On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:42:34 -0600, Jeffery S. Jones wrote:
> The game play is smoother with less micromanagement. The issue of
>super-high corruption making cities worthless is gone, pollution
>doesn't affect the map, production overflows into the next item
>without loss, and more like that.
Those all sound like good things to me!
> The AI is smarter, and I think that the game balance is better
>between units. Beyond The Sword expansion does a lot to beef up
>peaceful operations, as well as war, and makes diplomacy nicer.
Those sound like very good things - I'm starting another thread about
some problems I have with Civ3 AI. Smarter would definitely be good!
> As a scenario player, Civ4 offers advantages because its
>scenario/mod creation system is so powerful. More like Civ2's,
>scenarios can go far from the normal Civ model into very different
>realms. Between the Warlords expansion and BTS, you have a lot of
>very fun scenarios to try out.
Yay! Scenarios + modding = very very good - especially with good AI to
play against. Does the AI require much/any scripting to do special
things in scenarios, or is it able to handle most of what you can
throw in there? (My Viking scenario has a reverse-capture-the-flag
thing where you get treasures from conquest and take them back home to
cash them in for Gold, and the Civ3 AI has no clue how to do this...)
> The higher graphic requirements and XP requirement aren't that bad
>-- any new PC won't have a problem running it. The game is functional
>on relatively modest graphics (intel GMA900 for example, Nvidia 5200).
>More power means more details on screen, but at low detail, single
>unit graphics and animations off, it still plays the same way.
I never can keep track of the different graphics cards - my approach
is that when I or my kids get a game that won't run on the cards we
have now, I'll go out and buy whatever new cards are currently
available for about $100-$125 and that is usually good enough to last
us a few years.
Thanks for all the info, it sounds like I really need to get Civ4 (and
BTS) as soon as I have a machine upgraded enough to run it.
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