Recent content by artax

Got it. Thanks for the clarification! Too bad Firaxis didn't make it work the other way, though. I think that would make it more playable. It would give more flexibility in terms of what shape your empire can be, and still be maximally productive. I agree that making it so that each...

Alexman, Glad to see you're still reading this thread! I have a question for you (or anyone else who knows the answer). About seven months ago I posted a strategy guide on how to work around corruption and waste in order to maximize the overall production and efficiency of one's empire, to the...

I know, I was just able to get a smaller jpg doing it that way.

Not sure if this is documented anywhere (if it is, I can't find it). But when you start a new game, if you select which opponents you want to face, rather than letting them be selected randomly, you can control which ones start out close to you on the map and which ones are far away. The civs...

Actually more like this. See, you want to make better use of the territory on the fringes of your core area. You can utilize terrain that's 11 or 12 squares away from your capital if you do it from cities that are 10 squares away. I like to have each side of my core area bounded by a line of...

You can control the same amount of territory with fewer cities if you space the cities outside your Core Area farther apart. If you space them about 6 or 7 squares apart, by the time you have enough cities to hurt you you'll already control so much of the world that you'll be unstoppable. See...

Grey Fox, it looks like your Core Area Radius is down around 4 or 5, which is more of a drop-off than I would have expected just going from a large world to a standard size one. (BTW, does anyone know if corruption gets worse at higher difficulty levels?) The first thing I would suggest is...

Grey Fox, two questions: What size world are you playing on, and what difficulty level?

I haven't tried the patch yet. I know the manual says distance from the capital isn't supposed to make any difference to corruption in Communism, but that seems to be completely wrong (at least without the patch). Is that a bug? If so I'm surprised one that big would make it into the release...

You must be doing something different from me. Every time I've tried Communism it only made things worse. Cities close to the capital/FP got a bit more corruption than under Monarchy, cities 10 squares away still lost about 25% of their shields and commerce, cities 11-12 sqaures away still...

I've been playing Civ 3 for a couple of months now, and while I'm certainly no guru or anything, I have worked out a Grand Unified Strategy for dealing with corruption, which seems to work pretty well for me. By "pretty well" I mean that this system makes a military conquest of the entire world...