Recent content by dbarandiaran

I second Acronym's thanks for keeping this thing going! I have also dusted off civ3 after many years away, and this will also be my first xotm. I'll be playing open class, maybe I'll go for a diplo win, I've not gotten that victory condition before, I tend to go either space or cultural...

there DOES appear to be something 2NW, can anyone figure out what it is? moving worker N will expose that tile...

the mystery tile e-se might also be wines... pretty hard to tell though

playing open class. since this game is at regent, i knew i would not be able to count on AI research, so i planned to keep research levels pretty high. good choice as it turns out. i made the settler factory and set an initial rcp at 3.5. after exploring a bit, i met the greeks, and traded...

never build barracks. they take up shields that could otherwise be used to build more military troops instead

i just read his book Pastwatch (highly recommended, btw) and in his acknowledgements (sp?) he says something to the effect of to sid meier, a complaint, for making the game civilization, which was very good at keeping me unproductive... i thought that was pretty funny, and also a way to...

i second the motion to have curraghs introduced to GOTM, especially when the map is archipelago

how many tiles does each city get when you ICS? i have never really gone all out with ICS, so i wonder how big each city would get. if each city gets four tiles, then you would want aquaducts later on when you get rails.

specialist farming is what it's all about in c3c. when i played vanilla, i never really bothered. i am currently playing an emperor game in c3c, now in the industrial era, and specialists are a huge part of my science/treasury input.

what level are you playing at? at higher levels, you should want to build a granary early in one of your first cities to pump out the settlers. this is the best use for a granary. if you want a granary in every city, wait until the AI builds the pyramids, then take it from them :) good point...

what kind of units were in the army? how many? in sirpleb's sid HOF game, he found that the computer will attack armies in certain situations i.e. if they are defending a city that the computer deems imperative to take. i don't know if that extends to resources, but coal is a pretty important...

on the subject of slaves, in my most recent game i stumbled upon a nice slave harvesting strategy, i'm sure some of you already use it. i have been beating up on my neighbors, i have a nice start at the end of the continent. i am playing at emperor, so my culture is very weak compared to the...

a quick note about forest shield award. yes, it goes NE first, then clockwise, and out to two tiles out, but it will not go to a town if the town is N-N, E-E, etc. in other words, the forest has a fat x around it, a town has to be within the fat x to get the shields

what is more likely is that the AI have food sources plus shields. remember that not only do you need shields, but population as well to make settlers. and yes, things happen a little faster at regent level. at this level, early shields mean more than at other levels, and you must make sure...

in creation and customization, there is the utilities. there you can find a "cracked" version of the C3C editor, now what it is exactly, i don't know, but nothing for PTW :( i guess i could spring the $20 for the complete if what tomoyo recommends does not work actually, i think i have tried...