Really Really cool idea

dainbramaged13 · September 24, 2001, 05:36

i know it cant be implemented, but i just wondered what y'all think. The game could be really cool if it were run from your palace. ie. You could walk outside, go back into you palace, walk around in a 3-d environment, and if you really felt like it, you could get to the game, and go into your war room, or, maybe say, your construction projects room, and then, maybe after you check in with your team of advisors all together in the board room, you could head on back with your science advisors to check on your wise men in the north tower. Or, a little later on, you might have to travel across the white house to the oval office to make some desicions on civ-wide rules and government dealings. Of course, you could always cut out these walking sequences, but it would really add a cool aspect to the game to be able to explore your palace as you upgrade it, and learn where this is and that.

General Ludd · September 24, 2001, 05:44

No thanks.

Patriqvium · September 24, 2001, 05:46

Teach yourself some C++ and try it out. And remember to send me a copy once the game is finished.

krzysiek · September 24, 2001, 07:15

All change is about interface. It is interesting, but only for a short period of time. It adds virtually no gameplay.

So, lets make Civ3 as a Massive Multiplayer Game!

Some people will be big leaders, others would be city governors or army units.

Earthling7 · September 24, 2001, 07:58

YEAH! And use the unreal engine and blow up the senate if they don't allow you to attack because you're ruling a democracy.

DonJoel · September 24, 2001, 08:30

And you can get your own Monica Lewinsky to play around with in the oval office!
Lets make a 3d-strategy-erotic crossover!

mactbone · September 24, 2001, 08:56

Monica Lewinsky? If we're going to try for historical accuracy the better choice is Marilyn Monroe...

Urban Ranger · September 24, 2001, 09:04

Fluff. Not worth the effort.

Adagio · September 24, 2001, 09:13

I like the idea, but my fluff (posted earlier) is easier to include

Though ofcause I would also like to be able to walk around town in fully 3D

DonJoel · September 24, 2001, 09:33

Another cool idea is that you actually take control of the soldiers that is fighting and that you can command a squad and fly helicopters with a joystick. Another cool thing would be if you got this 3-d wiew of your civilization and that you could zoom in all the way to a child sleeping in its bed and zoom out all the way to the milkyway since you should also be able to colonize other planets and fight with alien civilizations with your spaceships that you can customize the color of and decide whether it will have 3 phasecannons or 8 pulselasers but everyshipmember should also be allowed to have their own favourite pet with them and you have to feed them but it must be feeded with the right food not so they dont get sick but if they get sick they can die if you havent invenvet petmedicine and there should also be this 3-d hair shop and in that you could customize different hair cuts to use on your people and the afro cut would be the coolest that make msot people happy. That would be cool.

So what do you think? Will it be able to get in before the game ships?

DonJoel · September 24, 2001, 09:33

Another cool idea is that you actually take control of the soldiers that is fighting and that you can command a squad and fly helicopters with a joystick. Another cool thing would be if you got this 3-d wiew of your civilization and that you could zoom in all the way to a child sleeping in its bed and zoom out all the way to the milkyway since you should also be able to colonize other planets and fight with alien civilizations with your spaceships that you can customize the color of and decide whether it will have 3 phasecannons or 8 pulselasers but everyshipmember should also be allowed to have their own favourite pet with them and you have to feed them but it must be feeded with the right food not so they dont get sick but if they get sick they can die if you havent invenvet petmedicine and there should also be this 3-d hair shop and in that you could customize different hair cuts to use on your people and the afro cut would be the coolest that make msot people happy. That would be cool.

So what do you think? Will it be able to get in before the game ships?

Pembleton · September 24, 2001, 09:42

Your ideas are cool DonJoel, but they just aren't really really cool.

Ralf · September 24, 2001, 09:58

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Originally posted by dainbramaged13
...walk around in a 3-d environment, and if you really felt like it, you could get to the game, and go into your war room, or, maybe say, your construction projects room, and then, maybe after you check in with your team of advisors all together in the board room, you could head on back with your science advisors to check on your wise men in the north tower.

I dont think its a good idea to transform the game-interface into a game itself. Cake on top of cake...

