Preview: Day 3

finishing up the text, here are the new screenshots
http://apolyton.net/ctp2/screenshots/screens2.shtml
http://apolyton.net/ctp2/screenshots/screens3.shtml

[Monkey]

Go Markos! Go Markos! Go Markos!

I'll be the first one to read it as I'll be clicking the refresh button every two minutes

Day Three

Explanations, Replies, Yes 32 Civs, New Way For Resource Gathering, AIPopCheat, Too Many Screens, Borders and Trespassing, 1280x1024 With "Clear" Map, ICS there or not, CTRL+S CTRL+L Read

[This message has been edited by MarkG (edited November 09, 2000).]

[Monkey]

I'm on my way... thanks Markos!

[MidKnight Lament]

Looking at http://apolyton.net/ctp2/images/view...tiplebuild.jpg it seems there isn't a column which tells us how many turns 'til next pop., as was implemented in one of the CTP patches. This was very useful. Why isn't it there anymore? The original food column wasn't any help at all last time. Has one of the changes in the system now made the column useless?

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- MKL
"And of course Henry The Horse dances the waltz!"
Shameless Plug: http://www.poetic-license.org .............All welcome.

[Dauphin]

Mark, with all these questions, do you feel like a primary school teacher with a rabble of inquisitive kids?

Just curious.

[MidKnight Lament]

Hey, that's another question! You're adding to the chaos!

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- MKL
"And a sun that doesn't set but settles" - Augie March
Shameless Plug: http://www.poetic-license.org ............. All welcome.

quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch on 11-09-2000 06:27 PM Mark, with all these questions, do you feel like a primary school teacher with a rabble of inquisitive kids?

[Dauphin]

Ah yes, but its only rhetorical though.

A question about governments: When you achieve Democracy, how long does it take to resolve elections?

Thanks again Mark.
In your first screenshot on the second page, there are some blue dotted lines from city-to-city. Are those trade routes?

Also, there are some cities (Londinium & Tarentum) that have a pier-like thing sticking out of them. Is that what it is?

[Slax]

MarkG - can you give us more details on how the scientific victory is accomplished?

[Roman]

Thanks for the rewievs. How big is the world map?

[Nsae Comp]

quote: Originally posted by phoenixcager on 11-09-2000 11:15 PM Also, there are some cities (Londinium & Tarentum) that have a pier-like thing sticking out of them. Is that what it is?

Good questions!
Mark what are these pier things good for, and this little hous north of Rome!
Maybe you can post on the preview day 4 a picture of the Great Library where the answers is showed.

[Nsae Comp]

GREAT PREVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go on this way to do such preview.
Thanks, for this great infos.



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Keep Smile and keep cleare in your head.
Everyone is its fate - and its environment - blacksmith

[Tiberius]

Markos, you have right: the screens which give us all kind of informations and the manager screens (city, army, production, etc) were greatly improved. It looks like Activision did finally a great job! They reduced the micromanagement and increased the quality of empire-management!

This game looks better and better, with every daily Apolyton Preview! I didn't see so many "smilies" on Apolyton for centuries

Markos, how good is this new resource-gathering system? Beyond the fact that reduces micromanagement, does it work well?

Oh yeah, that Ctrl+S, Crtl+L feature is just great!

[Ralf]

Give us a screenshot of how the player can overview what city-improvements/wonders/units any indevidual city have already constructed.

[Gedrin]

About the pop cheat thing.

In diffDB.txt CTPI had:
AI_TECHNOLOGY_COST
AI_PRODUCTION_COST_ADJUSTMENT
AI_GOLD_ADJUSTMENT

With different values for each difficulty.
Anyone care to guess what they did?
Here's a hint. Values were > at easy levels and < 1 at hard levels.

Oh and I could have sworn I saw a pop cheat factor while trolling through CTP files but I can't find it now.

I guess what I'm saying is... no big deal.

Gedrin
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[Drakenred]

oh and while your at it, could ya list Each and every unit in the game, tis stats, and the Teck to discover it, the entire teck tree, all of the City inprovments and their stats and tec needed to discover it, (oh! and dona forget the to put up pictures of every unit in the game!) and Every Wonder of the World and their Stats and tec, and Each and Every tile inprovment,

hmmm did i leave anthign out??

Oh yah! Screenshots of every thing, and all of the movies!
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Just kidding!
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[MidKnight Lament]

quote: Originally posted by Drakenred on 11-10-2000 02:22 PM Just kidding! [This message has been edited by Drakenred (edited November 10, 2000).]

And I thought you were being serious.

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- MKL
"And a sun that doesn't set but settles" - Augie March
Shameless Plug: http://www.poetic-license.org ............. All welcome.

[Big Dave]

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from Markos review
I did manage to crash CTP2 btw(now some people can go to sleep), when I tried to start a game with 32 civs on the World Map. Apparently, a new version of the scenario file must be created for 32 civs. I'm sure someone will figure it out...
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Look, I don't want to come off as being no more that another nay-sayer for CTP2, but I hope you mean someone at Activision, Markos?

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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me!

quote: Originally posted by Big Dave on 11-12-2000 11:59 PM Look, I don't want to come off as being no more that another nay-sayer for CTP2, but I hope you mean someone at Activision, Markos?

you nknow very well that activision does not support anything that has to do with over 8 civs Dave...
now, Activisioners, that could be another thing