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GameSpot has posted an update to their Civ III Preview based on the latest built of Civilization III they saw at the GenCon game convention taking place in Milwaukee, USA. The update contains LOTS of interesting new info:
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[*]Though players can in fact win a game of Civ III by taking control of 75 percent or more of the world's landmass, they can also achieve victory through two new means: either through diplomacy, by building the United Nations and garnering enough support from neighboring countries to be voted into power, or through culture, by encouraging their country's own culture to flourish by improving education and encouraging the arts. </LI>
[*]If a high-culture town that belongs to a player's opponent begins drawing his or her people away, Civ III will actually let him or her set a soldier unit to patrol the area to make sure the people fall in line. </LI>
[*]Aside from patrolling players' borderlands, soldiers can also become tougher as they survive more and more battles and become veterans and even elite soldiers. Elite soldiers can withstand far more punishment than normal troops, and they have a small chance of becoming a great leader--an advanced soldier unit that can actually recruit soldiers and raise armies from a player's towns on reputation alone.
[*]The catapult unit has been changed from being a powerful offensive unit to being a support unit that must be grouped with and used by other soldier units.
[*]In addition, the developers have made sure to remove the pyramid-building trick from Civilization II (in which players could actually build a set of pyramids--a wonder of the world--in a single turn).
[*]Though players will be able to support their cities by increasing the presence of technology and heavy industry, if they add too many factories to their cities, their neighbors may become upset or even hostile over the pollution. However, pollution may be a small price to pay for some of Civ III's advanced technological developments, which will include space satellites, like the ones in Alpha Centauri. [/list]</font>
<a href="http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2801449,00.html" target=link>Click here to read the full update!</a>
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[*]Though players can in fact win a game of Civ III by taking control of 75 percent or more of the world's landmass, they can also achieve victory through two new means: either through diplomacy, by building the United Nations and garnering enough support from neighboring countries to be voted into power, or through culture, by encouraging their country's own culture to flourish by improving education and encouraging the arts. </LI>
[*]If a high-culture town that belongs to a player's opponent begins drawing his or her people away, Civ III will actually let him or her set a soldier unit to patrol the area to make sure the people fall in line. </LI>
[*]Aside from patrolling players' borderlands, soldiers can also become tougher as they survive more and more battles and become veterans and even elite soldiers. Elite soldiers can withstand far more punishment than normal troops, and they have a small chance of becoming a great leader--an advanced soldier unit that can actually recruit soldiers and raise armies from a player's towns on reputation alone.
[*]The catapult unit has been changed from being a powerful offensive unit to being a support unit that must be grouped with and used by other soldier units.
[*]In addition, the developers have made sure to remove the pyramid-building trick from Civilization II (in which players could actually build a set of pyramids--a wonder of the world--in a single turn).
[*]Though players will be able to support their cities by increasing the presence of technology and heavy industry, if they add too many factories to their cities, their neighbors may become upset or even hostile over the pollution. However, pollution may be a small price to pay for some of Civ III's advanced technological developments, which will include space satellites, like the ones in Alpha Centauri. [/list]</font>
<a href="http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2801449,00.html" target=link>Click here to read the full update!</a>