Recent content by Jodien

2 per city on average works fine.

I just can't seem to have a great Leader in my games. I generally prefer playing military, scientific, religious and expansionist civs. Does this make a difference? I can promote my several veteran units to elite status. But that's all. Further combat won't do anything. Also, can the Great...

OK, I re-installed the game for another reason, MA screen is working now. Couldn't figure out why it didn't before that.

For the early stages: 1. Build your capital in a food-abundant area and max up your food production to get your city to size 3, while building a settler. Forget barracks, and temples until you produce 3 settlers and 3 spearmen or workers. You can complete a temple later in 3-4 turns as your...

Catapults don't seem to make any effective difference in my games. I take 5 catapults to an invasion but 4 shots out of 5 on an enemy town fail with no damage. They need Maths which is a little late tech compared to Iron working and riding, and the catapults are still too expensive to build in...

If you have a tech that nobody has, and that tech is a wonder-giver then the civs would die to buy it from you. In my latest Babylon (Regent) game, I went straight to research Physics to get Newton's Univ, while most of the other civs were hanging around Free Artistry or so. When I got...

If you are scientific and/or religious, go for 1. Writing: you'll need contact with other civs 2. Literature: libraries will help research faster and boost culture. 3. Iron Working: secure iron

Build a stack of 8 offensive units and 2 defenders. All should be veterans. You can invade your neighbor easily in the early stages.

The enemy units do not show in my military advisor screen. Planting spies does not work. The casualties are not shown either. I had to jot down the number of enemy units I killed to a draft paper. The right half of the MA screen is totally useless. Paying for spies to steal army plans is too...

At the beginning look at the world map on the corner of the screen. Locate your position and expand to the center of the map. If you're at the center, choose a direction and expand there while sending a unit to explore the other side. 1.Your starting worker must build a road to your future...

The excess beakers are wasted handsomely for sure. For example, if you are paying 100 gp (50%) of your income to science and getting the tech in 4 turns, paying 200 gp (100%) won't help you get it in 2 turns. The 100 gold excess will be wasted for no reason, because the fastest possible research...

In my regent game with Babylon I just experienced Rosicrucian's dilemma in about 9th and 10th centuries. I was way behind in tech race and was unable to improve my army and gold income. My neighbors Persia and Greece were happily sharing their newly discovered techs as brothers while they wont...

What difficulty level are you playing and how many civs are there?

The oddest thing is that when you have a culture-free area right in the middle of your territory because of your cities are yet to expand cultural borders to close that 'hole'. The AI settlers, escorted by good defender units, just seem to know that spot very well, although they don't have its...

Everybody out there, thank you very much for your attention. I've been playing Civ games for over a decade and I think Civ3 is the best one I played so far. I dont have the latest patch, this has to be a problem, I guess. My game is: Huge world, two big continents, 5billion aged world, 12...