what Sid is working on...

[Ranbir]

Rainfall patterns could change due to the damage you were doing to the atmosphere causing radical shifts in weather and the terrain. Like forests dying out etc. I thought that was really cool. That needs to be Civ. And natural disasters from Civ. It actually gave a dynamic to building cities. Do you really want to build near the coast? Risk of tidal waves. Near the mountains? Quakes and volcanoes.

 

[sela1s1son]

I'm hoping SMAC II. It doesn't need to start off at the finish, it could just be a revamping of it. Flesh it out with some of the things learned from Civ III and IV. It'd be neat to have much larger maps with *all* factions for example, possibly with more civics choices.

Instead of religion you could have surival philosophy, and if a lot of people in a city find themselves agreeing with, say, the University or Morgan they might be likely to flip over to them.

Could also allow for a healthier AI that will be both a better opponent, and roleplay better. I still want each faction to act like itself. ;-) Maybe that's why I always seem to like having Lal in my game, I can send my Hive units to over-run him!

 

[vbraun]

Sid is probably no longer actually working on Civ4, but on the newer games that they haven't told us about yet. Infact Sid is probably doing no more then playing games against other Firaxians and against Soren's AI for testiing.

 

[warpstorm]

Actually, I think Sid was never working on Civ4 (except for the aforementioned playing/testing/giving input).

 

[Raggamuffin]

Silent Service? I had totally forgotten about it until someone in this thread showed the box art, thanks! Ah man that game raises A LOT of pleasant memories. I remember playing that as hell on a friend's computer as a little kid. Atari or Amiga right? Best sub game I've ever played. I didn't know those guys were behind that game, let alone Firaxis had its license. That definitely gets my vote.

 

[warpstorm]

Try Silent Hunter 3 then. It's very good and went to the bargain bin right away because nobody wants to play sub games anymore. The guys would love to sell another copy.

 

[Phoenix_56721]

Good point, that is nearly exactly what Civ3 would have been if he had stayed on it and been allowed to build it the way he wanted it to be done. From what I hear, that was one of the main reasons he left.

If that was the case im glad he left to work on RON, I like RON but not nearly as much as Civ3! But you can see how he tried to combine the TBS stlye and RTS stlye togeather to make RON it made for a good RTS, but Civ3 was a far better game!