#1. What is the release date?

#2. Are there any dragons in the game.

#3. If not Why not ?

#4. What about 3E classes ?

#5. You and Noober are in an elvevator..no wait..i've asked that one before...okay...Would you like to play some Doom2 ?

quote: Originally posted by MageDragon on 10-30-2000 09:46 PM Few questions for the giant fish:

Cephalopod mollusk or Sushi, you're choice, just not a fish!

quote: #1. What is the release date?

From the FAQ, November.

quote: #2. Are there any dragons in the game.

In a word, NO!

quote: #3. If not Why not ?

To torture and punish you personally!

quote: #4. What about 3E classes ?

Pfft!

quote: #5. You and Noober are in an elvevator..no wait..i've asked that one before...okay...Would you like to play some Doom2 ?

Yes, as soon as I get a weekend again.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming, please excuse the diversion...

Pyaray

quote: Originally posted by ContradictioN on 10-30-2000 10:07 PM I only have one question, I have read that the cities can expand over the land.

I'm not sure I understand the question. Cities expand their control, as they grow they control more land around them. However, the cities themselves do not get larger than a single cell. Does that answer the question you were asking?

Nevermind.

quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa on 10-31-2000 02:11 AM Noober? Isnt that the one from BG1, Nashkell?

Yup, that's the guy. No, I didn't work on BG1 (since that's usually the next question).

That's a really good idea, but I'm sorry, it really is too late to add that.

ajbera: Thanks for the idea, I never thought of that - despite heavy use of the city screen already.

Completely off the cuff and totally untested:

// Somewhere in the DB say, info_str.txt reads a line like:
// POP_GROWTH "The population of [city.1.name] has changed."
messagebox 'PopGrowthMsg' {
   MessageType("WARNING");
   Text(ID_POP_GROWTH);
}
trigger 'PopGrowth' when (city.population) {
   Message(city.owner, 'PopGrowthMsg);
}

This should result in a message whenever city.population triggers, which is supposed to be when it grows but may well be when it changes.

Now see how simple this is... if it works that is. Not that I think suggestions for features are a bad thing and I do not want to sound like I'm raggin on anyone, but being in the software industry myself there is such a thing as 'frozen code'. Thats the point where no new functionality is introduced no matter how trivial and even most bugs are at best documented for a later patch.

I see the question often, can *insert you favorite feature here* be included. They can't if they want any reliable testing to be done before release.

Such a thing already exists in the PowerSLICs, no need to reinvent the wheel Just download and install PowerSLICs, the Apolyton Pack or the MedMod and you'll get this. Someone even designed a message icon esp. for this feature.

I'd like to praise Activision on solving the gold based science issue, by reverting to the Civ concept of trade. I also think that the expanding control areas of cities are a far greater improvement than the increased number of turns.

What about the tech tree? Is it expanded? Or does it have the same number of techs?

One last thing I'd like to wish is the availability of tga files and sprites for new units, improvements and wonders coming from Activision, the quality of the images we could get for alternate ones were noticeable lower.