How to play on Earth map with all correct locations in 30sec

Marla_Singer · Dec 2, 2001

Hey,

I'm writing in here because I guess many people want to play with all civilizations in correct starting positions. It's really easy to do so. That's why I won't post saved games, this way, you would play with the civilization, the rules and the difficulty level you want.

Message Edited:
It's now even more easier than ever !
There's only ONE file to download, the map above. It's a self extractor that will automatically install every files in the correct folders.

The read me file explain how to do to get correct locations, with Gramphos and Vonotar, it's becoming so easy that we almost think it's part of the game.

Note: You really need 30 seconds to do it and when you load your edited saved game, you're not in the black and you don't see the map where you used to appear on the first time.

Thanx to Vonotar for that version. I would also like to thank Gramphos cause he already helped a lot with his copy tool before.

Version 1.13 removed after 1786 downloads.
Version 1.17b removed after 1106 downloads.
=> It works now with 1.17f version of Civ3

Marla_Singer · Dec 2, 2001

Here's just the mini map of the Earth Map I'm talking about:

Thunderfall · Dec 2, 2001

Thanks for the tutorial, Marla. I am going to top this thread.

esnyper · Dec 3, 2001

Is there any way to play with a smaller version of the map? The reason I ask is because I played a 16 civ game with correct starting positions on your map, but after about 25 turns, the game goes SOOOOOO slow, it's practically unbearable.

joespaniel · Dec 3, 2001

I see they worked out the bugs about the blacked-out starting position and being able to view the previous location.

Very nice. Cant wait to try it.

CrayonX · Dec 4, 2001

Try to resist the temptation of playing in one sitting.

Instead of trying to play the game in one sitting, treat it as an epic. Take time when it's your turn, plan strategy, then click end of turn. In the 3-10 minutes waiting for your turn, grab a cup of tea, go read a chapter of a book, call up an old friend, etc. you get the idea. Glance once in a while at the screen in case of some message (ie AI wants to talk to you, some city wants to join you, etc). Then when it's the end of the day (or two hour session, or however long you want to play), save your game and make notes of what you plan to do the next day. Then, the next time you play, reload and go at it again. I actually get a lot of chores and things done while waiting for the computer to make it's moves.

I've tried this for a huge map game, and it actually is not too bad, you just need to exercise a little patience, and resist the temptation to sit in front of your computer staring at the computer's moves or all your automated moves. Until there's a patch to fix this, it's basically all you can do.

Hope this helps!

crayonx :egypt:

walbers · Dec 5, 2001

marla, looking forward to playing your map....i'm not a CIV newbie but am wondering where to save your map file? in the SAV game folder or the scenario folder? thanks for the help. rgds, will

Marla_Singer · Dec 5, 2001

Well, I advise you to save my map in the scenario folder.
To play on it, you just have to choose "new scenario" in civ3 main menu.
Every .bic files should be in scenario (well it's easier)
Every .SAV files should be in saves.

For example, the joan d'arc.sav files I've posted as an example of the result when we play with all civs in correct locations, should be in the saves folder.

Bye

walbers · Dec 5, 2001

thanks marla! i'm looking forward to trying your map. rgds, will

Vonotar · Dec 7, 2001

Marla,

This is a fantastic map!!

Carefull! I might actually start liking the French if you keep this up

Vonotar · Dec 8, 2001

The Zip attached below contain's Marla's 1.085 Map and Mortioso's CivBreed 0.45 Utility.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Extract files to your Civilization directory

2. Start new scenario game with Marla's Map

3. Save game as "FIX.SAV"

4. Run the file "RUN_THIS.BAT" in your saves directory (inside the Civilization directory)

5. Load up "FIXED.SAV"

6. Play

My apologies to Gramphos I crawled all over your Civ3CopyTool thread, installed numerous VB runtimes and OCX files and it still would not work on my XP system so I decided to find a better way

Aloisia Vonotar

P.S.
Marla / Mortioso, yes I suppose I've taken liberties with your files but you two really should team up together on this. The attached zip is only 108K while I downloaded over 2Mb trying to get Civ3CopyTool working!

P.P.S.
Sorry Mod's I intend to post this a few places where people are experiencing the same problem's as Me (both on Apolyton and CivFanatics). Feel free to dock my Post's count accordingly!

Edit: See New Version (1.13) further down this thread

Marla_Singer · Dec 8, 2001

The copytool doesn't work on xp ???

Damn', with my old windows98 I haven't checked that (ok I'm lazy to do upgrades). Ok, I've just put online the version 1.10 of the map and I've totally relooked the readme file. I guess I just need to add your tutorial in the readme for xp users.
To be honnest, I've downloaded civ3breed, but to ask me to write myself the name of the save file is already too much. Anyway, it doesn't look that hard, I'll add civ3breed tutorial to the readme file.

heardie · Dec 8, 2001

Mara: Can I post this as a tutorial at my site ?(http://www.trakoria.f2s.com)

Marla_Singer · Dec 8, 2001

Well, I feel a lot honoured that you want to post it to your site

.
Of course you can do so, I would be pleased about it !!

:hammer:

:flamedevi

aurigas · Dec 9, 2001

I tried the map provided by Marla_Singer and also the instruction provided by Thunderfall as to how to get the map working but I
recived the following error:
" Civilization3.e.exe generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will need to restart the program".

By the way I'm running win2000.(i'm not sure whether that has any bearing)

Any help is appreciated....

heardie · Dec 9, 2001

Thanks

CaptBlue · Dec 10, 2001

Hi you all,

I have trouble changing the number of civs with the scenario editor. I'm interested in playing on small and tiny maps with say 8 to 10 oponenets, but when I change this number in the editor my tech tree does not work any more (I can not select which techs I want to research). Did anyone have the same dificulties and/or knows the solution, ot is it only the problem with win'95.

Thanks a lot,
Blue

Eyn · Dec 10, 2001

VERY GOOD JOB, i tried World Maps 1.11 and thanks to you Marla, Vonotar and Mortioso ! :goodjob:

i've posted vonotar's World Map 1.11. zip on my Civ3 webpage
Eyn's World
I've just had a french readme.txt in the zip (which credits and thanks all of you and translate instructions)

Eyn · Dec 10, 2001

what a wonderfull earth map Marla !

Firaxis should contact you to help them to create good earth map
Perhaps could you allow them to use your map for their next patch =)))

encore Bravo !

Vonotar · Dec 10, 2001

Originally posted by Eyn
VERY GOOD JOB, i tried World Maps 1.11 and thanks to you Marla, Vonotar and Mortioso !

i've posted vonotar's World Map 1.11. zip on my Civ3 webpage
Eyn's World
I've just had a french readme.txt in the zip (which credits and thanks all of you and translate instructions)

I'm going all red now :blush:

see my next note about v1.13

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