October 4, 2001, 21:04
|
#1
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
Its going to be a lonely experience playing civ III all alone
I haven't single played a civ game for over 3 years. Once you get the mulitplayer bug, SP seems rather dull.
I'll miss the banter on icq, the arguments, Mp is like a good game of cards if you have a steady group of friends to play with. The standard of play is much much higher because any human should be able to outplay the AI.
I suppose the Multiplayers will be comparing notes on games but that will be weird.
Its like they are destroying civ playing internet communities 
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:08
|
#2
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Rechtsfahrgebot
Posts: 4,315
|
darn horse
now you've gotten me all depressed 
__________________
You cheeky sod :p - Provost Harrison, Puegot Porsche Interface Specialist.
Don't take that attitude with me, bucksnort. :p - Slowwhand, Texas Style List Keeper.
This obviously proves that Coldwizard = sivistynyt - kassiopeia, Wise Finn.
CW: Sometimes you're even bigger weirdo than kass... - Jeki, Wiser Finn.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:10
|
#3
|
|
Beyond the Sword AI Programmer
Local Time: 03:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I am a Buddhist
Posts: 5,680
|
Talk to the leader heads 
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:11
|
#4
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
That hot sexy Foreign Advisor is out too
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:11
|
#5
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Henderson, NV USA
Posts: 4,168
|
AH, use that loneliness to good effect to learn the game. You don't want to learn the game while you are playing MP, do you? 
Wouldn't want everyone else in the game getting upset that you don't know how it works, now would we.... 
__________________
JB
I play BtS (3.19) -- Noble or Prince, Rome, marathon speed, huge hemispheres (2 of them), aggressive AI, no tech brokering. I enjoy the Hephmod Beyond mod. For all non-civ computer uses, including internet, I use a Mac.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:13
|
#6
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 09:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: May 2001
Location: flying too low to the ground
Posts: 4,625
|
stop working on sim golf and finish civ3's multiplayer. 
__________________
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:16
|
#7
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
Actually the social side of the game was most important to me
Sure, you could be slut and go to Gamezone for a 'quickie', but I preferred to play with a regular group of friends.
I'll miss stuff like the time Hydey started the game in the arctic skirt and we wouldn't restart until he'd gone right around the world and found no land
"Be a man, Hydey - play the hand your dealt" 
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:20
|
#8
|
|
Prince
Local Time: 09:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 507
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:20
|
#9
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 09:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Posts: 3,815
|
Re: Its going to be a lonely experience playing civ III all alone
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Once you get the mulitplayer bug, SP seems rather dull.
|
Get your tubes snipped and spend more multiplayer time with the mare.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:23
|
#10
|
|
King
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: of jack
Posts: 1,502
|
Yeah Horsie!
Spot on, no MP, and in depth scenario creation is looking rough. Hopefully the new additions will give me a month worth of enjoyable play.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:27
|
#11
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
Single player is the PC game equivalent of masturbation
Its so anti-social
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:32
|
#12
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Detached
Posts: 6,995
|
Don't be so sad everybody! The AI is supposed to be a lot better. They got Soren Johnson, Governors, and no cheating (which suggest the computer doesn't need to cheat).
SP games will be more challenging than they used to be. Don't give up hope yet.
And besides, what's wrong with masturbation?
And MP takes too long...
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:35
|
#13
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
Well masturbation is okay I guess but
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Lorizael
The AI is supposed to be a lot better.
|
Ho ho ho!
|
Quote:
|
And MP takes too long...
|
Not if you play with good reliable players and play the game in nightly sessions of say 2-3 hours. Its very convivial.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:43
|
#14
|
|
Prince
Local Time: 08:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: J.R. Bentley's, Arlington, Tx
Posts: 391
|
no sexy foreign advisor...
sniff... sob...
__________________
"You don't have to be modest if you know you're right."- L. Rigdon
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:46
|
#15
|
|
King
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: of jack
Posts: 1,502
|
Agreed about taking too long, I mainly enjoyed 1 on 1 duels on small maps. TBS really needs to improve it's MP, but I have no Idea how. MP Scenario's for example help alot.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 21:53
|
#16
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Detached
Posts: 6,995
|
Re: Well masturbation is okay I guess but
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Ho ho ho!
Not if you play with good reliable players and play the game in nightly sessions of say 2-3 hours. Its very convivial.
|
Woohoo!!!! I got a response from a Deity. Thanks AH.
