What is the Princess for ?

ShredZ · November 3, 2002, 18:44

Everytime I try to get more information on the Princess short game mode it just talks about the 3 OTHER short games without any mention of how the princess affects the game. When shes captured do I lose? Why does she not move when in the pedia it says she has 1 movement? Now that Ive created my city 1 square away from my starting location she is stuck just outside my city.... wtf?

asleepathewheel · November 3, 2002, 18:48

she's the flag unit in capture the flag

she is immobile until someone captures her, then she can move one space at a time.

not sure how it ends, if someone has to have control of all princesses or if it is timer based victory.

ShredZ · November 3, 2002, 19:43

Ahhhh.... thx.

Id figure that to get the points for her youd hafta bring her back to one of yer cities, possibly the capital.

vmxa1 · November 3, 2002, 21:27

The doc says that you capture her and take her back to the capitol and that give 10,000 pts. It is then returned to the original owners capitol, if it that civs is gone, you get another 10k. It does not say how the game ends.

Master Marcus · November 3, 2002, 22:33

yeah, for now the princess mode and points locations mode are quite unexplained on how/when a victor is declared - especially if most of the conventional victory modes are enabled. Please someone who knows care to explain???

pikesfan · November 4, 2002, 00:02

I tried to play a Capture the Princess game, but nothing seemed to happen when I captured a princess, even when I destroyed another civilization and took the princess to my capital as the book said to do. I kept expecting an announcement congratulating me for capturing the princess and telling me how many points I got

I also thought it was supposed to be a "short game", but what's the point of it if I have to go through the whole long long game to get my points that the end

Carver · November 4, 2002, 00:13

So you guys are saying the PTW manual is as good as the Civ3 manual.

Master Marcus · November 4, 2002, 17:35

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Originally posted by Carver
So you guys are saying the PTW manual is as good as the Civ3 manual.

perhaps Firaxis's answer would be: it's yours to discover.....at least it should be smart from someone at Firaxis to tell us the points system and the conditions required to win through the new modes...

Adm.Naismith · November 4, 2002, 20:00

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Originally posted by Master Marcus
yeah, for now the princess mode and points locations mode are quite unexplained on how/when a victor is declared - especially if most of the conventional victory modes are enabled. Please someone who knows care to explain???

Do you mean you haven't complete manual available, or "capture the princess" is only another "half done" game ending?

Something strange is happening if Firaxis really did the same "mistake" twice in a row...

Please tell me my fears aren't fonded