"Immortal Cities" - Series ?

[StenSture]

Hi
The name "Immortal cities : Children Of The Nile", does this mean that there is a series planned called Immortal Cities ?? And that CoTN is "just" the first one ?? (hoping :) )

... Or is it just a name for the official site....


Sorry if I have missed something obvious here ....

[Pecunia]

does this mean that there is a series planned called Immortal Cities ??
I was wondering exactly the same thing ... I guess time will tell ;)

[Keith]

Hi
The name "Immortal cities : Children Of The Nile", does this mean that there is a series planned called Immortal Cities ?? And that CoTN is "just" the first one ?? (hoping :) )

... Or is it just a name for the official site....


Sorry if I have missed something obvious here ....I'm pretty sure CotN is just the first of a new series of citybuilders. Much the same as their previous Caesar II, Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus and Poseidon efforts.
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[Afterburner]

Yeah, I had much the same thought when I saw the domain was ImmortalCities.com. Any future games of this nature could easily be tagged on to the same domain!

[Pecunia]

They *did* also register the domain childrenofthenile.net; I wonder why and if they're going to do anything with it. Right now it just redirects to immortalcities.com/cotn/

[EmperorJay]

I think that's for PR reasons, the official URL which will be released to the public will be childrenofthenile.net, because it's a convenient URL, easy to remember and easy to guess. However, as soon as it actually becomes a series, the official URL will be ImmortalCities, which then will be the name of the series. Just a guess though.

[klingon9]

I think that "Immortal Cities" has to be a series. I must say that it is a very good idea since you can go to any civilization in the next game.

[Reed]

Ok, here's the scoop on the URLs. Though I do enjoy the speculation. ;)

www.immortalcities.com/cotn/ (http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/) is the "real" URL, everything else is just an alias. There are a bunch of CotN urls that point there.

Normally www.childrenofthenilegame.com (http://www.childrenofthenilegame.com/) is what you'll see in press releases and the like. I guess you could call it the PR URL.

If you're not a bookmarker, and just type in the address to get to the CotN site, then you may be interested to know about www.cotngame.com (http://www.cotngame.com/)

[Pecunia]

Thanks for the explanation :) Now what about www.immortalcities.net? It's registered by Myelin Media but it doesn't point anywhere ;)

[Afterburner]

Thanks for the explanation :) Now what about www.immortalcities.net? It's registered by Myelin Media but it doesn't point anywhere ;)

Doubtlessly registered to keep other folks (possibly with malicious intentions) from registering it.

[Pecunia]

Doubtlessly registered to keep other folks (possibly with malicious intentions) from registering it.
That's clear, but why not let it point to www.immortalcities.com then?

[Reed]

Thanks for the explanation :) Now what about www.immortalcities.net (http://www.immortalcities.net/)? It's registered by Myelin Media but it doesn't point anywhere ;)Err, that's suppposed to be an alias too, but it's not set up quite right at the moment. Thanks for bringing it up

[klingon9]

Ok, now back to the first question. Is "Immortal Cities" going to be a series?

[Keith]

Ok, now back to the first question. Is "Immortal Cities" going to be a series?
I still say, yes. "Cities" implies more than one.

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[Celebithil Dae]

That would be good, to me at least. I wouldnt complain one bit, especially if COTN is as good as it looks to be so far

[EmperorJay]

I still say, yes. "Cities" implies more than one.

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I think that CotN is part of a series, but Egypt has many immortal cities by itself as well, so I don't think that the URL is really leading to something there.

[Jayhawk]

I still say, yes. "Cities" implies more than one.
Yep, they could be teasing us...after all, Rostja, Luxor, Elephantine, Alexandria...they are all immortal cities. ;)

[klingon9]

I was just woundering if I could get a conformation from Tilted Mill, but looks like we will be left to guessing.

[Gumps]

I don't really expect anyone at TM to announce here that there will be furture games in the series. The title leaves them open, and it would seem a logical extension given their history, but I doubt they would officially or unofficialy announce other games prior to the release of CotN.

[Elvenwarrior2001]

Of course not. Things change. You don't want to make premature promises. And if, heaven forbid, the sales for COtN aren't real good, making another in that "series' might not be a good idea at the time.

Elven

[Atlantean Relic]

I'm predicting this game will do as well if not better than the past citybuilders.

[Elvenwarrior2001]

My thoughts are similar. It looks like such a great game, and plus...they have all the former Imps fans, now TM fans, buying it. One of the reasons I'm buying it is just because who's making it. ;) I trust they'll make a good game. :D

Elven

[Afterburner]

I look at it this way:

Under the worst possible set of circumstances, the game will be as good as Caesar 3.

And that ain't a bad thing. :D

[Celebithil Dae]

From what i hear, not bad atg all :p