Alpha Centari (about at the level of Civilization 2.5 feature-wise), could use a revamp along the lines of Civ3(more detailed terrain and more detailed entities, e.g. with battle damage being modeled on ships and with dying soldiers actually dying, )+Civ4(3D + quick zooming in and out - for super detail).
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Software is half art and half science... developing a truly new game is probably more art than science. If the architects go too far, they end up biting off more than they can chew - and there becomes a high risk of failure... the trick is to balance things so that the game is good/new enough that people will buy it, and that it can be developed in a reasonable amount of time so that revenues can be generated before the company's coffers run dry (Stardock offsets this phenomenon somewhat buy al
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For anyone who believes firmly in ANY projected software release date - I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona that I'd like to sell you. Complaining about slipped software release dates is like complaining that the cops in Tijuana are corrupt... no ship, Sherlock.
"Moonshadowing" is easy with a 3D engine... it depends on where you set up your "light source"... now (I'm not at a computer with a GalCiv2 executatble loaded so I can check), the REAL TRICK is if it is shadowed based on the location of the Sun in the Solar System in question. But, I bet the GalCiv2 programmers aren't that sophisticated, because they would have trouble handling the case when there are mutiple light sources (suns) appearing on the screen at the same
Unfourtunatly, by going to 3d we opened up a big friggin' can of worms that has to be delt with It is always darkest before the dawn... There is no doubt that going to 3D is the right decision. Keep pushing forward... we're on your side. Don't worry about all the crashes. - we understand that this was an
I didn't know about the multimedia package either... I installed it, and now the application crashes to a black screen after about 15 moves. Oh well; I wonder when the NEXT Beta release is?
I have a MOBILITY RADEON 9000 running on my DELL AMD-based laptop, with DirectX 9.0c, and my system crashes while LOADING (about 10-15 seconds after I hit NEXT from the CHOOSE OPPONENTS screen).
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