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Clearly, a lot of players are both mystified and irritated by the ways that captured cities sometimes flip back to their original civ. On several recent threads about this I had the temerity to suggest that a careful reading of the manual and Civilopedia might go a long way towards providing an...

Edit: * Second warning - CAUTION, this thread contains JOKES. Judging by the cries of despair on this forum there are some seriously twisted fan knickers out there due to Civ 3 ‘s inability to accurately model their preferred reality. It’s high time we got up a petition to send to Firaxis...

What are your favourite combinations of number of civs, map sizes and types, style of play etc. please? I seem to have got into a bit of a rut, playing a fairly peaceful style on large maps so would like to hear how others like to play. I did just try a tiny map with only 2 civs, but it...

Has anybody else seen the AI suddenly decide to move an army of workers through someone else's territory for no apparent reason? Greece just sent a line of 15 workers plodding through my territory, apparently intent on some obscure digging mission. Alexander promised to remove them, but they...

Could anybody with a better knowledge of viruses please give me some tips here please. I don’t want to start a panic, but I’m confused about what has happened to me recently. I have twice been attacked by viruses while logged into this site in the last few hours. Is there a problem or is this...

Could we get a discussion going about city planning please? It’s one of the less dramatic features of play, but it seems to me that it’s also one of the most crucial. City build speed is important early on, but it goes for nix later if the placement badly done. A sloppy grid of cities just...

Can anybody please help with some information about winning by a vote in the UN. I just tried for this win but the vote was inconclusive. I got 50% of the votes, which is obviously not quite good enough to get a majority, even though I out-polled the others by at least 2-1. So is that it...

You may not have spotted this yet (which is another way of saying that I only just found out how it works – no doubt it’s old news to most of you!) but the game uses a concept of “Global Cultures”. There are couple of main effects of this: 1) You tend to get better reactions in negotiations...

“Civilization is game beloved by cardigan-wearing dads and uncles, and long may it stay that way. ” So says Games Domain in its Holiday Buyers Guide. They weren’t being negative about Civ3, or the series, but is its fan base really mainly among the pipe and slippers brigade and wrinklies in...

Could all you whiners stop posting all your tearful little gripes now please? The traditional post-release moaning period has now expired. The game’s been out for a good while now, so some of you really like to nurse and share your misery, or else you bought the game recently without bothering...

We're so excited here at Polonius Manor - we're expecting delivery of a little Culture Victory any turn now. :D Please excuse somewhat fuzzy picture - I think it's an ultra-sound. :)

Please accept my apologies if this doesn't work, but I'm using it as a test to see if I can get a picture to display in the text. If this hasn't worked, could anybody please tell me how to insert a small picture file (say 50k) into a post. What I'm trying is to use the browse button to point to...

Does anybody know if there is a way to do the ‘Reveal Map’ thing and remove the ‘fog of war’, please? It doesn’t seem possible to do it in the game but can it be done in any way as a fiddle or cheat? I don’t want to be able to do in my games (No – really!) as it would ruin the fun. But I...

Dear Wise Ones, Could any of you kind and knowledgeable people please tell me how I can insert a small picture into the main body of a post? Also how small do I need to make the picture file so that it isn’t a public menace? One last question: Can anybody recommend a good way of reducing...

Could any of you veterans please give me some clues on when the AI is likely to go for victory and how (at the higher difficulty levels)? I’m just learning this amazing game so all my attempts to date have been at Chieftain difficulty. At this level the AI seems extremely forgiving, and apart...

In some ways this is the opposite of Clutch-3’s fascinating “Culture Rush” strategy in which he won (much earlier in the game) by founding or capturing huge numbers of small cities. I am posting this not because it was an example of great management, military skill, or diplomatic cunning (it...

Turns per 1,000 years figures for Culture Vultures Here are some more figures that you might find handy for calculating your progress through the game. They are especially worth noting if you are trying to achieve a Culture victory as you will be trying to get the 1000 year points doubling...

If you’ve wondered how the years/turns equation works here are the figures. They can be handy to know if you’re trying to work out how many turns you have left in a quest for a culture victory, how many turns you need before a particular Temple (or whatever) gets its 1000 year bonus, or just to...

On 2 or 3 occasions in my last game I had small bunches of workers go feral on me. The first thing I knew about it was when I got a stern warning from a friendly neighbour to get my “troops” out of his territory. They had actually moved there and had not just been standing in the wrong spot when...

Last night I finished my first 8 civ tutorial game with a nail-biter of a finish. I had wiped out Russia, Zululand and Babylon, but with 4 civs left there was no chance of a Conquest victory. I was also neither quite ahead enough in tech to build a Spaceship nor quite advanced enough with...