Civilization IV: Colonization

[Kekvit Irae]

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

[The_Doctor]

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]

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]

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

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

[Ciaran]

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

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

[Crandaeolon]

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.

[tibilicus]

Well been playing colinization a few days now and so far it seems good.
It's much mar complicated than civ 4 but that makes it more challenging.

Slight criticism is when you delcare independance and the king sends his troops.

He normally has about 120 + whilst i can only muster up 80 at the max.

I was hoping it would kind of be I have more but the kings troops are more elite.

[Kekvit Irae]

Slight criticism is when you delcare independance and the king sends his troops.

He normally has about 120 + whilst i can only muster up 80 at the max.

I was hoping it would kind of be I have more but the kings troops are more elite.

That's pretty much how the original Sid Meier's Colonization was. The loyalists have a huge number of ships and troops at their disposal, making independence a choice only for the truly fortified.

[The_Doctor]

That's pretty much how the original Sid Meier's Colonization was. The loyalists have a huge number of ships and troops at their disposal, making independence a choice only for the truly fortified.

There was the forgien invertention army that would come to your resuce when you got enough bells. That is not in this version.

[Zenicetus]

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]

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]

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.

[The_Doctor]

Got it this morning

I thought it was not out until tomorrow in Europe?

[frogbeastegg]

It's not. I pre-ordered it on Game's website. They guarantee that you will get the game for release day, which usually means they pop it in the post on Wednesday. As it is sent first class that means my game comes through my letterbox on Thursday nearly every time. Add the double loyalty points for pre-orders and those £3 and £5 off vouchers you can find floating about on the web and suddenly the biggest rip-off on the high street turns into an online retailer few can beat when it comes to titles you don't want to wait for.

[Lemur]

I loved me some Colonization back in the day, but I think I'll let it live in golden memory, rather than destroying my recollection as the remade Pirates did a few years ago ...