18-06-2002 17:33									#31
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Firaxis isn't attached at the hip with Infograms. They'd still have to make some deal that would leak out. This is how we found out about Civ3 before it was officially announced.

	18-06-2002 17:44									#32
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quote: They'd still have to make some deal that would leak out.

not necessarily, especially since it would be a deal between two companies that have worked in the past.

	18-06-2002 18:02									#33
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At most, Sid might have an experiemental demo of a new Pirates game, but we'd have to known about it by now if it is starting normal production.

	18-06-2002 18:29									#34
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simgolf was announced only 6 months before it's (initial) release date. and it was a rumour for exactly 11 days before being confirmed

	18-06-2002 18:38									#35
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There was already some talk that Sid was doing something with Will that had been going on for longer.

	18-06-2002 19:05									#36
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hmm, ok let's keep the rumours about SMAC2 going for another 10 days...that'll force them to announce it

	18-06-2002 19:10									#37
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quote: There was already some talk that Sid was doing something with Will that had been going on for longer.

of course! as there is lots of talk for smac2 or pirates2 or colonization2!

	18-06-2002 19:15									#38
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I'm not just talking about how people want Pirates! 2 or they think it might be in development. I'm saying that there were reports of a deal for Firaxis to make a SIM game.

	18-06-2002 19:52									#39
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you mean SimGolf

and who is Will again?

	18-06-2002 19:56									#40
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Will Wright.

	18-06-2002 20:08									#41
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My Guess is Virtual Gettysburg.

	18-06-2002 20:08									#42
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Markos, where are the infamous Apolyton spies in Firaxis now?

	18-06-2002 20:57									#43
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quote: where are the infamous Apolyton spies in Firaxis now?

they got captured by the FBI(Firaxian Bureau of Investigation)

	18-06-2002 21:02									#44
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Bah...Too lazy to find replacements?

	18-06-2002 21:25									#46
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we never announce such actions in public

	18-06-2002 21:38									#47
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Is it called conspiration or desparation, I can't remember?

	19-06-2002 06:31									#48
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I would like to see them do someting new, although I do note that the original Pirates! team is largely intact.

	19-06-2002 06:37									#49
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I miss the SidGames ring of spies. We didn't have anyone inside Firaxis, but we did have a good bit of publisher beaurocrats and marketers..

	19-06-2002 10:33									#50
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If it is SMAC2 in full 3D, would the map file format be significantly different? If so, might they release an explanation, in detail, of the map file format for SMAC/X, if someone asked politely?
I would so much like to be able to hand-code a map's starting elevations (I have a file editor that allows decimal and/or hex insertion/replacement).
All the other terrain is simply dropped in place. It is just impossible to get each space's elevation exactly where I want it. The best I get is somewhere in each of the seven levels (Ocean Trench, Ocean, Ocean Shelf, then Land Levels One, Two, Three, and Four. And way too often it ends up x+10, where x is the bottom of the level's range.
Reference thread: Format of the AC map files. (August 11, 2001.) In there, purplemooseman exposed some of it, but not enough, and there was no reply to my inquiry.
I don't want to steal anybody's program, I just want to make some specific maps

	19-06-2002 11:31									#51
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Sid is a wussy. Has he ever OCCed?

	22-06-2002 17:44									#52
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If it is Pirates 2 , then they will have to go head to head with Akella's upcoming Sea Dogs 2. Maybe it's not even a 3d title they are working on - it could be 3d work integrated into an otherwise 'flat' game, remember the voxels from SMAC ?

	22-06-2002 20:16									#53
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I hope it's pirates 2