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Continue This may well prove to be one of the most controversial reviews on this site as Ringworld is one of the staple foods of every SF reader. But a bit of perspective is called, I think. Ringworld itself, a colossal manufactured world circling the sun, containing enough space to solve the problem of overpopulation of any planet, is a conceptual gobsmacker. This may well be the most amazing period of the SF concept. For its influence and brilliance of ideas, Ringworld richly deserves its classic status. However, pass the Big Idea, and the actual ringworld story is a whisper of a subtle thing, a surprisingly low-key tale of extraterrestrial discoveries in which not the whole heck of a lot really happens to capture you for short and curlies, and with enough unanswered questions that Niven was essentially putting in the position of having to write a sequel a decade later in order to settle them and stop his fans from grousing. (Later, he'll turn the entire shebang into a franchise.) Ringworld is a good but not great novel that almost rises to its premise, but runs rings around delivering full satisfaction. Louis Wu, a frustrated countryman, was approached on his 200th birthday by Nessus, a quasi-horse alien known as a puppeteer because of the two flat heads he sports on his long necks. Ness is looking for a small team of aliens to accompany him on a deep space journey, the purpose of which he annoyingly secretive. Another crew speaker-to-animal, a member of Niven's hugely popular feline race Kzin, and Teela Brown, a young Earth girl who is included for reasons that constitute an almost abuse suspension of disbelief. Puppeteers run from the wave front of radiation emanating from the chain reaction of supernovae, which occurred in the galactic nucleus. Now we are told that the species of puppeteers are known primarily for their timidity. At the slightest threat, they twist into a small ball like doodles, and they are so afraid of spaceships that they designed their worlds to fly through space. Niven here strains credulity to the tipping point. It's not so unimaginable what kind of species can come up to turn its own planet into a spaceship, but wouldn't the kind of that balls at the slightest provocation do just that when presented armageddon itself? Transforming, not just one, but five worlds into the formation of flying spacecraft takes just a little gut, grit and determination, the attributes niven goes to great effort to assure us the puppeteers do not possess. Well, Niven solves this issue by breaking his own rules. Nessus was chosen by Hindmost, the puppeteer leader (and the witty title he is too) to undertake this journey, because by puppeteer standards he is crazy: Nessus shows no fear of response in the way normal puppeteers are expected. So Nessus, and company head into the blackness of the void aboard long shot, a puppet ship puppeteer by FTL Drive (Nessus offered Wu and Speaker technology to drive as an incentive to come), and soon flat they arrive at Ringworld. The novel is a pleasant escapism up to this point, even when Niven asks readers to cut his heap of slack. Once we're down on the Ringworld surface, however, readers' expectations are challenging in both a good and a bad way. On the one hand, it's good that Niven sticks to his hard SF roots and doesn't turn the story into a Star Trek episode once the characters are forced to crash the ground. Ringworld is staggeringly huge, a million miles wide (about four times the distance from Earth to the moon), and so our heroes cover very little land as the story progresses. Much of the action of the second half of the book involves a lot of lightning around on little personal flycycles, and our only real goal is our characters to find a way to save their spacecraft and get away. Abstaining from the real expectation, the ingredient one might consider essential to any good adventure yarn, is notable. After all, the inhabitants of Ringworld are discovered living in the ruins of a once great but decidedly short-lived civilization. Niven devotes an appropriate narrative space to speculation about why Ringworld's civilization failed, but the craziest thing in the book is that we will never know anything about Ringworld engineers of any significance. (How is it that they are almost human!?) Which, as I mentioned above, why Niven eventually had to cave in the pressure to write a sequel. Yes, there are miracles here. A brief detour of the characters of the puppet native world more than adequately evokes a sense of alien exoticism. As mentioned earlier, Ringworld itself is the mother of all SFnal concepts. And our quartet of heroes is well drawn. They attract us if some aspects of the plot are not present, and we follow the story for their sake. You should definitely read this book (hell, you should definitely read Niven Period). Books that take both Hugo and Nebula are generally considered sacred, so I'm sure there will be many who disagree with my nitpicks. As always, your mileage can vary. This was my third time to read this book when I reread it for review on this site, and my opinion didn't noticeably change, although some areas of confusion from past readings have been cleared for me. I found myself comparing Ringworld to a similar novel, Arthur C. Clarke's rendezvous with