Interview with Sid - Hints on possible MMO, new games and........Civ5?

[Jaybe]

Well, the "final" BtS patch (per Trip) would be good, preferably sometime soon. I definitely would prefer it before CivRev is released.

[EPW]

Originally posted by Maquiladora


Just one?

I'm realistic

[Harovan]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I'd be happier if they'd finish Civ4 first.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by EPW
It better have one of the following: Stacked combat, Public Works, or City radius expansion/No citizen Micromanagement.

But weren't those in a game that sold so horribly, that the company almost went belly up, was unable to provide any support and fired the developers?

[Lancer]

Would this have been better? I ask you...

[Ming]

Originally posted by EPW
It better have one of the following: Stacked combat, Public Works, or City radius expansion/No citizen Micromanagement.

But stacked combat is already an option in Civ IV. And it works fine.

[Solver]

That has nothing to do with real stacked combat

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Krill
Anyway this should be in the OG forum

A Civ related thread in the Other Games sub forum of a Civ site? Nah, I don't think so.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Asher
Are the two really necessary? You really think Civilization five was not to be expected?

You really don't like me, do you? Always negative to whatever I post.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I'd be happier if they'd finish Civ4 first.

[Harovan]

Btw, Meier toying with the idea to make an MMO? So I wasn't that far off predicting World of Civcraft.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Btw, Meier toying with the idea to make an MMO? So I wasn't that far off predicting World of Civcraft.

I predicted it, too! Teh reason I cited for disliking Civ4 is that I thought it would do to Civ what WarCraft 3 did to WC

[Asher]

Originally posted by Nikolai


You really don't like me, do you? Always negative to whatever I post.

I'm just helping you out. It's the Christian thing to do.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dale


That's the most ridiculous comment I've heard all year!

I would suggest not, given the multitude of people that have agreed already (and this isn't even a Civ forum).

You can take it as read that if BtS is left without the final patch (as C3C was) a lot of people will feel cheated. There is absolutely no point introducing a lot of new 'cool' features if there is no resource planned to balance them, and iron out bugs. Otherwise, expansions become regressions (again, like C3C did).

I appreciate this may be an unwelcome point of view given your involvement with the game - but I (as always ) speak truth.

[Dale]

Originally posted by DrSpike


I would suggest not, given the multitude of people that have agreed already (and this isn't even a Civ forum).

Are all the features in BtS? Do they work (even if half-cocked)? Are the only problems bugs/balance? Yes?

Well there's your answer. BtS IS finished. It's just buggy/unbalanced. Buggy/unbalanced is a total different thing when talking about finished. CTP2 was not finished. BtS IS. Just because people speak a falsity does not make it truth.

You can take it as read that if BtS is left without the final patch (as C3C was) a lot of people will feel cheated. There is absolutely no point introducing a lot of new 'cool' features if there is no resource planned to balance them, and iron out bugs. Otherwise, expansions become regressions (again, like C3C did).

Except with C3C is a different thing. Civ3 sucked. Civ4 doesn't. C3C was NEVER going to be good because it's base sucked raven-asses.

I appreciate this may be an unwelcome point of view given your involvement with the game - but I (as always ) speak truth.

You did not speak truth, you spoke a slight. BtS is finished by the rules of software development. Bugs/balance issues does not mean "unfinished". Yes, I understand I'm playing with definitions, but sometimes (as in law and constitutions) a definition can be important.

As for my involvement, yes I was part of development, but do I seem satisfied considering how much work I've put into totally changing it? Obviously not.