Hey guys, new to the board. I have been playing the vanilla version for a few years fine, but I wanted to play with some of the mods. So I got the Complete version.

My question is does anyone have problems with this version? The first civ I played was the Vikings (b/c I've never played the newer versions) and I started with 9!?! king Ragnars. Is that right? Also, the advisor in the top right shows up like they were in a black light. That is that she is black and white and shadowy. These are just the first issues that I have seen. Is this common or is there a fix?

Thanks for the help.

Dal4fsu

Sounds like you might have had mass regicide enabled. That has you start with a lot of king units.

As for the advisor....did you unistall Vanilla Civ3 before installing Complete? I understand there are issues if you try to install complete over VC3/PTW.

I think I uninstalled correctly, but it's possible some registry values were still in there. I didn't go in the registry and do a cleanup on it. What is this about mass regicide?

Dal4fsu

Mass Regicide is a way to play PTW/C3C in which you get several King units. If you loose all of your King units, you loose the game. This is intended for multiplayer more than singleplayer, but some SP'ers like to use it to get early scouts. There are several game choices on the right side of the Rules Select menu that the AI doesn't know how to play. Capture the flag, Elimination, Regicide (where you get one king unit), Mass Regicide....they AI can't really handle those conditions. It was primarily put in for MP, like I said earlier.

Have you installed any graphics mods? Maybe that's messing with the advisor graphics.

Some of my Mods have missing pedialcon items. Even those which come with the CD.
Strange, try to play the "Fertile crescent" and am told that "rise of rome" has a missing pedialcon building icon. Are they interrelated?
tried RaR and told that "staue of Liberty" entry is missing.
TAM has a missing "bible" entry.
what gives?

Mass Regicide is a way to play PTW/C3C in which you get several King units. If you loose all of your King units, you loose the game. This is intended for multiplayer more than singleplayer, but some SP'ers like to use it to get early scouts. There are several game choices on the right side of the Rules Select menu that the AI doesn't know how to play. Capture the flag, Elimination, Regicide (where you get one king unit), Mass Regicide....they AI can't really handle those conditions. It was primarily put in for MP, like I said earlier.

Have you installed any graphics mods? Maybe that's messing with the advisor graphics.


Yeah, I figured this out when I went back in the game to play yesterday. Man there are a lot more options in conquests. It is almost like a whole new game. Oh and the advisor isn't having anymore issues. I don't know what caused that. Thanks for the help though guys.

Dal4fsu