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Old June 11, 2003, 16:52   #1
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Terrorism should be incorporated in C3: Conquests
I feel that, even though we all hate terrorism, it is a part of human civilization. The game boasts an incredibly true-to-life basis, so it should indeed incorporate one of the greatest modern threats.

Now I'm not saying that it should be a technological advance; far from it. Perhaps it could be incorporated in Nationalism as another espionage tactic, or fall under governments, or something like that.

It was taken out after September 11th. I feel that it should be put back in.
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Old June 11, 2003, 17:00   #2
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i think an espionage act works well, as getting caught lowers your image or using hidden nationality units.
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Old June 11, 2003, 17:42   #3
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Why not have barbarians become terrorists in the modern era? They could run into a city (Using a horse or car or something) and recruit civs and run off with them etc..
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Espionage work good, since we all know that's terrorism is financed by country in 90% of time...
But maybe a better espionnage system can be good.

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Old June 11, 2003, 18:12   #5
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Would all governments be able to support terrorism? If any western democracy in this day and age were found to support terrorism, there would be severe social chaos.
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How do you 'find' a country supporting terrorism? You dont really, you only support terrorism if 1-2 superpowers say you do
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Well...they'd have to make it a bit more gameworthy
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Fundamentalist gov't should be able to support terrorist groups. It's an essential part of world politics/diplomacy in the last years.

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Re: Terrorism should be incorporated in C3: Conquests
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The game boasts an incredibly true-to-life basis


civ3 is a fantasy game with some similarities to reality

still terrorism would be fun

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well the only reality in civ3 is that ppl live in cities


terrorism will be good like you can finance your own group and plan to crash a plain in a WTC( they can add it as a small wonder so everyone can build and get it destroyed)
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If any western democracy in this day and age were found to support terrorism, there would be severe social chaos.
That's either an incredibly optimistic outlook, or incredibly naive.
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Old June 12, 2003, 12:46   #12
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terrorism is already in civ 3 to a certain extent. if you go to the espionage screen you see sabotage work. what do you think that means? the shields just disappear? my hoover dam walls just go "poof" and are gone? um no, they get blown up or destroyed in some kind of brutal manner, cuz last time i checked magic wasnt in this game so the walls dont disappear by some form of magic

I believe that barbs should become terrorist units and upgrade along with the weakest civ. i.e. germany is the least technologically advanced civ. all they have are cavalry therefore all barbs become cavalry, that would be better than warriors in 2020 AD.
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cuz last time i checked magic wasnt in this game so the walls dont disappear by some form of magic
I really doubt it... i'm sure magic is in the game ...
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in all reality what more do you need for terrorism? i.e. you have a nice space shuttle hull almost completed and then in a single turn its gone. that sounds pretty terrorizing to me, just my opinion tho

if you want more destruction from terrorism tho, i could see for espionage, a separate command such as "plant terrorist" and then the terrorist would have separate commands such as "destroy population"- that would kill one pop. unit, "destroy city improvement"-destroys random city improvement, and "destroy wonder"-destroys random city wonder that already exists

of course these would be more costly than using spies. perhaps 4000gp to destroy a wonder with a 35% chance of success. but still these are just my opinions, but like i said i think there is enough terrorism as is
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terrorism will be good like you can finance your own group and plan to crash a plain in a WTC( they can add it as a small wonder so everyone can build and get it destroyed)


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Yes, it should be in; no, it won't be in. The sensitivity is still there. Plus, how would they advertise it? "Engage in international terrorism"?
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And sometime your own terrorism groups rebels against theirs financor and attack him (like for the taliban and u.s.a.)!!...
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i thought i had established the fact that terrorism is already in the game.

its fine the way it is, just leave it. to make it any more complex would be programming hell, especially when trying to balance the game. this is really a done deal. its in the game now, so that should be good enough
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terrorism what most of you are thinking of is historicly meaningless. although nearly 3000 people died in the attacks in sep 2001 (and in the counter attacks 300'000), these numbers aren't anything.

in WW1 there was the battle at the Somme (a french river) where an estimated 1/4 to 1/2 million people died in just a few days. in WW2 russians and germans lots several million soldiers in just a few months.
the pest killed nearly half of continental europe's population.
... as long as these things aren't in the game, terrorism isn't worth mentioning. it's mainly a psychological effect, in absolute numbers it's nothing...

maybe bring back civ2's "poison water supply"?

btw: guerilla are called terrorists since 2001... they're in the game
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hi ,

it would be great but somehow there is the feeling that this is either for another XP or civ4 , ....

maybe a mod or scenario , but not in Conquests , .....

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thank you sabrewolf, you must be the only person on this forum who realizes terrorism is worthless and already in the game
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thank you sabrewolf, you must be the only person on this forum who realizes terrorism is worthless and already in the game
Yeah it's already there. Several of the options you get when you build an Intelligence Agency could be considered terrorism. It's just very cost ineffective and more often than not fails. So very few people I know of actually use it.
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We've already got some terrorism, like cookiedude said. That plus "Poison Water Supply" and maybe a planted Terrorist like you would plant a Spy or Embassy would work for me.

However, it's very unlikely that we'll be getting it. The market is still sensitive. [c3c ad]"Engage in your own international terrorism! Bomb the United Nations! Bring Civilization to a screeching halt!"
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[c3c ad]"Engage in your own international terrorism! Bomb the United Nations! Bring Civilization to a screeching halt!"
I'm sure THAT would go over well. Pretty soon we have the FBI knocking on the doors of Civ players wondering what it is we're actually doing. Remember the movie Wargames?
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that was a great movie!
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Computers and computer games have definitely made significant strides since that movie.
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"NEW IN CIVILIZATION 3: CONQUESTS! USE TERRORISM TO DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES FROM WITHIN!"

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hi ,

poison the food or water from city X , depending on the size of the city it could kill 5-25% , cost should be related to the city size and wheter or not there is a police station there , .......

the sabotage of units would be great , .....

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Don't forget the last part
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yep specially sabotage of ICBM!!

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