1. When a unit is activated, I'd like to HEAR the sound of its terrain. When it moves, throw in the sound it would make moving, and when it's all over FADE FAST into the NEXT unit's terrain. That would really create a three-dimensional experience of the game world.

For instance, when my trireme is activated on a coastline and waiting for me to move it, we hear the sound of the surf. Then when it moves up the coast, we hear the surf and occasionally the cry of scattering sea gulls. And when it gets daring and heads out to sea, let me hear the WINDS BUFFETING, and the HULL ACHING to break open -- which of course there is a percentage chance that it will, in which case we hear that Civ 2 GUB-GUB sound, for old time's sake. All in all, a nice touch.

If they are in the background (not much louder than b/g music) than they would be fine, but too loud and they get very repetitive.

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- Biddles

quote: Originally posted by raingoon on 05-04-2000 06:08 PM 1. When a unit is activated, I'd like to HEAR the sound of its terrain. When it moves, throw in the sound it would make moving, and when it's all over FADE FAST into the NEXT unit's terrain. That would really create a three-dimensional experience of the game world.

When my 25 tanks and 10 missiles starts the successful invasion of an enemy i don't want to hear annoying sounds for every move each of these 35 units make. It would simply take too much time and it would be too annoying.
Let's say every tank moves across 5 squares and every missile moves across 10 squares.
225 soundeffects after each other. If i wanted this kind of experience i would simply buy a CD with experimental music. I will certinly not buy a game where a single turn takes more than an hour (with annoying soundeffects).

quote: Originally posted by OrangeSfwr on 05-07-2000 08:54 PM I just found it more interesting to talk to Mao or Stalin than a weird dude dressed up in Hosiery who taps his foot a lot. I don't think it'd be 2 much to do to give each Civ an animated leader who you can speak with. But again, I could be the only one feels this way...

You are right.I always thought those CivII "heralds" were terribly annoying and they always looked the same no matter what time in history you happened to be in.
Lets bring back the original diplomacy screen like you say,but lets improve it.Maybe we could have a different leader represent the nation depending on what period of history they happen to be in,and maybe they could change every time you reach a new era in history.For example,for England during the medieval era you would see Henry VIII,but in the modern era you would see Winston Churchill.
Any thoughts on this?

I'm not sure if mine will be a nice touche or just an unwanted feature for everyone here (raingoon, now you know how many bitter apolytoner are around here ).

Well, I would like that every now and then a small pop-up will appear with some brief excerpt from real historical documents (translated in current language, of course).

I don't want a full history book, but after a long state of war should be nice to read about some real soldiers life, or after the discovery of industrialization to read about poor workers condition, or after a disease spreading around know some info about losses by real epidemic in past time.

The info's should be related to current game state when possible, so the player can link them to actual actions.

I just want to inject some life into our simulated Civ, and I will like to add the "bottom-down" perspective to actual "from God seat" where every war lost is only a nuisance not a tragedy, every city growth only a sign of power by numbers, not more people you are responsible for.

About your fear of

quote: I know something of this type can easily take up lots of room in the program

I think that programming code needed is very small, and Firaxis can put lot of (compressed) text and quite some small pictures in few Mb of CD-Rom.
In a game where history play a so big role I think that (as usually happens with good movies and books) background play a main role into the deepness of the whole experience.

Firaxis can make a "trigger system" for pop-up that can be used and customized for scenary and mod, too!

Happy posting!