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Civ 5 Will Let You Import and Convert Civ 4 Maps
bbretterson writes "From an interview Bitmob conducted with Civilization 5 Lead Designer Jon Shafer: 'You can import Civ 4 maps into the world builder and convert them into Civ 5 maps, including all the units and cities and stuff on it — the conversion process will just do that for you automatically. We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already.'"
Making it so that moving in every direction uses the same amount of movement to go the same distance. Unlike the diagonals on squire tiles in Civ 4.
The real question is why hexes weren't in use all along.
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Sheeze, just because it's not perfect, doesn't mean it's worthless. If you really want to play the old maps, stick to Civ IV.
Sheeze, if you don't want to see people notpicking on algorithmic and graph theory questions, don't read slashdot ;-)
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
I've never been into the Civ games, but I'd buy Alpha Centauri II. I wish Firaxis would develop it.
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As a discussion about Civilization increases in length, the probability that someone will suggest a sequel to Alpha Centauri approaches 1.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.