Rama. Both tales about the discovery and exploration of a dazzling alien artifact, an independent world. Clark, I thought better conveyed that sense of otherworldly mystery, suspense, and wonder, though Niven would surely beat him on a scale. The fact is that size doesn't always matter. Followed by Ringworld Engineers. Last September Goldsman made a first-look deal for MGM that encouraged him to write and executive A series adaptation of Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and in a recent interview with Collider, he revealed that Game of Thrones helmer Alan Taylor will direct the pilot. First published in 1970, Ringworld followed Ringworld Engineers in 1980, Ringworld Throne in 1996, Ringworld Kids in 2004 and 2012 Destiny of the Worlds, which Niven first with Edward M. Lerner. Fate of Worlds is also a sequel to the four-book Fleet of Worlds series, which is set in the same famous space universe as Ringworld. Image via Paramount Ringworld tells the story of Louis Gridley Wu, who is celebrating his 200th birthday in a technologically advanced Earth in the distant future. Constantly bored, he accepts an offer to join a young woman and two aliens on a thriller journey to explore Ringworld, a remote artificial ring behind a famous space, and uncover the mysteries of the ring. Goldsman told The Collider he was actively working on writing a Ringworld pilot, having just jumped off a note call with Amazon and MGM executives. Alan Taylor is attached to the straight, and we hope to turn into an actual set of moving photos, but God knows, said Goldsman, who, like all writer-producers in Hollywood, is no stranger to having projects get stuck in the development of hell. Ringworld has been in the works at Amazon since September 2017, and it seems to be finally moving forward now that Goldsman has started writing and Taylor is on board to direct. Amazon has certainly been focused on finding its next breakout hit, investing hundreds of millions in the Lord of the Rings series and another based on Wheel of Time books. The streamer has Utopia and the Underground Railroad on the horizon. Goldsman declined to answer a question about Amazon's strategy, but seemed confident of Ringworld's potential to lure fans of the genre. I don't know what Amazon is looking for, but they seem like these are big objects that have scale and scale if you go all the way back, that original game with the man in the high castle, Goldsman said. I think these are big, comprehensive universes, there are very few of them still available, and I certainly think the famous space is one of them, for those of us who were Larry Niven fans in our school years. Niven's world, its universe, dare I say it, is incredibly complex and nuanced, and Ringworld has always been this entry point. Better minds than mine have tried to crack it, but hopefully we'll do it this time. Taylor is as sturdy a hand as you'll find to direct a pilot for a big-budget sci-fi/fantasy series. In addition to directing numerous episodes of Game of Thrones, he directed the top HBO series such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood, Carnival, Oz, Six Feet Under, Rome, Big Love, Boardwalk Empire, Bored to Death and In Treatment. They basically have it on on Over there. On the feature side, Taylor is best known for directing Thor: Dark World and Terminator: Genisys, and he's the soprano prequel to Newark's many Saints in Can awaiting release on March 12, 2021. It is presented by UTA. Check out what Akiva Goldsman told us below: For more from our exclusive interview with Goldsman, here's what he said about the possible Fringe reboot as his scrapping of the Batman v Superman movie was the darkest thing you've ever seen, and an update on the amazing adventures of Cavalier and Clay series in development on Showtime. - 1970 sci-fi novel Larry Niven Ringworld Paperback first editionAutorri NivenIllustratorDean EllisCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSeriesRingworld plot from the famous SpaceGenreScience fictionPublisherBallantine BooksPublication dateOctuber 1970Media TypePrint (hardcover, hardcover, paperback), audiobookPages342 pagesAwardsLocus Award for best novel (1971)ISBN0-345-02046-4After Ringworld Engineers, 1980 Ringworld is a 1970 sci-fi novel by Larry Niven, set in his famous space universe and is considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his mission comrades in Ringworld, a rotating space station wheel, an alien design in space 186 million miles (299 million kilometers) in diameter. Niven later added three sequel novels, followed by cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; The five last novels constitute a series of fleet of worlds. All Ringworld novels are associated with a variety of other books set in a known space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus Award in 1971. The plot resumes on planet Earth in 2850 AD, Louis Gridley Wu celebrates his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in excellent physical condition (due to the longevity of the drug boosterspice). He is bored again with human society and is thinking about taking one of his periodic vacations, one on a spaceship far from other people. He meets Nessus, Pearson's puppeteer, who offers him a mysterious job. Intrigued, Louis eventually accepts. Speaker to Animals (speaker), who is Xin, and Tiela