Preview: Day 2

[Paulypav]

Great preview so far Mark, I appreciate the work that you are doing, keep it up. Hope to hear the good news flowing.

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“The American people have now spoken, but it’s
going to take a little while to determine exactly what
they said.” — President Clinton

[Karol]

Can I name these rocks in the middle of my map as "Rocky Mountains" and then get the message "Barbarians appeared close to Rocky Mountains" ?

[Big Dave]

Why did they go with CD Audio? There was a thread requesting that they go with MP3's as some other game companies had done. They take up less space on the CD (meaning more music) and can be listened to outside the game, should someone so desire.

I liked the music on the CTP CD, but these games take a looooong time to play. After about 5 games I'm going to turn off the music, if I haven't done it before then. With MP3's I could have added my choice of music to mods, CTP2 could have come with 45 songs, etc.

Don't get me wrong, this is a minor thing. Not something that would keep me from buying the game (unlike the other issues I've brought up).


As for the RTF manual, why not PDF? Not everyone has MS Word, and WordPad isn't the best reader available.

Well, this is just nit picking stuff. The game looks good and I see lots of neat new features in it. But I've never questioned the competancy of the programming, design, and graphic artists that Activision hires.

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Big Dave

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me!

[Ralf]

The .txt tweak-files is much more userfriendly and powerfull then CTP/Civ-2/SMAC, they say. Is that true? In what ways?

Also; give us a map/scenario-editor feature-list. What is different/added?

Finally; tell us something about the upgrade-path for both food-related, shield-related and move-related terrain-improvements.

I realize you have to take one thing at the time. Take your time, MarkQ. The previews are great so far!
[This message has been edited by Ralf (edited November 09, 2000).]

[Lancer]

It must be very tough for Mark to stop playing long enough to tell us what's going on.

Hey Markos, you winning?

[ConquistadorPizzaro]

There has not been much on the diplomatic side of things. How is it? Also, I am particuraly interested in the nuclear detente scenario, and the world map.

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"And it was destined that he should fall before the mighty hoof of our Lord and King of Spain."
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