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Solver is offline Solver
Apolyton Duke Of Something
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Finally

http://www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=6

Winter 2005 named the release date.

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Good to see Caesar in there!



PS

"During the game, you will meet other growing civilizations -
the United States, Mongolia, Persia, China, India, France -
there are 18, each ruled by famous historical figures."

Looks like the 16-civ rumour was wrong after all?

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18 was well known, the confussion was that initially the number was 19.

winter...winter..winter!!! Fall dammit!!!!

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I wonder what they mean with "cultural or religious alliances", does that mean that If I succeed in letting an islamic alliance conquer all infidels that I shall win even if i'm not the biggest civilization? But that if I instead had an alliance with christians(while being islmaic myself) that i would not win if we conquer the world togetter? Because neither our religion nor our culture are the same.

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Well, allied victories are in in some form, you probably need to sign a pact or something to win if your ally wins and vice versa.

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Oooooh.

EDIT: Checked out the site... It's not really a whole lot of a site is it? At least they are new screenshots. In the last one... What's that the cities are producing on the top? Gro?er? What's that, anyone have any idea?

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I found one tidbit on the site that is intriguing . . . . .



"religious alliance" can be one way to victory. I need to find out more about this.

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The fourth new screenshot -- after the first three that are already displayed -- shows a new resource in a water tile. Looks like oil.


Oil was a land resource in Civ III so I guess it's going to also be available in water tiles.

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That oil in the water has been seen before.

And Firaxis will later (closer to the release) launch Civ4.com, my bet is on late July/early August, so we will have more of a site, too .

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I am reading a preview article right now. I am starting to drool over the idea of using a combination of various factors to create your own type of government, making it much more realistic and less static.

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Up to 3125 governments . Of course, though, some options will likely be mutually exclusive, lowering the overall number

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3,125 different possibilities!?





Wow -- that will add creativity and sophistication to governments.

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3125 IF no civics options are mutually exclusive, which I doubt.

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Oooooh.

EDIT: Checked out the site... It's not really a whole lot of a site is it?

Mace is offline Mace
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I saw this on that site, and I'm not 100% sure what it means:

"In addition to faster mid- and late-game AI turns,"

Kind of neat. Is Firaxis referring to the longer time it takes for the AI to move in Civ3, especially in the late game when there are more units moving? So they are saying that this is improved in Civ4?

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They said there will be fewer units in the game so that is probably why the AI turns will be shorter.

Unless the AI will be programmed to think less.

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I'm assuming the AI will start to 'think' while you are still on your turn to shorten the time it needs, or at least make it seem go faster.

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That's possible. I hope the required processing power doesn't slow down those cute little horsies and sheep running around on the map.

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The link in the news article led me to www.apolyton.net not firaxis website.

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The link in the news article led me to www.apolyton.net not firaxis website.


Odd, I know for sure I tested that link. Oh well, fixed now...

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Am I the only one who thinks the trees may be a little too sparce and/or the tree shadows are a bit skeletonish?

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I'm sure plenty of graphics mods will be released...

At first glance, the gfx don't look great to me, particularly the mountains, but that's not too big a deal to me, since mods will appear, and gameplay is more important...

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thanks for the link matey

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It could be Grocer. A different name for marketplace probably.

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It could be Grocer. A different name for marketplace probably.


I considered Grocer, but it kinda seemed weird to have a Grocer in the game. Now that I think about, it actually makes sense - since you need different food to support the health in your cities, it makes sense to have a dedicated food marketplace to boost health and such.

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I hope they don't have pictures of Sid in this game...

Also, they seem to have a good contact at Time Magazine... IIRC Civ 3 was also mentioned in the same way in the same magazine... Better head-line probably is "Best gaming franchise of all time"?

Carolus

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I hope they don't have pictures of Sid in this game...


Down with Sid!

More Elvis instead!

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There's also a bit of Civ4 information and a couple of screenshots on 2K Games' website.

http://www.2kgames.com/index.php?p=games&title=civ4

I don't know if this has been mentioned before or not.

 
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