Intigrated FPS

[sir_schwick]

Troy, I think you may be referring to Decisive Battles. If you are, then they are using the Rome : Total War engine. If you have ever played Medieval or Shogun :Total War you would have experience with these engines. They are really good combat simulators, but adding something similair to civ would easily double game time to each game.

Also, while I like tactical unit interactions, Soren specifically said he does not want to add in a Rock-Paper-Scissors combat model.

It would be kind of fun if you could(as an agent, not the ruler) act out espionage, sabotage, and assasination missions. Definitely does not belong directly in game, but it would make a good Ghost Recon or Unreal Tournament mod.

 

[troytheface]

i hear ya ol Sir...someone else suggested TMW and i never played that, but yes it was "Decisive Battles" that i was referring to, and i suppose ur right, it would double the time, sure looked cool tho.
By the way, what will be 3d? (Warp mentioned that it was a done deal..3d engine...what does that mean graphically? I mean the terrain and units are already 3d.

 

[sir_schwick]

don't get me wrong, I was both drooling and lamenting over RTW(I probably won't be able to hit system specs). I thought of an idea such as integrating Civ and TW, but then realized that TW is so good cause they have such a wide range of tactical units. Maybe someone could make a Civ mod for MTW.

 

[Pariah]

For an idea which was initially so unpopular, this thread has certainly continued long enough..!

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I was thinking civ could really corner the market in the gaming world if it had a First Person Shooter (FPS) intigrated within it's core TBS gameplay.

For a moment I had a terrible thought that Pawn is really from the Atari marketing department, and was "testing the water" for an idea they've had for the future of Civ.

 

[sir_schwick]

For a moment I had a terrible thought that Pawn is really from the Atari marketing department, and was "testing the water" for an idea they've had for the future of Civ.

Dunt-dunt-dunnnnnnnnnnn! I never thought of that possiblity. When I first read the post I assumed it was a great joke and laughed my ass off. I even showed it to a freind last night who couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. Has anyone noticed Pawn really hasn't posted on other subjects since this royal flaming? I hope we did not scare him off.

 

[crimson238]

Hey if he was form atari at least we know they are getting input form us and using it

 

[Pariah]

Has anyone noticed Pawn really hasn't posted on other subjects since this royal flaming? I hope we did not scare him off.

The guy probably just lost interest, or is too busy to visit CivFanatics regularly. Heck, even Simon Darkshade seemed to have disappeared for several months this year.

I joined in Feb 2003, but didn't start posting regularly until the following November.