Civ3 EXPANSION PACK!!!!

[player1]

Counterstrike is a MOD of Halflife.
NOT an XP.

[Maquiladora]

While not a direct ''expansion'' of the game story of halflife. It was developed as a commercial product by Valve, the makers of halflife. So i consider it a stand alone XP, of sorts.

[player1]

As much as Action Quake is XP.

[Reverend Bob]

Originally posted by MarkG
* MarkG tries to remember the last time in gaming history a patch added multiplayer abilities

Deus Ex added multi-player with the patch.

A *relatively* trivial task given that most of the necessary code was already there in the underlying engine admittedly, but all the signs are that a significant chunk of the MP code is already embedded in Civ3 as well...

[Cesa]

Originally posted by Cesa


I'm sorry, but I seldom order games over the internet (I try to support the local gamestores), so I don't know of any good. Check http://www.amazon.co.uk , since they are inside Europe the shipping should be faster than from the US. If I find a good store in Sweden I'll tell you.

Another one: www.gameplay.co.uk, I don't know how fast games are released in the UK, but I assume they aren't released later than in Sweden. I can't find any swedish stores that ship outside nothern europe, of course I could always by an extra XP and send it to you, but the UK stores should be just as fast I believe.

[Bane Star]

Ok but wait theres more

A few years ago I heard of Civilization 2, but never bothered to get it I dont know why but I'm glad I didn't, I was in a store years later and saw Ultimate Civilisation 2, which included (Quote form the box cover:
UltimateCIVILIZATIONII Classic Collection
Civilization II and Multiplayer
PLUS Conflicts in Civilization and
Fantastic Worlds Scenarios

I got the box for $australian $95, ($50 amercian?)but obviously each of these were sold as Expansions, So what I propose the avid but patient Civ 3 player do is But wait a few years until the average computer is a 4Ghz machine, when the new classic collection will come out and it'll probably be the same box design the same general contents but see if you can spot the difference

UltimateCIVILIZATIONIII Classic Collection
Civilization III and Multiplayer
PLUS Conflicts in Civilization and
Fantastic Worlds Scenarios

[Maquiladora]

How would all these Civ3 maniacs satisfy their thirst in the meantime?
:cough: call to power 2 :cough:

[TCO]

Originally posted by korn469
Civ3 is not Civ2

i am going to say that there will be one $29.95 expansion pack which will add multiplayer, more civs, a few new features, and it will either allow scenarios or they will do it in a patch, but there isn't going to be three or four expansions and then a Civ3 MPGE

i'm saying one expansion and then a gold version in about a year

civ3 will behave more like SMAC rather than Ci2, Civ2 was done by Microprose, Civ3 is done by firaxis, while some of the employees are the same for the most part they aren't

i'm just wondering how many new features they will include

Concur...but the reason for this is because Civ3 is a worse selling game than Civ2. It will not support that many XPs...

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
hex, ctp1 already had multiplayer out of the box. it didnt have pbem, but it had mp...

Yes. And Civ3 had mp promised. They have never told us directly why it was removed. You are as much in the dark as us.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Trip

In all honesty, it's not really Firaxis' fault the game ended up the way it did. It had to be released by a certain date, buggy or not. Scenario editor or not. Multiplayer or not. While forcing you to buy an XP to get multiplayer is a bit cheap, it's really nothing new for the series.

err...yes it is. They contracted to make the game. It is their responsability to make it. If they do a bad job, than they are responsible. If IG holds them to a CONTRACTED delivery date, that's not IG's fault. It's Firaxis's fault (if they can't make it.)

[Ethelred]

You are acting as if MP was in the contract.

[TCO]

There are strong reasons to believe it was...


Based on the posted advertisements on Amazon and the discussions at E3, etc.


most likely, Firaxis did not do a permier job because they could not keep the team together. IG probably had to come to some arrangement with Firaxis. It is likely that Firaxis was in conflivt with their contract...and a renegotation was done. Definitly not IG's fault. If IG wanted to play hardball, they caould have cancelled the project.

[Ethelred]

Its even more likely that you are speculating far beyond the amount to information available.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by GP


Concur...but the reason for this is because Civ3 is a worse selling game than Civ2. It will not support that many XPs...

I find this pretty humorous-here you claim that it is a worse selling game, then on the general forum, you are asking for sales numbers. Haha. Isn't that the reverse of how it should be? Get the facts and then analyze?

[notyoueither]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good troll.