Recent content by JAWiseman

I love history and wish I had more time to devote to learing more. I just finished some reading into the early colonization period of North America and the interests of the Spanish, French, and British. Very interesting stuff.

Jay is better, but not by a ton. Jay just seems to be happier and is generally more entertaining. Conan was GREAT when Andy was on, and I could watch every night, but has gone downhill badly since Andy left. I would have never thought that Andy meant that much to the show, but I guess he...

THO- Another great tip! I generally build upgradable defensive units with my excess capacity, but generally do not run them out to the border cities and disband them. I will do that more often in the future as I generally end up with more defense than I need. In fact, one of my main...

Gold vs. Pop Rushing- Oftentimes I find myself in WW in Democracy and have to change (I obviously prefer to be in Democracy if at all possible). I have always been interested in the "real" differences between these two options: Communism and Monarchy. I mainly choose Monarchy due to the...

TNO- Thanks for your input. I really enjoy reading your posts, they are always very helpful and informative. I have always gone with OCP in Civ II and Civ III for (until now) no real concrete reasons. I think, now that I am reflecting on it, is because it was "prettier", and had just...

Ahh- I have never attempted a cultural victory and I can see my relative culture on F8 so absent trying for a cultural victory are there any other uses for the Cultural Advisor? I generally play Emperor and I do not think I will be getting a cultural victory at that level any time soon:crazyeye:

I have yet to find a use for the Culture screen (I believe it is F3). Does any one find this useful? I would love to know why and how to use it for something...

Isn't that just their way of "bluffing" when an insignificant civ "demands" tribute? I do thank that it would be interesting to have a path of diplomacy where the AI (or you) could beg for mercy and ask for handouts from the powerful civs (e.g. just like the 3rd world contries ask the US/Wold...

Most of the time I raze and then place a new settler in the opened area. I find a lot of times on Emperor that the other Civs culture is higher than mine and these recently taken cities flip back to the other civ after a certain amount of time. However, razing causes significant problems...

Thanks for the information! That is really helpful to think about with regrds to what I normally do.:goodjob:

Why even give the user the option of Pangaea if the functionality does not work? If I wanted continents than I would pick continents. If I want one connected landmass, then by gosh, I should be able to get it, regardless of the reasons! It makes me angry that this does not work well at...

I am curious about how people space their early cities. Do you give the maximum room around your capital and each of your first cities (21 tiles), or do you group your cities closer together? If you group cities closer together, do you notice a beneficial effect on corruption and waste due...

Jungles- While weak early, jungle tiles can become great and powerful city locations later in the game after the workers speed up (thorugh tech and government), and these squares can be cleared quite handily to reveal very nice terrain.

IMHO the airpower in Civ3 is horribly implemented for the reasons you mention. Far too often I build fighters only to have them sit around doing nothing the entire game. It is like a game of hide and seek to get the AS fighters into appropriate position. In addition, does anyone else think...

Culture Screen- I have yet to find a use for the Culture screen (I believe it is F3). Does any one find this useful? I would love to know why and how to use it for something... Happiness- The city screen (F1) is highly deficient in that you can not tell if you have discontent or not in an...