Comment Time Traveling Twins (Score 1) 604
If scientists in the future on a remote tropical island were to combine genetic material from yourself, John Carmack, Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto, Richard Garriott, and Peter Molyneaux, to create a super designer, that would be awesome.
My questions are as follows:
Is John Romero the result of the diminutive twin of this super designer being sent back in time to our era, as a result of what the scientist will call 'Project Daikatana'?
Will the super designer eventually aspire to become a 'governator'?
What would his trademark game Black & SimCivUltiDoom Brothers be like?
In the Your Lastest Pirates Game, did anyone every bother to do more than repeatedly press the up key during the dancing sequence so as to get it over with as quickly as possible the first time they tried it and then never dance again during Beta? [This was my approach]
As a corrollary in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, did you also ignore your girlfriends, until they just went away?
Who decided that it would be a good idea to include Advisor Videos in Civ 2? That was all Brian Reynolds wasn't it? Is that why you fired him?
Were you as disappointed in MOO3 as me?
Have you secretly implemented code in civ that sends playing tendancies onto the Defense Department to create a super intelligent machine that will be capable of conquering the world?
-- As a corollary: How exactly does the algorithm account for a guy on a chariot defeating a battleship? What secret techologies has the US Goverment incorporated into our Military to make it more whip resistant?
Why were shields used to represent production? Why not something like, or I don't know, how about swords, or candy bars, or women's pantyhose, those seem approximately as arbitrary and more fun!
Why doesn't unit movement scale to the size of the world? On a huge map it takes a battleship several year to cross the atlantic, this is non sense! Can I mod the game to make it scale appropriately?
As for battleships, (yes i am obsessed with them), the civ2 graphic was the best as was the corresponding civ 2 sounds effect, though the civ2 AEGIS crusier also looked awesome, kudos to that artist, did you tell him he is the master of 128x128 pixel art?
Was the fact that in civ 2 a pinkish color was used to represent transparency a subtle nod to the almighty Invisible Pink Unicorn, since he surrounds everything and we can't see him, but we have faith that he is pink?
On a huge map when you have 100's of units do you also enjoy spending half an hour a turn cycling through them all and moving them a few spaces, because they couldn't be group effectively and furterh if you did stack them up you make them vulnerable to nuclear attack, and bombardment by artillery?
I like the idea of units getting experience upgrades in Civ4, well they retain their upgrades, after they become obsolete and I have to upgrade them to the next level?
Will it be possible for the modding community, full of nut-jobs, such as myself, to give varying abilities to the different religions through the XML files or using the python scripts, that may fly in the face of political correctness and make Baby Jesus, Shiva, Buddha, Confucius, The Prophet, and Moses all cry simultaneously and guarantee that I go to every bad after life those religions promise me, If I believed in them and not Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, so help me Invisible Pink Unicorn?
As a corollary, and as a matter of political correctness (ties into your choice on religion), you did remember to make a branch in the tech tree so that the player can choose either the Theory of Evolution or Intelligent Design?
And since we don't want to offend anybody, could you preface every battle with the fact that the units aren't really fighting, but playing tag, and that when a unit loses said tag match it is not really killed, but sent to an invisible island un-accessible to the player where it is fed milk and honey by several dozen scantily clad virgins until the end of time (approximately 2020 AD as far as counts for score)?
Ok, so we are pretty good at Genetics now, where the hell is the Cure for Cancer that you promised me we you told me that I discovered it?
Any shots of you in a toga telling me about the alphabet after I discover it this one?
Now with the inclusion of different religions are you still gonna do the whole AD, BC thing on your time scale, that's a little too Christian don't you think? What if no country adopts Christianty, or they adopt in 100BC because they are a really good player? That doesn't make sense!!! Does it?!?! Ha Ha! I got you Sid Meier, I got you good, Tell Sorel that he and his little AI routines didn't see that one coming.
Did you adopt anything at all, from Civ:CTP I or II? [It's ok, you can tell us, we are all geeks here, nobody who would care to bring legal action against you for admitting such would be reading this site, we love open source and linux and cmdrtaco and dupes!]
Will you please post a link to website for some small group of modders that have very little monthly bandwidth allocation, that you really admire, in one of your responses so that they can be suitably slashdotted and perhaps even have to mortgage their parent's house to pay off the bill to their ISP?
Ok onto aircraft carriers, I think it would be cool if I made a scenario called the 'Final Countdown' where an aircraft carrier would be sent back in time to take on the entire Japanese Navy. Except in the scenario we would do more than just talk about stuff and shoot down, like, one Zero. That was lame. My concerns are as follows, said Aircraft Carrier would obviously not have any cities, is this doable? Or is it hard coded that the player will lose he doesn't have any cities left?
More on the Final Countdown, would it be possible to set the scenario up such that if the player was to make it to the point where they defeated the entire navy of Emperor Hirohito (who really was a war criminal btw ... I don't like him!) and advanced onto the main island of the Japanese Empire the classic 80's song Final Countdown by Europe would play? That would be awesome! It would be even cooler if you played this scenario with a full bag of Dorito's and $50 worth of pot.
If I am playing America on a huge map in this game, will Alaska still be impossible for me to inhabit due to the massive corruption penalties imposed by it's distance from Washington D.C.?
