25-01-2001 03:52									#2
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Isn't that what you, I and many others here said last year (concentrate on Civ3)? Why do Dinos when only 2 people in the whole cared about it while millions cared about Civ3?

	25-01-2001 04:51									#3
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While I welcome his efforts on the part of Civ III I do hope this does not spell a slow slide into oblivion for Dino. I would never have thought a pirate game or train game could have been as addictive as they were until Sid applied his magic touch to them. Civ III is largely an expansion on a theme but it takes a special kind of person to create a potentially new gaming genre. With more and more development studios being wholly or partly owned by the big corporate giants there are fewer and fewer people with original ideas and the financial clout to put them into practice.

	25-01-2001 05:07									#4
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It all sounds good to me!

	25-01-2001 06:49									#5
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It plays good? WHAT? How far along is Civ III?

	25-01-2001 15:44									#6
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Very god news indeed. Stop Dino even permamently - we don't care!! Concentrate on Civ 3.

	25-01-2001 21:10									#7
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Great news indeed!

It's good to hear from Sid that he, with the rest of the team, is concentrated on Civ III. It's doubly good to hear from Sid talking about a Civ III looking and playing great.

(I don't care about dinos, I got tired of them 8 years ago.)

I WANT CIV III!!!

	25-01-2001 21:22									#8
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Well personally I thought the Dino's game sounded dumb from the begininning. Anything to move Civ3 along is a good thing. I'll bet we see it this year. I said that before too though, but now I don't think there's a chance it'll slip to next year. Course it'd be worth it if it does, but hopefully won't.

	25-01-2001 23:42									#9
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Hey, uh, this is the civ3 page, not dino page. consentrate on civ3, not Dinosaurs.

	26-01-2001 00:40									#10
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I don't believe this announcement is going to have any baring on how fast Civ III comes out. It has been quite evident for a couple of months that Firaxis at the least has put the dino game on the back burner.

quote: It plays good? WHAT? How far along is Civ III?

	26-01-2001 00:42									#11
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Hooray! Now Sid and co. can go full-bore into Civ III! This can be only a good thing for us hard-core civers! No offence to Sid, but I imagine I speak for many people when I say the Dinos concept did not really grab me. However, this concerns me:

quote: Then, a couple of months ago, I was inspired by a new idea on a completely different topic. I built a really fun prototype and well, what can I say - this new project took hold! So I have decided to set aside Dinos for a while to work on this new idea, as well as devoting my attention to CivIII.

What does this mean? Is the Civ III workforce going to remain diluted by being split by another project?


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	26-01-2001 07:12									#12
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I for one (out of a morbid sense of curiosity) whould like to know what this other "idea" is.

	28-01-2001 20:52									#13
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I too hope this really does mean that CivIII will be
the main concentrated game now.
As for that "other project" on Sid's agenda, I hope
its finally a sequel to Pirates !!!

	29-01-2001 10:06									#14
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The impression I got from the Firaxis site concerning "the other idea" is that it's basically another model for Dinos. They've tried several approcaches, and none of them were satisfactory, so, Sid came up with a new prototype for the dino game.

Anyhow, that'll have to wait because something much more important is on the way...

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maybe its colonization 2[/hope]

	29-01-2001 16:17									#16
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Great news!!!

Hopefully they will concentrate on Civ3 even more from now. I think the release of Civ3 is closer now and maybe we don't have to wait until 2002!

	29-01-2001 21:09									#17
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Well, golly. Sounds like I was one of the few who WAS rather intrigued by the Dinosaurs concept. Now, I think it might have been niftier as an `evolution' type game, rather than sticking strictly to dinosaurs, but in any case I was looking forward to it.

Who knows... we may still see it someday.

As for the new idea, I suspect it has nothing to do with dinosaurs or any other game Sid has done previously. Just a guess.

Joe

	01-02-2001 23:39									#18
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My bet is on the CIV3 release date being around August 2001...or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.

	02-02-2001 00:09									#19
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Someone else said 'August'; maybe if we twiddle our thumbs and click our heals long enough it will come true?

There's no one like Sid! There's no one like Sid!

(and the rest of the team)

	02-02-2001 03:23									#20
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Civ III in Spring of 2002.

As for the next game, hoping it has something to do with Pirates! 2 I can hope at least.