What do we think of PTW now?

[Level]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
here in Utah all the sims expansions are 50, while the sims is 60

Where do you live?
I live in Perry and I got Civ3 (in ogden) the day it came out for $40, I got the sims expansions for $30-$40 each, yesterday I got Unleashed for $32.94 day it came out here, and the Sims is about $45.

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Mike said that setting time rate and date was going to be in. The others weren't.

Was this in the last Chat?
Before that they said that they could not change it, but they could make it say turns instead of years.

[HazieDaVampire]

Originally posted by Hagbart







What is the difference of chips and french fries?

Nothing, cept if your in America, where fires are chips, and chips are crisps, and crisps are nothing (They mite also call them crisps). Same goes with in france and germany!

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Level

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
here in Utah all the sims expansions are 50, while the sims is 60

Where do you live?
I live in Perry and I got Civ3 (in ogden) the day it came out for $40, I got the sims expansions for $30-$40 each, yesterday I got Unleashed for $32.94 day it came out here, and the Sims is about $45.

I live far away from Perry. And everything here is way expensive. As I said the sims is that, SMAC is 50....theyre trying to make a 50 buck profit off of everythning (except kiddie movies )

[Inverse Icarus]

why doesn't your government buy one copy of the game and distribute it freely to anyone who wants it? :-D

[HazieDaVampire]

lol, you americans pay to much for your games!
Sims expansions where i live are £15, keep in mind that £2 is equil to $3.

[WarpStorm]

But how much is gas? I only pay $1.25 a gallon.

[statusperfect]

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
Nothing, cept if your in America, where fires are chips, and chips are crisps, and crisps are nothing (They mite also call them crisps). Same goes with in france and germany!

[Caliban]

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
Nothing, cept if your in America, where fires are chips, and chips are crisps, and crisps are nothing (They mite also call them crisps). Same goes with in france and germany!

Hm... in Germany we call them "Pommes", which is the french word for apple... comes from "Pommes frites", which is short for "Pommes de terre frites"... which means fried (sp?) potatos...

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by redbull
From www.gamesman.co.nz:
There is scenario support

"Full scenario support"? Without forced diplomacy or events scripting? How can one create a historical scenario when you can't replicate the historical conditions? And how can the scenario support be considered 'full', when it is so clearly lacking?

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by player1
So is there any chance for post PtW Civ3 patch to fix same bug, or we all need to buy PtW in order to get bug fixed?

better be - it'd be a sneaky and underhand thing to do to make us pay for a bug fix

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Right now if you have multiple mods on your system you need to keep multiple copies of the various resource files (art, units, terrain, text files, etc.). Mike said he implemented a path scheme where you tell your mod the order of directories to search for files in. This means that you can build mods and share resources without messing up a previous mod or the original files and without having to copy files around.

you could've just said 'modswapper'

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by Level
Mike said that setting time rate and date was going to be in. The others weren't.[/q]Was this in the last Chat?
Before that they said that they could not change it, but they could make it say turns instead of years.

Yes, could someone clarify this,

With PTW, will be be able to set what unit of time one turn represents?

Can we set at what points the time intervals change?

And could we have a civ game starting in 1936 and ending in 1945?

Are the new increments from a list, or can you type them?

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by Traelin
I completely understand your point about being wary of buying a product before reviews come in, but -- for me -- I've never been disappointed with a Sid Meier product and have faith that PTW will make me happy. They've done a good job in supporting Civ3 so far, so I can't really expect them to keep coming out with patches. Therefore, I'm more than happy to pick up the XP and continue supporting the Civ franchise!

Someone explain to me how Civ3 could be considered a Sid Meier product. Okay, he might have given some pointers - but we all know this is really a Jeff Briggs project.

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by The Pioneer
One thinkg that strikes me is that Zulu being an avid Civ3 player and a suppoerts of Firaxis has turned along with some others!

Damn straight. Coracle was right all along, it seems

EDIT: Just to be clear on this, I have indeed been an avid fan of Civ3 and Firaxis. I was perfectly happy to give them the benefit of the doubt, that someday we would indeed be able to create really cool scenarios. Even if only a minority of people would have bothered creating them, I'm sure that a majority of people would have played them. I trusted Firaxis. I kept the faith when all around were losing theirs. But I was let down. Badly.

[zulu9812]

And on a final note - can we set how much of the map is explored by each civ? Wouldn't it be funny if, in a WW2 scenario all the countries had to explore the map and make contact with all the civs? Wouldn't that be funny? Actually, no it wouldn't.