Civiliza Demo 3 Is Here!

[tishco]

wow, someone who acts to sugestions seriosly
way better than firaxis + ask the civ team!

[dexter4dxm]

Demo 3b is ready!

It's all here: the latest build of Civiliza, the Civiliza map editor, and the tiny, wayyyy unfinished website.

Head on over to http://www.geocities.com/dexter4dxm/ to get the goods.

Please report any problems with the website.

As always, bug reports and suggestions are welcome.

Info on Demo 3b from the readme

UPDATED FROM DEMO 3a:
-Added map edge scrolling.
-Added graphical representation of the unit build costs.
-Updated AI routines so AI can use ships correctly.
-Fixed bug causing AI players to take forever to randomly move (for reals this time!)
-Fixed bug where player's unit would become unfortified. thanks tisco
-Added ability to see what units are fortified/sentried.
-Added kill unit command, necessary for population caps.
-Added sentry command.
-Added support for basic sea units.
-Enabled clicking on the tile you want to center the view on.
-Added shroud.
-Fixed bug where AI's would incorrectly select units (causing all kinds of strange stuff to happen).
-Fixed bug which preventing AI's from destroying enemy cities (if they have no city slots left)
-Misc small bug fixes.

The Civiliza map editor, called "CiviMap", is now
included in this demo release. The map editor will
always look for a map file called "newmap.dat". If the
file does not exist, a new map will be created.
The actual Civiliza game uses the map file called
"map.dat", so when you are done editing your map,
rename it to "map.dat" and it will load up in the
game correctly. Don't forget to put starting locations.
The default map included in the download is a simple
map I quickly made with the map editor. It has 3 AI
players.

[tishco]

that is very very very hard now.
U need diplomacy for 4/5 to present a good reason to play it instead of civevo and to stop the ohters killing you byall ganging up!!!
a lot better though.


question:
how do the unit stats change cos i recon they are all the same apart from unit production and movement, 'cos i was using phalanx to guard but they die equaly from phalanx to elephant!

[dexter4dxm]

right now the combat is very basic. all units do one hit point of damage no matter what. the phalanx and the elephant have two hit points each, and the rest have only one hit point. all this is temporary. elephants are the best units to build right now.

and about the AI's, they don't really gang up on you, because they fight each other too. as you can see, i have been following your suggestions so far. i will probably end up trying to get diplomacy in the game soon.

apparently, you're the only one actively following this game, so keep it touch

[tishco]

so at the moment its possible to an elaphant rush on the for the one every one attcks churn out warriers and phalanxs!

'cos i have had a p166 with 16mb ram ans 100mb free on the hard drive with a broke cd drive for 2 years i've "lived" off abandonware and freeware so i am in "the know" about stuff like that so i am intrested in projects like alt civs

[dexter4dxm]

i'm really not sure.

just out of curiousity, how slow does civiliza run on your computer?

[tishco]

civilaza runs fast as it can go now, i got new pc, 32mb graphix card 1000mhz 128ram!
now i can run everything

i shud have said i had a p166, have had means ive still got it.
oops

[dexter4dxm]

nice.

i hope you'll still pay attention to my project, i need at least one person to help me!

even when civ3 comes out and you become utterly addicted to it, i hope you'll give each version of civiliza a try. btw, any ideas for an actual name for my game? the next release will have unique art, so i might as well have a unique name to go with it.

[tishco]

or getting shogun at last, i have been wanting that when i had the rubbish pc and it was just out of my specs.

what about.....
civilisation


seriosly though, i am really stuck by that...

[crayonx_2K]

This discussion looks fascinating.

How's it going on the project?

[dexter4dxm]

it's going pretty good. have you taken a look at the thread called "the wait for civiliza d4"? all the recent discussions about this project are in that thread, so take a look if you haven't already.

demo 4 is days away from being released.