Recent content by menelaus

Nice! ...I guess those manuals ARE useful for something...

I don't know if anyone has yet figured out this, but... Remember in Civ2 how you could zoom out so the world map was much smaller? Well, in Civ3, I hit F10, then by accident hit both F11 and F12 together and Viola, the world map became smaller! To send it back to normal, repeat the...

I was playing Civ3 into the wee hours of the morning and, lo and behold! My elite unit created a leader! But, before I could save, a few unit moves later my computer bombed with a GPF with DirectSound. My leader was lost.... or was it? I restarted from the beginning of the last turn and...

Don't forget the big reason to go through your cities and sell off Coal Plants after you have the Hoover Dam is not just for the 20 gold each or less pollution, but because each one drains three gold per turn from your treasury . The sooner you sell them off, the better your cash flow! So do it...

Oh, I consider it cheating too, but the fact that it's POSSIBLE blows my mind... Firaxis is usually better than that. In fact, when I tried this I didn't expect it to work. They usually catch these things...

No, that's unchecked. I just set the preference to always let me know when something is finished (Ican't remember what the actual checkbox was, though)

I think I just stumbled onto something really useful here... At the start of your turn, when the production finished window pops up, you can go to that city (mostly so you can change production), but by using the arrows at the top, you can go to the other cities too! What this means is...

My absolute favorite is the Persians. Nothing like doing a rush of Immortals right at the Iron Age. I usually send them out in packs of 8. Reminds me of a band of Fremen ready to take out the evil Harkkonens. Now if they only had Worms to ride!

Yeah, what is with that War Advisor?!? I have 22 Jet fighters, 10 Destroyers, 8 Battleships, 16 Bombers, 76 Mech Inf., 35 Cavalry, 43 Tanks... and I am WEAK compared to a civ with 26 Wooden Boats, 18 Ironclads, NO FLIGHT, 65 Infantry, 60 Cavalry, 18 Catapults, and 39 Riflemen. I mean...

To keep a city from going into civil disorder, or out of WLTK day at the beginning of the turn, do this. When the first city pops up at the start of the turn announcing a finished improvement/unit, select the "go to city" option. Then, WITHOUT EXITING, use the arrows to monitor all of your...

I prefer to play on a huge map, 4 billion years old, warm, wet climate, and large continents. I love the large continent part later in the game. Once you get those railroads built, you can move across half the world in one turn... all of your cities, in effect, are on the front lines for...

Seems to me like the free market reigns in the tech trade. There is no "exclusive use" riders or contracts for that matter on the selling of tech advancements. If there were, maybe then I could see a reputation hit on you if you sell to another civ. I work on the idea of "pay what you can"...

Woohoo! Just found out that the patch lets the police stations fight corruption! Now if only that extended to the Univ. Suffrage wonder too!

I have to agree: pretty worthless Wonder. Does nothing in times of peace. Barely works in times of war. Same with the police station. I never thought of a police station being USELESS in times of peace. What happened to making unhappy people content?

Almost forgot, another near future wonder: Mission to Mars: Still not sure what the effects would be, just think it should be a wonder.