GAME ATMOSPHERE (ver 1.1) hosted by Dominique

[NotLikeTea]

Hey, hey, hey!

I also came up with the Olympics idea!!!1!!1!

But mine was AWSOME! Go away, Dan! Go away, Egg! B00! Hiss!

Editor's Note: NLT is tired, and it's late. He claims no responsibility for the stupidity of his words. Duh!!!!1!!

*sigh*

Never mind...

[Jimmy]

If civ3 has a council like smac, I'd like to see the other civ leaders refer to you by a special title when you are "planetary governor", like council president or secretary-general. I think it would add to the game atmosphere by giving the player a sense of really being governor.

[EnochF]

Okay, who wants to summarize this thread? It shouldn't be all that hard, really, but it appears that Dominique has gone AWOL.

(People are going to ignore me again, aren't they? Oh, well.)

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[Icedan]

I love games with so much depth! It keeps you going for years! The Olympics would give so much depth! Add it to the list!

[Icedan]

I wasn't sure where this idea should go, so I'll just plop it in here.

I just read bigbabarian's post, and I thought, hang on, we don't have barbarians in the 90's anymore, yet I had them in Civ2, so maybe we should have terrorists instead? When we reach a certain age. I don't know of any other idea's other than Terrorists, but yeah I like this idea.

And um, where is Dominique? Yin? Is someone else going to take this idea instead? SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT! IT HAS GOOD IDEA's IN IT! And I'm not up to taking over, sorry, but hopefully Dominique is still alive.

[Cartagia the Great]

Empire name: I believe that when a government changes(and I do agree that you should have to slowly do reforms before government can change) you should be able to change the name of the nation. There would be a defalt, but you could change it, much like you can currently do with city names.

After all I would much prefer to play The Roman Imperium instead of Rome. Or the Empire of Great Britian instead of England or the Holy Roman Empire isntead of Germany. Or something off the wall such as the Greater Celtic Union of the Irish Nation.

AS I ahve said before I beleive there should be an option to play as Anglo versian or ethnic versian. The Anglo versian would give all of our versians of things. the germans would be the Germans, the Greeks the Greeks, and the cities would be English spelled names. In the Ethnic versian the Germans would be the Deutch the Greeks the hellens and so forth with city names which match their spelling, as well as possible, inside those nations.

[Alexander's Horse]

Don't ANYONE DARE touch this thread until Dominique is back with her traffic lights and/or we know she's alright.

[EnochF]

The complete list of suggestions is now at least a week overdue, and this Dominique person has not been responding to mail. The filenames for the traffic light pictures should be available to view in HTML, and there are a lot of good ideas in this thread that I'd hate to see go unheard.

[Alexander's Horse]

Your right of course but what's happened to Dominique? She was doing a great job. Hope she logs in soon.....

[Icedan]

Dominique is a she?? I wonder if she'll go out with me...

[yin26]

Well, I've done all I can trying to contact Dominique. I've also asked for somebody to please summarize this thread--but not a rush job! I'm finding as I'm putting the Final list together that we should have made a specific format. I'm going NUTS!

Anyway, I'm tying to keep our deadline for Brian: End of June. That doesn't give us me/us much time to get this summary in and polish it up. I'll have to do it myself if nobody wants to help, but that means the list will be late--and I want to get this list posted on Apolyton and on the desks at Firaxis ASAP!

(Let's see if THAT stirs somebody into action...please stir into action...somebody...Civ3, remember?...send in ideas...good idea? )


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[Eggman]

Sorry about not giving credit where credit is due, guys. But the Olympics idea is a really good idea.

Here's a message for the results!

The [USA, Russia, Germany, Japan, etc.] defeats [Russia, USA, Rome, Greece, China, etc.] in [Ice Hockey, Basketball, 100 Meter Dash, Platform Diving, Field Hockey, etc.]!

The [country that won] celebrates their nation's dramatic victory!

[Alexander's Horse]

I saw D flamed someone out on another thread. Maybe she's not a happy camper or busy or something. Come back Dominique!

And what's the hurry about getting the summaries to Brian by end June, Yin? The game not coming out until "some time in the third millenium" and I sense the threads are already running out of steam......I hope this early summarisation isn't going to lead to some kind of orthodoxy? Anyway, don't go nuts - "its only a game".

[yin26]

Alexander's Horse:

There are several resons why "the end of June" syndrome is prevalent in my last post:

1) Brian expects it then. Sure. We could make him wait. No big deal.

The bigger issues:

2) The longer the list takes to complete, the less inclined people are to help see it finished or to keep posting ideas.

3) Right now Firaxis is most likely about to start some semi-formal idea gathering process of their own as they begin to make broad outlines of what Civ3 will be (although I'm sure this has been on the table since Civ2). So, THIS is the moment when our list has its most value--before too many things are set in stone. Obviously a list submitted a month before release is useless--and you count back from useless several months from now to crucial within the next few weeks.

There is no Orthodoxy here. There is only a group of very dedicated individuals who want these ideas to have their greatest possible impact on the development of Civ3.

Yes, "It's just a game." And we'd like it to be a good one.

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[Alexander's Horse]

Fair enough but consistent with your point 1), I don't think a few days will make a hell of a lot of difference. Brian makes us wait.