wow! finally the official patch!! wooohooo!!
hmmm... i am not sure if installing it right away cos i am am about to win a space race victory in a loooooooooooooooooooong marathon/huge/34 civs game... is there a risk that games saved with Bhuric's unoffical patch won't work with the 3.17 patch??
after reading the changes log it seems they mainly did what Bhuric has already done... about new feautures there are some interesting ones:
- Limitation for siege attacking from the sea makes sense to me, and will make sea invasions harder.
- Good that there is an option to turn espionage off for those that don't like the feature, but i won't be using it cos i like the espionage system (although it could be improved of course)
- About global warming I like the idea that not everything will turn into desert now. Actually I like the idea I saw in some mod; what happens there is that if global warming strikes a grassland, it becomes plains, and plains into desert AND tundra becomes grassland
this little change make things much more interesting and realistic. I'd like to see that included. I also think that civs that value their forests and their environment should get some bonus, maybe less probability of sufering global warming effects.
- I was hoping for a improved glance screen... but it seems that i won't happen maybe till civ5
- Keep my fingers crossed for a new expansion pack with more civs, improved tech tree, AI, units, etc... pls pls pls pls!!