Brown, a young female man who becomes Louis' lover, also join the team. First, they go to the puppeteer's home world, where they learn that the purpose of the expedition is to explore the Ring World, a giant artificial ring, to see if it poses any threat. Ringworld is about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) wide and roughly the diameter of the Earth's orbit (which is about 584.3 million miles or 940.4 million kilometers in circumference) surrounding the solar star. It rotates to ensure gravity is 99.2% stronger than the earth from centrifugal force. Ringworld has a habitable, flat inner surface (equivalent in area about millions of Earth), breathing atmosphere and temperature optimal for humans. The night is provided by an inner ring of shadow squares, which are connected to each other by a thin, super-strong wire. When the crew completes their mission, they will be given a starship in which they have gone to the home world of the puppeteer; it orders of magnitude faster than any possessed by humans or Kzinti. When they reach the proximity of Ringworld, they cannot contact anyone, and their ship, The Lying Bastard, is disabled by Ringworld's automated meteoroid protection system. The badly damaged vessel collides with a thread of wire in the shade and falls near the huge mountain Fist of God. While many of the ship's systems survive intact the normal disk collapses leaving them unable to launch back into space, where they could use an intact faster light than a hyperdrive to return home. They set out to find a way to get the Lying Bastard from Ringworld. Using their flycycles (similar to anti-gravity motorcycles), they try to get to the edge of the ring, where they hope to find some technology that will help them. It will take them a few months to cross a great distance. When Tiel develops a plateau trance (a kind of highway hypnosis), they are forced to land. On earth, they encounter seemingly primitive natives who live in the crumbling ruins of a once-advanced city and think that the crew are the engineers who created the ring, and whom they revere as gods. Crews are attacked when they commit what natives consider blasphemy (abuse of certain technologies). They continue their journey, during which Nessus reveals some of the secrets of the puppet: they conducted experiments on both people (breeding for good luck through the Birthright lottery: all of Thiel's ancestors for six generations were born from winning the lottery) and Kzinti (breeding to reduce aggression through the Man-Xing wars that Xinti always lost). The Speaker's indignation forces Nessus to run and follow them from a safe distance. In a floating building above the ruins of the city, they find a map of the Ring World and a video of its past civilization. During the flight through a giant storm caused by the release of air through a hole in the ring floor due to a meteor impact, Tiel is separated from the others. While Louis and the speaker look for her, their flycycles are caught by automatic police traps designed to catch traffic offenders. They were trapped in the basement of a floating police station. Ness enters the station to try to help them. When her ship returned to Ringworld for the last time, they found civilization collapsed. Crews managed to enter Ringworld but some were killed others suffered brain damage when a device that allowed them to pass through the ringworld floor failed. From her account, Louis suggests that the mold was brought from one of the other planets by a spaceship like that of Brill; it broke the superconductors vital to the civilization of Ringworld, dooming it. Tiel reaches the police station accompanied by her new lover, a native hero named Seeker, who helped her survive. Based on the insight gained from studying the ancient Ringworld map, Louis came up with a plan to go home. Thiela, however, decides to stay at Ringworld with The Seeker. Louis, who was previously skeptical about breeding for good luck, now wonders whether the whole mission was caused by Tiela's luck to combine her with her true love and help her mature. The party collects one end of the shadow square wire, which was snapped when the ship crashed. They return to their wrecked ship in a floating police station, dragging the wire behind them. Louis pierces him through the ship to tie him to the police station. He then takes the police station to the top of the Fist of God, a huge mountain near the crash site. The mountain did not appear on the Ringworld map, which led Louis to conclude that it was actually the result of a meteor strike from the bottom of the ring that pushed the mountain out of the ring floor and broke through. Thus, the top of the mountain, above the atmosphere, is only a hole in the floor of Ringworld. Louis drives the police station over the edge, dragging the lying Bastard with him. Ringworld rotates very quickly, so once the ship falls through the hole and clears the ring, they can use the ship's hyperdrive to get home. The book concludes with Louis and the Speaker discussing a return to Ringworld. Admission Algis Budrys found Ringworld to be excellent and entertaining... gossiped together very skilfully and continue at a fairly smooth pace. Praising the novel as a whole, he accused Niven of relying on inconsistencies in evolution in his extrapolation to support his fictional