Recent content by Jason_Els

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    CivRev has arrived for the iPhone/iPod Touch!

    I agree with the movement problem. It gets frustrating when you have to move a lot of units and particularly so on the ocean. I'd like to see a random map generator that allows one to choose terrain types and sizes. What really bugs me though is that I can't find any way to delete obsolete...
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    How to use Stealth Fighters?

    I've got the money and the ability to use stealth fighters but since they can't do air superiority missions I have no idea what to do with them. I can use them for bombing and recon missions but these are things the bombers can do anyway. I don't understand how to get them to engage other...
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    Tolkien

    Thuloid & Witchfinder: I would highly recommend getting your hands on Karen Wynn-Fonstad's "Atlas of Middle Earth". That book is amazingly complete and I consider it canonical even if a Tolkien didn't have a hand in it. Precise maps of all three ages and includes all kinds of geographical...
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    Tolkien

    Thuloid: Rings: I would add the 3 elven rings as +defense and +morale bonuses with one of them also giving the ability to make great leaders come about more easily. The 7 dwarven rings would be +commerce (Colossus on your finger!) and +morale (dwarves are happiest when rich), the nine are...
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    Tolkien

    Fëanor: The problem with breaking it up into smaller groups is you run the risk of Gondor allying with Mordor against Harad or Lorien going to war against Rivendell. To make it too varied would create subdivisions of unnatural allys (unless there's a way to make permanent alliances in the editor...
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    Tolkien

    Being a fan of Durin's folk I have to wonder just how the map could accomodate dwarves. The places the dwarves lived in were deep underground and while the dwarves managed to eat they didn't have vast tracts of land. Even if you were to force cities in mountain zones it would be difficult to...
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    Tolkien

    Woe be to anyone who calls Lord of the Rings (and others), "just some books". If they hit you, and they don't hit everyone, then they are a price beyond rubies. There is no place, no people, no thing you would not forsake to to Middle Earth (consider it like heaven). Make no mistake, this is...
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    What Is Wrong With This !$(#@ Game?

    Just started a nice tidy Greek civilization. Met the Germans, they're annoyed. So is Elizabeth. Once again I got stuck out on a penninsula with 8 desert squares and 4 arctic squares and 12 mountain squares. There were about 18 plains squares but most of that was forest. I perservered and dropped...
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    What Is Wrong With This !$(#@ Game?

    Because Sparta and Athens kept falling into disorder at lvl 6 from unhappiness under Despotism even though both had temples. I didn't have any units except warriors and bowmen and the bowmen get mowed in my experience. Either way I'm glad I didn't wait. I would have been boxed into my penninsula...
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    Civ3 is one big bore

    Actually...... The oldest democratic nation in the world is Iceland. If the Iroquois represent ALL of the native American tribes of North America what does that make the Aztec? I don't believe the Iroquois qualify as a civilization either. They lacked just about everything that qualifies...
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    What Is Wrong With This !$(#@ Game?

    I just attempted just that. I had started with the Greeks and immediately dropped 4 cities. Couldn't do more after that as I was boxed in on my penninsula and/or there were tall mountains. I build Pyramids and Oracle and then started building Hoplites and Horsemen. They sucked. At Ninevah...
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    Whats the point in playing without war?

    No joke, there was 1 vet spearman defending Ninevah which was, admittedly, behind walls but it took out 9 vet Hoplites and repulsed 2 waves of 6 horses. You don't even want to know how many Hoplites got eaten up trying to get Babylon. And for the fifth time I was dropped right next to the Zulu...
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    What Is Wrong With This !$(#@ Game?

    Thank you Sparrowhawk. I have won Civ 3 three times now by being elected SG of the UN but every time it's required that I appease aggresors to the point of extortion. I can't seem to keep military might balanced with technological improvements. I certainly do not get nearly the level of city...
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    Whats the point in playing without war?

    Actually I agree. War is SO discouraged in this game that I feel like I'm playing "Diplomacy" even though not all the other cultures are playing the same game. Actually going to war costs me a whole hella lot more than it does the AI civs. I lose precious time and technologies while they...
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    What Is Wrong With This !$(#@ Game?

    Thing is I didn't "stink" at Civ 1 or 2. On both of them I played regularly at Emperor level (and won) with occasional forays into Deity level. "If you don't like it why don't you leave" replies really don't answer any of the problems. I'm not ready to give up on the game yet and if someone...
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