Quote Originally Posted by mongoose
I hope it's as good as SMAC, Becuase CIV3 wasn't. unlike SMAC, however, there will be no shortage of people online.


Very glad to hear about the reduced MM, that alone might make it worth buying. SMAC and CIV3 are painful after about 200-300 turns*, setting the production quees alone can take up to 5 minutes
What's SMAC and MM?

Yeah, Civ3 just gets unplayable at a certain point. Waiting for all those AI factions at war to move and attack each other, one unit at a time - what a yawn!

I sure hope they've fixed that in this instalment. But it does seem they've stuck to the basic design when it comes to combat, which is a disappointment. And I suppose your military units still "conquer" at one lousy tile per turn.

Why don't these strategy game designers do something radical for a change and actually give us a real combat system to play with?

Oh well, at least they've got rid of corruption. Athough it remains to be seen whether what replaces it is an improvement...

All the same, I just might take a punt and pre-order. I'm hanging out for a decent strategy game, every new release these days seems to be either a shooter or a MMORG...