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Chieftain
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I'm subscribed to this thread, but I'm not getting email notifications of postings.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is anyone else experiencing this?
What is a succession game?
Both. If there are saves attached to the game, you are able to download them, take a look around and do whatever you like to them. That would be true on any saved game attached to a thread. They are not private.Are these Training Day SGs intended to be read online or downloaded into the game?
Well, I don't use email notifications. I did at first, but it got to be a bit spammy.I'm subscribed to this thread, but I'm not getting email notifications of postings.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
See What is a Succession Game? by Pggar.
EDIT:
Pggar does a good job of explaining the mechanics of how as SG works.
Both. If there are saves attached to the game, you are able to download them, take a look around and do whatever you like to them. That would be true on any saved game attached to a thread. They are not private.
EDIT:
I always read them online and did download a save or two. But since some of those games are quite old, but be aware of what version of Civ you have. Ring City Placement (RCP) was a big part of city placement in vanilla and Play the World. In Conquests, the corruption model was redone and RCP went away.
Well, I don't use email notifications. I did at first, but it got to be a bit spammy.
Instead I bookmarked my User Control Panel (My Account) since it will list for me the activity in threads that I posted in or where I have subscribed to the thread.
To be honest, I don't have the patience to read 100-200 pages of instructions (and trying to remember most of it) before playing.
I had hoped that the tutorial would lead me through a simple session, step by step, but it appears that the 'tutorial' game is not a true tutorial, but rather a very simple scenario.
Before I throw in the towel on this game I would like to ask whether there is a pain-free way for someone who is new to war games to learn Civ III?
"2 Rome" means that Rome has 2 population in it.Over the past day I've read 15 pages of Chapter 4, then started a new game using a Tutorial scenario.
Things went ok for several turns, but now I'm confused as to how to proceed.
I'd been checking the City View from time to time, but now I seem to be in a mode where I can double-click on my city and not get a City view.
In the Map view, there is a legend over my city that says:
"2 Rome 13
Settler 1" and a white star in a red background.
Moving around on the Map, I see four people: two warriors and two workers. I don't see a Settler.
The last time I was able to get into the City view, on the right-hand side there was a Settler in production with all of the units below him filled in. I assumed this meant that the Settler was completed and available. But, I don't see him on the Map view, so maybe my assumption is wrong.
Any tips as to how I should proceed?
Thanks.
"2 Rome" means that Rome has 2 population in it.
The 13 means that it takes 13 turns before the food box is full and you'll get another population.
The food box is filled with the excess food, visible in the city screen. Each population eats 2 food. The rest goes in the food box.
"Settler 1" means that the settler is ready to be built, so all shields are filled in the build box. However, and that's a bit tricky, the settler also needs 2 extra population to be build. So if the settler would be build now, you'd have a city without people, and that's not possible. So when the city grows to 3, you can build a settler. (the city will shrink to 1)
It's better to build a warrior first, and then build a settler.
Workers require 1 population, so a city needs to have 2 population to make one.
I would try to have a least 1 worker per city (I aim for a least 2 myself).