premises. Concepts reused in addition to two aliens, Niven includes a number of concepts from other known space stories: the Common Puppeteers' Corps, which are immune to any known force other than visible light and gravity, and have long been indestructible by anything other than antimatter. The prequels of the Fleet of Worlds show two other ways of destroying the hulls. The slaver stagnation field, which causes time in the enclosed volume to stand still; since time for all intents and purposes has ceased for the object in stasis, no harm can come to anything in the field. The idea that luck is a genetic trait that can be reinforced by selective breeding. Tasp, a device that is remotely The center of pleasure of the brain; it temporarily disables its target and and very psychologically addictive. If the subject cannot, for whatever reason, gain access to the device, intense depression can result, often to the point of madness or suicide. To use tasp on someone from hiding, freeing them from anger or depression, is called to make your day. Boosterspice, a drug that restores or indefinitely retains youth. Scrith, the metal-like substance of which Ringworld is built (and presumably shadow and wire squares too), which has a tense strength nearly equal in magnitude to a strong nuclear power. This makes it an example of unsullied. It's similar to the twing Pak Protector used in other Larry Niven stories. Shock armor, a flexible form of clothing that instantly hardens into a rigid shape stronger steel with rapid deformation, like certain types of bulletproof vests. Hyperspace shunt, engine for faster than easy travel, but slow enough (1 light year in 3 days, 122 in) to keep the galaxy huge and unknown; The new quantum II hyperspace shunt, designed by puppeteers but not yet released to humans, can cross the light year in just 1.25 minutes (421,000 s). Current to the point of teleportation at the speed of light is possible with the transmission of the cockpit (on Earth) and stepped discs (to the puppeteer native world); on Earth, the sense of place and the global position of people has been lost as a result of instant travel; cities and cultures mingled. The theme well covered in the novel is that cultures suffer technological glitches that then proceed to return to belief systems on religious grounds. Most Ringworld societies have forgotten that they live on an artificial structure, and now attribute the phenomena and origin of their world to divine power. The Error Artist's rendition of The Opening Chapter of the original Ringworld paperback edition featured Louis Wu teleporting east around the Earth in order to extend his birthday. Moving in this direction will, in fact, make local time later than before, so Wu will soon arrive early in the next morning of the calendar day. Niven was endlessly teased about this error, which he corrected in subsequent seals to show Wu teleportation to the west. In his dedication to Ringworld engineers, Niven wrote: If you have the first edition in the paperback of Ringworld, then this is the one with errors in it. After the publication of Ringworld, many fans identified numerous engineering problems in Ringworld described in the novel. One major was that Ringworld, being a rigid structure, wasn't really in orbit around the star it surrounded, and eventually drifted, eventually colliding with its sun and disintegrating. This led MIT students to attend the 1971 Worldcon, chanting: The world of rings is unstable! Niven wrote a 1980 sequel to Ringworld Engineers as part of the solution solution engineering issues. In it, the ring is found to have a system of relationship jets at the top of the rim wall, but Ringworld has become seriously endangered because most of the jets have been removed by natives to power their interstellar ships. (The natives forgot the original purpose of the jets.) The second chapter refers to the standard gravity of the Earth as 9.98 m/s2, while the standard gravity of the Earth is 9.81 m/s2. Chapter 8 is called a 0.992 ji bolt, and later Ringworld's gravity is called 9.94 m/s2. In the fifth chapter, Nereid is referred to as neptune's largest moon; The biggest moon on the planet is Triton. The influence of Ringworld Ringworld, or more formally, Niven ring, has become a common term for such a structure, which is an example of what science fiction fans call the Big Dumb Object, or more formally megastructure. Other science fiction authors have developed their own versions of Niven's Ringworld, notably Iain M. Banks' Culture Orbitals, best described as miniature Ringworlds, and the ring-shaped structures of the Halo Halo video game series Halo. Ringworlds are featured in several video games such as Paradox Interactive's 4X Grand Strategy game Stellaris, Blind Mind Studios' Star Ruler 2, and Malfador Shenanigans Space Empire series. Adaptations Games In 1984, a role-playing game based on this setup was created by Chaosium under the name The Ringworld Roleplaying Game. The RPG information, along with notes written by RPG author John Hewitt and Niven, was later used to form the Bible given to the authors writing in the War of the Man-Kzin series. Niven himself recommended That Hewitt write one of the stories for the two original MKW books, although it never happened. Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch was released in 1992 and Return to Ringworld in 1994. The third game, Ringworld: Within ARM's Reach, was also scheduled but never completed. The video game franchise Halo, created by Bungie and currently handled by 343 Industries, drew inspiration from the book in creating and developing its story around the rings of the same name. In 2017, Paradox Interactive added a DLC called Utopia to its Stellaris game, allowing the player to build Ringworld or other megastructures such as Dyson and Habitat Station, or restore the ancient kind of precursors. The massively multiplayer online game Shores Of Hazeron by Software Engineering Inc. features abandoned ringworld structures for players to discover and colonize. Ringworlds in the shores of Hazelon are the creations of ancient species of predecessors not featured in the game. In addition to acting as housing centers, these rings have features such as self-saving power generation, creating interstellar wormholes, and simulated day-night cycles through orbital solar On the screen there are there many interrupted attempts to adapt the novel to the screen. In 2001, Larry Niven announced that the deal with the film had been signed and was in the early stages of planning. In 2004, Sci-Fi Channel announced that it was developing the Ringworld miniseries. The series never came true. In 2013, the channel again announced that the mini-series of the novel is in development. This proposed four-hour miniseries was written by Michael R. Perry and would have been co-produced between MGM Television and Universal Cable Productions. In 2017, Amazon announced that Ringworld is one of three sci-fi series it is developing for its streaming service. MGM was again listed as a co-producer. The manga OEL Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment published a two-square original English-language manga Ringworld, with a script written by Robert Mundell and a work by Sean Lam. Part 2 was released on November 10, 2015. In other works In The Plane D'D, the city of Sigil sits atop a giant spire that the land revolves around, which is portrayed as Niven Ringworld, that all other planes have representative the city on. Terry Pratchett intended his 1981 novel Strata to be Ringworld's urine-mail/tribute/satire. Niven took it in a good mood and enjoyed the work. The plot of the first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved for Xbox, Windows and Mac OS X also takes place on the artificial structure of the ring. Similarities with Ringworld were noted in the game, and Niven was asked (but refused) to write the first novel based on the series. All in Fun by Jerry Altion in Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2009, mentions the true big-budget ringworld adaptation. In Ernest Kline's 2011 novel Ready Player One, one of the sectors of OASIS, the worldwide virtual reality network that is the novel's main setting, is referred to as the Ringworld adaptation. The 1987 novel The Alexandria Ring by William R. Forstchen happens in the ring just like Niven. See also the Romance Portal Bishop Ring (Habitat) Dyson Sphere Megastructure Orbital (Culture) Orbital Ring Ring Ring Engineers (1980) Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld Children's (2004) Stanford Thor Links 1970 Award winners and nominees. Worlds without end. Received 2009-07-20. Winners of the 1971 award and nominees. Worlds without end. Received 2009-07-20. - Ghahazi, Adam (September 4, 2004). Can we build Ringworld?. Popular mechanics. Galaxy Bookshelf, Galaxy, March 1971, p.112-13 - Fantastic Reviews: Larry Niven Interview. August 2004. Archive from the original 2009-10-26. Received 2009-05-10. Niven, Larry (1980). Teh Engineers. New York: Books of Ballantine (Del Rey). p. vii. ISBN 0-345-33430-2. Scatterbrain, page 293-301 - Stellaris on Steam. store.steampowered.com. Received 2019-02-15. Ringworld Movie is around the corner from Space.com. Space.com. 2000-11-06. Archive from the original for 2010-08-31. Received 2010-06-28. Ringworld Movie News from the Famous Space: Future Worlds of Larry Niven and Patrick Sauriola (April 6, 2004). Sci Fi Channel goes supernova with new shows, TV series and specials. Sci-fi channel. Archive from the original 2006-10-06. Ringworld miniseries in Syfy. ew.com. 2013-04-10. Received 2013-04-11. Birnbaum, Debra (2017-09-28). Amazon is increasing production costs for 2018 by developing three new sci-fi series. Different. Ringworld: Graphic novel, part one - Pratchett's annotated file v9.0 - Strata. Lspace.org. Received 2010-06-28. Perry, Douglas K. (2007-03-17). Influence of literature and myths in video games. Ign. Archive from the original for 2009-02-20. Received 2007-12-10. Author of Halo, who was not. Bungee Sights. 