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Beta is currently closed. Will reopen in March sometime.

I think the word approximate is rather important here...

Possibly this could be united in a sort of 'regional population'. So if you have lots of cities in a region with not much population, cities would be slow to grow. Possibly prestige could be divided into two categories: Local prestige - encouraging people to come from the surrounding ares Global prestige - people from further afield will come to your city These could be scaled by the prestige count (so you woul

No, but beta 2 will be the one after that (~2-3 weeks maybe?)

Yes, but due to various reasons there hasn't been a new beta for a while. They are skipping to beta 1G (ie 1E 1F and 1G all in one) which is to be released on Thursday

and what they mean by larger maps is the ones that are like more than 5x the size of a CivIV huge map taking months to complete.

You can tell Apple are getting successful - it now becomes cool to hate them. I can't remember where but Frogboy mentioned that he still likes Microsoft, and when they were a smallish company back in the early nineties they were the cool company to like.

Provided they aren't within say a month of each other there won't be a problem. Also I suspect that at least one of them won't get released on time anyway.

TBSs are like London buses [e digicons]:)[/e] Although try not to get yourself in too much competition with them, we all know everyone wants to play both at some point but given a choice at a store most would plump for Civ because it's already a well known title.

There is something like this in ETW but it's so badly implemented that I've never ever had a city surrender to me.

The game isn't released for at least (and I mean at least) six months, so it's not surprising they aren't doing much interviews etc. Plenty of info here though! If you want to try the beta, it will be opening up again for beta 2 around the end of the month maybe (they don't keep to rigid schedules ATM). It is a proper beta though, with rubbish graphics and lots of crashes currently.

Internet is not required for single player. However internet is required to play the beta currently (it makes updates and data fixing easier). So best to wait for release.

Look who's back. I thought you weren't returning until May Hortz?

Banned for slacking off

Be warned that the beta is very baisc currently. They are deliberately taking their time to get as much player feedback implemented before the release.

With respect to 2, essence limits cities a lot currently anyway. ICS isn't a viable strategy.

I lurk on too many SD forums. At original announcement.

well there's this picture

The beta will reopen for beta 2, which is scheduled for February sometime.

The spelling in the thread title isn't very amazing

Banned for misspelling Whisky

And animations are a type of graphic.

That is one impressive ego. And one impressive ban about to happen. Hortz, you seem to be under the impression that you are the master of the gaming industry and all games will fail unless they do exactly as you say. I'd like to see what your qualifications are because I suspect that they will be a lot less than BoogieBac's

Didn't take long did it?

There's a difference between making a theory to fit the evidence and making the evidence fit a theory. In the second category comes most conspiracy theories, since its the only way they can try to ignore the Himalayan scale amount of evidence against whatever they are claiming