Recent content by Donny Brook

If you pop a hut and discover Philosophy, it automatically gives you the tech you're currently researching as your freebie. You don't get to choose. Does the Theory of Evolution wonder work the same way?

When you've lost all hope, consider buying an old XP machine and using it as your dedicated CivIII box. For less than a hundred bucks, it could save you hours of aggravation. Some browsers will still work if you need to upload utilities, etc.

I can't recall the mechanics of Theory of Evolution. Since I get two free techs, can I select A, then B if B is dependent on already knowing A? For example, could I choose Industrialization and once chosen, then choose The Corporation (which requires knowing Industrialization)? Or Atomic...

You pop the cheapest techs first so it's very likely that someone has already popped CB before you got a chance to research it first. As such, it was highly improbable that you would ever get a SGL going that route. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/probabilities-of-goody-huts-c3c.93244/

My only units are two workers and an SGL. Can my SGL roam around popping huts for a few turns without the fear of popping barbs?

If I gift a size-1 city with no cultural expansion to AI and re-take the city within 0-2 turns, will the city remain or will it disappear? My recollection is that it will remain (whereas it would have disappeared had it originally been built by the AI).

Yes, you are correct...thanks.

Sorry for the rudimentary questions...been two years away from the game and I'm a bit rusty. Is it a game feature that you will never pop the tech that you are currently researching? Started several games over the past few weeks and that's been my experience.

Is there any other requirement to produce an SGL, other than being the first to discover the tech? I never seem to pop one after the ancient age, even if the game is well in-hand and I'm first to every tech thereafter. I typically do milk runs, so my sample size is quite small as a result.

Isn't it immaterial whether you started from an autosave or from a .sav of your own creation so long as you did not "reload a save to try and change game events..."? Theoretically, you could intentionally start each new game-in-progress session from an autosave file. The problem is if you...

When Vista first came out, you actually had to pay MORE to have XP installed on a new machine. So the state-of-the-art OS was one price, but if you wanted the old out-of-date lousy XP, you actually had to pay extra. I work for a $30 billion company with > 25,000 employees and we still use XP...

If the deal is Peace Treaty (20) for Peace Treaty (20) and you break it, I'm sure you take a rep hit. However, I'd defer to vmxa on all things civ. I just don't think he understood you.

A note for newbies...you won't get the food bonus if you settle directly on top of such a tile, but you WILL get the commerce bonus by settling on such a tile. For example, by settling on top of a hill with gold, you'll get that extra commerce each and every turn because you're obviously...

Darn, it looks like I missed the submission date by one day. I'm usually good for one submission every couple of years. Congrats all!

Can someone explain the term "n-fer"?