What is Fluff?

donarumo · August 30, 2001, 17:08

This may have been answered before but...

I noticed that one of the screen shots showed the Civ researching "Fluff". I guess that this was probably filler but does anyone know if this is actually something - either a technology built into the game or a custom tech?

Dauphin · August 30, 2001, 17:20

If its an actual tech what would it come under, military, economic, applied...?

Its got to be a filler, hasn't it?

Do you have a link to the screenshot.....

SerapisIV · August 30, 2001, 17:27

Most likely a placeholder tech. The early screenshots have been full of such things. The complete tech tree screenshots on Gamespot didn't have it, so its a safe assumption that it won't be in Civ3.

down th' pub · August 30, 2001, 17:52

Maybe it's an early Navel technology.

Ribannah · August 30, 2001, 17:57

Fluff is the stuff of huff and puff

Darkknight · August 30, 2001, 18:46

Poor Rib

Isn't that where Sid is telling you you are researching fluff. I remember that ScreenShot

Dauphin · August 30, 2001, 18:51

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Originally posted by down th' pub
Maybe it's an early Navel technology.

I don't know if I should laugh or cringe at that pun.

BeBro · August 30, 2001, 19:18

It´s needed to produce Flubber

August 31, 2001, 03:55

'Fluff' - the tech allows you to build the Postmodernist unit. This unit walks up to cities and reduces research by diverting the finest minds from actual scientific research into deconstuctional lunacy.

Provost Harrison · August 31, 2001, 06:29

I thought that was already in CtP?

donarumo · August 31, 2001, 09:42

Here is the image. The Fluff shows under what is being researched.

Maybe it is needed to make that marshmallow Stuff which can be used to slow down troops?

Dauphin · August 31, 2001, 14:17

Are all those cities "domestic"? It seems a particularly multicultural civ that player has. And as you pointed out it is researching fluff. Who is Mr.Clean, or is it supposed to be a joke that I don't get? A reference to pollution or something maybe?

What is going on in this screenshot?!?!?!?!?

SerapisIV · August 31, 2001, 14:25

It's a placeholder tech. We have the full and complete tech tree from Gamespot (though possibly missing some unit and building icons).

The Mr. Clean comment is part of the humor their putting back into Civ like the newspapers from Civ1

"Fluff" doesn't exist in Civ3.

SerapisIV · August 31, 2001, 14:28

Look at the population icons, they're the same as in Civ2. Also, even though the units are still ancient technologies, sci-advisor Sid is in modern-scientist garb, which is out of place. The screenshot is old. The graphics are not fully in place and neither is the tech-tree.

Dauphin · August 31, 2001, 14:50

The Mr. Clean comment is part of the humor their putting back into Civ like the newspapers from Civ1

It must be a reference joke, cos I don't see the humour and jokes are supposed to be funny. Am being slow here?

Edward · September 4, 2001, 12:00

I haven't seen the screenshot, but Mr. Clean might only be funny to U.S. citizens of a certain age. He's the personification/mascot of an American household cleaning product (intended for kitchen floors mainly, 'though I'm sure it boasts a number of uses.). He's a bald muscular genie-like guy with an earring. In the TV commercials sparkles flew up wherever it was used; but I can't remember if he magically cleaned people's floors or if his mere association with the product implied that it was magical. I do remember him winking knowingly at the audience.

Fiera · September 4, 2001, 13:18

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Originally posted by Edward
I haven't seen the screenshot, but Mr. Clean might only be funny to U.S. citizens of a certain age. He's the personification/mascot of an American household cleaning product (intended for kitchen floors mainly, 'though I'm sure it boasts a number of uses.). He's a bald muscular genie-like guy with an earring.

I thought that was Mr. Proper?