Recent content by dsirirueng

I had one early game with the Egyptians, where I was on a medium-sized island (big enough for maybe 20 cities total) that I shared with the Romans. So obviously, a major task was going to be to take out the Romans, cos "this island just ain't big enough for the both of us!" So let's start...

I used to always feel like giving up on the higher levels when I fell behind in tech, or couldn't build the wonders I wanted (or sometimes none at all) in the early to middle game. I think the key to this game is "don't give up!" You can claw your way back into the game even when the AI's got...

Considering the amount of time I spend "in the arms" of the computer playing CIV3, and considering that reloading makes those sessions even LONGER ... I'd say my wife would consider it "cheating" ...

Of course I agree with you that if you don't want to play "realistically" you shouldn't be forced to. I would just add that there is some accuracy to having a spearman have a very slight chance of destroying a modern armor. The percentages in the game for this to happen might be too high as they...

Well, I happen to be a professional journalist -- and this isn't going to make anybody out there like us any more than do (or don't) already -- and I have to say we misquote people all the time. Not just in paraphrasing them, but even in DIRECT QUOTES attributed to the interviewee. This...

Let me add my thanks for the article, useful stuff. On the AI not building harbors -- I frigging hate this, too. Waiting for literally hundreds of years for the Americans to build ONE STUPID HARBOR on their pathetic little island so I can get my noble Chinese peasants drunk on some of their fine...

One more quick note about the Chinese rider -- it's really the Panzer, hundreds of years earlier and with a longer shelf-life ... not needing an upgrade until cavalry, while at least a good number of Panzers will be upgraded to modern armour quite soon after tanks come online. This means the...

So far I've played the Chinese, Persians, Japanese (my very first game on chieftan) and Egyptians ... dabbled with the Americans and French, but didn't particularly get anywhere with them. I've had my most success with the Chinese and Persians. As many have said, the great thing about the...

Why should anybody be ashamed to play on world maps? Who cares what "most players" grasp as the excitement of the game? I believe there is a sort of scale that measures how CIV3 players value the game -- at one end are those who are purely into out-witting and out-strategizing the AI (or human...

Yet another idea -- does anybody else like to keep at least one UU around, even if it's upgradable, just to look at it once in a while? How about if you got a small culture bonus for doing this? Think about it, what are the Beefeaters at Buckingham Palace, if not precisely this?

Just reading a bit about the debate over upgrading cavalry to tanks ... sparked a thought (BTW, I don't like the idea of that upgrade) ... anyway ... Shouldn't a civ get to do something with an extra strategic resource it possesses, other than trading them to rival civs? How this relates to...

How about making jungle return your city 5 shields? Anyone who's been in a jungle knows it's not all creepers and soft banana trees ... there are some pretty useful woods just like with forests. (Not to mention rare beasts the Chinese civ might be prone to purchase from you before the Viagra...

From the very first post: "Add more effects to the Apollo and Manhattan projects so they are useful even in non-space race or non-diplomatic victory games" I like this, perhaps the Apollo wonder makes the Tang luxury resource appear on the map?

One more for the Vikings ... Only Civ that can create the Linux Great Wonder (cost: 200 shields, all Civs contribute to construction equally), the effect of which is to double beakers created by Scientists in all civ's cities, and negate golds created by Tax Collectors in all civ's cities ...

Cheers for that, Lt. ... and also for the helpful hint about embroiling AI civs in wars with each other to help matters along ;)