2003-03-05. Received 2007-10-04. - Condensed version of information found on Niven's own website: Link Archive 2009-02-20 to Wayback Machine External Links Imperfect Known Space Consent- Appendix: Ringworld Encyclopedia of The Famous Space: Ringworld Physical Settings Ringworld in the Worlds Without End of Ring Physics Ringworld Aspects of Ringworld Ringworlds are derived from 2Genre Strategy based on video and board games This article is about desktop and video game subgenre. For other purposes, see 4X (disambigation). Detailed empire management, seen here in Freeciv, is a central aspect of the 4X game strategy. Part of the series on: Strategy video game Subgenres 4X Auto Battler Multiplayer online battle arena in real time Time Management In real time Tactics Tactical Role-Playing Tower Defense Turn-Country Strategy Artillery Tactics Game Wargame Lists 4X Video Game List of Grandiose Strategic Video Games List of Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Games List of massively multiplayer online by-turn strategy games List of multiplayer online battle arena video games List in real-time video game strategy List in real-time video game tactics List tactical role-playing video games List by turn video game strategy List by turn video game tactics vte 4X (short explore, expand, Exploit, Exterminate is a subgenre of computer and board games, based on strategy, and include both in turn and in real-time strategy names. The gameplay involves building an empire. Particular attention is paid to the economic and development, as well as a number of routes to supremacy. The earliest 4X games borrowed ideas from board games and text computer games from the 1970s. The first 4X computer games were in turn, but real-time 4X games are not uncommon. Many 4X computer games were published in the mid-1990s, but were later resold by other types of strategic games. Sid Meyer's civilization is an important example from this formative era, and popularized the level of detail that later became a staple of the genre. In the new millennium, several 4X releases have become critical and commercially successful. In the desktop (and card) domain, 4X is a less distinct genre, in part because of the practical limitations of components and game time. Civilization is a persistent game that spawned the civilization of Sid Meyer's computer game, for example, has no intelligence and no extermination. If the extermination is not aimed at unplayable entities, it is usually either almost impossible (due to the balance mechanisms of the game, as the elimination of the player is usually considered an undesirable feature) or, of course, unattainable (because the conditions of victory are triggered before the destruction can be completed) in board games. Identifying 4X computer games such as Master Orion II let the empire explore the map, expanding by creating new colonies and exploiting its resources. The game can be won either by becoming the chosen leader of the galaxy, or by destroying all opponents. The term 4X comes from the 1993 preview of Master of Orion's computer game world by game writer Alan Emrich, where he rated the game XXXX as a pun on XXX rated pornography. The four Xs were abbreviations for EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate. Since then, others have adopted the term to describe games of similar scale and design. By February 1994, another author in the magazine said that Command Adventures: Starship only pays four X's in words only, and other game commentators adopted the 4X label to describe the game genre with specific gameplay conventions: Expansion means that players are claiming new territory, creating new settlements and sometimes expanding the influence of existing settlements. Use means that players collect and use resources in the areas they control and increase the efficiency of that use. Destruction means attacking and eliminating rival players. Since in some games the entire territory is eventually claimed, eliminating the presence of the opponent may be the only way to achieve further expansion. These four gameplay elements have been described as four phases of a 4X computer game session. For example, the space empire series and Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar have a long stage of expansion because the players a major investment in research to study and expand in each area. The modern definition of modern use, 4X games are different from other strategic games such as Command and Conquer, in their greater complexity and scale, and their integrated use of diplomacy. Reviewers also said that 4X games have a number of diplomatic options, and that they are well known for their large detailed empires and complex gameplay. In particular, 4X games offer detailed control over the empire's economy, while other computer strategy games simplify this in favor of combat gameplay. The game design of 4X computer and board games is a subgenre strategy based on games, and include both by turns and real-time strategy titles. The gameplay involves building an empire that takes place in conditions such as Earth, the fantasy world, or in space. Each player takes control of a different civilization or race with unique characteristics and strengths. Most 4X games represent these racial differences with a collection of economic and military bonuses. Research and Technology Is One Part of the Freeciv Technology Tree. Notice the complex relationship between technologies. 