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Topic Subject: new civs coming in X-pack, quoted from ES!

Fish
Mortal

posted 09 November 2002 08:39 PM EDT (US)

I was messing with the gamesettings.bar, and found something extremly interesting written (obvioulsy by ES)

Quote:

alwaysActive

// disable Xpack civs
// Civilization = Babylonians / hide from player
// Civilization = Sumerians / hide from player
// Civilization = Lorciferans / hide from player
// Unlock date = 12OCT2003

What do you say about that? So the civs are the Babylonians, Sumerians and Lorciferans (who are the Lorciferans?)

PS: Source:

C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Mythology/startup/gamesettings.bar

ESO: Tarion, THoR_Tarion

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ToXiC TaNK
Mortal

posted 09 November 2002 08:40 PM EDT (US) 1 / 24

OK ITS BEEN POSTED BEFORE!!!(about 4 times now

)

What I just said is a lie.

Fish
Mortal

posted 09 November 2002 08:42 PM EDT (US) 2 / 24

ooops sorry....

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DarkKnight_
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posted 09 November 2002 08:44 PM EDT (US) 3 / 24

I missed the other 4 times..so..cool

sidgu
Mortal

posted 09 November 2002 09:25 PM EDT (US) 4 / 24

Its called "teasing" the customer .. something us programmers love to do .. add stuff that we KNOW people will dig up and then feel all 'smart and ingenius' .. lol

"Lorciferans"

Hahaha thats not even a word ... really and the Babylonians n Sumerians are so similar, that they might as well make Romans n Greeks.

Sorry to burst all your bubbles .. but 99.99% its plain gibberish, inserted by 'EVIL' programmers .. lol

Corran Horn
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posted 09 November 2002 09:42 PM EDT (US) 5 / 24

Yes, really. I don't think they'd even go to the trouble of researching Sumerian mythology. and October 12, 2003 sounds a bit late for an X-Pack. It took LucasArts about two months to come up with a very god X-Pack.

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Midgard Eagle
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posted 09 November 2002 09:53 PM EDT (US) 6 / 24

If you're reffereing to GB: Clone Campaigns, that wasn't a "very good" x-pack IMO..

that, and GB is 100% sprites. AoM is 100% models. I expect the x-pack, if there will be one, to be out AFTER october 12.

British Agent
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posted 09 November 2002 10:00 PM EDT (US) 7 / 24

of course it only took them 2 months, all they had to so was create some new models and ned campagins. They didn't even make the engine, they jus took i from ES, hell, they didnt even change costs for anything, the worker droids cost 50 food, jus like villies in AoK

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sidgu
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posted 09 November 2002 10:43 PM EDT (US) 8 / 24

Really unless ES plan to overhaul gameplay mechanics in their X-pack, neither do they need to a LOT of stuff.

And btw to the misinformed - its MUCH more 'quicker' (not easier, quicker) to make 3D models & animations than to make 2D sprites. Sprites need to be made for EVERY perspective for EVERY unit. Whereas once a 3D model is made and animated, done deal. Thats the power and convenience of 3D.

So from all your theories, it should take ES LESS than 2 months to pump out the X-pack.

Heh, anyhow, there is much more to a game (Xpack or otherwise) than just 3D models/2D sprites. Whenever the X-pack is released i can gurantee one thing - the new cultures are NOT going to those three listed above.

Maximus_
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posted 09 November 2002 10:47 PM EDT (US) 9 / 24

IMO Babylonians and Sumerians are too alike I think to be in the Expansion.

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The Great Q
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posted 09 November 2002 10:55 PM EDT (US) 10 / 24

The Babylonians pretty much are Sumerians... only a bit later. But they're all from Mesopotamia.

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hidur666
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posted 09 November 2002 11:12 PM EDT (US) 11 / 24

lol we were just studying mesopatamia in school...

lol

Quote:

UNLOCK DATE =

lmao

it would be funny if it was
1. Sumerians
2. Babylonians
3. Citizens of Ur

Kindof
Mortal

posted 09 November 2002 11:13 PM EDT (US) 12 / 24

Im pretty sure the Lorciferans were vassels of Persia

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unsualnymphe
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posted 09 November 2002 11:33 PM EDT (US) 13 / 24

X-pack!!! LOL that is great you got tripped by the programers BIG TIME (no offense)

Well they will make an x-pack eventualy but sorry man not with the...um...the who were those guys anyway. oh yes the Lorciferans mystery civ.

LOL nice try

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Watcher
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posted 10 November 2002 09:00 AM EDT (US) 14 / 24

why doesnt some one set 11 october 2003 in there clock I cant becaues my dad would kill me please some one

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Nyago
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posted 11 November 2002 03:47 AM EDT (US) 15 / 24

I might have liked to have seen, say, the Aztecs/Mayans/Incas as a choice, though sacrificing villagers to gain favor probably wouldn't go over well.

Zorodius
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posted 11 November 2002 05:17 AM EDT (US) 16 / 24

Quoted from sidgu:

That isn't true. A sprite can take more time than a 3D model, a 3D model can take more time than a sprite. In both cases, it depends on the amount of work the artist spends on it. Furthermore, later sprites were just snapshots of 3D models anyway.

Tyrannosaurus
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posted 11 November 2002 05:20 AM EDT (US) 17 / 24

I'm disappointed that those are the Xpack civs. Most of us don't know what the heck the Lorciferans were, and the Babylonians and Sumerians, IMHO, aren't too interesting. They should do Aztecs and maybe Hebrews (though the latter is not likely).

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Rusted Petard
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posted 11 November 2002 06:25 AM EDT (US) 18 / 24

Hey, I live next to some Lorciferans, and they would be pretty angry to find out that they don't exist.

Socrates
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posted 11 November 2002 06:59 AM EDT (US) 19 / 24

Quote:

I'm disappointed that those are the Xpack civs

Nothing has been confirmed, and like as not, this is just a joke or somesuch.

Matei
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posted 11 November 2002 07:45 AM EDT (US) 20 / 24

Guys, in case you haven't heard yet, it is a joke. Swinger said so on ESO. Lorciferans are a kind of small marine crustacean apparently, and why would ES put an unlock date in the file for the original game if you have to buy an expansion pack CD to play the expansion? It's just one of the many "Easter Eggs" in AoM.

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Rusted Petard
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posted 11 November 2002 08:18 AM EDT (US) 21 / 24

The Lorciferans that I live next to say that this *is no joke* and that the expansion will come out as described!

Get your credit cards ready for crustaceans going to battle with Sumerians in desert gear. Personally, I can't wait.

alLan Mandragoran
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posted 11 November 2002 09:12 AM EDT (US) 22 / 24

This is a joke, someone asked Swinger on ESO and he said it was for laughs

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Kaziglu Bey
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posted 11 November 2002 09:40 AM EDT (US) 23 / 24

This thread has been an amusing read too. Not sure exactly who's serious and who's not.

Cen_X
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posted 11 November 2002 11:24 AM EDT (US) 24 / 24

They should have Chinese. I miss them from aok.

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