Civ3:ptw Chat, Friday, September 20, 2002, 4pm Est

MarkG · September 10, 2002, 07:05

Civilization 3: Play the World is coming very soon and we're organizing a chat with Firaxis to catch up the progress of the development

The details...
- Date: Friday, September 20th, 2002
- Time: 16:00 Apolyton Time (that's est, 21:00gmt)
- Location: #Apolyton channel, DALnet network
- Access via: any irc client(like mIRC) or java applet at
http://apolyton.net/misc/chat/room.shtml

Gramphos · September 10, 2002, 07:43

Hope I'll be home before i't over. Fridays are travel days.

Gramphos · September 10, 2002, 07:46

If there are no delays I should be home within 30 minutes from the start.

Jon Shafer · September 10, 2002, 12:24

I guess we'll find out the true damage as far as the editor goes soon then.

Inverse Icarus · September 10, 2002, 13:53

perhaps the name we_need_multiplayer_you_idiots will be more acceptable now?

i have class until 4 on fridays, so i may be a little late...

are you planning on doing the questions alphabetically again? should i come in as Babylonian again?

Gramphos · September 10, 2002, 14:15

Uber, you should take one name and stay to it.

Inverse Icarus · September 10, 2002, 16:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
Uber, you should take one name and stay to it.

but its not fair to people who have names like Uber KruX, Thrawn, or Trip if you go alphabetically each time. I usually fake a name and ask people's questions for them.

start backwards this time

alva · September 13, 2002, 06:25

btw , there's a chat with firaxis tonight on cfc 13-9

Gramphos · September 13, 2002, 06:29

Quote:

Originally posted by UberKruX
but its not fair to people who have names like Uber KruX, Thrawn, or Trip if you go alphabetically each time. I usually fake a name and ask people's questions for them.

start backwards this time

Well, you have choosen that name yourself. And my name no linger starts with a v

And it's up to Markos in what order the users speak.

alva · September 14, 2002, 22:56

Is it going to be moderated? Please say yes

MarkG · September 15, 2002, 03:53

as always this will depend on how well people will behave

alva · September 15, 2002, 04:09

so let's see:

5 min of pure chaos, followed by 20 min of decent coherent moderated informative discussion, followed by 5min of pure chaos, followed..........

Wouldn't it be better to post some q's here, so you can ask them Marc?? At least a few, so we don't get endless repetitions of the same question?

MarkG · September 15, 2002, 04:14

usually we have 70% of moderated discussion followed with unmoderated

the "groups of 5" method has worked well too

Quote:

Wouldn't it be better to post some q's here, so you can ask them Marc??

sure, go ahead

Cesa · September 15, 2002, 09:38

Since I probably won't make it to the chat I hope someone can ask this for me:

-When you develop the game you have an option to start an AI-only game (to test AI etc.). Is there any chance you will put this in the game? It would be useful when making scenarios and maps!

Thrawn05 · September 15, 2002, 10:55

Quote:

Originally posted by UberKruX

but its not fair to people who have names like Uber KruX, Thrawn, or Trip if you go alphabetically each time. I usually fake a name and ask people's questions for them.

start backwards this time

Thanks for your concern... Us people with names that start from T on down should look out for each other.

I don't think I'll be able to join, so if you or someone else ask about the airplane distance limit PM me their response, and Uber: Phone it in, because I'll be outside Firaxis HQ and if they say "no comment" I'm burning it down!

alva · September 19, 2002, 14:50

@Marc:
Do you prefer the Q's in quotes or not?

Quote:

Q: Will PTW be availlable at the same time in U.S. and Europe (others included

)

Or will we have to wait another 14 days

AGAIN!!!

Wise Ass · September 20, 2002, 08:51

Quote:

Will you be limited to 8 civs in hotseat as well?

THere is my question, a no can be followed up with:

Quote:

Can you change users to AI if someone leaves or so you can finninsh the game in SP

Te reason for the question is due to the speculation that diplomacy still will not be available in the editor. If you can load your scenario in hotseat than you can play by yourself setting up the diplomatic setting, convert all civs to AI and now you have a save game scenario with all the proper diplomatic settings.

I have been thinking about that for a while now, there should be no reason for it not to work unless it too is limited to 8 civs and even then it will work for 8 civ scenarios.

Gramphos · September 20, 2002, 17:29

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
If there are no delays I should be home within 30 minutes from the start.

Damn, the ferry got delayed at sea for two hours.