Fast War Games

[mokeysonice]

I had an idea on online gaming of civ, and eventually civ4. in PTW it can be very fun and rewarding and you can take over the world....if you have 1.5-6 hours. The reason for this is because you have to build your empire, and, more importantly, know when to stop. I usually shoot to have about 6 cities with barracks, temple, large pop, improvements and making soldiers, but you can rush of course and start building troops when u have 2 cities and such.

However i think online gameplay would be greatly improved if you could have pre-fabricated empires- I dont mean based on the real world, but before the human game starts AI players play 10/20/30 turns and focus on empire building, ie not building any troops besides maybe one spearman per city.

This could add more bonuses and work in each civs attributes- industrious countries could start with all there cities connected by roads, militaristic civs could start with more troops or barracks in a couple cities, ect ect

what do you think?

 

[jwijn]

I think it's a pretty interesting idea. Not sure how the game would balance out starting improvements and the like though.

 

[ThePersian]

Not bad, but it takes away from building your empire from scratch idea which the game is based on. It would be good to have it as an option to play sonarios, as in load it and play it online.

 

[apatheist]

According to the pre-release information, it seems like you'll be able to do this.

 

[CornMaster]

Civ 2 had that option.