Tweet
I would really like to see Civilization in full 3D with huge scale lands, the size of WoW.
For WoW players, next time you play WoW, have a look around you, the lands, the mountains, trees, rivers, cities, towns.
Let's imagine this:
4000BC
You start as a human character, you see through his eyes, no longer at a birds eye view. Surrounding you are say, 100 other people, females, males, children, your followers.
Your first task is to find a suitable land to settle, so you begin walking, your people follow you. (This alone is cool.
). You know where there are mountains there are rivers, and where there are rivers there are tree's and food. So you and your people head towards the mountain range seen in the far distance. On the way, some of your people get lost, get angry (split off, starting a new tribe of people), die of hunger, so you need to be quick in finding your desired spot.
You come to it; when this happens, (maybe signified by planting a stick into the ground), your people begin to work automatically, cutting tree's, gathering food (fish from river, berries, or hunting for game). It is here you begin to strategise your first steps to building the tribe.
Maybe constructing a granary, simple palace for yourself, training a portion of men for battle, etc. Your usual Civ stuff.
So, your people will do things automatically, but you do have direct control and general control. Micromanagement is not an issue. Things are slow, like all Civ games are, you don't have to panic like RTS's, even though this 3D Civ game, is infact RTS, there is just no need for it to be TBS since the world is so large.
Fast foward, your tribe has reached a large population, buildings everywhere, plantations everywhere, roads to popular places; you decide you need a 2nd city, so again, general control, you decide to put together 2000 people, and send them off to build another settlement. Of these 2000 people, you assign one of them as a leader, this leader, is now your 2nd pair of eyes, since you can't be everywhere, you instead have the ability to see through the eyes of different leaders in your civilization. So you settle your 2nd city, if you want to manage that city, you switch to the leader of that city.
Now, fun parts come, when one day (one day would be considered 1 turn in Civ time I guess), you hear the sound of the horn, you run up to your outlook, and see over the horizon a large army, preparing to attack your city. automatically, your people are prepared to attack, just like in Civ, but you do have general control, you decide to send troops into the forest outside the city, in hopes of ambushing.
===
Anyway, I think this could seriously work, again, there's no micromanagement, there's no rushing when you don't need to rush, of course during war you're going to get your heart pumping, but thats war and thats life. What I would like to see in Civ is real attachment to your creation, real involvement, better satisfication, and of course the "wow factor"; can you imagine a modern city sprawled out, rockets into space, etc? It can all be done, the technology is here, WoW proves that; Will Firaxis dare to take the jump up? I really hope so!
For WoW players, next time you play WoW, have a look around you, the lands, the mountains, trees, rivers, cities, towns.
Let's imagine this:
4000BC
You start as a human character, you see through his eyes, no longer at a birds eye view. Surrounding you are say, 100 other people, females, males, children, your followers.
Your first task is to find a suitable land to settle, so you begin walking, your people follow you. (This alone is cool.
). You know where there are mountains there are rivers, and where there are rivers there are tree's and food. So you and your people head towards the mountain range seen in the far distance. On the way, some of your people get lost, get angry (split off, starting a new tribe of people), die of hunger, so you need to be quick in finding your desired spot.You come to it; when this happens, (maybe signified by planting a stick into the ground), your people begin to work automatically, cutting tree's, gathering food (fish from river, berries, or hunting for game). It is here you begin to strategise your first steps to building the tribe.
Maybe constructing a granary, simple palace for yourself, training a portion of men for battle, etc. Your usual Civ stuff.
So, your people will do things automatically, but you do have direct control and general control. Micromanagement is not an issue. Things are slow, like all Civ games are, you don't have to panic like RTS's, even though this 3D Civ game, is infact RTS, there is just no need for it to be TBS since the world is so large.
Fast foward, your tribe has reached a large population, buildings everywhere, plantations everywhere, roads to popular places; you decide you need a 2nd city, so again, general control, you decide to put together 2000 people, and send them off to build another settlement. Of these 2000 people, you assign one of them as a leader, this leader, is now your 2nd pair of eyes, since you can't be everywhere, you instead have the ability to see through the eyes of different leaders in your civilization. So you settle your 2nd city, if you want to manage that city, you switch to the leader of that city.
Now, fun parts come, when one day (one day would be considered 1 turn in Civ time I guess), you hear the sound of the horn, you run up to your outlook, and see over the horizon a large army, preparing to attack your city. automatically, your people are prepared to attack, just like in Civ, but you do have general control, you decide to send troops into the forest outside the city, in hopes of ambushing.
===
Anyway, I think this could seriously work, again, there's no micromanagement, there's no rushing when you don't need to rush, of course during war you're going to get your heart pumping, but thats war and thats life. What I would like to see in Civ is real attachment to your creation, real involvement, better satisfication, and of course the "wow factor"; can you imagine a modern city sprawled out, rockets into space, etc? It can all be done, the technology is here, WoW proves that; Will Firaxis dare to take the jump up? I really hope so!
Comment