When did Firaxis start development?

[Blahblahman123]

Get a new computer. It tends to be much cheaper than upgrading parts in old ones.

Not true.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

15-20$ for a GB of RAM is pretty standard. You can find DDR1 and DDR2 at that price. DDR2 can probably be even cheaper.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Not true.

Extremely true. When you get past 2-3 years for a computer, upgrades are generally less economical than an overhaul

 

[Skyre Noktis]

Not true.

In the long run, yes. RAM isn't the only thing that goes obsolete.

 

[Blahblahman123]

In the long run, yes. RAM isn't the only thing that goes obsolete.

well what would be a decent cost for a decent pc?

 

[Blahblahman123]

In the long run, yes. RAM isn't the only thing that goes obsolete.

Double post

 

[Genocidicbunny]

500$ will get you a pretty capable little gaming pc.

 

[Blahblahman123]

500$ will get you a pretty capable little gaming pc.

Hmmm not that much i think by the end of the year i can get that kinda money

 

[Civinator]

...and now back to the theme of this thread :

Robert Plomp from Apolyton discovered an interesting posting of Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer (Trip) from March 2009:http://apolyton.net/forums/showpost.php?p=5562666&postcount=6

So I agree to Robert Plomp, that the work on Civ 5 could be started at least one year ago.

 

[Lillefix]

It's trip who's the lead designer!!!!! I was wondering who it was.

 

[Hail]

my bet is that firaxis started development of civ5 right after the release of civ4 vanilla. however, if the same team worked on the 2 add-ons to civ4, which i doubt, then development started right after BtS release

 

[Arakhor]

I can't imagine any company releasing a game and then immediately starting on its sequel. That would be bizarre.

 

[CTH]

I would be very supprised if they didnt start on civ 5 right after civ 4 (well perhpas they did colonization and some from the team did civ:rev), what else should they do? Working on games is their jobs... Sure the development team was prob pretty small in the begining but I am sure that they started to work on civ 5 right after civ 4 was done

 

[exorbit]

I can't imagine any company releasing a game and then immediately starting on its sequel. That would be bizarre.

BIOWARE !
they started mass effect 1 .. took about 2 yrs , then immediately started dev mass effect 2 , and now they said that they started dev mass effect 3 BEFORE the launch of 2 so ..

 

[J-man]

Didn't they mentioned they started with a new 3d engine from the ground up?
I wouldn't be surprised if they say they started in early 2008 or even late 2007.

 

[Krill]

I'd reckon that initial design (not programming) started after Patch 3.02 for BtS was released. I'm pretty sure that Trip was involved in the patching processes (looking at the Devs that work for Firaxis).

A good question for anyone, if they know the answer and would care to enlighten me, when did Alex Mantzaris leave Firaxis?

 

[Dale]

A good question for anyone, if they know the answer and would care to enlighten me, when did Alex Mantzaris leave Firaxis?

I don't think it's been said. His bio is still on Firaxis site, but his linkedin profile says otherwise.

I would guess just after BtS.

 

[Sirian]

In summer 2004, Jon and I had a lengthy back and forth on CivFanatics about what ought to be in Civ4. I bet if any of those posts survive, it would make for some interesting reading today.

- Sirian

 

[ori]

In summer 2004, Jon and I had a lengthy back and forth on CivFanatics about what ought to be in Civ4. I bet if any of those posts survive, it would make for some interesting reading today.

- Sirian

I guess some of them have survived and can even be found

 

[l3illyl3ob]

I imagine that work started on Civ 5 not soon after Civ Rev was finished. That makes it about a year and three quarters?

In fact, I bet that preliminary design work started almost as soon as BTS was out the door.