Jurrasic Park ?

[Capt Dizle]

I dunno. Sure dinos are dumb for this game. But maybe the dinos will simply replace barbs early in the game. This would be kinda neat.

OTOH, if the dino are going to be a playable civ, I wince at the thought of losing a city to the dino's superior culture.

[Harovan]

Considering the known at this time facts, I find the dino idea braindead. Sorry. It would be much better to add more balance and accuracy to the game's core, than to add some fantasy worlds. On one side, the original game has no wonder movies and animated advisors (god I loved those clowns in Civ2), and on the other they add some kind of Jurassic park to the XP, which has nothing in common with the history of mankind and civilizations.

[Capt Dizle]

Braindead? Yeah, but there is precendent for that. I once had 8 military units go poof in a city that reverted.

They just had the dino art laying around. Its no big deal.

[Zurai001]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
My main problem with this is that you can't do much with just 10 dinos.

Sure you can. How many units do people actually use from the modern era? Stealth Bombers, Modern Armor, Mech Inf, Radar Artillery. That's about all *I* ever use. If I'm not on a Pangea map, I'll use battleships and carriers too, but I believe battleships are industrial.

Thus, 10 units is way more than enough if you wanted to add a 'pre-historic' era to your game. Don't forget that this is an optional unit pack - nothing is forcing you to play with the dinos.

[Cesa]

The art team only do the art in the game, but I'd much rather see one wonder movie than the dinos.

Even if the art already was there, they had to make some sort of scenario to include them, that time could've been used better!

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Zurai001
Sure you can. How many units do people actually use from the modern era? Stealth Bombers, Modern Armor, Mech Inf, Radar Artillery. That's about all *I* ever use. If I'm not on a Pangea map, I'll use battleships and carriers too, but I believe battleships are industrial.

Thus, 10 units is way more than enough if you wanted to add a 'pre-historic' era to your game. Don't forget that this is an optional unit pack - nothing is forcing you to play with the dinos.

Ok, you add another era. That is the not much I was talking about. There are too little to make a scenario just for them.

[Zurai001]

Originally posted by Apocalypse

Ok, you add another era. That is the not much I was talking about. There are too little to make a scenario just for them.

Not really. If the scenario is an actual scenario and not a total conversion, I could easily see a caveman vs dino scenario. I might even make one to prove it when PTW comes out. We already have all the human graphics we need from the ancient era.

[Coracle]

What's the matter with dinos? Civ 2 had a fun scenario with them, and dinos are about as realistic historically as some of the concepts and units Firaxis dreamed up.

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by Coracle
What's the matter with dinos? Civ 2 had a fun scenario with them, and dinos are about as realistic historically as some of the concepts and units Firaxis dreamed up.

ah right. I see. Presumably, you think that there never were any dinos, thus any reference to them is 'historically' inaccurate...

[Changmai Beagle]

Various Dino Thoughts

Of course they aren't historical. There is one theory that competed with Thomas Huxley (the brains of the outfit?)'s theory for a while - Creation included the creation of dinosaur bones to be found by people (Not that I'm taking a viewpoint).

Maybe this is the Dinosaur game.....

My favourite theories for extinction:
1.) Young Dinosaur toughs take up smoking (Gary Larson)
2) Plant eating dinosaurs creating large amounts of methane gas (at both ends) were essentially big birds that had an unfortunate predilection to eat flint and iron ores as part of the stones they used in their crop.....

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Zurai001
Not really. If the scenario is an actual scenario and not a total conversion, I could easily see a caveman vs dino scenario. I might even make one to prove it when PTW comes out. We already have all the human graphics we need from the ancient era.

I guess it is possible to do a few things with it. It'd be nice if they were more useful though.

[Chandragupta]

Does anyone else remember the imperialism mod for civ2 that came out a loooong time ago? Not the one they just recently posted on civfanatics, but the one by Leon Marrick or whoever? That one took up way to many hours of my life and i'd much rather see a Firaxis (i.e., professional) creation of the imperial to world war 1 era than dinosaurs in civ3. Dinos would be neat, but how much would they contribute to the game?
Maybe a few dinos that would outdo modern armor and mech infantry could be in as a goodie accessed by beating a scenario or something on deity level rather than 10 of them with little use?