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but it would really add a cool aspect to the game to be able to explore your palace as you upgrade it,

Buy yourself a home-architect program.

Jason Beaudoin · September 24, 2001, 10:22

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So, lets make Civ3 as a Massive Multiplayer Game!

Why?... so that we'll have to spend a monthly fee to play the game?

LaRusso · September 24, 2001, 11:24

drain, you really do manage to somehow outdo everyone in the 'weirdest new post' contest

H Tower · September 24, 2001, 11:39

Go buy one of the Sim games

Darkknight · September 24, 2001, 11:54

I thought of that a while ago but I thought why. Strategy is about strategy not weird strategy dya know?
Keep a game in it's simplest state while maximising overall gameplay. Don't try anything extra it can only make it worse.

Ralf: Why buy go to BLENDER

krzysiek: Go to FERION

Dutch Rule!! They give everything away for free!

dainbramaged13 · September 24, 2001, 14:57

hehe an assortment of responses... i enjoyed them all very much...

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send me a copy once the game is finished.

dont worry i will... whenever its done...

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And you can get your own Monica Lewinsky to play around with in the oval office!

Only if you could modify the graphics to a more errr... pleasing sight

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Another cool idea is that you actually take control of the soldiers that is fighting and that you can command a squad and fly helicopters with a joystick

i actually do think that some version of civ should be made with realtime battles (ala shogun:total war

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. Another cool thing would be if you got this 3-d wiew of your civilization and that you could zoom in all the way to a child sleeping in its bed and zoom out all the way to the milkyway since you should also be able to colonize other planets and fight with alien civilizations with your spaceships that you can customize the color of and decide whether it will have 3 phasecannons or 8 pulselasers but everyshipmember should also be allowed to have their own favourite pet with them and you have to feed them but it must be feeded with the right food not so they dont get sick but if they get sick they can die if you havent invenvet petmedicine and there should also be this 3-d hair shop and in that you could customize different hair cuts to use on your people and the afro cut would be the coolest that make msot people happy. That would be cool.

its a wonder youre the only one being sarcastic... pretty funny though...

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Your ideas are cool DonJoel, but they just aren't really really cool.

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Why?... so that we'll have to spend a monthly fee to play the game?

agreed... every heard of shattered galaxy? one of the best games ive ever played, but im not spending $30 and then $120 bucks a year for it. (im only 14)

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drain, you really do manage to somehow outdo everyone in the 'weirdest new post' contest

thank you

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Go buy one of the Sim games

eww no!

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Don't try anything extra it can only make it worse.

heres where i disagree. While i do agree that gameplay is more important than the 'extra stuff,' without any extra stuff, its also boring. for one, i never intended that this be included in any civ game, or in any game whatsoever, i just thought it was a cool idea, and also wanted to see the response it would get. it was kind of a crazy idea for if the developers had endless time and resources to waste.

jdd2007 · September 24, 2001, 15:04

LOL

if the thread wasnt so funny, id give it

however its hilarious so it gets

mactbone · September 24, 2001, 15:08

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agreed... every heard of shattered galaxy? one of the best games ive ever played, but im not spending $30 and then $120 bucks a year for it. (im only 14)

That game sucked more ass than a chinese whore. I played all last Spring semester and boy was I suckered. I would NEVER pay for a game that shoddy. What faction were you in? I was in Dulcinea. Until things got so f'ed up I just quit cold turkey.

PGM · September 24, 2001, 16:09

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Originally posted by dainbramaged13
(...) Really Really cool idea (...)

I don't like it. I enjoy some fluff when it's useful and fun, but I don't think this idea would apply as such.

dainbramaged13 · September 25, 2001, 05:33

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Originally posted by MacTBone

That game sucked more ass than a chinese whore.

i guess youre entitled to youre own opinions...

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I played all last Spring semester and boy was I suckered. I would NEVER pay for a game that shoddy.

thats why its called 'beta...' it improved much over the sumer and into the fall, when they finally released it after almost 2 years of beta testing

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What faction were you in? I was in Dulcinea. Until things got so f'ed up I just quit cold turkey.

i was in argus