posted 12-09-98 03:04 AM ET        

how many of you then played RTII??

Now how many of you think RRTII was a complet wast of time/HDspace/money?

now how many people plan to wait untill SM puts out another Railgame?

lets face it their are now 2 ( or posibly 3) compamies now trying their damndest to live up to Sid Myers Civ I, and (hopefully) one of them will pull it off.

and Brian/Sid made it perfecty clear he/they are/were not too interested in doing another Historical "CIV" in the near future.

(in fact looking at the "Sid" titals, Civ II is actualy an aberation, being the ony other sequal Sid tital that im aware of)

Just a thoght.

(ps in case you mised it,I think Civ 1 was slightly beter than Civ II, although I now l play Civ II more often, my bigest gripes with CIV II is the Easily bypased teck tree and the (their is no other word for it) Crapy "Civlopedia"(it would have been beter to put it in the manual)

.(um if i give the Deity level AI 3 teck advances each and 2 (instead of 1) settlers its STILL CHEATING?)

posted 12-09-98 04:16 AM ET            

I admit trepidation when I saw it by the gross in the discount warehouse stores.

posted 12-09-98 02:06 PM ET            

My coment about RRTII(literaly the best RR sim game Ive played yet )was a coment on the contant Bashing of any new Titals that use Civ as part of their titals.

my point is that

A: RRT WAS a SidMyers Tital

B: Sans Sid, RRTII is just as good without Sid as it was when Sid put his name and work into it.

C 1: Sid/Fraxis cant posibley do every type of game out their( visualise for example Sid Myerers Diablo . Sid Myers QUAKE, Sid M. SimCity3K or SidMyers Falcon 4.0)

C 2: speaking of SimCity 3k, while i have no Doubt that Sid Would do as good a job as the foks at Maxis, Maxis and RRTII does show that their are other companies and designer/programers out their just as good at what it is that they do as Sid/Brian/Fraxis

Incidentaly, their are curently very few Long term Historical sims sutche as Civ 1&2 out their, ond only 2 titals curently under development. that I aware of.and whille I personaly wish Sid and company would do Civ IV, i doubt they have any plans to do it antime soon

as a seperate note, I do have some problems with the Civ I/II modle, namly
1: no depetion of Resoces(in the real world, oil runs out, Gold/iron mines get mined out, even farmland can be ovferfarmed, ofvergrazed, supersaturated with "farming chemicals"(DDT, for example) , irigated untill the salt content reaches crop destroying levels, or eroded untill it stops producing.Even forest can be erased by slash/burn/and clearcuting
(granted it would take a 800 +mhz PIII to update the "time to depletion modles" for eath map eliment on the maximum size map in a reasonable lenth of time)