Is it too late for new ideas?

[BlueMonday]

For several months now, we have been discussing new ideas for civ 3. But what I want to know is, when is the cutoff date for new ideas to be added to the game?

Has Firaxis already decided what features should be added to the new package? Are ideas being discussed right now too late to be added into the new game?

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[gjts00]

Assuming that the beta testing is still going on, I would think that new features could be considered.

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[rouli]

I'm worried too, but there's always civ4

 

[MrLeN]

I recon it has all been said and done. Although the games seems to be a little while off for release, I don't think Firaxis will risk drawing it out any longer by adding new features.

I recon they are simply testing and tweaking. I think it takes a long time to test a game of this magnitude and I would also think that it will take every part of the remainder of this year to just do that.

No software company wants to release a game with bugs in it, and it is good practice to try and iron as many bugs out in the first place.

It is better to do something once 'properly' than ten times over.

MrLeN

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[Thunderfall]

It's probably too late to make big changes to Civ3, but it's still fun to discuss ideas in the forums.

 

[Ptolemy]

Maybe they could make few changes, like change the unlimited railroad movement, but I don't think that they're going to add totally new things in diplomacy or something like that. I don't think that we have to wait to Civ4 so we can discuss again. Maybe there'll be a civ3 gold and then we could make som ideas to that???

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[Mongol Horde]

Originally posted by Thunderfall:
It's probably too late to make big changes to Civ3, but it's still fun to discuss ideas in the forums. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif" border=0>

Time to roll out the civIV ideas thread?

 

[thealien_83]

Considering I don't yet know what they will and what they won't implement in Civ 3, I'll hold a little while before I begin debating what I'd like to see in Civ IV...

 

[guderian]

Even if they can't make big changes at this
stage, I believe they read the comments in
this forum, and there will someday be a Civ
4. In that belief, I would like to make my
suggestions for improvement, which are few.
A-Republic is a more advanced system of government than Democracy. The ancient Greeks
invented democracy, and it failed when it
collapsed into mob rule. Then the Romans created the representative Republic, and
that has survived in some form to this day.
In America, we don't live in a Democracy, we
live in a compound constitutional republic
( compound means we have a system of checks
and balances to prevent accumulation of power), and constitutional means we have limits on governmental power and guaranteed
individual rights).
B-The global warming feature is based on theory, not reality. There should be a penalty for pollution and atomic war, but not
as severe as in Civ II.
C-minor military imbalances still exist in
Civ II: destroyers should be able to fare better against ironclads, since they have
armour-piercing shells, while the ironclad
has cannonballs.

Originally posted by Thunderfall:
It's probably too late to make big changes to Civ3, but it's still fun to discuss ideas in the forums. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif" border=0>