Magna Mundi getting cancelled ?!

[Polycrates]

Hah, I've got Civ 3 but after that I abandoned the Civ franchise for Paradox games.

Since I posted I've been Googling Civ 5 and it gets some pretty bad reports. 'Terrible AI' seems to crop up a lot which is a big negative for me.

Well I'm going to differ with others here - Civ V is magnificent, far and away my favourite game in the series.


And I'd take whatever you've read on google with a grain of salt, particularly if it's not recent - the game had a very rocky initial release (almost Paradox-level rocky!) but they've worked like troopers on patching and major, major rebalancing since and it's now very nicely polished. Especially with the expansion, which is really rather excellent. As for the AI, it has also been improved to the point where I'd say it's actually rather good as far as strategy game AIs go.

Anyway it's on the daily specials on Steam today, so now would be the time to get it if you wanted it!

 

[Sonereal]

If you ignore the fact that the diplomacy is still broken all to hell. I've seen tantrum spirals in Dwarf Fortress that are more logical the way diplomacy in Civilization V breaks down once a player takes a few cities.

 

[Heathcliff]

I think we all can agree that both Civ IV and Civ V are nice games.
But they are no Magna Mundi.

 

[hoplitejoe]

As in they are not bugged to the point of being unplayable?

 

[Heathcliff]

More as in they are not very historically plausible.

 

[Arakhor]

And getting back to the thread title, Magna Mundi is now no game at all, historically plausible or otherwise.

 

[The Hierocrat]

Well, it is a game in the sense that there's a leaked beta floating around. From what I've heard in terms of the AI and the general stability it's pretty dire.

 

[Dachs]

More as in they are not very historically plausible.

MM wasn't very good at being historically plausible, either. The AI was comically bad as the regular campaign, and it was just slightly more work for the human player to do whatever she wanted.

 

[Arakhor]

Shush! Don't tell Ubik that!

 

[Antilogic]

I did like the ghetto system with province modifiers to represent religious minorities and Jews. I don't like the instant religious conversion of EU3 and CK2. Hell, even Civ4 allowed multiple religions in one city.

Victoria II, on the other hand, takes this into account, but religion plays virtually no role in the game. Culture only affects whether or not nationalists will appear.

 

[Evie]

Gah wrong thread. Someone please delete.

 

[Andvare]

So, Ubik did come with some statement (complete with at least one blatant lie in it and many, let's just call them different "POV" of events transpired) concerning the promised legal action. The statement, IIRC, didn't actually say anything much other than PI apparently have been quiet.
Of course, the UV site and forum is down, so I can't see the statement anymore.

But at least this is fuel for the tin-foil-hat.
Is this the result of a crack PI hacker attack? Or is something more sinister involved?

Stay tuned for more from the bat country, you know you can't stop here.

This meltdown would be more fun, if it didn't have the potential of hurting/delaying something that I find enjoyable, namely PI games. Still fun, the tragic kind of fun.

 

[Arakhor]

The UV site and forum are down? That's interesting, to say the least.

 

[Andvare]

The UV site and forum are down? That's interesting, to say the least.

The UV site says it will be back up soon, what soon is, I do not know. It has been like this for at least a couple of weeks.
The UV forum is just not there (Firefox comes up with Not Found)

 

[Joecoolyo]

The plot thickens!

 

[NBAfan]

Ubik's post was crazy. He was saying that since Paradox never talked about engine rights, somehow it gives UV the rights to it.

 

[Babri]

Any news about MMtG then? There forums are still down.

 

[Maniacal]

It was canceled months ago... its dead.

 

[Sarius1997]

Any news about MMtG then? There forums are still down.

Unfortounaly no, i´m still checking the forums on PI and their own forum from time to time, nothung new.

 

[NBAfan]

It's dead, never to return.