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As I said, it is a Fantasy game - if spearmen or pikemen have any chance against tanks that is what it is. I would say it is about TEN percent realistic. I would have hoped for twenty. Even naval warfare was dumbed down compared even to Civ 2! Too bad. You enjoy yourselves, but I haven't played...

That is precisely the problem many of us have had with the game and why we stopped playing it long ago, even though we loved Civ 2. Although someone who expects a modicum of accuracy and realism is not a "niche purist". We all said Firaxis "dumbed it down". Civ 3 is a big step backwards in...

I can't believe you people didn't mod Firaxis' crazy values ages ago.

If you enjoy yourself, that's great. But for those many of us who loved Civ 2 and hoped for a LITTLE realism and historical accuracy in Civ 3, well, we were very disappointed. It is merely a Fantasy game, in fact. :( But I hope you have fun, nonetheless.

You have to tell us the YEAR. If you mean 1939, war couldn't be avoided. Or do you mean before Hitler took power? The most obvious effect of the war was the U.S. became the world's Number One Superpower.

This thread. . . what can I add except to say SOMEBODY at whatever company does Civ 4 (if there is any) - hopefully not Firaxis - should have some knowledge of history and military history because no one at Firaxis did. Civ 3 is one of the worst and most inaccurate simulations of history...

Thank you. There is nothing amusing about this kind of self-indulgent juvenile nonsense from Firaxis. They should have spent their time working out bugs, improving the trade and diplomatic AI, and giving us a game that was not so poor and inaccurate a simulation of history. They should...

Hardly. Besides the crazy-high costs for Espionage (which usually fails anyway), the military unit values were totally wacked out and non-historical; rates for post-gunpowder units were especially way, way too low. Of course, resource appearance rates were also way too scare, most...

I long, long ago lowered significantly the cost for every Espionage related function and improvement. It still remains best for just one thing: getting another civ to declare war on you. I once suddenly lost a game to the Chinese. Why? They had just launched a spaceship. I had tried six...

Seriously, one of the things that prevented me from ever getting bored with Civ 2 were the great scenarios, and the Cheat Mode which allowed us to do many things: switch sides, quickly run through a dragging game to see if anything good happens, lots of others things. Yes, even actual cheating...

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Very "intelligent" braindead remark. Pathetic. :rolleyes: Try explaining why knights, who never heard of gunpowder, have the same defense factor as rifle-armed cavalry in Civ 3. Can't do it, can you? Didn't think so. Or aren't we even allowed to use rudimentary logic on this forum anymore...

That's a relief. I would have prefered they fix the whole culture thing, which has been discussed ad nauseam, rather than just have an on/off toggle. But at least now I might get PTW, when the price drops to ten bucks.

A defense value of '3' is absurdly high and messes up game play. Cavalry - armed with rifles - has a defense value also of three?? Crazy. Change knights to 5-2-2 - it is more realistic and requires pikemen support for an invasion.

It is going to be interesting to see how Firaxis does in the future, especially if (God forbid) they do a Civ 4. There was great dissatisfaction with Civ 3, and even after four patches many Civ addicts hated it. Of course they are no longer bothering to post. (I rarely do). We know about the...

Download a smarter AI?? Now that's a patch we can all use!

Doesn't the total lack of realism bother you about all this even if the unethical genocide doesn't?? I mean, let's have a LITTLE realism and historical accuracy here. Mass starvation; Flipping Formulas; bah. I thought PTW allowed one to turn it off.

In otherwords, the game encourages MASS GENOCIDE as a strategy. :rolleyes: I stopped playing Civ 3 owing to this crazy Flipping stuff. I thought people could turn it off if they had PTW??

The israelis had previously tried with the Mossad's "Operation Egypt" terrorism in Cairo to stop the growth of Egyptian nationalism. The Mossad set off numerous explosive devices; meanwhile, Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 killers were murdering Palestinian civilians as at Kibya in 1953...

I agree. You said it all. Civ 2 was FUN, and it was at least as "realistic" as Civ 3 which also has an in-your-face AI, and other weird and unpleasant things.