Some things I found out in recent chat

[player1]

Medivial Infantry is 4/2/1, cost 40, needs Iron
Guerrila is 6/6/1, cost 90, needs nothing

Galic Swordsmen is 3/2/2, cost 50, needs Iron (replaces Sworsmen)
Bezerk is 6/2/1, cost 60, Amphibious, needs Iron (can be changed before release)

Numbian Mercenacy replaces Spearmen and is 2/2/1, cost 30 (a little bit costly for Spearmen UU, also can be changed before release)

[Hagbart]

Thx for the info player1. The new UU's sounds great.

[WarpStorm]

The Numidian Merc seems too high priced to me.

The Berserk will kick serious ass throughout the middle ages and into the industrial ages.

[FrustratedPoet]

Great info Player1, thanks. It is very much appreciated by those of us who went to the pub instead of going to the chat last night.

I agree with WarpStorm. The Berzerk is going to kick some MAJOR ass, especially on island maps where it's Amphibious ability and high attack will make for excellent "smash-and-grab" raids.

[WarpStorm]

On any map, it'll kick. All coastal cities will be subject to attack. And we know nobody builds navies to stop it from happening. (Well, they might if they know hte VIkings are in the game).

[History Guy]

Heh heh...I think I know what civ I'm playing first!!

[Caliban]

Originally posted by History Guy
Heh heh...I think I know what civ I'm playing first!!

Yeah... and I know which ass I will kick first!

[XOR]

No, it's wrong, Beserker is 6.2.1

[WarpStorm]

double post

[WarpStorm]

XOR's right, it is 6/2/1/amphib, still ass-kicking though

[player1]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
double post

Ops...

Fixed!

[XOR]

Things that wont happen in PTW:
- Changes to polution/ Global warming
- Changes to railroad movement or production bonuses.
- Cities producing leaders. (What was in one of the screenshots must have been an edited rules scenario).
- Ground units with invisibility hidden nationality.
- Maps larger than 362x362 (this size will probably not be available in the initial release, but it's the maximum indexable size)
- Gengis Khan being in the list of Chinese GL names.
- New Govt types.
- New different Civ traits.
- Unit trading.
- Attack helicopters, eiffel tower (they are in the box just cause they look pretty).
- Dynamic joining of games (if a player is not present to load a game to continue with it, all his units vanish and all his cities turn into ruins).

Things that will:
- More range to air units.
- An actual espionage screen instead of a series of dialog boxes.
- Stock exchange, commercial harbor, the Internet.
- Radar towers, watch towers, rural airbases.
- Scenarios will be playable online. If you create a scenario the game will automatically redistribute it (the bic file only) to players who join your game, but it wont distribute other types of file, if you want to use other types of files you will have to distribute them by other means (website, IRC, for example) but you can still use them.
- Different types of MP gameplay. Including both simultaneous turns and normal turn rotation as it is in SP. There will be many ways of setting up gameplay and winner rules.
- Starting from an andvanced tech level (medieval, industrial, etc) instead of ancient will be possible only trough scenarios, but it will be possible. (so Germans and Americans might still be usefull... k, Germans only)
- NEW MOD METHOD: This allows you to make a separate directory for your mods instead of having to change the existing Civ3 files. This way you can have both normal and MOD gameplay.

Things that MIGHT or not happen:
- Ruins giving defense.

What else?

[player1]

Originally posted by XOR
- Unit trading.

Although there is still possibility of having it as a MP-only (human vs human) option.

[XOR]

Originally posted by player1


Although there is still possibility of having it as a MP-only (human vs human) option.

Let me correct, no military unit trading, just workers like it is now. In the initial release they said (so far) there will be no unit trading. It may come later with a new version patch (I thinkg it will come, but I'm personally not very enthusiastic about it).

[WarpStorm]

XOR, that was a fairly good summary of the chat. A lot of things will be in.

BTW, as Speedy said, most Firaxians and beta testers prefer Expansionistic civs for MP and America is expansionistic (their UU still blows, though).