Civ3 scenarios :rolleyes:

[Heresson]

I´m working on an big Civ3 X-COM

Civ2 Traitor.

[Civfan]

Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm.

Originally posted by Case


SMAC wasn't a franchise game, so they had to produce a first class product in order to shift units. With Civ, all they needed to do was put out a box bearing the magic words "Sid Mier's Civilisation X'

100% agree!

With all the screw ups with Civ3, I wonder if Civ2 was actually designed by Sid Meier or just slaped his name on the product because of the license issues?

[Pap1723]

I think that is what happened. From what I remember, Sid did not do any programming, but instead he was a special consusltant to the project, so he got his name on it.

Some may argue that the real genius is Brian Reynolds...

Pap

[Peter Triggs]

Just got pointed at this Gamespy article:


The Shape of Mods to Come
A look at the future of user-made game modifications.
By Tom Chick | Dec. 3, 2002

It's at:

http://www.gamespy.com/futureofgaming/mods/

It's mostly about generalities (and First Person Shooters) but Civ III comes up on page 2:

"The time involved in engineering a game to be friendly to mod makers is significant," says Firaxis' Jeff Morris, the producer for Civilization III, "To be done efficiently, it needs to be done on the front end. Retrofitting a game that isn't mod friendly to be mod friendly isn't a trivial task."


So he's not saying that it will never get done, but it doesn't sound like anyone should be holding their breath.

[H Tower]

what he's saying is that he never planned on making it mod maker friendly

[Dr. Nick]

HoI is a great game. The AI may lack a bit, but in its stupidity you can make it more aggressive to make up for it.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by H Tower
what he's saying is that he never planned on making it mod maker friendly

Well, I would not say it is totally mod-"unfriendly", you can edit lots of stuff even in the current Civ3/PtW, and in some fields the options are better than in Civ2.

However, without events and diplo control the chances to make especially historic scns with a similar fun-factor compared to Civ2 are quite low, unfortunately...

[CapTVK]

Civ3 hasn't lived up to expectations in the MOD community, that's the plain truth. Add to that the fact that Firaxis made it clear in numerous online chats they're no fans of script languages and not planning implementing any for Civ3 makes prospects for proper "Civ2"-like scenarios slim to none. Civ2 started out with a basic script language which was enhanced in CoC and FW. There's no sign of that in the Civ3...

Civ3 maps and mods? Yes.

Proper Scenarios? Not really.

[H Tower]

if that's the truth, then my interest in civ3 is now dead and gone for all eternity

[klesh]

I think my interest died about 5 hours after installing it. +2 min for the uninstall.

[H Tower]

i hadn't given up hope, but then PtW came out and still nothing. i tried to be optomistic

[Case]

It's hard to believe that limiting the oportunities for mod making was a good commercial decision. Mod-friendly games like Half Life are still selling strongly on the back of the mod community. In addition, making games mod-friendly is important in building up good will towards the game company responcible.

[H Tower]

it also prolongs the life of the game, that way fans aren't screaming for the next game in the series while you're still in development.

but what do we know? we aren't a big software company...

[Case]

Judging from the cock up they appear to have made of PTW, I don't think that we should expect too much from infogames and/or Firaxis.

[Exile]

L. O. L. !

Told you so.