Not Civ4 but Caesar IV !!!

[Kassiopeia]

I think he meant pedestrians.

[Blake]

Yeah, pedestrians. Just life on the streets. One of the things I like about CIII is the bustling living cities. At the moment Caesar IV looks rather lifeless, but I assume that they'll crank up the ped count as the game nears completion.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Is the Caesar series that Sim-city lookalike set in ancient Rome?

only in the sense that its a city builder set in ancient Rome. Kinda like saying MOO is Civ in space.

Caeser series (which went on to Pharoah, Cleopatra, Zeus, and an ancient China setting) is far less abstract than Simcity, and is different in many other ways.


So are some of the C4 changed based on COTN?

[Adagio]

This game sounds and looks interesting...

I never got into Caesar III and never tried the first two games... Pharao I also only tried for a short period of time

[Carolus Rex]

This is great news; I liked Caesar III a lot!

I'll believe the quote about intelligent walkers (above) when I see it happen on my screen and not a second before that... Typical developer-talking-about-sequel-speak...

Carolus

[Lemmy]

Ehm, it's not saying "walkers will be more intelligent", it's saying there will be no walkers. (at least not in the sense that we know them)

It explains how resources will work in the 2nd part.
I imagine an engineering outpust could be road-distance based, it would explain the comment about shortcuts and well-placed intersections. A shortcut could decrease the distance to the engineer and increase it's effectiveness in that area....but now i'm just speculating.

Though i must admit, i did enjoy seeing the houses being upgraded whenever a new type of walker visited them.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Lemmy

http://www.caesariv.com/us/faq/series_fans.php

If by peds you mean peddlers, this might explain the lack of them:


There are normal people walking on the other screenshots.

That is a tremendous and welcome change. It will reduce annoying micromanagment when planning large cities. I never finished Caesar III or Pharaoh because later missions heavily relied on walker micromanagment above anything else.

[DrSpike]

I dabbled in Caesar2, but never really played this series a great deal. Maybe I'll give the new one a look.

[Nikolai]

I loved Caesar III, that Caesar IV is coming is a great thing. But is this the original guys or the original company? I think there was a split some time ago?

[alva]

IIRC it was taken over and subsequently folded some time later.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I loved Caesar III, that Caesar IV is coming is a great thing. But is this the original guys or the original company? I think there was a split some time ago?

the company folded, but the core guys went on to a new design shop call Tilted Mill, which is putting this out (and earlier did Children of the Nile) not sure how they managed to get the IP rights.

[hexagonian]

They better go less in the direction of CotN and more in the direction of earlier citybuilders...

CotN = eyecandy over good gameplay
Previous CBs = good gameplay AND eyecandy

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
the company folded, but the core guys went on to a new design shop call Tilted Mill, which is putting this out (and earlier did Children of the Nile) not sure how they managed to get the IP rights.

VUG is publishing Caesar IV. They own the rights to all Sierra and Impressions material, so Tilted Mill don't need to have bought them. It looks like VUG are happy to keep producing city sim games when it suits them.