4X games usually have tree technology, which is a series of advances that players can unlock to get new units, buildings and other features. Technological trees in 4X games tend to be larger than in other strategic games, showing a greater selection of options. Empires must generate research resources and invest them in new technologies. In 4X games, the key to researching advanced technology is knowledge of earlier technologies. This is in contrast to strategies, not that 4X is real-time, where technological progress is achieved by creating structures that provide access to more advanced structures and units. Research is important in 4X games because technological progress is the engine of conquest. Battles were often won by excellent military technology or more, and combat tactics played a lesser role. Combat Combat is an important part of the 4X gameplay because 4X games allow the player to win by destroying all rival players, or by winning the threshold number of the game universe. Some 4X games, such as Galactic Civilizations, allow battles automatically whenever two opposing units meet. This is in contrast to other 4X games such as Master of Orion, which allow players to control battles on the tactical combat screen. Even in 4X games with more detailed control over battles, victory is usually determined by superb numbers and technology, with combat tactics playing Part of the 4X games are different from other combat- focused strategic games, giving more attention to research and economics. The study of new technologies will provide access to new combat units. Some 4X games even allow players to explore different unit components. This is more typical of space 4X games, where players can assemble a spacecraft from a variety of engines, shields and weapons. The peaceful competition of 4X games allows rival players to engage in diplomacy. While some strategic games may offer a common victory and team game, diplomatic relations are usually limited to a binary choice between an ally or an enemy. 4X games often allow for more complex diplomatic relations between competitors who are not on the same team. In addition to building allies and enemies, players can also trade resources and information with rivals. In addition to winning through conquest, 4X games often offer peaceful victory conditions or goals that are not associated with the extermination of rival players (although war may still be a necessary over-product of achieving that goal). For example, a 4X game can offer a victory to a player who reaches a certain score or the highest score after a certain number of turns. Many 4X games award victory to the first player to master advanced technology, accumulate a large amount of culture, or complete impressive achievements. Several 4X games award a diplomatic victory to anyone who can win elections, elections, elections, elections that have been decided by their rival players, or maintain peace during a certain number of turns. Galactic Civilization has a diplomatic victory that includes alliances with at least four factions, no factions outside their alliance; There are two ways to do this: unite with all factions, or ally at least a minimum number of factions and destroy the rest. The complexity of 4X games is known for its complex gameplay and strategic depth. Gameplay usually takes precedence over complex graphics. While other strategic games focus on combat, 4X games also offer more detailed control over diplomacy, economics and research; Creating opportunities for different strategies. It also challenges the player to manage multiple strategies at the same time and plan long-term goals. To experience a detailed model of the big empire, 4X games are designed with a complex set of rules of the game. For example, a player's performance may be limited to pollution. Players may have to balance their budget, such as managing debt or paying maintenance costs. 4X games often model political challenges such as civil or the Senate, which can oust a political party player or make them rest. FreeCol is typical of 4X games, where there is a separate interface to manage each settlement. Such complexity players to manage more information than other strategic games. Game designers often organize empire management in a variety of interface screens and modes, such as a separate screen for diplomacy, management of individual settlements, and management of combat tactics. Sometimes systems are complex enough to resemble a mini-game. This is unlike most real-time strategic games. Dune II, which may have created conventions for genre strategy in real time, was fundamentally designed to be a flat interface, without additional screens. Gameplay C 4X games include managing a large, detailed empire, game sessions usually last longer than other strategic games. Game sessions may take hours of game time, which can be particularly problematic for multiplayer matches. For example, a small-scale game in Sins of a Solar Empire can last more than twelve hours. However, fans of the genre often expect and accept these long gaming sessions; Emrich wrote that when different parts are properly designed, the other X seems to follow. Words such as EXcite, EXperiment and EXcuses (for other significant ones). In turn, 4X games usually divide these sessions into hundreds of gameplay twists. Due to repetitive actions and long-term gaming, 4X has been criticized for over-management. In the early stages of the game this is usually not a problem, but later in the game the guide of numerous empire settlements may take a few minutes to play one turn. This increases play time, which is a particular burden in multiplayer games. 