I also heard you can't customise city names or civs. Don't these people do ANY benchmarking against other games? I can't believe they left out that feature if they did. Its basic to tribe or team play and perfectly easy to program.

I don't know about renaming cities, but as far as accessing other apps while playing, check out this thread.

BTW, I got CTP after all the mods had been done, loaded the mods (the popular ones) and still didn't like the game. CtP2 is much better. I only got it yesterday so I've only played a couple of hours but my initial impression is that this time Activision has a real winner on their hands!

You're right, I didn't understand. I do now. This sounds like something to ask for in a future patch, eh?

quote: Originally posted by markusf on 11-18-2000 10:13 PM hmm. Does anyone have a pif editor? I believe its possible to make a pif file and then force CTP to go into windowed mode. But i have to agree any game that is multiplayer when playing online. Thats one of the biggest attractions, for a turn based game in my opinion... everyone gets bored waiting for thier turn

Hate to tell you this but a PIF is only for DOS apps in a Windows setting. Might work under NT or 2K for a Wind9x app, but I wouldn't count on it.

quote: Originally posted by MarkG on 11-19-2000 11:43 AM now, if they included an in-game web browser connecting to apolyton, all the needs of someone playing a multiplayer game would be covered

Personally I keep 2 computers side by side for this reason. A bunch of games that I play actually crash if you try to alt+tab or alt+esc out of them. Ours may be more inconvenient than a windowed game, but at least it's well behaved.

The problem with running in Windowed mode as oppossed to full screen, is that animations are VERY slow. We do actually use quite a few animations in our game. There were no animations in Civ2, and that's why it could be a Windowed game. I seriuosly doubt Civ3 will be that way, although obviously I don't know for certain.

quote: now, if they included an in-game web browser connecting to apolyton, all the needs of someone playing a multiplayer game would be covered

Browsing Apolyton is one of the things I do when playing civ 2

Is it true you can't change your civ name? Damn, I always play civ 2 as "The Horse Empire"

I love that civ 2 message "civilisation destroyed by horses"

quote: Originally posted by Pyaray on 11-19-2000 05:35 PM The problem with running in Windowed mode as oppossed to full screen, is that animations are VERY slow. We do actually use quite a few animations in our game. Pyaray

Thanks Mark

But this is really the nub of the problem with game design these days. "Eye candy" is added at the expense of playability enhancements. Don't they realise the hard core gamers, like the multiplayers, like the great and one and only Horsie , don't give a rat's arse about "animation". Civ 2 doesn't suffer for the lack of it. I don't care if the Sprites cast a shadow or not. Hell, I'm sure I'm not the only gamer who plays with the sound "off" as well, skips the wonders and just spend most of my time managing my civ and fighting my wars.

I understand the marketer's problem in that the hard core multiplayers are only a fraction of the market, but it seems to be the way things are going the only way will be either a separate multiplayer config or players will just have to re-engineer the games when they come out (if the config allows this). Activision poineered a "mod-able" engine with the Doom/Quake series. I hope they can do something eventually.