Christopher Fowler:

• Hmm...seems a lot of people want Civilization in space. Just have Microprose add an option to have Civ III segue into Master of Orion II. Quite frankly it sounds like these people want another type of game besides Civilization.

P.J. McQuinn:

• How ever I feel that a lot of the mods you talk about can already happen by modifing the rules.txt. Want to play in space? Play MOO2! they have most of the stuff your contributers are talking about! besides sid meir deliberately stated that they made space colonisation the point so that the game would end.

George Fisher:

• I think that Civilization III would be best if you could have more interactiverty with other planets, so you can build cities on several different planets.

Murray Robinson:

• Galactic Empires Suggestion for CIV3

  Civ3 shouldn't stop when you have established a colony on Alpha Centauri. Civ3 should continue and allow you to build a galactic empire by exploring new planets, colonizing them, trading etc. Of course there would be new Alien races that you could discover and fight with. This adds a new challenge for the victorious but jaded Deity who has long ago conquered the earth. It would also be logical to allow players to colozine Mars. Perhaps with a new terraforming tech that would allow a new class of terraforming engineers and colonists. The Galactic Empire game should also define large numbers of new high technologies with appropriate new units, wonders and city improvements. Random events such as meteorite storms, radiation clouds in space, earthquakes in cities etc could also be fun.

John Hutchison:

• I think that once you get to space you should be able to colonize another planet.

Uzi Levin:

• Why stop at stealth? Make another wonder at the end of the game- the star wars program. I’m not talking just about SDI defense- I’m talking about spaceships battling each other over out of Earth resources, and laser bombardments by these spaceships at targets on Earth. I also suggest that cities will be able to build spy satellites that will reveal all the other armies and cities status. These satellites will have a short life span.

• (CIVILIZATION III in space) If you have the budget I suggest a whole different game in civilization 3. The beginning should be a short movie in which the end of civilization 2 will be told- all 7 civilizations sent space ships that started colonizing on seven different planets. Meanwhile, Earth was destroyed by an atomic war and all life on Earth were extinct. The seven civilizations start over than, with all the science that was in the end of civilization 2, this time the seven civilizations will be able to build spaceships that will act as transports, science will advance slowly and advances will be about discovering new components and new space ships parts, because all the scientists died on Earth. After a certain period these components will be assembled and create a new space ship, which will be the space version of the destroyer. With new advances bigger and more powerful spaceships will be built. These components will be built in cities like they were on civilization 2. The different civilizations will be able to invade enemy planets by a space transport (the knowledge for building a transport is already known by all civilizations) that will carry troops and/or engineers that will build cities and so they will be able to have their own inter-planetary war. When coming to a new planet you can use your own imagination- build volcanoes, toxic gazes, radiation that will effect the citizens, maybe different governments and tax rates to different planets. Super Nova’s, asteroids etc. Once a civilization conquers all the rest of the civilizations it should face a new enemy- alien species. If you really do civilization 3 in space, you must make the galactic map in 3 D , because- well, you know. One of the goals of the game will be to find Earth and then recolonize it (the radiation on Earth is over by then.). I believe that people will like this game because finding new star systems and then exploring them could be fun.

Casey Reinhard:

• I would suggest that once you've reached space, you should be able to continue building on space and on earth. This would improve all aspects of the game itself.

Erik Törnquist:

• Space! Before getting to another star (which I think you´ll need of more advanced technology) you should also be able to colonize the moon and neighbour planets. If you send a colony to Mars you´ll get more profit. Let´s say, 50% improved science and 50% improved income. (maybe this could be a new wonder?).