Announcing Civilization Network for Facebook!

Someone like me could never enjoy an online "flash-based" civilization game. I've spent hours beyond hours playing civilization with 50-something civs to compete and conquer, the thought of playing the game as "casual" bothers me.

I really would like to see a Civ 5 game; people who say that things have not changed in 5 years in the field of technology really need to look things up. In 2005, high end computers used perhaps 320GB drives, many with 4-5 platters, now we can reach 500GB with merely one platter. Then we have the SSD, something that wasn't even around in 2005. In less than a couple years, $2000 32GB SSDs have drops down to $200 80GB drives.

Then we forget one of the most important things of computers, the GPU. In 2005, the Radeon X1000s and nVidia 7000 series reigned supreme, but they were subpar compared to nVidia's next gen 8000 series that literally blew away the previous DX9-based 7000 series. Now we have the likes of the Radeon R800 (5000 series), packing DX11, capable of doubling the performance of the previous powerhouses as the Radeon R700 and nVidia GT200.

Then the processor, how times have changed. 2005 was just a year away from the likes of Intel's Conroe processor (The Core 2 Duo), but we still had to deal with such an awful set of Intel chips, Netburst (AKA: Pentium 4/D) were totally owned by AMDs offerings, even with clocks that weren't as high. Since then, AMD has provided us with highly overclockable Phenom II processors and Intel has given us the likes of the Core i7/i5/i3/iWhatever; my i7 gives me 8 virtual cores to play around with @ 3.8GHz clockspeed.

Things have changed since then technology-wise, I remember sporting 1GB of RAM back in 2005, now I use that much and more on my current rig 24/7, my computer now sports 6GB of RAM, and even now I'm finding that too little for my needs. :(

Civ5 with larger maps would be nice. Sure could use 512x512 maps that use less than 6GB of RAM would be nice. :|
 
I'm quiet because it will be have perhaps 100 Civs in Solo with a few simplified gameplay...

I want a full intuitive editor
 
Gimme a break, on Facebook? while I admit to playing mafia/vampire wars on there when i'm bored, But Civ?
Please tell me your joking. Who's gonna run it? Zynga? what, so it's going to be a scaled down version comparable to the aforementioned games? C'mon Sid, your a Sim/Strat GOD! your actually going to sell out for this?
I'm really disappointed in this news. With all the mods, info, and requests from just this community alone there is sufficient demand for a bona fide Civ 5, not some namby pamby sell out version to appease the social networking community who like to live on there 24/7.
Whatever, guess I really can't blame you Sid. With the current economic downturn, guess your worried about your next paycheck. Obviously Civ 5 wouldn't pay those bills.
 
Kgorr said:
I'm interested in this ..what if he can bring all people expect out of a Civ game and up a notch to Civ 5 all on facebook?... who knows but the guys at fireaxis.
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then your talking a full blown version, not a applet like they currently have on Facebook. To be honest, I really don't think he will be able to accomplish what everyone would expect of Civ (me included).
 
Sid is going to reach a whole new market of people that spend hours on Facebook. How many new people will try this out and buy Civ 5 when it comes out? This is, of course, a Facebook game I would actually play. Brilliant Sid, as usual.
 
Hum... Facebook is taking and destroying everything... ok, is a social network, useful and whatever. But everything don't have to be there.

I'm still waiting for any game or website that says: 'I won't be on facebook'.

What is going to be of the normal players that want to play offline like allways?

DrakarskaTo be honest, I really don't think he will be able to accomplish what everyone would expect of Civ (me included).
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Hell yeah!

By the way... browser based games are designed to win money with childs... send a sms to that number and get overpower... Sid... I'm sad... I'm really sad.
 
Somehow I'm interested in this even though I'm not into facebook stuff at all. It would be better to have Civ 5 but you can't always get what you want to.
 
LegioCorvus said:
Lots of groaning here. Does anyone honestly believe that there won't be a Civ5? That's preposterous. It's also not a very good way to represent our forums.
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Well, look how there has not been a Sim City 5...
...and then try to say you're still so sure there will be a Civ 5...

Point being: it happens quite often a license holder finds something so profitable, they are unable to focus on anything else. (The Sims, in this case)
 
I say no. First, with Civ Revolution came the dumbing down of the Civ series. Please don't dumb the series down more so with a Facebook version. We love to play Civ because we are the only leader and would rather not to share our accomplishments and power with another guy we would rather be conquering. If you do make a Civ for facebook then call it something else. And one more thing, give us what we want, CIV 5.
 
In all honesty? I'm fine with this.
I'm a huge Civ fan, and sure I'd love Civ5... but right now? I'm addicted to MafiaWars on Facebook. I can only imagine how epic the Civilization equivalent of that would be.
 
I agree that Civ:Revolutions isn't a properly CIV as it's known from CivIII... For me CivIII and CivIV are not games, they are serious civilization simulators.
That overpowered status is unrechable by Civ:Revolutions, and... obviously... Civ:Facebook won't be as good as Revolutions... It only have one 'Pro' and it's: You can play it at work.
So... I don't really see the point to develop Civ:Facebook... Are you guys looking for advertising? This is going to decrease de average quality of Civ projects.

BTW, we're going to see a huge crush... Like Maxis did (after SimCity4) with the junk-game 'SimCity Societies'. But this one will be worse because the fall is longer.
 
Cool!
Sid Always Revolutionizes what ever he does.
I think We should stick with him on this one.
By the way Sid,
Are you gonna fix this?
:spear:
Thanks!
 
That one will be a trademark of Civ all the way through CivInfinity
 
But then there will be a memorial mass at the Vatican when CivFinity hits the stores.
 
Playing civ on a browser? This would actually require to lower the quality even more... :thumbsdown:
 
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