Tentative Civ IV Feature Changes 3/27/04
Civilization fans may be eager to know that Soren Johnson of Firaxis games made a few comments about Civilization IV in his talk on game franchises at the Game Developer's Conference. All the features under consideration are tentative, and given the game's long development schedule may or may not make it into the final version. Still, the focus of Johnson's talk was on removing "unfun" aspects of games to create sufficient conceptual room for improvements. Some of the features under consideration are:
Improved interface and help screens
Replacing game concepts such as pollution, rioting and corruption with more entertaining concepts that maintain game balance (he described the current pollution model as "playing whack-a-mole").
Adding concepts of religion and civics
Introducing more sophisticated concepts of unit experience and upgrades.
Johnson emphasized that the game is still a long way off, and is being coded from scratch to produce a better final experience. He also mentioned that the team is paying attention to a list of suggestions submitted by fans that is longer than the New Testament. He didn't say how long it took the Firaxis team to slog through it.
EDIT: once I think about it, it's kind of strange that people post civ IV (better yet, cIV) in a civ III board. Perhaps the mods might consider starting a new one. Subforums may include ideas, others news...
Originally posted by soren
I suggest for the webadmin(s) to post this on the main site.
EDIT: once I think about it, it's kind of strange that people post civ IV (better yet, cIV) in a civ III board. Perhaps the mods might consider starting a new one. Subforums may include ideas, others news...
Originally posted by Mr Black
Are you 'Soren Johnson' the 'A.I. guy'???
the team is paying attention to a list of suggestions submitted by fans that is longer than the New Testament
Originally posted by kryszcztov
And I hope the game will be widely tested for months
Originally posted by steviejay
I think they should extend the beta testing phase to places other than America![]()