What do you name your cities after? I prefer naming them after friends and adding -town, or -ville to the end. My capital is always named after me, because I live there in the palace I constructed that looks the result of Taj Mahal, Pantheon, and Castle mating together.
Eagerly Anticipating Your Replies!
My questions are as follows:
Is John Romero the result of the diminutive twin of this super designer being sent back in time to our era, as a result of what the scientist will call 'Project Daikatana'?
Will the super designer eventually aspire to become a 'governator'?
What would his trademark game Black & SimCivUltiDoom Brothers be like?
In the Your Lastest Pirates Game, did anyone every bother to do more than repeatedly press the up key during the dancing sequence so as to get it over with as quickly as possible the first time they tried it and then never dance again during Beta? [This was my approach]
As a corrollary in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, did you also ignore your girlfriends, until they just went away?
Who decided that it would be a good idea to include Advisor Videos in Civ 2? That was all Brian Reynolds wasn't it? Is that why you fired him?
Were you as disappointed in MOO3 as me?
Have you secretly implemented code in civ that sends playing tendancies onto the Defense Department to create a super intelligent machine that will be capable of conquering the world?
-- As a corollary: How exactly does the algorithm account for a guy on a chariot defeating a battleship? What secret techologies has the US Goverment incorporated into our Military to make it more whip resistant?
Why were shields used to represent production? Why not something like, or I don't know, how about swords, or candy bars, or women's pantyhose, those seem approximately as arbitrary and more fun!
Why doesn't unit movement scale to the size of the world? On a huge map it takes a battleship several year to cross the atlantic, this is non sense! Can I mod the game to make it scale appropriately?
As for battleships, (yes i am obsessed with them), the civ2 graphic was the best as was the corresponding civ 2 sounds effect, though the civ2 AEGIS crusier also looked awesome, kudos to that artist, did you tell him he is the master of 128x128 pixel art?
Was the fact that in civ 2 a pinkish color was used to represent transparency a subtle nod to the almighty Invisible Pink Unicorn, since he surrounds everything and we can't see him, but we have faith that he is pink?
On a huge map when you have 100's of units do you also enjoy spending half an hour a turn cycling through them all and moving them a few spaces, because they couldn't be group effectively and furterh if you did stack them up you make them vulnerable to nuclear attack, and bombardment by artillery?
I like the idea of units getting experience upgrades in Civ4, well they retain their upgrades, after they become obsolete and I have to upgrade them to the next level?
Will it be possible for the modding community, full of nut-jobs, such as myself, to give varying abilities to the different religions through the XML files or using the python scripts, that may fly in the face of political correctness and make Baby Jesus, Shiva, Buddha, Confucius, The Prophet, and Moses all cry simultaneously and guarantee that I go to every bad after life those religions promise me, If I believed in them and not Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, so help me Invisible Pink Unicorn?
As a corollary, and as a matter of political correctness (ties into your choice on religion), you did remember to make a branch in the tech tree so that the player can choose either the Theory of Evolution or Intelligent Design?
And since we don't want to offend anybody, could you preface every battle with the fact that the units aren't really fighting, but playing tag, and that when a unit loses said tag match it is not really killed, but sent to an invisible island un-accessible to the player where it is fed milk and honey by several dozen scantily clad virgins until the end of time (approximately 2020 AD as far as counts for score)?
Ok, so we are pretty good at Genetics now, where the hell is the Cure for Cancer that you promised me we you told me that I discovered it?
Any shots of you in a toga telling me about the alphabet after I discover it this one?
Now with the inclusion of different religions are you still gonna do the whole AD, BC thing on your time scale, that's a little too Christian don't you think? What if no country adopts Christianty, or they adopt in 100BC because they are a really good player? That doesn't make sense!!! Does it?!?! Ha Ha! I got you Sid Meier, I got you good, Tell Sorel that he and his little AI routines didn't see that one coming.
Did you adopt anything at all, from Civ:CTP I or II? [It's ok, you can tell us, we are all geeks here, nobody who would care to bring legal action against you for admitting such would be reading this site, we love open source and linux and cmdrtaco and dupes!]
Will you please post a link to website for some small group of modders that have very little monthly bandwidth allocation, that you really admire, in one of your responses so that they can be suitably slashdotted and perhaps even have to mortgage their parent's house to pay off the bill to their ISP?
Ok onto aircraft carriers, I think it would be cool if I made a scenario called the 'Final Countdown' where an aircraft carrier would be sent back in time to take on the entire Japanese Navy. Except in the scenario we would do more than just talk about stuff and shoot down, like, one Zero. That was lame. My concerns are as follows, said Aircraft Carrier would obviously not have any cities, is this doable? Or is it hard coded that the player will lose he doesn't have any cities left?
More on the Final Countdown, would it be possible to set the scenario up such that if the player was to make it to the point where they defeated the entire navy of Emperor Hirohito (who really was a war criminal btw
If I am playing America on a huge map in this game, will Alaska still be impossible for me to inhabit due to the massive corruption penalties imposed by it's distance from Washington D.C.?
What do you name your cities after? I prefer naming them after friends and adding -town, or -ville to the end. My capital is always named after me, because I live there in the palace I constructed that looks the result of Taj Mahal, Pantheon, and Castle mating together.
Eagerly Anticipating Your Replies!
