 |
| |
|
|
Solmyr
|
|
In Civ2, the Foreign advisor's report was very informative. It listed each civ's name, personality, capital and other cities, treasury, discovered techs, and what tech it was currently working on.
In Civ3, all you get are a bunch of circles with faces and connecting lines. To get most of the above info, you actually have to start negotiations with that civ (silly); other info you can't get at all.
I suggest that a new function is added to Espionage options after you have an embassy with a civilization - Report, perhaps costing a bit of gold. It would be something like the following:
Civilization Name
Special Abilities: X and Y
Unique Unit: X (not researched/available/obsolete)
Golden Age: started in X/laster from X to Y/not happened yet
Wonders: wonder X (city A), wonder Y (city B), ...
Treasury: X gold
Researching: tech X
Advances: (list of discovered techs follows)
Relations:
civ X: polite/cautious/whatever (list of diplomatic agreements like peace, war, etc)
civ Y: like the above
...
Cities:
(list of cities follows, with capital marked)
If some lists are too long (advances/relations/cities) they can be made into buttons which bring up separate windows listing them.
The above addition would drastically improve the availability of information in the game and would be of major help in diplomacy.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Solmyr
|
|
I didn't say it was a bug. It's just a deficiency.
As to how it would affect strategies, as I said that info is already available, but it's spread all over the place and is completely unintuitive (e.g. starting negotiations and then saying goodbye right away, just to find out their tech and treasury). Having it all in a single report didn't hurt gameplay in Civ2, and it won't hurt gameplay in Civ3.
Oh yeah, I forgot, the report should also show the resources they have available, so you can better decide who to trade with.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Solmyr
|
|
That post about advisor faces made me think about another thing I am hoping for in a patch. Make it an option to turn off all leader faces. I rarely look at them beyond the first couple of times. And it would be helpful to those of us who want to add new civs but lack the editing skills to make new animated faces for them.
|
|
| |
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:16.
Apolyton Time is 00:16. |
top of page
|
| archivepost |
|
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
|
|
|
|
|
|
16-11-2001 14:06
|