A Civilization III Wish List

by

Donald C. Dimitroff

This page was last updated on: 2/19/1997

Avalon Hill's board game "Civilization" was made into a computer game by MicroProse. "Civ" was a wonderful game and Microprose greatly improved upon it with "Civ II". I am assuming that someday there will be a "Civ III" and below is list of ideas that I would like to see incorporated into the game. This is a list of "brainstormed" ideas. I would appreciate suggestions or coments to improve them.

Random thoughts:

All rules, wonders, advances are programmable. If you don't like a certain feature, turn it off.
Natural Wonders and/or Great Events - similar to the "hut" concept. This would be symbolized by a totem pole and like the huts the results could be very rewarding or big trouble.
Metropolis (with City Planning and Democracy) can be built in a city to increase its size from 5x5 (21 squares) to 7x7 (45 squares). Adjacent cities could then share resources with other cities. If a square is producing two shields, both cities get two shields.
Limited Nuclear Warfare randomly eliminates 0 to 5 squares from a city with each attack. Each "eliminated" squares would be shaded black to symbolize it has been completely nuked. The square can no longer produce food, shields, etc.
Field Hospitals (with Medicine and Mobile Warfare) are like forts. Wounded units which reach a field hospital are instantly cured.
Steamboats (Steam Engine) can transport 4 ground units 10 spaces along rivers.
Fishing boats (Astronomy) can harvest fish out at sea (50 turns?) and bring back food to a city.
Terraformers replace Engineers with the advance of Environmentalism. They can plant resources (at very slow rate): fruit, gold, oasis, etc.; they can change land into ocean and vice versa. You want to connect all your islands into one big continent? Use a terraformer! Is a neighboring nation always pestering you? Use a terraformer to create an ocean gap. A powerful unit that appears late in the game.
Scale changes are brought about by the new Wonders: Graceland (Luxury), Hubble Telescope (Science), and World Trade Center (Taxes). This gives you a "free" 10% in each category. If you have one of these wonders, you now have 110% to play with. If you have all three, you have 130% to play with. See the list of new wonders below.
Pontoon bridges(with Amphibious Warfare) can be built by Engineeers across one square of ocean (and only one square) to connect two land masses. Bridges could not be built across multiple ocean squares.
Assassination is a new option for spies. A spy could have a low probability of assassinating another nation's leader. If successful, the nation is thrown into anarchy and the capital city (with low probability) could revolt to your nation.
New city advances (to be expanded upon): use the "plumbing" advance already in the game, architecture, city planning, skyscrapers, conservation, communications (telecommunications, TV?)
Other random ideas (to be expanded upon): schools, museums, stadiums, movie theaters, shopping malls, migrant workers, double mining, secret service (stop assassinations?), force fields, perimeter guards, priests, androids (with Genetic Engineering and Robotics)

New Wonders

New Wonder	Available	Effect	Expires with:	Rationale
The Ancient Olympics	Alphabet	Allows movement of all land units at 1/3 rate across all types of terrain.	Philosophy	Olympic runners could run like the wind.
Berlin Wall	Communism	No diplomats/spies can enter your city (or the city in which it is built?)	New World Order	The Berlin Wall supposedly was designed to keep people out.
The Chunnel	Mobile Warfare and Mass Production	Roads/railroads can be built across ocean squares, with the stipulation that only one ocean square can be between the two ends of the road/railroad.	never	The English Isle is connected to the European continent.
DisneyWorld	Rocketry	Makes two unhappy people in each of your cities happy.	never	A modern version of the "cathedral".
Easter Island	?	?	?	?
Edison's Lab	Electricity	Science lab in each of your cities	never	Edison produced many scientific wonders of his day.
Ford's Production Line	Automobile	Manufacturing plant in each of your cities	never	Ford is the definition of the modern assembly line
Graceland	Architecture	Luxury scale now goes from 10% to 110%	never	The "King" is destined to keep his people happy.
Hubble Telescope	Space Flight	Science scale now goes from 10% to 110%	never	The Hubble Telescope has increase our knowledge of the universe.
Modern Olympics	?	All wars must cease for one turn every four years	never	All nations come together in peace.
New World Order	Environmentalism and Fanatacism	All nations must listen to your demands concerning war/peace treaties.	never	One nation will be the police force for the world?
Panama Canal	Sanitation and Steel	Sewer system in each of your cities	never	Flowing water
Pastuerization	Sanitation	Reduces pollution in by one unit (x units?) in each of your cities	Germ Warfare	Disease is often spread via poor sanitation.
Printing Press	Invention	Library in each of your cities.	never	Knowledge was spread quickly with the invention of the printing press.
Stonehenge	?	?	?	?
Taj Mahal	?	?	?	?
Vanderbilt's Empire	Railroad and Economics	All roads immediately become railroads.	never	Vanderbilt ruthlessly built his empire across America.
Vatican City	?	?	?	?
Versailles	?	?	?	?
World Trade Center	Corporation and Skyscrapers	Taxes scale now goes from 10% to 110%	never	World trade increases the money in your coffers

Natural Wonders/Great Events

Natural Wonder/Great Event	Available	Effect	Expires with:	Rationale
THe Amazon Jungle	after 1000 AD	All "red" units skip "yellow" and go to "green".	once, permanent	The Amazon Jungle may hold many miraculous cures.
The Big One (EarthQuake/San Andreas Fault)	entire game	One (or more) random structure(s) in each of your cities is destroyed (or one city itself is destroyed?)	repeatable	Who knows when or where the next big earthquake will strike?
Bubonic Plague	1000 AD to 1600 AD	Each of your cites and your allies cities lose two population units (which could wipe out a city). All other nations lose one population unit.	Immediate, one time	What other disease had such a disasterous effect on the history of the human race?
Chemical Warfare	Chemistry and Rocketry	Creates a special chemical warfare missile in your nearest city. The missile can be fired at another city and will reduce all farmland to irrigation, irrigated land to no irrigation, railroads to roads, etc. in the city squares of the effected city.	repeatable, but only one missile each time you get this	Limits the use of chemical weapons.
Dust Bowl	entire game	all plain squares in the radius of your nearest city become desert squares.	repeatable	Droughts have often changed the course of history.
Germ Warfare	Genetic Engineering and Rocketry	Gives you a special germ warfare missile in your city, which you can use. The missile can be fired at another city and will cut the population of that city in half.	repeatable, but only one missile each time you get this	Limits the use of biological weapons
The Great Barrier Reef	after 1800	Each of your coastal cities gets a coastal fortress.	never	A natural way limiting naval attacks.
The Great Depression	after 1900	all cities lose 1/2 their gold and your kingdom is thrown into anarchy for ten turns.	immediate, one time
Great Lakes	after 1400 AD	Creates an aqueduct in each of your cities.	never	Water flowing everywhere.
Hiddenburg Disaster	Flight	All aircraft are destroyed (some aircraft? nearest? one? most powerful?)	immediate, one time	World's most famous air disaster?
Rock of Gibraltar	game start	Add a barracks to every city	1 AD	A good early defensive wonder.
Quicksand!	game start	One unit from nearest city is lost if it is on a desert square	repeatable	It can be dangerous to explore.
Source of the Nile	game start	Increase population in capital by two.	1 AD	Fertile valley at the dawn of civilization.
Swarm of Locusts	entire game	cuts food production box in half in nearest city (every city?)	repeatable	Bugs can be a problem.
The Titanic	Steel	All ships are destroyed (some ships? nearest? one? most powerful?)	immediate, one time	World's most famous sea disaster?

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