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I read somewhere on here that GalCiv was inspired by a boardgame. As a new GalCiv player, I'm already feeling the 'one more turn' syndrome that I have missed for so long in TBS gaming.

So, here is my wish....one of my favourite all time board games was Circus Maximus. (For those who've never heard of it, it was a recreation of the Roman chariot races. I have always longed for a developer to make a computer TBS game based upon it.

Yes, I know this is a fantasy...but if anyone could do it, I think Stardock could.

Cheers all.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
kept there would be alot of name rights to dipute cause thats the name of an X-box game already you should check it out though it might be what your looking for.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't think XBox made it a TBS game, whatever it is they did....and you don't have to make the game direct to comp...you could just base a game around the concept and make a good TBS.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Circus Maximus is older than the X-Box, if not Microsoft.

The only date I can find for it is 1993, but I played it in the 80s. It was by Avalon Hill (to whom many modern computer games - TBS and RTS - owe a great deal of inspiration).

~SDC~
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Circus Maximus is older than the X-Box, if not Microsoft.

The only date I can find for it is 1993, but I played it in the 80s. It was by Avalon Hill (to whom many modern computer games - TBS and RTS - owe a great deal of inspiration).

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, but Microsoft probably has a trademark on its name in the area of computer gaming.

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
By the way, if anyone is interested in playing great boardgames online, there a site called BrettSpielWelt which hosts free games of "Settler's of Catan", "Puerto Rico", "Carcassonne" and many other great games.

The only problem is that this site is entirely in German. There are a large number of English speakers there however who are always ready to help.

For more information, have a look at:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/index.php/BrettSpielWelt



http://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/index.php/BrettSpielWelt
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
I'd like to see us do a Something of Magic type game.. ;)

~SDC~
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
A... MOM? WHOA!

I remember coresponding with QuickSilver's Lead Designer and Project Lead about MoO3, way back when. They both mentioned to me that they had the managed to negotiate an option to do Master of Magic 2, if MoO3 was a serious hit. Seeing as MoO3 didn't even stay in the top 10 for more then a week in NA sales, I doubt that qualified. Don't know how much bother it would be negotiating use of the license from er... let's see... it was a SimTex game, distributed by Microprose... so Infogrames currently?

Wow. A *Something* of Magic? Drool... I bet you and your team could do it. Well. :D
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
For those who liked Master of Magic you could try www.pbegames.com for the Eldritch PBeM which was inspired by MOM. The moderator, Mark, is the best I've come across in twenty years of PBM/PBeM. The game database (magic items, spells, skills etc) has so many years of development in it that MoM just pales by comparison.

Forget licensing from Infogrames, just hire Mark instead and bring Eldritch to the PC :)
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
"I'd like to see us do a Something of Magic type game.."

If you do this, and you have a beta, please make it open to non-US residents, because I'll be there with bells on! :)
MoM is still one of my favourite turn based strategy games. With some GalCiv like AI and assuming you use tactical combat for it (it's important for MoM, since there's spells you can cast that can affect the outcome) it would be a fantastic game. :)


For the Circus Maximus fans above, the XBox game isn't a turn based game, but it is a chariot racing type of game. No idea if it's based on the old board game, since I hadn't heard of it.
But don't buy it. It's utterly pathetic. :)

~SDC~