posted August 17, 2000 00:50

Can we possibly get a peek at this article, Chris?

	posted August 17, 2000 13:21

Glad for the positive feedback!

I'll get it done in HTML format tonight so you'll be able to read it soon!

	posted August 17, 2000 15:28

Enjoy!

	posted August 18, 2000 02:28

Good job, Chris.

	posted August 18, 2000 14:00

I've got a column in the magazine, so what I might do if there is not any major news is to focus on a particular section of the game.

	posted September 22, 2000 16:00

I've got to write my first column by Tuesday, I'm going to include something about the website changing, is there anything else people want included? Please bear it in mind that I only have 150 words or so.

	posted November 06, 2000 09:25

The people you rule in "The Clash of Civilizations" won't be like putty in your hands, unless you usually leave live hand grenades in your putty... The government model in Clash gives you, the player, a whole new set of internal enemies to test yourself against. If you squeeze the poor too long, while leaving the rich alone, you'll probably get that revolution you've justly earned. New ideologies like Democracy and Communism will sweep the globe, and can quickly change your people's support for your government. Sometimes you'll need to share power with a senate, or a military junta, and they will get a say in how you set the tax rate, level of civil rights, and other critical aspects of your government. And of course you can play dirty too, bribing opponents or closing the senate. For more details, check out the government model at our web site!

	posted November 18, 2000 05:27

In many Civ-games, there are special units such as the Spy in Civilization II which are used to conduct diplomacy, but in the Clash of Civilizations, we are deepening this aspect vastly by creating a "Foreign Office" and an "Interior Ministry" to deal with this in a more realistic sense. Events such as propaganda and counterintelligence (feeding false information, for example) are just some of the many new features, all of which shall be controlled by budgetary expenditure, that is to say that increasing the amount of money that they receive will increase the effectiveness of these governmental departments. The main aspect of diplomacy, however, is state relationships. In real life, treaties do not last forever and often include clauses (such as demilitarisation of particular areas), so implementing these in Clash would allow realistic situations such as Germany ceding its colonies when it signed the peace treaty to end World War I.

	posted January 27, 2001 08:52

In "Clash of Civilizations" you won't have to rule a bunch of morons that require your frequent intervention just to avoid starvation! The people will be able to fend for themselves pretty well, thank you. And there will be merchants with a profit motive that'll incidentally bring to each area the specialty goods like steel, or wine that the economy really needs to take off! So, in a Clash economy you, the player, won't have to micromanage to get what you want. Our goal is to allow you to change from peacetime to war footing in something like 10 mouse clicks. If you ARE inclined to fine-tune things, however, you can get down to a frighteningly precise level of detail. To learn how we are going to do all this, check out http://clash.apolyton.net/frame/ and follow the link to "Economy". The days of the morons are numbered!

[This message has been edited by Mark_Everson (edited January 27, 2001).]

	posted January 27, 2001 09:52

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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

	posted January 27, 2001 17:03

We'll have something for people to hands-on play with sooner than you might think.