Recent content by alcibaides

I have a very simple request. I have a save game (latest version of Civ3 with all the expansion packs) and I want to edit the technologies of my civilization (add a few). What is the simplest way to do this? Is there a cheat option anywhere? I tried loading my save game in...

OK I have done some research and found the answer to both of my questions. The reason why the western side of continents have deserts and rough seas and the eastern side have crystal clear, calmer waters with those iconic white sand beaches are both due to ocean currents and a process called...

On Earth, deserts are mainly on the western end of continents. Just look at how much more arid Western North America and South America are compared to the Eastside at the same latitudes. The process is the same in Africa, compare Namibia to Mozambique. And on the Eurasian/African land-mass of...

Thanks for the feedback Absolution. I did not put the beaker culture, one of the contributors did. At this stage, to try to encourage as much contribution as possible I am approving the great majority of contributions unless I know them to be absolutely wrong. Things can always be deleted later...

Interesting, so it seems like the best strategy when you get an army in the ancient and medieval age is to save them until the modern age. Once you load a unit onto an army then it cannot be unloaded right? So if I load up elephants onto my army then they are stuck there and cannot be replaced...

Yes that is true, but playing as the Byzantines it is better to conquer the coastal cities as they are easier to defend when you have invested in a huge dromon navy. So not only are they easier to conquer but they are also easier to hold on to so it just makes sense. I am playing on the real...

OK, in my game I am currently using elephents. So does that mean that if I load 1 single elephant into my army I can attack with that single elephant 3 times? (Elephant has 2 movement + 1 additional one for being part of an army). This would be very useful because it would mean with a fleet of...

Thanks very much for the feedback guys. It seems that the civipedia article is somewhat lacking on this. It seems that this is irrelevent for me at this stage as I am playing as the Byzantines and I use my Dromon ships to bombard enemy units down until they are yellow before even attacking...

I have been having a problem with cities that I capture flipping back to the enemy. I have been searching the forum for tips on how to mitigate this problem and found vague and sometimes contradictory advice. So I wanted to get some clarification and additional advice: Tactic 1: Starving the...

Sometimes when I have a military victory I get a leader which can be used to build an army. As far as I can tell from the civipedia, the only advantage of an army is that it has vision for 2 squares instead of 1. is that correct? The disadvantage is that if you pack 3 units into it it can...

I am new to Civ3, but I have played Civ2 a lot. I have just recently entered the Industrial Age in my Civ3 game. I am playing on the "Regent" difficulty level and I am by no means a super power. There are at least 3 other nations that are stronger and more advanced than me. The French are...

Here is the latest update on this project: I have modified the nations so that now when you click on a nation it shows a flag and a wikipedia link for that nation. Most of the nations do not actually have flags yet but I have provided a new interface for modifying nations which allows users...

Hover text might be quite cool for the cities, for the boundaries it would probably be too intensive as eventually there will be boundaries everywhere so it would have to be constantly running javascript code to bring up pop-up boxes everytime the mouse is moved. I will look into it. The...

The latest update to this project is that I have made the Main Map viewer and the "Area of Interest" Viewer compatible with Google Maps. So now, when a user does not have the Google Earth plug-in installed on their computer, they will automatically get redirected to a page on the site that...

Civciv5, Thanks for all your contributions, I noticed a couple of minor issues about the boundaries you have been submitting so far: 1) Be careful with overlapping boundaries, you submitted a boundary for the Champa Kingdom in Vietnam for the period of 192 AD to 1882 AD. I was a little...