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Kaak is offline Kaak
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I suggested it in the beginning. It would be a 100% cheating deturrent. did they include it?

Gramphos is offline Gramphos
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What do you mean by Option?
Replay is in. I don't know if you can turn it off.

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How does replay deter cheating?

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i guess capability is more the word i was looking for. I just wanted to know if you could watch a replay of the entire game at the end.

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saracen: obviously, with a replay, people can't use programs like cheat-o-matic or whatever else to interject units or gold. I just hope it is detailed enough to show starting techs, advances, etc...

Gramphos is offline Gramphos
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This has been answered in Ask The Civ Team.

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We will definitely have a replay function similar to the replay system in Alpha Centauri. We're also considering adding some new features to it, but at this point, nothing has been finalized.

Kaak is offline Kaak
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the problem with that statement is "....at this point..."

Where do we find problem in this? well, the game will be released in a month. the point, at which we find ourselves, is probably out of luck, just like with MP

Mongoloid Cow is offline Mongoloid Cow
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Firaxis hasn't actually confirmed or denied that Multi-Player is in Civ3. Everyone has just assumed it is not in the release of the game.

Rhysie is offline Rhysie
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Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Kaak
the problem with that statement is "....at this point..."

Where do we find problem in this? well, the game will be released in a month. the point, at which we find ourselves, is probably out of luck, just like with MP


The statement was made in march, so 'at this point' was some seven months prior to release... So its not as bad as you make out. By now if they re-made the statement they would probably have more of an idea.

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having not played AC , what is this replay function and how doeas it work ???

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Replay r0x0rz

RedWhiteArcher is offline RedWhiteArcher
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I still can't see what does replay function has ANYTHING to do with cheating. Its doesn't even have ANY effect on the game course and you can watch it only after the game is finnished so it wouldn't effect the hall of fame.

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Replay r0x0rz
you mean it replays every turn , every move... !!! gee could get quite boring to watch a whole game over again !!!

Gramphos is offline Gramphos
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the problem with that statement is "....at this point..."

Where do we find problem in this? well, the game will be released in a month. the point, at which we find ourselves, is probably out of luck, just like with MP

It will definitely have a replay function.
...at this point... was regarding extra feature, that not existed in SMAC.

RedWhiteArcher is offline RedWhiteArcher
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The replay function doesn't show you every single turn. It shows a big map, control areas and an event. It shows when a new city has being founded, captured, invetions or first unit of a type built. Well that how it was in Civ, I don't remember how was it in AC (but the control areas where there).

Executor is offline Executor
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In SMAC and Civ2 you could cheat by editing the Rules.txt files, and that wouldn't show up on the replay feature. Shortening the time it takes to build a Wonder could be explained by you rush-building it.

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The replay function doesn't show you every single turn. It shows a big map, control areas and an event. It shows when a new city has being founded, captured, invetions or first unit of a type built. Well that how it was in Civ, I don't remember how was it in AC (but the control areas where there).
ahh so not so much a replay but a sort of synopsis !

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Executor: if someone tried that, and the replay option showed the amount of gold they had, etc, you would be able to tell if they rush built the wonder. It would just be easier to pick aprt the cheaters from the non. But, for this to work, it would have to be a quite complete and interactive replay feature. I hope they did it...

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I don't think the replay is going to be a deterent for cheating in any way. The replay will be mainly for people to bask in their glory after their victory or to cry hysterically, while watching the replay because that person knows they just lost to the AI!

Since I've only played Civ2 and SMAC I don't know what the replay wasl like in Civ. Is Civ's replay better than SMAC's or vice versa? One of the few things I liked about SMAC (I couldn't get passed the fact that the game was sci-fi) was the ending replay. It was much more rewarding than the ending of Civ2 but I still didn't think it was all that great. I'm hoping for a little more detailed replay than the SMAC replay.

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What do you care if someone cheated. If he cheated its his problem, he is a cheater.

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What do you care if someone cheated. If he cheated its his problem, he is a cheater.
i beleive the whole issue of cheating and replaying to find the cheater is more to do with MP than SP ...

SerapisIV is offline SerapisIV
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Since I've only played Civ2 and SMAC I don't know what the replay wasl like in Civ. Is Civ's replay better than SMAC's or vice versa?


I liked Civ1's replay better because (and this is all off of childhood memory) it showed much more info, in a little header bar at the top declaring in what year the first airplane was built or the first phalanx or when wonders were built, also, unlike SMAC, you could control the pace of the replay, so it didn't whiz by like the SMAC one does. It meant you clicked a lot, but I like the control of seeing each conquest, slowly, and at my leisure.

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I never played Civ2 on MP so I don't know how you can cheat, therefore I can't comment any further on this.

Oldenbarnevelt is offline Oldenbarnevelt
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A replay option would be an excellent instruction/tuition tool in Civ3 SP (especially for poor players like me ), provided the whole game can be saved to a file. Imagine, the wizards posting their most spectacular wins at Deity level to Apolyton. It would make the learning curve less steep, I'm sure.

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*sigh* One more feature we will probably have to do without =(

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Why will we have to put up without it? The question of a replay has already been answered. It's in, and was confirmed by Firaxis in one of the first ask-the-civs games.

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Whoops, got the wrong idea of what kind of replay you're talking about. I think a replay file would be absolutely massive, while large hard-drives are standard things now-a-days, imagine how much a pain in the ass it would be debugging a file that actually takes into account all of your saved-and-reloaded games.

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It wouldn't be too big, and like you said, large hardrives are standard. Plus, it could name the file the same for every game played, so unless you resaved it as something else, it would just overwrite the previous...

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I suggested it in the beginning. It would be a 100% cheating deturrent. did they include it?


Yeah. It is in. But deter, I think save games deter more. But you could also monitor growth with this, and you would see how qucikly they were getting huts.

Hehe, from an old friend kaak.

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