Events!!!

[Gammaray fan]

When playing scenario's there should be EVENTS that are triggered by year, discovery, a particular geographic location or no. of cities.
EXAMPLE: The dark ages could be triggered when you reach a certain year, and this would create hordes of barbarians which will appear for 50 turns or so.
EXAMPLE: you move a unit for the first time onto a strange monolith in the middle of Egypt. Suddenly, alien hordes appear for 50 turns or so.
EXAMPLE: You build an empire that has 100 cities. Suddenly barbarian hordes appear (to simulate the sacking of Rome).
EXAMPLE: A meteorite is scheduled to hit Earth in 2050. You must build laser defence by then or else the world will be plunged into chaos.
YOU GET MY DRIFT.
IMPORTANTLY: these events should be easily programmable so anyone can build a scenario with them.
EVENTS COULD also be implemented in the real game to a lesser exten...

FEEDBACK?

[connorkimbro]

i agree with events. hell, there were events in civ1, as there were in smac. they add a good touch. however, they should not be ACTUAL events, especially not ones that are triggered at a certain time. the whole game is about rewriting history. so having things happen at the same time every game really would kill that.

[Ilkuul]

I fully agree with having a more highly developed events setup for scenarios in Civ3. In fact, I also like the idea of allowing events in the main game, mainly for use with mod packs; either that, or they must allow random map generation for scenarios! I remember once trying to do a scenario (can't remember what, now!), where it really needed a different random map each time, so I was forced to try a mod for the main game, which then also ground to a halt because I couldn't implement events!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Events should be triggered when you reach a certain tech age, not by a certain year. Civ is about remaking history, not following actual real history

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[connorkimbro]

Heh. . umm. . oh yeah. sorry. carry on

[Henrik]

I think he ius talking about scenario events connorkimbro

[OzzyKP]

Yea, events would be great to have back. Earthquakes and floods, and disasters of all sorts.