Fciv.net now available!

[civing]

https://www.fciv.net is a fork of Freeciv playable in 2D and 3D in a browser. I will focus on improving the 3D WebGL version.
The source code is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/fciv-net/fciv-net

 

[The_J]

What's the exact connection to FreeCiv, and are you guys on Twitter?

 

[Blake00]

Great to see the 3D webciv back again! I never did get to try that out and then it was gone..

 

[Hygro]

The 2d version on the website works great. Haven't tried the 3d.

 

[The_J]

I've also played the 2D version once for a bit, seems to be working smooth, although I'm definitely missing parts from later Civ games.
But I might play some more .

 

[civing]

What's the exact connection to FreeCiv, and are you guys on Twitter?

Fciv.net got a new Twitter here, please follow:
https://mobile.twitter.com/fcivnet

Fciv.net uses the Freeciv C server, and is based on a fork of Freeciv-web. The project will focus on improving the 3D version.

 

[The_J]

Great, followed you .

 

[civing]

Fciv.net needs help to announce the project to the world, so we get players. Could you please help spread the news of this new project? May Fciv.net please get a post on the Civfanatics main website to announce the project launch?

 

[The_J]

https://www.civfanatics.com/2022/06/29/play-freeciv-in-your-browser/ way ahead of you , it's been the top post for more than a week, is currently second (although I'll put out another news item later today). And we also tweeted and re-tweeted .
Let me know if we can help in any other way .

 

[civing]

https://www.civfanatics.com/2022/06/29/play-freeciv-in-your-browser/ way ahead of you , it's been the top post for more than a week, is currently second (although I'll put out another news item later today). And we also tweeted and re-tweeted .
Let me know if we can help in any other way .

Thank you! Do you have other ideas for how Fcivnet can achieve world domination?

 

[The_J]

It'll need to be a cultural victory, I guess, but sadly I'd not be clear about any steps to be taken in this direction :/ .

 

[Hygro]

Thank you! Do you have other ideas for how Fcivnet can achieve world domination?

Yes, there's a bug, at least on super small maps, in the 2d version, where the camera goes off the map instead of centering on the unit. Fix that and everyone will help you achieve world domination.

 

[civing]

Yes, there's a bug, at least on super small maps, in the 2d version, where the camera goes off the map instead of centering on the unit. Fix that and everyone will help you achieve world domination.

Can you please describe specific steps to reproduce this bug? Thank you for reporting. I will try to find a solution.

 

[Hygro]

On 2D mode, I was playing a world size of 1, civ2 rules, I can’t remember the rest. Whenever the camera would pan to a unit, maybe too far north, it would put the camera off the map in the blackness.

It seems monitor size/resolution dependent; it happened a lot on my 34” ultra wide than my 13”, perhaps further south the bigger the resolution?

thanks for checking it out!

 

[The_J]

And the developers of fciv.net are further developing their version of FreeCiv. Above you can see the latest show case for December 2022.
If you want to have a quick (or not so quick, whom are we kidding?) game online, then head over here: https://www.fciv.net/ .

 

[The_J]

AI, in the form of image generators and large language models, are currently the hype. And ChatGPT has now also finally arrived for Civ fans! FCiv.net (an offshot of FreeCiv) has announced today that they have incorporated ChatGPT into their diplomacy engine.
Will we now see leaders realistically talking too each other? Or an AI, which will end a trade agreement in the next turn? It will be interesting to see how the current AI developments can improve Civilization!