4X games began to offer AI governors to automate micromanagement orders of the colony, but players criticized these governors for bad decisions. In response, developers have tried other approaches to reducing micromanagement, and some approaches have been more well received than others. Commentators generally agree that Galactic Civilizations GamingNexus.com, which is not due to the use of game programmable governors. Sins of a Solar Empire was designed to reduce incentives for micromanagement, and reviewers found that the game's interface made managing the empire more elegant. On the other hand, Master Orion III reduced micromanagement by limiting the player's total control over his empire. History Origin's Sid Meyer, creator of the 4X series Civilization Early 4X, influenced by board games and text computer games from the 1970s. Although Andromeda Conquest was only a simple game of empire expansion, Reach for the Stars introduced a link between economic growth, technological progress and In 1991, Sid Meyer released Civilization and popularized the level of detail that became common in the genre. Sid Meyer's civilization was influenced by board games such as Risk and the infusion game Avalon Hill, also called Civilization. The importance of diplomacy and technological progress is a notable similarity between the computer game Civilization and the infusion game. Sid Meyer's civilization was also influenced by personal computer games such as the city management game SimCity and Wargame Empire. Civilization has become widely successful and has influenced many 4X games in the future; Computer Gaming World compared its importance to computer games with wheeled games. The Armada 2525 was also released in 1991 and was named Chicago Tribune Best Space Game of the Year. The sequel, The Armada 2526 was released in 2009. In 1991, two highly influential space games were released. VGA Planet was released for PC, while Spaceward Ho! was released on Macintosh. While space games 4X ultimately had more impact on the complexity of VGA Planets, Spaceward Ho! earned praise for its relatively simple but complex game design. Cosmic Ho! notable for its resemblance to the 1993 game Master of Orion, with its simple but deep gameplay. Master Orion also relied on earlier 4X games such as Reach for the Stars, and is considered a classic game that sets a new standard for the genre. In a preview of Master Orion, Emrich coined the term XXXX to describe the nascent genre. After all, the 4X label was adopted by the gaming industry and now applies to several earlier game releases. Peak After the success of Civilization and Master of Orion, other developers have started releasing their own 4X games. In 1994, Stardock launched its first version of the Galactic Civilizations series for OS/2, and the long-running Space Empires series began as shareware. Ascension and stars! were released in 1995, and both continued to focus the genre on strategic depth and empire management. Meanwhile, the Civilization and Master of Orion franchises have expanded their market with versions for Macintosh. Sid Meyer's team also produced Colonization in 1994 and Civilization II in 1996, while Simtex released Master of Orion in 1993, Master of Magic in 1994 and Master of Orion II in 1996. By the late 1990s, real-time strategic games began outselling by turns games. As popularity grew, the big 4X developers ran into difficulties. Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri released Alpha Centauri in 1999, but the game fell short of commercial expectations. Civilization III faced development challenges, followed by a release in 2001. Despite the hype surrounding The Master of Orion III, its release in 2003 was met with criticism for lack of player control, poor interface and weak AI. Game publishers eventually became reluctant to fund the development of 4X games. Real-time 4X hybrid 4X games were released in real time, such as Imperium Galactica in 1997, Stars Unlimited in 2001, and Sword of the Stars in 2006, featuring a combination of step-by-step strategy and tactical combat in real time. A mixture of 4X and real-time gameplay strategy has brought Ironclad Games to market their 2008 release Of Sins of the Solar Empire as the RT4X game. This combination of features has earned the game a mention as one of the best games of 2008, including the GameSpot Award for Best Game Strategy and the IGN Award for Best PC Game. Cross-fertilization between board games and video games continued. For example, some aspects of Master Orion III were taken from the first edition of the Twilight Imperium front-page game. Even the Sins of the Solar Empire were inspired by the idea of adapting the 25th century tincture Buck Rogers Battle into a real-time video game. Going in the opposite direction, Eagle Games made an infusion game of Sid Meyer's adaptation of civilization in 2002, completely different from the tincture of the game that inspired the computer game in the first place. A recent story in 2003, Stardock released a remake of the Galactic Civilizations series, which was praised by reviewers who saw the game as a replacement for the Master of Orion series. In 2004, the Creative Assembly released rome: Total War, which spawned many sequels. Civilization IV was released in late 2005 and was considered PC Game of the Year by several reviewers, including GameSpot and GameSpy. It is now considered one of the greatest computer games in history, finishing second in the IGN ranking of the best computer games of all time. 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