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I want a documentary that every once in a while gets updated!
At the end of SMAC they show an incredibly low res map that plays out the spread of your empires colour over the world (I don't remember if Civ II does the same thing and my father in law has my disk so I can't load it up to find out). Well, I just love that feature (as crappily done as it is).
What I would like to see is some sort of documentary that plays out the history of your civilization. They could have various short mpegs for each epoch and a voice-over generator to provide the narrative. Something like:
"Your empire was spawned in a peaceful world [clip of peaceful explorers/farmers] ... a beautiful garden was built in your capital [hanging garden wonder] ... but war soon came to your land [battle scene appropriate for epoch of your first big fight] ... unable to make peace with your enemy, your artisans threw up massive fortifications on the frontier [great wall wonder] ...
etc. etc."
The narrative would be decided by what happened in your empire and once in a while when enough new scenes were added you would see another clip.
Much better than the weirdness of a throne room when you're playing a twentieth century democracy.
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Windborne
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lansing, michigan, usa
Jan 2001
time: 05:12
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I'd love to see the "history of your civilization" idea if it could be done well, it sounds really neat, but also hard to program in. If they did that and put the throne room over in your diplomacy screen I would be MORE then thrilled. It would be awesome.
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Dr Strangelove
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Ahhh, you stole my idea before I had a chance to have it! How about documenting the history of civilization with a sort of Hieroglyphics? For each new advance you'd have the picture of Anubis presenting the thing to the ruler (you). For each conquest you'd have a picture of the conquered bearing gifts or the ruler kicking them into a submissive posture (which the Pharohs seemed to like). Wonders would be depicted as presented by the ruler to the worshipful people. There is a lot that could be done with the idea. You could have different styles of picto-grams, an African style, a Mayan style, a Bayeux tapestry style, a Greek style, an Indian style, and so on and so on. You could even have the style of the pictograms modernize over time, culminating in "Movietones" shorts in the twentietn century, eventually leading into a webpage style towards the end.
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But i'd like sea colonies to be included as well.
(two-thirds of my empire was missing on my last game  )
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- Groucho -
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quote:
Originally posted by Smash on 03-27-2001 02:29 AM
"Icing" is not necessary.I would gladly sacrifice these "features" for better play.
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Respectfully, I completely disagree. How many people on this board started playing Civ-type games with the old ascii graphics "empire" (i think it was originally a unix game that got ported to ms-dos)? Well, you could probably take the eventual Civ-III, strip out all the modern graphics and do the whole thing in ascii. Same modern AI, same suped-up combat, same plethora of units, same hyper-complicated diplomacy, just all rendered using ascii.
Who would buy it? Maybe a few hardcores, but not most of us. Icing matters. And since a large chunk of people on this board love Civ because of the "recreating history" feeling it has, this particular icing is something that could elevate the game to a new level of greatness. Whether they provide us with the Bayeux tapestry (awesome idea, by the way Dr. Strangelove) or a cgi movie, they've got a chance to really make something cool here. They should take it.
- Echinda
P.S. I still have empire on a disk and this message inspired me to go dig it out. Much to my dismay the disk is a 5.25" and I haven't owned a 5.25" drive since '94. Now I feel old. 
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Bereta_Eder
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Dammit. The pol wouldn't let me in.
Anyway my pesky voice must be heard I tried to vote for something new and here is my unfounbded comment:
And if they can't come up with something nice then it's palace not that dreadful throne room
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Bereta_Eder
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Dammit. The pol wouldn't let me in.
Anyway my pesky voice must be heard I tried to vote for something new and here is my unfounbded comment:
And if they can't come up with something nice then it's palace not that dreadful throne room
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esobus
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Sweden
Mar 2001
time: 05:12
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I was not allowed to vote?!
SO this is a test to see if I am still allowed to write.
Eye candy, gamewise is fun. Not necessary replay value looked for.
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