(That's really the only reason I posted)
MP can be fun but I prefer SP. But even that's not the point.
Do we know for sure that MP will not be included? Has Firaxis said anything official? (I don't know I'm asking...) Or have they just been evasive so far?
And in the end SP is the core of the game. I'm sure that most people will buy it even w/o MP. Afterall, Firaxis is a business. I'm sure they know what they'll be losing.
Edit: And how is your registration date 1969?????
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 4, 2001, 22:18
|
#17
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 09:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Posts: 3,815
|
Re: Re: Well masturbation is okay I guess but
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Lorizael
Edit: And how is your registration date 1969?????
|
Ask and answered in at least three threads in apolyton/comunity forum.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 00:12
|
#18
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 04:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 8,057
|
AH is a fake 69er...Markos just never fixed the problem.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 00:19
|
#19
|
|
Warlord
Local Time: 06:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: ... of a little desert town!
Posts: 154
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by GP
AH is a fake 69er...Markos just never fixed the problem.
|
Hmmm, interesting year number for a bug.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 00:19
|
#20
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 00:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: In a tunnel under the DMZ
Posts: 12,273
|
Thanks for never failing to point that out GP
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by GP
AH is a fake 69er...Markos just never fixed the problem.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 00:38
|
#21
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 09:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: It doesn't matter what your name is!
Posts: 3,601
|
Re: Actually the social side of the game was most important to me
|
Quote:
|
I'll miss stuff like the time Hydey started the game in the arctic skirt and we wouldn't restart until he'd gone right around the world and found no land
"Be a man, Hydey - play the hand your dealt"
|
Man, I've been there...
it sucks to start there, but I stuck with it for a while  Luckily there was whale in my capital's radius 
__________________
"Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez
"I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran Siddiqui
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 00:49
|
#22
|
Local Time: 10:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: on the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree
Posts: 30,698
|
Never played multiplayer anyway. Didn't even bother to buy MGE . SP is just fine for me.
__________________
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 01:06
|
#23
|
|
Prince
Local Time: 07:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Posts: 390
|
I've never played multiplayer so I won't miss it. However, I may try it when the MP patch gets released. Why now? Mainly because everyone seems so upset about it not being included so there must be something to this MP thing. 
__________________
"To live again, to be.........again" Captain Kirk in some Star Trek Episode. (The one with the bad guy named Henok)
"One day you may have to think for yourself and heaven help us all when that time comes" Some condescending jerk.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 01:51
|
#24
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 22:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
Why MP games? Why don't you spend time with your friends and family, Horse? Are you that anti-social that the only social interactions you have are from MP games?
Personally I don't care for MP games. I can take as much time to think as I want, not harassed by incessant messages from other players.
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 01:59
|
#25
|
|
Warlord
Local Time: 08:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 224
|
MP would be nice, but when it comes down to a choice between:
1. Release game now, with no mp
2. Release game later
I perfer #1
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 02:00
|
#26
|
|
Chieftain
Local Time: 15:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Posts: 45
|
Neither did I (played MP), but I'm sure that it's going to be stunning when it finally appears. Shed no tears, MP guys, your time is coming. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 02:37
|
#27
|
Local Time: 01:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Skanky Father
Posts: 16,530
|
I played an MP game once... It was ok, nothing to write home about. But im naturally inclined to be anti-social so i wont mind an SP-only game.
__________________
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 03:06
|
#28
|
|
Beyond the Sword AI Programmer
Local Time: 03:08
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I am a Buddhist
Posts: 5,680
|
Ultimately it seems MP is just too slow and tedious, and you aren't really alone with all the cool new AI leaders 
I know it seems sad thinking of AI's as company, but you only have to play CTP2 (and compare it to SMAC) to realise how important 'human' AI leaders are to a decent SP experience.
And from what I've seen Firaxis has done the Civ3 leaders right :b
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 03:40
|
#29
|
|
King
Local Time: 14:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 1,597
|
To transpose a quip:
Playing SP is like peeing in a wet suit, you get a warm feeling but no one gets to know.
In any case, I subscribe to the view that SP is a sensible way to get to know the game before one faces a human opponent.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 5, 2001, 04:58
|
#30
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 22:08
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by tonic
To transpose a quip:
Playing SP is like peeing in a wet suit, you get a warm feeling but no one gets to know.
|
So MP is like peeing on the bar table or something?
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:08.
|
|
