25-07-2005 14:48									#31
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quote: Originally posted by AeonOfTime - imagine playing a Civ4 game, and in the end you launch the spaceship to Alpha Centauri... you would then seamlessly switch to SMAC 2 and continue playing there. Aaaaah, yesssss

There was a time when it seems a trilogy was about to take life:
Dino, to start life into earth;
Civilization, to bring human beings to Alpha centauri;
SMACX, to rise humanities from ashes to a first encounter with aliens.

A kind of link should still exist, in a way, cutting th Dino frozen project.

A re-coded game engine was a must, to refresh the possibility of the franchise. Doing it with Civ IV seems more smart to me than testing into the deep waters of SMAC II.

If Civ IV will be a success, with a proven bug-free game engine, rebuilding a SMAC II should be almost an easy task.

Firaxis can learn from the past lessons, tuning the graphics, polishing the user interface (yes, the design workshop was wonderful concept AND a nightmare about usability) and the AI.

Many concept are already in: borders, religion -> mind control, new govern mode -> social engineer, new scalable graphics probably is better fit to terrain modification than older engine, revamping of barbarian population would nicely fit with worm nest concept...
The Civ III team will shift to a different project any time between the first patch and the first Civ IV expansion, so you have people with the right knowledge of the code.
May be they are in need of a game designer with a SF vision good enough to keep SMAC II away to be only a Civ IV mod, and a couple of inspirated SF artist for terrain visual and units.

I voted Civ IV first, but to gain a better SMAC II later.

	25-07-2005 14:58									#32
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SMAC2 for all the years I neglected the game because of CIV

	26-07-2005 00:14									#33
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CIV 5, but without Yin running it, I think it would fail to upset.

	26-07-2005 00:16									#34
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Donīt you mean fail to impress?

	26-07-2005 00:20									#35
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No silly, it's Yin-the-negative-cosmic-force, I mean UPSET

	26-07-2005 01:52									#36
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CIv4

	26-07-2005 01:56									#37
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I want CivFrog

	26-07-2005 02:34									#38
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Let's not be too demanding...
But a Frog civ is a must. The frogs played a major role in world history and this fact should not be forgotten, no matter their size or colour of skin.

	26-07-2005 21:52									#39
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A SMAC2 would be nice, as long as they disposed of the foul graphics of the original.

	26-07-2005 22:59									#40
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Where's the Colonization 2 button?

	27-07-2005 01:20									#41
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...SMAC?


*runs*

	27-07-2005 10:41									#42
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Don't like talking SMAC.

	27-07-2005 14:35									#43
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It seems like most of the stuff I liked in SMAC has found it's way to Civ4, so there's not much to come for there

Colonization 2 would be more interesting than SMAC 2, even though I never got into the first game






Damn I'm strange, I usually don't care for history at all while I like sci-fi, but in this case it looks like the opposite

	27-07-2005 15:03									#44
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	27-07-2005 17:23									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Trifna No silly, it's Yin-the-negative-cosmic-force, I mean UPSET

Thatīs not what you wrote before you edited.

	27-07-2005 18:37									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Adagio It seems like most of the stuff I liked in SMAC has found it's way to Civ4, so there's not much to come for there Colonization 2 would be more interesting than SMAC 2, even though I never got into the first game Damn I'm strange, I usually don't care for history at all while I like sci-fi, but in this case it looks like the opposite

http://www.civgaming.net/col2/

Know about this?

	28-07-2005 00:50									#47
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As much as I love SMAC (it is my favorite civ game ever), I don't think that a SMAC2 would be successful without Brian leading the team. Nothing against the guys at Firaxis, I just think that SMAC was the product of Brian's peculiar vision and inspiration.