Firaxis: Idea for Bonus Feature

[dexters]

How about including an ALL AI mode?

I for one would like to boot up a game, fill it with AIs, and watch them go at each other.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

It might be fun for the first couple of times and I guess you could also figure out all the cheats that the AI uses, but when I play civ, I wanna play, not watch.

[Cesa]

I have never made a mod of any civ-game, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this be a fantastic feature for mod-makers? I create a map, wonder if the resources are evenly distributed, I set up a game over night, when I wake up I see the result and draw my conclusions. Just as great for scenario-making!!

Since they have this in their own versions it shouldn't be that hard to include in the XP, or?

Edit: spelling

[dexters]

Yeah. Running the game while Asleep, or away is what I had in mind. There may be some entertainment value watching the game for brief periods of time, but when I made the suggestion I didn't have watching the game in mind

You caught onto exactly what I wanted to do

[civman2000]

FUn fun fun!!! I use to do that to scenarios in civ2...problem was the year, some of the graphics, and the diplomacy got all messed up after awhile...

[MiloMilo]

Wasn't this an option in civ2? I was thinking the other day that this would be nice. I'd like to load up a game I won at 4000BC and see what the ai would have done with that starting position. See how well I did, y'know?

The benefits for scenario-building have already been mentioned.

[Cesa]

It would be even better if they gave us this feature in the June-editor (so we wouldn't have to wait for the XP), but perhaps that's too much to ask for? But as I said, they already use it themselves, so.

[Adagio]

They have already the needed programming code, so I see no reason why not to include it. Though I just hope they don't make it, so you only has the option to see all of the map, because it will be fun to see how they explore, built etc.

[dexters]

!!! I didn't know that this was a feature in Civ2!

Is this in the Civ2 expansion or the Civ2 original release?

[civman2000]

original release. GO to cheat, set human player, choose no humanplayer, and voila!

[dexters]

thanks civman! hehe. I don't want to sound like I'm pompous, but I've always felt that I already had enough advantages (reload and all) so I rarely checked the cheat menu

[Panag]

Re: Firaxis: Idea for Bonus Feature

Originally posted by dexters
How about including an ALL AI mode?

I for one would like to boot up a game, fill it with AIs, and watch them go at each other.

hi ,

like in civ2 , but way behind that , ...and it should wait at the end of a turn , to see what the AI as done for you , and you should be able to pick up from there , ...

have a nice day

[Nubclear]

Re: Firaxis: Idea for Bonus Feature

Originally posted by dexters
How about including an ALL AI mode?

I for one would like to boot up a game, fill it with AIs, and watch them go at each other.

I would support this.

[SomeOneElse]

That would be cool. It was a great way to test scenarios and AI strategies in Civ2, and would be great in Civ3

[Cesa]

It would be nice with a comment by Firaxis in this thread, just "yes, we've read this thread" would be nice. A comment of the chance of this getting in the game at some point would be even better.