Easter Eggs

[Alneyan]

"Lyons" is a not-so uncommon English spelling for the French town of Lyon as far as I know, as the French Marseille is sometimes spelt "Marseilles" in English, so that does not seem to be something specific to Civ. I am not sure about Rheims though.

Another similar example is the 1415 battle, where Henry V and his archers won against the French. In French, this battle is known as Azincourt, while it is usually spelt Agincourt in English. Go figure.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I'll hazard that "Agincourt" was the spelling in some northern variant of Old French.

 

[Aravorn]

I heard there was a "Mingapulco" somewhere as well. Probably one of the Meso American tribes.

Thats after Ming one of the mods at Apoly.

 

[LLXerxes]

Yes, on Elvis's Birthday, the computer reads your settings and al your king unit's are Elvis. It's really funny and he talks wierd too...

Let's see...

There is the Viking city of "Thunderfall" (you all know who it's named after) we had an SOTD on that...
There's also a Mingapulco or some crap like that.
The words "Amanda" have been spotted in the artwork in Tree's (despite what I said on EEggs, i havn't seen that one)
the whole "Not Constantinople, Not Istanbul" egg
"Neo Tokyo"
Elvis Putnam
"Yumbo"
Check your vanilla sound files. In the regular sound folder, look for "eagle warrior" sound bits.
Um, something else. I forget what.

 

[Grohan]

Check out your "C:\Civilization III\Art\Movies" folder and watch "security_briefing" video.
You need bink player to play it.

 

[Pounder]

Check your vanilla sound files. In the regular sound folder, look for "eagle warrior" sound bits.

I never heard of this one, nor can I find the file. What is the exact path.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Check out your "C:\Civilization III\Art\Movies" folder and watch "security_briefing" video.
You need bink player to play it.

Yeah, that was great. I wonder if it originally was going to have a point. Incidentally, there are sound files for a Barbarian attack on a village that aren't used.

 

[supaguruzebidy]

How does the game know its elvis's birthday???

 

[thetrooper]

check.system.clock.elvis.birthday

 

[Chieftess]

How does the game know its elvis's birthday???

Because the programmer puts in something like (in psudeo-code):

if ( (now->day == 8) and (now->month == 1)) { switchElvis(); };

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Calender based Easter Eggs appears in quite a few games...

 

[megagestur]

Check out your "C:\Civilization III\Art\Movies" folder and watch "security_briefing" video.
You need bink player to play it.

where can you get this bink player?

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

"Lyons" is a not-so uncommon English spelling for the French town of Lyon

"Heidelburg" is a not-so uncommon English spelling for the German town of Heidelberg. Google for it, you'll get >100k entries.
Nevertheless, it is nothing but a spelling error.

 

[Grohan]

where can you get this bink player?

Here you can get it

 

[LLXerxes]

Ooh ooh! remember the whole "beware the leopard" thingy?

 

[morchuflex]

And, there's "Heidelburg", "Rheims" and "Lyons".

What with these names? Besides the mispellings, that is?

 

[Shadow Phoenix]

Because the programmer puts in something like (in psudeo-code):

if ( (now->day == 8) and (now->month == 1)) { switchElvis(); };

it would be more like this
if ((dayToday==8) && (monthToday==1))
{
Elvix();
}

 

[Randy]

I waited all most a year to try it. Then on the 8th I missed it. So on the 9th I changed the date on my computer to the 8th, started the game so I could see it.

 

[viper275]

ThERat saw that too in AK6. Here's the link if you want to see: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=107543&page=5&pp=20

 

[Louis XXIV]

I never heard of this one, nor can I find the file. What is the exact path.

In the sound folder, its called "Quale Warrior"