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[stormerne]

I downloaded the screensaver at work and in a few seconds it was up and running. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that it sucks. The map was cool but the animation was terrible. Sure it was smooth, but I tired of it very quickly. It wasn't obvious to me how each battle was going, and the 3D knight riding on the city reinforced the erroneous notion that a unit is a single entity rather than a whole troop/squadron/flotilla etc of up to 10,000 men. It also reminded me that gameplay is what I want from the game, not toy graphics. To me it's a waste of software development resource to put that kind of stuff in and it puts the price up on the game by a significant margin. Hey, but I'm not the target audience, so what do Firaxis care about me?
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Stormerne is a miserable bastard and he knows it because he's had a
lot of people point it out to him over the years and he sees no
reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which is that he
likes disagreeing with people, particularly people he dislikes, which
includes, at the last count, everyone.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Originally posted by el_presedente:


im a bit pissed off that the yankies are in it, i mean i know u have to design a game so it will sell big in the big market but, dont the yankies kinda count as Ex-british empire ??

*agrees*

are there any others ?? an (english) British Redcoat better be in there or there will be some severe sulking on my behalf.

i would rather have a special british unit as a ship (man-o-war maybe) since the navy was what made this country really, i mean all the colonisation of america, australia, india etc and trade/commerce couldnt have been achieved without probably the strongest navy at the time... and since we're an island i think a navy vessel would be more fitting... shame we wont be able to recreate the plundering of the spainards gold or the defeat of the spainish armarda but nevermind, prehaps i can subsitute americans for the spainish (if the editors up to scratch

) ..

great site btw, about to try out the screensaver

MM

 

[Snapcase]

Dan Magaha actually mentioned over on 'Poly that the Screensaver is a bit of an in-joke. It was going to be a Phalanx defeating a series of Tanks originally (

), but they decided not to show the tank animations and settled for this instead.

And AP: Jag har hört en DJ spela "Rocks" en gång.

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Snapcase
Apolyton Civilization Site News Editor

 

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Snapcase:
Dan Magaha actually mentioned over on 'Poly that the Screensaver is a bit of an in-joke. It was going to be a Phalanx defeating a series of Tanks originally (<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>), but they decided not to show the tank animations and settled for this instead.

And AP: Jag har hört en DJ spela "Rocks" en gång. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/king-tut.gif" border=0>

I should also point out that it's not the game engine or anything; it was built in Flash. I heard some folks were concerned the game engine was going to behave so bizarrely (i.e., defending with Warriors, etc.)

Dan
Firaxis Games, Inc.

 

[animepornstar]

dan, how much better is the real game graphics then the screensaver?

btw, wasn´t the sound when warriors moved badly synchronized?

snapcase, kul med en till svensk här!

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[duke o' york]

I thought that there'd be another Civ of the week on Monday, but it seems as though the weeks begin on some other day. We want a new civ!

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in vino veritas

 

[spycatcher34]

It will probaly change on thursday.

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Somewhere between war and diplomacy is the realm of the spy

 

[animepornstar]

****! i´ll miss next civ of the week update...

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Well, it's Thursday.....waiting....waiting....unless every single employee is hunched over their respective desks programming away furiously then this is really bothering me.

 

[Damien]

Right,to my mind they will change it on Monday.
Babs being considered as the civ of that week.
1 update per week n moreover it wouldn't surprise me if the dev update wouldn't be updated n new screenshots wouldn't be added.

 

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Damien:
Right,to my mind they will change it on Monday.
Babs being considered as the civ of that week.
1 update per week n moreover it wouldn't surprise me if the dev update wouldn't be updated n new screenshots wouldn't be added.
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The site will be updated tomorrow with the next Civ of the Week. Going forward, Fridays are probably going to be the update days for the Civ of the Week updates.

Dan
Firaxis Games, Inc.

 

[duke o' york]

Cheers Dan, I'll stop worrying now and start counting down to midday (whenever that is in US time). <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>
In fact, it's in 8 hours or so, so..... erm, about 4 o' clock over here! And I used to be so good at sums.

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in vino veritas

[This message has been edited by duke o' york (edited August 17, 2001).]