Recent content by CivAl

Alexman, if Republic and Monarchy have the same corruption why is one labelled "problematic" and the other "nuisance"?

Hello. Since this thread seems to be flooded with SGs compared to Apolyton, I thought a story here might look nice :-) PARAMETERS: This game will be played as Persians on a normal world (Standard size, standard climate, barbarians restless, random opponents, Regent level). I am playing with...

What pattern do you use for placing cities. Has anyone come up with a better plan than placing cities North, East, South, and West four squares away, and NE, SE, SW, NW five squares away. This gives your capital all 20 squares, and each suburb has 18 squares to work with. Or do you have a...

Has anyone built Sun Tzu's AOW? Without Barracks already in your cities, you'll be churning out only Regular units, which will be useless later. Am I missing something about this wonder? Does it make Barracks already built maintanence-free? When you upgrade a Reg, it stays Reg, correct?

In my last game as Egypt, I switched all production in 200 AD to Workers. Soon I had a horde of 32 (for my fifteen cities) and I completely developed all my land. Meanwhile my cities were catching up fast pop-wise, so by 500 AD not only was I ready for rails when they came, but all my cities...

Suppose I don't like a city and want to move it somewhere else. How do I turn it back into a Settler, or can't I?

The only point in asking for an MPP is if you are about to declare war and you want an ally. The only reason to accept an MPP is if you're afraid they'll offer it to someone else and they'll both declare on you. So yes, MPPs almost always result in a war.

Egypt is the perfect blend of attributes. First, there is Industrious. I usually am one road ahead of my settlers with workers this fast! (ie, I always have a road to an empty spot). In the early game an extra shield or two can win a wonder race. Workers definitely come in handy early. Plus, all...

If you asked for a random civ, with a random terrain type, size, etc, how often do you think this strategy could win? It certainly would not work very well on anything but Pangea, because you would need (hopefully) Map Making or (more likely) Navigation. On maps Standard or Larger, it takes too...

Press [Control]-[E] and a list of countries to establish embassies with will pop up. However, it may not work prepatch. Don't know.

Hello, all. Well, if there's one thing the AI CAN'T do in Civ3 (besides conduct a good war) it's improve terrain. Face it: the AI model for worker actions is a bit too "socialistic"; it will send all your workers off by galley to the farthest island in your realm to irrigate a "vital" Plain...

I'm not against conquering wonders. Often when I don't get a critical (or even good) wonder I'll mark down its city, and if I ever go to war with that civ, then I know where the wonder is if it's feasible to conquer it. I'm just against stuff like: "And the point here was to WIN, not to...

Agreed. You're taking advantage of the fact that there is only 3 enemies and at most 5 cities to beat, giving you a window of only up to 1000 BC. If your enemy's techs ever got as far as Pikemen, or maybe even Swordsmen/Horsemen, you could never win this way. Also, how do you win against the...

It depends. If the extra gold/shields from a WLT D outweighs the gold from taxmen or the research from scientists, then obviously entertainers are the way to go. Otherwise taxmen are usually better than scis.

How can you include the Dutch? I'm part Dutch meself, but you should replace them with a REAL civ. Incas would be good. Or perhaps Japan. Or even...