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For those of who didn't want to shell out $99 to be Founders, is it time to jump in?

A new book entry has been added: Ring City Placement

What's the right amount of gold to keep on hand for random events? Has anyone come up with a good rule of thumb?

I discovered a new bug (new to me, anyway). If you are building a worker or settler, then unhappy people don't consume any food. E.g., suppose your city is size 6, with 4 happy people and 2 unhappy people, and suppose the 4 happy people are working tiles (plus the city center) that generate 16...

This thread was created by moving posts from the GOTM 8 Pre-game thread to provide a discussion are for possible use of the HoF mod for GOTM - AlanH Note that. during the transition, a post by Ainwood indicating that this is a live possibility got lost. Sorry! :blush: Neat! First GOTM in a...

Any people from CivFanatics thinking about going to the ApolyCon convention in July? OK, I admit a CFCCon would be better, but, it still sounds like a fun opportunity to meet other Civ enthusiasts. Link here: http://convention.apolyton.net/12/186/

(retract incorrect analysis)

The subject of this posting is to work out a theoretical analysis of the possible output of a city of a given size, given the following assumptions: 1. The city has access to an unlimited number of tiles of every "basic" terrain type (i.e., plains or grassland, hill or flat). The tiles may...

I've noticed that when I have explored to the other side of an ocean, but I haven't revealed the middle of the ocean, then pathfinding for my ships will still choose a path directly through the unexplored ocean. This shouldn't happen because it reveals to me whether there's a landmass there.

I wanted a single list of everything that affects health. I couldn't find one, so I compiled it myself. If I have some details wrong, please post corrections and I will edit. HEALTH +X difficulty level (Setter/Chieftan X=4; Warlord/Noble X=3; Prince/Monarch X=2; Emperor/Immortal/Diety X=1)...

I wanted a single list of everything that affects happiness. I couldn't find one, so I compiled it myself. If I have some details wrong, please post corrections and I will edit. HAPPINESS +X difficulty level +1 each dye, fur, gems, gold, incense, ivory, silk, silver, spices, sugar, whale...

A few simple additions would make diplomacy with the AI players a lot more manageable and fun. These mostly just reduce the need to open the diplomatic interface over and over, just to see where the other players stand. 1. On the F2 screen, where the civs are listed together with whether you...

Ring City Placement (RCP) is a new approach to city placement in your empire. Other placement strategies, like OCP, are based on land use patterns. RCP is based on a different principle: reducing corruption. Thanks to alexman and this thread Do you think you understand corruption?, we know...

Can I change the default location where save files are stored? When I try to save the game (or autosave), it goes under Civ3PTW/Saves by default. Even if the last place I loaded a game from was in a different directory. I want to put all of my save files somewhere else. Ideally I'd like to...