Civilization IV: Colonization

**The_Doctor** · 06-09-2008, 23:46

At last.

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=52828

**FactionHeir** · 06-10-2008, 00:11

Looks interesting.
Quite liked the original colonization and played it for years. Hopefully this remake will offer new interesting and adequate features without focussing too much on graphics.

**frogbeastegg** · 06-10-2008, 19:11

I never played colonisation, and the article is talking of it in terms of a total conversion. Does that mean it's better to think of this as an entirely different game rather than as another Civ4 add-on a la Warlords and BtS?

**Kekvit Irae** · 06-10-2008, 19:18

You know what I would absolutely love to see? Civilization IV: Master of Magic.

**The_Doctor** · 06-10-2008, 20:12

I never played colonisation, and the article is talking of it in terms of a total conversion. Does that mean it's better to think of this as an entirely different game rather than as another Civ4 add-on a la Warlords and BtS?

Yeah, it is completely different to civilisation games, well sort of, the you still have cities and tiles with different terrain on, but everything else is different. For example the economy which is the main bit of the game; instead of a cities producing food, production point and trade, it produces, things like, sugar, food, ore, lumber, horses, which are then transported back to europe and sold for money, or they can to turn into more valuable goods, eg, sugar can be turned into rum.

There is a free version of colonisation:
http://www.freecol.org/

**Mailman653** · 06-10-2008, 20:19

That free game looks interesting. I bought not too long ago the American Conquest series at Gamestop for $10....what a let down, I did not like the game at all, I thought it would be a campaign type game, build up a colony/town etc, instead the first level was me fighting off a horde of English soldiers which I couldn't fend off for the life of me. Even cheating I couldn't be the first level.

**Samurai Waki** · 06-10-2008, 22:14

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

You know what I would absolutely love to see? Civilization IV: Master of Magic.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171398

**Ciaran** · 09-28-2008, 10:12

Originally Posted by Wakizashi

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171398

Wow, looks amazing. I could consider getting Civ IV for that mod.

**Crandaeolon** · 09-29-2008, 19:27

The Fall from Heaven 2 mod has a lot of promise, but it still feels a bit too much like Civ IV and is generally rough around the edges with uneven writing, art and balancing. The spell system is severely restricted by the engine.

Still, the potential is there. Some game company exec should give the guy a couple hundred thousand dollars for polishing.

**Zenicetus** · 06-11-2008, 05:57

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

You know what I would absolutely love to see? Civilization IV: Master of Magic.

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Stardock (GalCiv2 developer) fantasy TBS. I think at one point they were trying to get the rights to do an updated version of MoM. That didn't work out, so they're doing their own proprietary magic system TBS game. I'm not sure what the release schedule will be... probably a year out, but I'm really looking forward to it, based on their GalCiv2 track record. And I'm not even a huge fan of fantasy games.

**FactionHeir** · 09-24-2008, 16:58

So this game is about to come out, from the video previews, the interface looks very much like the first incarnation, which is great. Looks like people won't even need any high powered rig to run it.

Anyone got more info or even got the game already?

**frogbeastegg** · 09-25-2008, 14:43

Got it this morning, played ~40 turns, and have now retreated to read the manual.

Initial impressions are mainly favourable. It looks great, the music is nice, and there seem to be quite a few choices to make. I played a couple of quick games of the original after this topic started, and from what I see this new version is very close to it.

The interface I'm less keen on - it's huge and ugly unless you use ctrl+I to make it transparent. The arrangement of buttons feels like it has been done to purposely confuse civ4 players; things have been shifted around for no reason I can discern. The worst niggle is one which I'm probably alone in considering to be that. The end turn button is in the middle of the interface, not on the bottom right. Gah! In transparent mode it vanishes altogether, forcing you to use the hotkey. Double gah! I never, ever, full stop ever use a hotkey to advance turns! Don't ask me why, I just don't. It feels utterly wrong.