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does 'Utopia' count? :) i played it on the Intellivision back in the day, and was hooked immediately. i felt the same rush when the first Civ appeared, and it was all downhill from there...

If you are reguesting a new scenario this is the wrong forum. assuming you meant "requesting", the scenerio idea was just a passing thought; i was mainly looking for input from other cold war history buffs who might have heard about this...

Found this interesting: in 1987, the Russians launched the "Soviet Space Battle Station Skif", a protype for combating the American Strategic Defense Initiative. It failed, and the program was eventually scrapped; the link below contains some commentary from the son of one of the scientists who...

just curious - why did you use an image of the NASA Space Shuttle, which can only travel as far as Earth orbit?

i'm in. long live the open source community!

i agree! as much of a techead as i am, there's something more convenient / reassuring / what have you about a paper manual. makes for good offline reading too.

fascinating stuff; according to this fellow, the Chinese explored the Americas in the 1420's, leaving much evidence in their wake that is only now being recognized. sounds like a civ game to me! here are two links; the CNN.com story, and the official website for the new book by Gavin...

argh - where did it go? is it being worked on?

agreed - everyone in my group is eager to see a PTW version of this mod. i'd love to see a 5th age mod as well sometime with all sorts of bizarre technology - but i don't know if PTW will let you add one. i guess it would be called the "Post-Modern Age"... :)

oops. nothing to see here, please disperse...

we were playing a Regicide game yesterday (with Regicide being the only victory condition) and i must agree with the others - the King unit is an excellent "scout". also, it makes sense to get your King up to Elite status early on by fighting Barbs; that way, you've got a better chance of...

maybe we should set up an official vote on this one. i agree - the old design was much classier, but the important part is *inside* the box!

hilarious! love that advisor. :) the mod for your cities in the background is interesting as well. quite a megalopolis!

i agree with his majesty. i can't imagine why on earth they didn't include the ability to fool with time in the editor! this severely impairs our ability to create realistic scenerios...

i'm all over buying PTW. me and my fellow civies are chomping at the bit to compete / cooperate with one another. playing against the AI is allright, but BOY am i sick of its mighty ineptitude and attitude! i don't mind the $ - the best, coolest toys always cost something... though i...

i too am interested in a dynamic Civ3 Mars Scenerio. this might be a good resource - maps of Mars from MOLA: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/mapping_results.html

my thought: as has been suggested, make the Internet a wonder, as the modern equivalent of the Great Library, and allows for the construction/existence of something like "e-commerce", which would serve as the next step after marketplace and bank. having Wall Street as a small wonder...

i really dig the "ruins" feature... but does it appear just for the last city of a conquered civ, or for every destroyed city? if it's the latter, the map could get messy with some players i know :) has anyone heard whether or not radar towers, outposts and airfields can be built on mountains?

i think diehard civs agree with you, draver, but Meier and Co. knew that they had to change with the times in order to keep their new game from looking outdated. blame the look of "Age of Empires" if you must. after that, it seemed like every stategy game went isometric. i have to admit...

we all know darn well that you can get Civ2 MP Gold for peanuts now - and long before it was even available, many of us bought the Civ2 era installments seperately. not because we had to - but because we wanted it >Now!< i was one of those people. Firaxis / Sid Meier banks on the idea...