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SerapisIV
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Hartford, CT, USA
Feb 2001 time: 00:15
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Go Washington!
I wonder who the other 3/ or 4 are? |
Patton for sure. Other possibilities: Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, MacArthur, Grant, Sherman, Lee, Lafayette, Halsey, Shwartzkopf (sp?) , Andrew Jackson, Custer 
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albiedamned
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Ellicott City, MD
Sep 2001 time: 00:15
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Did anyone else notice the exact wording in the "Checking out the Library" screenshot:
"The civilization that builds the Great Library gets any Civilization Advance already discovered by two other known civilizations for free."
The bold italics are by me - this is a significant change to the functionality of the Great Library. Now it's not just any two civs, it's two civs that you've contacted. I think this an awesome change, far more realistic!
This preview has made my night. I think I'm going to read it through a couple more times and analyze all the screenshots again. And of course people are posting here faster than I can keep up!
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dennis580
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Leaders can complete Wonders in a single turn. I think that's alittle too much. If they could complte 50% of the woonder that would be okay, but to atuomatically be able to complte 100% of a wonder in a single turn is a little redicoulous.
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albiedamned
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Ellicott City, MD
Sep 2001 time: 00:15
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Someone already mentioned this one, but I want to reiterate it. The Smart Advisor screenshot has the familiar "you gotta build an aqueduct for more growth" message from Civ2. But right in the message box are three options: 1) switch to aqueduct immediately, 2) complete what is currently in production and then switch to aqueduct, and 3) ignore this message. That second option is awesome - it will automatically set up a build queue for you and stick the aqueduct in there after the current item.
Think how much time these three options will save! And we can only assume there are lots more things like this.
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albiedamned
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Ellicott City, MD
Sep 2001 time: 00:15
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I believe we've learned for the first time in this review that you can only irrigate from rivers and inland lakes - being on the coast won't let you irrigate anymore (until the discovery of Electricity). I think this might answer some of the questions about the reduced size of the food box. True the food box doesn't grow each time the city grows like it did in Civ2, and true this would seem to make growth much easier. But if you can't irrigate most of your land until electricity, then squares which produce 3 food will be rare. So if your city square produces 2 food, then you can only utilize two squares which produce 1 food (like a forest), or just one square that produces no food, until you irrigate. And if you can only irrigate a few squares, then you will never have more than a couple surplus food per turn.
Allowing irrigation to expand after the discovery of electricity will I think add to the realism. Growth rates will spike up in the modern age, which is what has happened in reality, right?
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CygnusZ
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quote: Originally posted by SerapisIV
Patton for sure. Other possibilities: Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, MacArthur, Grant, Sherman, Lee, Lafayette, Halsey, Shwartzkopf (sp?) , Andrew Jackson, Custer |
I hope no confederate soldier's (Robert Lee) get any kind of honor in this game. Anyway, some other ones I was thinking of:
William Henry Harrison
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Montgomery
Nat Turner
"Stonewall" Jackson (Thomas J. Jackson)
Benjamin Rush
Alexander Hamilton
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