Recent content by Aardvark

A chance to win, please

It increases your GPT. AI knows your income and will not accept more gpt than is available.

Closer than OCP is faster - allowing more cities quicker. By the time I get to have metropolis, the extra population can be put to specialists. By having more cities working the tiles, I get the same production - just spread over more cities. But I get more unit support.

I have only recently learned that war weariness is by nation. I was suffering more WW than I liked, so I made peace with Egypt but started war with Portugal on the same turn. Everyone became happy again and I had no war weariness. Now if I can only get my opponents to line up in rotation.

Though you can rush in steps, each twenty shields more than the last. see http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/despotrush.php

I can vouch for Drakan's article. I was having difficulty moving up as a builder. I am breezing through my first successful DG game and feel I am ready to try Diety when I catch up to RL.

In C3C, Vikings can get the Currough with Alphabet. This can lead to early exploration. If the Vikings could reach the Americans without risk (AI will not risk sinking), then they could have made contact without map making.

scloopy I also noticed that the AI will bombard with one or more ships before attacking. With Frigates, it can only do one or the other, but if the AI has a stack, then it will use bombardment to give it an advantage.

How do you know how many turns of Anarchy you are going to have, in order to know if you want to revolt again?

It looks like you moved you settler one space NW from its original spot. That original spot would have been an excellent start position because it would have had two bonus grasslands. I assume you are going to mine and then road the square under the worker. You should adjust your luxury...

Sea-faring cultures get a bonus for coastal squares. It can add up, especially with a harbor. Otherwise, there is no specific bonus. However, sea access is important for contact with other land masses. Also, it gives additional squares for cities to work, extending the width of your territory.

Military Police is any unit - warriors work fine for this.

You can set the AI Patrol off so the AI does not randomly move units. Put NoAIPatrol=1 in the .ini file.

Twonkey asked "How exactly do naval units heal?" They do not have to be fortified. Just spend a turn at rest. I think harbors act for naval units the way barracks do for land - they heal all the hit points.

What is interesting is that the AI actually suffers from the same problem with the PRNG. Based on a limited number of tests, I have reloaded after a combat and let the AI attack instead of me attacking. The result is that the AI most often has the same result that I had: When I attacked and...