raingoon]

Zanzin, you're welcome -- I agree, I was encouraged by that quote. MrFun, I had the same impression from the "interview" although Zanzin just reminded me of at least one thing that seemed new. Hey, Sid, baby, I hope that's one wicked, wicked map algorythm!

[Ralf]

quote: Civ III will cover from 4000BC to somewhere around the year 2020.

Thank God for that!!! Keep those SciFi futuristic fantasies in some really good addon scenarios instead. I havent posted here for a while, but that single piece of Civ3-update was really welcoming and reassuring.

[VetLegion]

That whole interview is a scam, exept for the "console vs. pc" sentence. Sid (or whoever wrote the interview) just copy-pasted the info that was standing on the web for weeks, down to a sentence.

[bagdar]

quote: Originally posted by VetLegion on 03-25-2001 05:41 AM That whole interview is a scam, exept for the "console vs. pc" sentence. Sid (or whoever wrote the interview) just copy-pasted the info that was standing on the web for weeks, down to a sentence.

and it took such a long time for someone to realize!

[Sparky]

We finally have a count on some of the civs that will be in. Here's whp Firaxis has shown or mentioned thus far: the Americans, Zulus, French, Chinese, English, Iroquois (New!), and Russians. Any others we're sure of?

[Roman]

quote: Civ III will cover from 4000BC to somewhere around the year 2020.

Yes!!!!!

[Adm.Naismith]

This Sid interview make me fear alot about mentioned "light heart" elements added for Fun.

After months of debate here at Apolyton about CIV III realism and best balancing history vs playability, I have a strange feeling of incoming Civ III great hopes derailing for unnecessary humor just in sake of larger impulsive buyers audience...

You know, that gaming debate Deja Vu about "Wars are so more fun", "Smiling leaders" that add special effects (Magic? Super human? ) to your army...

Quotes a la SMAC are ok, but a despot that tell jokes or looks and acts like a Joker? Is the Epic of Civilization running head down to a wall?

May be it's only because today I'm in a bad mood...

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