Topic: Civ 5 Will Let You Import and Convert Civ 4 Maps

[sam]

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

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/0616241/emCiv-5em-Will-Let-You-Import-and-Convert-emCiv-4em-Maps


-- so excited.

[GillE]

Very excited - I love playing Civ 4 Warlords.  It'll be interesting to see how the import of Civ 4 maps works alongside the hexagonal Civ 5 maps.

[sam]

have you played Civ: colonization? I always loved the original, but the new version is ace.

[GillE]

No, I haven't tried that.  Had I known earlier that it was available I would have given it a whirl, but now I think I'll wait for Civ5.

[sam]

oh its really pretty good. And of course if you want something else to have a go with while you are waiting:

Freeciv - http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Freecol - http://www.freecol.org/