Atari Sells Civilization Franchise!

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Alex
I've heard that Osama Bin Laden bought the rights to the Civilization name. He intends to create a new Civ meant to be played only at the "Osama" difficulty level, where the Taleban civ starts with 300 suicide mujaheddins and wreaks havoc on the other Western civs. The game will be called "Civilization: I Don't Think So".

Alex, the first time I see a joke, it can be quite funny, such as when you postyed this the first time. The second time however...

[Nikolai]

Having tried CTP2 a month ago, to check out how it really is, I must say that the game was far from perfect, but the PW system was real nice. If only Firaxis could try to make an even better version of the PW system(I'm sure it's possible)...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Trip

Mike is working on Pirates.

Fired, moved away to another game, I don't care. Not on cIV is what matters.

And, PLEASE STOP WITH THE PW DEBATING. Bah. This is definitely not the thread to do that in. There have been long and drawn out (and very well THOUGHT out) debates in the List and its associated threads - including one started by yours truly, do a search in the civ4 forums under my name - if you want to debate it. But it shouldn't be here, and especially not from SCRATCH ... sheesh.

[Nostromo]

Having tried CTP2 a month ago, to check out how it really is, I must say that the game was far from perfect, but the PW system was real nice.

Never played CTP2. How did it work? No workers, I assume?

[Alex]

Originally posted by Nikolai


Alex, the first time I see a joke, it can be quite funny, such as when you postyed this the first time. The second time however...

Well, there are lots more people viewing this thread than the other one, so I thought it would be nice to repost it here...

And I made Saras laugh, so it was worth it.

[Heresson]

Could someone sum up all this thread for me, please?
I'm too lazy to go through it all

[OzzyKP]

Summation:
Apolytoners love to spam.

[Alex]

Originally posted by nostromo


Never played CTP2. How did it work? No workers, I assume?

No workers at all.

[Heresson]

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Heresson
Could someone sum up all this thread for me, please?
I'm too lazy to go through it all

Atari/Infogrames sold the rights to Civilization to somebody, possibly Firaxis, but nobody knows for sure, because they won't tell us.

Also, a bunch of people seem insistent on arguing the PW/Workers argument here, making me fume but stay quiet because otherwise I'd get kicked pretty hard

[snoopy369]

Oh, and in the category of HUGE surprise, Poly people are a little over the top in the "spamming" category.

[Provost Harrison]

CtP2 was utter sh*te...you've not missed much...

[RGBVideo]

Never played CTP2. How did it work? No workers, I assume?

PW system in CtP: You don't have any workers at all. All the terrain improvements are managed by "Public Works" -points, which you get by altering your empires PW rate (sort of a tax rate, the higher it is, the less your cities produce actual units/stuff). You use the points to create terrain improvements, ie. NORMAL ROAD on a GRASSLAND takes 50 PW points, MINE on a MOUNTAIN takes 300 PWp's, FOOD BIOSPHERE on SPACE takes 400 PWp's, etc...

[Dis]

PW in CTP2 didn't work right for me. I wasn't able to place public works in areas that were in the fog or war (the foggy areas you can't "see"). The only way around this was to station units everywhere so I could "see" to build.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by snoopy369

Fired, moved away to another game, I don't care. Not on cIV is what matters.

You might want to lighten up on the guy. I understand that modders took his comment about scripting hard, but in truth how was he going to introduce scripting during the patching process? Decisions like that tend to be made by people a little further up the ladder and at a somewhat earlier point in development, no?

FWIW, the guy did a lot to improve Civ and PtW after release. He was a very big part of the patching process for both, and he (and a few others) spent a lot of his own time on these boards looking for feedback on what could be improved.

In any event, this is a good example of what Skanky and I were discussing back a few pages. Take one comment made in passing during one chat, and call the guy down, personally, forever after. And you're being mild.