Will there be a Civ4?

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Yes

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"Paul Hyett" <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote
> That's the $64000 question (for me, anyway).

Yup, they are already talking about it. There was an article on civfanatic's
about it a few weeks ago

>
> Reversing direction in time - do you still play previous version of Civ,
> even the first one?

Still play Alpha Centaury and Civ2 on occasion

>
> I still nostalgically remember how amazing it seemed when it first came
> out...

Yeah I remember getting Civ2 with my first computer in 1997, and loved being
able to play a game similar to the Wargames I had been playing for years. It
reminded me of SPI's World War 2 Strategy Game and the Australian World in
Flames game at the time.

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its being play tested right now.
check out

www.civfanatics.com

"Bruce in Cleveland" <brucemorrison216@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 07:37:09 +0100, Paul Hyett
> <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >That's the $64000 question (for me, anyway).
> >
> >Reversing direction in time - do you still play previous version of Civ,
> >even the first one?
> >
> >I still nostalgically remember how amazing it seemed when it first came
> >out...
>
> Maybe the more important Question, should be When?

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In alt.games.civ3 on Thu, 15 Jul 2004, John Kerry wrote :
>
>> I don't have Civ1 installed on my current PC at the moment, but it
>> would be trivial to put it on.
>> --
>Can CivI even run on new machines. I know I had problems running some other
>older games on a newer machine.

I can run Colonization on my current machine.
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:46:28 GMT, "John Kerry" <johnkerry@aol.com>
wrote:

>
> after not playing it for a while, turning on the movies
>> just to watch them again is fun (same with the high council). Test of
>> Time's unusual scenarios are also worth exploring.
>>
>I loved the council. The drunk general, the really cute girl who, I think,
>was the domestic advisor. CivII was great and when I got CivIII, I missed
>some of the advantages in CivII (worker caravans to rush wonders, rivers as
>game squares). But CivIII's boundaries make up for it. There's nothing more
>madening than having the Babylonians plop a city down right in the middle of
>your "empire".

I think that Civ3 is a better game design -- different, but
definitely has a lot more potential. Civ2 for its time was pretty
good, and it would be good to have the videos restored somehow in a
new version of Civ.

Like in Conquests, though, there isn't any easy way to create new
graphics and videos for every rule change. The omitted media simply
has to be left out of any modified games where the original won't
work.

>> I don't have Civ1 installed on my current PC at the moment, but it
>> would be trivial to put it on.
>
>Can CivI even run on new machines. I know I had problems running some other
>older games on a newer machine.

Civ1 DOS mode will work on XP using an appropriate emulator like
DOSBOX. It may or may not work directly in an XP window, especially
with sound on. It does require a large amount of conventional memory,
but XP is the best Windows version for allowing customized DOS configs
for emulation.

CivWin (v1) will work last I checked. I got that someplace cheap
long ago, and it is essentially the same game, plus it has the Civnet
multiplayer code (which never worked that great).


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Jeffery S. Jones <jeffsj@execpc.com> wrote in
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> I think that Civ3 is a better game design -- different, but
> definitely has a lot more potential. Civ2 for its time was pretty
> good, and it would be good to have the videos restored somehow in a
> new version of Civ.

That's what I miss most from Civ2, is the videos.

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On the 15 Jul 2004, "John Kerry" <johnkerry@aol.com> wrote:

> after not playing it for a while, turning on the movies
> > just to watch them again is fun (same with the high council). Test of
> > Time's unusual scenarios are also worth exploring.
> >
> I loved the council. The drunk general, the really cute girl who, I think,
> was the domestic advisor.

IIRC, she was the foreign advisor, and was (from what I could tell from
the little video) very nice indeed.

The General was often good for a laugh, although I didn't really like
the modern version. He's also responsible for one of the most suspect
lines I've ever heard in a strategy game, which said something about
"our men resting their mighty lances."

The odd thing about the Military Advisor in Civ 3 is that he does look a
bit like he's related to the General from Civ 2.

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