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TechWins
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Arizona
Apr 2001
time: 22:15
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Tonight I have bought the pre-order for Civ3 from Best Buy. With it came a making of Civ3 video that was over 7 minutes long. I’m going to share this video with all of you over the next few days. I’m not sure how to take screenshots from WMP, if anybody knows I’ll gladly do so. Here’s just a little info I scurried up.
Screen 1-
Pre-Requisites
Advanced Flight Oil
Rubber
Stats
Offensive Power: 0 Cargo Capacity: 2
Defensive Power: 4
Operational Range: 4
Cost: 80 [insert shield sign]
Abilities
Radar, Immobile, Carry foot units only
Screen 2
Pre-Requisites
Replaceable Parts
Enables
Mass Transit System, SS ……………, A……., Helicopter, M……,
Mech Infantry, Modern Armor, Panzer, Paratrooper, and Tank
Tile Bonus
+0 [Food] +0 [Production] +2 [Trade]
Rubber was a common resource for the Indians of Central America and South
America since well before Columbus landed in the new world. The ………(don’t know at all)…… allowed waterproof shoes, playing balls,….(don’t know anymore)…….
Screen 3-
[There’s a city screen viewing and it shows how much each building is providing in culture by having little music note symbols. There is also a smile under certain building for what I think is providing happiness. Another symbol being used is something I can’t recognize what the object is. My stars will be what are the music note icons in the video and my # will be for a smile, for the UO (unknown object) I will use ?. Some of my depictions may be wrong, though, as the picture is being distorted (if cut off from screen I did not mention it, example Sam Missile Batter).]
Palace - **
Barracks –
Granary –
Temple - # ****
Marketplace –
Library - *******
Courthouse –
Bank - ??
Cathedral - ?? ### *******
University - ?? ***
Colosseum - ?? ## ****
Hydro Plant –
Hospital - ??
Research Lab - ?? **
Sam Missile Batter - ??
Airport - ??
Police Station - ??
The Great Library – (Really weird looking *, possibly a lot of *’s meshed into one)
Newton’s University - *******
Military Academy - *
Some more buildings found in other screens are: (no special in this one ,though)
Barracks
Granary
Temple
Walls
Wealth
Under another city screen view I saw the temple differently, Temple - ? # **
Something I would like to note is that the screenshot we saw recently where it showed the process of customizing a map was real.
This unit is something I’m curious about - Jaguar W……. I was in it a terrain info screen where the unit of Spearmen was being shown in text too. There was also another terrain info screen which showed the musketmen (? 2/4/2 ?), the swordsmen, and the pikemen.
I saw this piece of info - Despotism
Normalcy
This might have come from the domestic advisor screen; sorry that I can’t elaborate more on that but I’m just as much in the dark as you are in this one.
Well, for now that’s all I’m going to critique because I have to start my homework soon and I want to post here for awhile. I’m going to try tomorrow to type all the words spoken by the Firaxians in the video. Sorry about the poor clearity of writing. I was just jotting down notes from the video.
My opinion:
I'm glad to see the airplane transport. The Despotism and Normalcy siting makes me very curious. As well as does the Jaguar W..... unit. The game looks awesome, though. There's some funny stories in the video too. About the game, though, the graphics, sounds, and animations appear to go very well with the game. I think this is going to be better than what we even thought it might be.
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Stromprophet
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Good job. Did you pause this while watching to take notes? I have the movie but I didn't see all that.
It is nice to see all the leader animations on the back(of box). Except the greeks aren't there. I'm curious as to why.
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Stromprophet
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The movie is soooooooooo sweet. I can see the interaction of the whole screen. It's alive with action, I mean your units aren't just sitting there, they're moving all at once, or just moving like workers, are using shovels, or your knights are actually moving while they stand in place.
I was pleasently surprised to see that the programmer was so into the game that he played till 5 am and ignored his work.
That's when you know the game is good. When someone who builds the game plays it and says there is no other game as addictive as this game.
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Stromprophet
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quote:
Originally posted by TechWins
Persian leader - Joan - Japanese guy - Zulus leader - Catherine?
? - Aztec leader - Mao - Liz - Julius
Iroquis leader - Babylonian - Gandhi - Cleo - Abe |
You can find 5 or 6 of them in the Civ of the Week at www.civ3.com, they show pics of units, animation gifs, and info about the civ.
They also have something I found interesting at the Civfanatics site that shows all the civs specific abilities. It's under updated info.
ok, Xerxes, Joan of Arc, Japanese man, Shaka(who else would it be), Yeah Catherine, Montezuma(should be him), Mao, Liz, Ceaser, Hiawatha(this I found out from a negotiation screen between Iriqious and Americans), Hammurabi, Ghandi, Cleo, Abe, and of course Alexander who isn't there.
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Toadboy
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no way
Sep 2001
time: 23:15
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I'd appreciate a link if the movie is available anywhere on line.
Thanks,
JR
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Stromprophet
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quote:
Originally posted by Toadboy
I'd appreciate a link if the movie is available anywhere on line.
Thanks,
JR |
I have not seen it online yet.
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KrazyHorse
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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:15
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Aren't you supposed to hit "alt+printscreen"?
Edit, edit, edit:
I'm taking all the credit!
Last edited by KrazyHorse on 19-09-2001 at 16:46
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Haphazard
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quote:
Originally posted by Didymus
Any reason why the unknown symbols couldn't be the upkeeep (2 gold coins = costs 2/turn) ? |
I was going to suggest that. It fits as only the more advanced improvements have an unkeep cost, although 2 seems a little low, and is it the same for /all/ improvements?
The ? on the unit stats could be the monetary upkeep costs for units. An Armour unit will probably cost more than the 1 gold / turn for musketeers.
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Haphazard
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Oh, and that Despotism/Normalcy might be referring to the state of the economy after Nationalism, ie War / Normalcy / Peace with the bonus and penalties attached to them (+/- 50% Production to peace/war building)
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TechWins
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Arizona
Apr 2001
time: 22:15
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SO, give us the goddamn screenshots now! |
Shut the hell up, I actually have responsibilites I have to take care of, such as school.
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Oh, and that Despotism/Normalcy might be referring to the state of the economy after Nationalism |
That makes sense but it is a little strange. The strange part is that Despotims would be a Civ's gov even when they have reached the tech of Nationalism. It probably is the gov first then state of economy like you mentioned, though.
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My guess is that the ? symbol stands for upkeep, as mentioned before in this thread. |
Well then that means several improvements aren't requiring an upkeep. Plus, a building will require in an upkeep at various time because in certain screens the temple has the " ? " symbol, while in other screens the temple doesn't have the " ? " symbol.
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Did the video have any sounds from the game or music clips? |
Yes, the video did include sounds, which were very good; the video also contained some talking about the sound aspect of the game.
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I preordered, and I didn't get the video!!! |
Did you pre-order online or did you pre-order the game at a retail store? You only get the pre-order box, which contains "Making of Civ3" video, at a retail store, such as Best Buy.
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if you can get me the video |
Either by tonight or tomorrow the video will be at Apolyton. I'm going to be sending the files to DanQ, as soon as I figure how to send the video as a file. Could somebody explain? Man, I sound like a really big idiot when it comes to computers as of late but I'm really not at all.
Screenshot was deleted because of being in BMP and not JPEG. All new screenshots will be done in JPEG. I'm sorry if ths is an inconvenience to you.
Last edited by TechWins on 20-09-2001 at 02:09
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19-09-2001 05:23
lol
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