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I'm interested in knowing this as well. Some of the mods look pretty fun but I would want to install Civ3 again in a different location and apply the mod files to that one so I'd still have a pure Civ 3 install if possible.

Will they change my normal game install? If so, can I just install Civ3 in another folder for each mod so that I can play any type of game I like? Is there a how to included with most well done mods or maybe a short guide somewhere. I have been reading along with some of the succession...

I'd feel that the resources becoming too common would make them no longer "strategic". A strategic resource means one you have to plan your entire strategy around acquiring, protecting and denying your enemy access to. Without them the game would quickly become a game of turtling and building...

I have experienced similar occurances and I think the AI is very aware of your military power relative to theirs and their decision to call your bluff is directly related. When my military was similar or less than theirs in size I noticed the AI would often ingore my demands that they leave...

I was just playing around with the combat calculator and and I am kind of confused as to how it ends up with the results it does. I tried pitting a regular hoplite against a regular spearman in the desert. The effective defense listed was 2.2 and the effective attack was 1 for the Hoplite. I...

I think we need to remember one of the best aspects of bombardment is population reduction. Most of us starve out the population of towns by making them collect no food and seeting them all to entertainers to quickly quell resistance. A flight of 10 bombers can reduce most citties to an empty...

Well if your talking about having a spy recon a city or try to steal a technology for you then you click on the little 'E' in the lower right corner of the screen. It is just to the right of the display that shows you the turn info, year, gold etc. If your talkinga bout having a spy try to...

How is having a city with an airport helpful to stage another assault? Can you move troops from city w/ airport to another city with an airport or something? That would be neat if you could and something I never thought of tryng. If you can move troops from sirport to airport I'm gonna feel...

I have heard mention of them but I can't seem to find any specifics like how to turn them on, if that's what you do, or how they work. Or are they just how many military units you can place in a city to count towards quelling civil unrest and not some seperate entity?

I haven't looked into the saved games folder very much but couldn't you tell if a game was reloaded by looking at the last modified date and time in windows explorer of the .sav file? This obvious requires the entire list of savegames for the GOTM be reviewed either by sending them all (not al...

I've been reading alot of posts about people winning awar and then backing off when the AI asked for a peace treaty since they got a good deal. I don't see any options except sign peace treaty when it comes up. Is there some way to spice up the deal n your favor with a counter offer or...

What is the best method for starting a quick skirmish war for 2-3 cities and then getting back to a semi peace in fairly short order? I just finished a game where I shared a 10 city border with the Romans while I played the Greeks. There were 3 cities that I could not get to flip despite my...

Last night I was finishing my first real game and I was doing fine in small war with the roughly equal german opponent. I get the message that the game will force resignation at 2050. I think the message showed up around 2030 or so. Well after that happened my best industrial city started...

This is something easy to find out but since I'm trapped in the jail we all call work I can't easily find out myself so I figured I'd ask. Can you destroy enemy oil fields or other strategic resources or luxuries or just cut all road and rail connections to them rendering them unavailable...

Ahh some great answers thanks guys. I assume that strategic resources work in a similar manner then to luxuries? So if I connect to a horse tile that lets my empire build units requiring horses but unless I connect to another horse tile I won't have any "excess" to trade away? As for the...