SG Players: What are your plans regarding Civ4

[Sir Bugsy]

I will eventually purchase Civ4, but I'm not sure how quickly that will happen. I am interested in how many people will be sticking around here playing Civ III SGs for a while.

If there aren't very many, I may be inclined to purchase it sooner rather than later.

So please pipe up and let me know.

 

[gmaharriet]

Sheesh!!! Bede is just training me in my very first SG. I'm hoping there'll be somebody left here to play with.

 

[ThERat]

Good question:

LK will start a new Civ4 series or so he said. I am not sure, I fear I will not be able to resist and purchase Civ 4 the moment I can find it on the shelves here. But, news are still vague and it's difficult to say how it works out. Certain games could be difficult to play on Civ4.

I guess we would start with a chieftain Civ4 game to learn how to play. It will be fun to move up the learning curve with SG's this time.

 

[General Mayhem]

You forgot an option: Depends on how suited Civ4 is for SG's...

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I've just discovered Civ3 and I'm in no hurry to go for Civ4. I think I'll even go for a Rise of Nation immersion before I consider playing Civ4. When people move over to Civ4, we'll get feedback from all around and if it's good enough, in a year or so, I'll probably get it.

Civ3 is too rich, too new to me right now still. While I find the game good, I see no urge to change to another one. I remember having been playing X-Com 2 , Diablo 1 and Warcraft 2 for way longer than any sane teenage boy should have, a few years back; that was after each of their sequels came out - recall that the graphs weren't good back then, by any standards whatsoever, especially after these games' sequels. Perhaps someday civ will lose its grasp on me, but just not now. Gfx are just no issue for me, so I just have no reason to change.

 

[Methos]

That question is hard to answer without seeing what Civ4 is like. I’ll probably continue playing Civ3 SG’s as long as there are others here to play with.

You should have added an option on whether or not someone was willing to play both. I did not vote as I don't feel any of the options apply.

 

[Minute Man]

I'm not in any real hurry to rush out and buy Civ4 either, though I probably will eventually. I guess it depends a lot on what the reaction is when it actually comes out.

But I also came to Civ3 late, so I don't feel like I'm even close to exhausting its possiblities yet. So I'll probably keep playing Civ3 SG's for a while.

 

[Tatran]

You gotta walk and don't look back.
Also with AoE3,there won't be enough time
to play civ3 anymore.
Hopefully civ4 will be less time consuming as
civ3 is/was.

 

[eotinb]

Hopefully civ4 will be less time consuming as civ3 is/was.

I find this remark very confusing. The reason I find Civ3 (and all of the civ games to date, for that matter) time consuming is that it is so fun that I play it a lot, hence consuming my time. Seems to me that hoping for the new game to be less time consuming is hoping for it to be less fun, or am I misunderstanding you?

 

[MeteorPunch]

I'm thinking that if a Civ4 SG forum is created on the release date, it will be chaotic trying to play the game with others and learning the mechanics at the same time. Everyone will be a newb, and new strategies will be coming out every week. To me it would not be fun to play with others right off the bat. I would want to know the mechanics myself first, but on the other hand it might not be that hard for us "veterans" to pick up.

Civ 4 itself I don't think I'll get until a bit after release, so I can judge whether it is any good or not. I'll follow the posts on the forum to see what people think. So far it hasn't proven one way or the other.

 

[markh]

As long as there will be SGs and GOTMs for CIV 3 I will keep playing it. It is much fun for me and I still have to improve. What I have seen so far does not really convince me to buy CIV 4 immediately. My biggest concern is that the game will be faster (400 turns I think) and for me sometimes even the 540 turns are too fast. I like playing long games, especially SGs. And I still have not managed to win a Deity game which is still motivation enough for me to keep playing here.

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

I'm sure to hold for at least a few patches of CIV 4, I kinda hate playing bugged games and I think there'll be many problems in the initial version. Then time will be required to fix them and for me to get an english version; I won't buy french stuff anymore, too bad memories with CIV3.

I think that the CIV3 SGs should live for a while and considering the important differences between the versions they may never die. I'm quite sure that I'll go back sometimes to the 3 when I get 4...

 

[handy900]

If all goes well (my game arrives when it's supposed to) I'll start a CIV4 AW game the day it comes out, but not sure yet what level. If I like CIV4 I'll probably drop CIV3, but that's hard to say. My brain gets confused when I play PTW & C3C at the same time, it might melt if I play C4 & C3 @ the same time.

 

[Sullla]

Going to start an Always War game the first day that Civ4 comes out? Brave man there if it's not on Chieftan.

No doubt Civ3 Succession Games will continue to be run, but I expect much of the action will switch over to Civ4 after it comes out. Realms Beyond has plans to revive our series of games for Civ4, so expect to see a great deal of fun stuff in the days to come.

 

[romeothemonk]

I will probably buy civ 4 the week it comes out, and then try and play my first game as a SG. With this information out there, I would love to presign up for Handy's first Grumpy Old Men game of civ 4.
Civ 3 is almost too much MM for even this engineer. Playing on a high level SGOTM team, I can find that although I regularly trounce Deity now, the difference between winning in 1150 A.D. and 1350 A.D. is huge and can be done by taking hours per turn, something I do not necessarily find fun. I enjoy playing slightly more relaxed civ3 games, and hopefully civ4 cuts down on the overall MM, but allows us to do some MM.

 

[LKendter]

Quite a bit of this answer can be seen be the number of new posts here. I remember a time when my morning check could result in 2 pages worth of active threads. Now it is surprising to see more then 1/2 a page. The Civ3 interest has already dropped a lot.

I even saw it in the LK series as the numbers got higher - the games took longer to fill. I don't think it was simply the harder games, but shrinking player pool.

 

[grahamiam]

I'll be back into SG's once Civ4 comes out. To prepare, I'm trying to make up all of my sleep debt for Nov and Dec in October

Also, if the RBCiv series is similar to their C3C Conquest series, then I think they'll be a very good tool for learning the game

 

[Greebley]

I preordered Civ 4. As mentioned before, a lot depends on the suitability of Civ4 for SGs. I am ready to try something new. I would alwasy finish my current games though and maybe play a Civ 3 game now and then.

Save me a spot in your AW game Handy

 

[Arathorn]

Well, I already essentially dropped playing Civ3 SGs. If Civ4 works well for SGs, I plan to play. I had hoped to do MoO3 SGs, too, but the game was so bad, it just never worked. If Civ4 lives up to its potential, I'll be moving the LotR series to Civ4. If Civ4 is really bad, well, I dunno what I'll do. I might come back to Civ3 then. Or I might not. I dunno. I certainly have high hopes of starting a Civ4 SG in the week or so following the release. I'll be awfully interested in playing on my own first, though. I think a bit of skill and ideas on how/what to play will be beneficial for the SG community. I'll probably be reading right away, though. Gotta come up with some new cool variant, though. Extremely hard ones, of course. (Note -- extremely hard on day 4 is quite different from extremely hard on day 400.)

Arathorn

 

[ThERat]

It's nice to see some oldtimers still around waiting for Civ 4. And handy, not knowing whether the game will ship the same time in S'pore as in the US, I would like to pre-sign up for that AW game.