Recent content by nerbuth

The answer of course is... it depends. If you're settling the city for a strategic resource, sometimes it makes sense to just settle on the resource. Otherwise, it is often helpful to have a food resource in the first 9 - it helps you build up the food to whip the monument or library to pop...

The difference between a high food start and a low food start is of huge importance later on. Besides, what else was there to write about? :lol: I'm probably going south to follow the river at start, but will play with the camera now that I have the save.

With the farmed FP, you'll have +4 food and 2 hammers for 6 production on the settler - generally 1 less than you'd have with a wet rice/corn and non PH cap. Border will pop before we get the first worker out to farm the FP. My fog gazing is so-so, but I played around with worldbuilder to...

Interesting game setup. I hadn't played Great Plains before, but my research seemed to indicate that our high food start wouldn't be unique. Also, the size of the map would really limit our ability to go for fast conquest. Lot of open space for the AI to sneak a settler into and raging barbs...

Well I'm back after a LONG hiatus and the addiction is in full force. First thing, I really enjoyed this game. I don't think I played all that well, but I'm still in the process of relearning a few things. I didn't take detailed notes, but a few things from memory. It took me a bit to...

I think with the mix of resources around us, we have the ability to tech very quickly solo. Given that we're playing prince as well, it has the makings of a very easy game. I would imagine that the catch, as others have mentioned, is that we're trapped on our island/continent until Astronomy...

I think specializing cities based on the terrain can also help guide you. It isn't possible for each city to be good at everything. Particularly at higher levels of difficulty, it isn't possible to build every improvement everywhere. If you have a lot of hills around, you'll probably need...

Ok... it took me 3 days to read the first 500 posts.... I don't know if I can catch up the other 900. 900! What a show of dedication from the trainers and trainees. And thanks to the lurkers with all of the relevant comments. More than anything else, just wanted to show how impressed I was...

I think that this is the great leap to be made in terms of game ability for many civ3ers (including myself). The ability and desire to put the AI to work for you - guiding their research, leader fishing, having them build wonders for you to conquer, etc.

I'm surprised nobody pointed this out yet, but there are other negatives to too much pop rushing. The biggest is that less population means less commerce. Granted that this is modified by corruption, but in most cases, you want to keep your population high to drive your science. Also if you...

1.29 Open I founded Beijing in the popular spot in the north. Shanghai on the hill south of the spices for defensive purposes. Looking back I probably should have got the wheat in the radius right away. Science 3900 - start granary at max (20 turns) 3750 - trade for the wheel and...

Actually in Republic, units cost 1 gold. In Monarchy, you get 1 unit per town, 2 free units per city, and 3 free units per metropolis. Units cost 1 gold beyond your free ones.

If the civ in questions still exists even if they don't have a city to call home, any captured cities can flip back to them... in spite of your pacification efforts and cultural buildup. I had this happen in the most recent GOTM where I had banashed a CIV to the a settler in a boat. 6 turns...

I found this site a long time ago, but couldn't find the time to play with my 2 kids. They are finally old enough that I have some free time and I managed to play and complete gotm 24 and 25. They were easily the most interesting and fun games I've played of civ3 and I am a much better player...

Amazon.com finally shipped Conquests to me today and I did not see the bonus CD anywhere in the packaging. I preordered so I was under the impression that I would get the bonus CD. Anyone else have the same problem? And does anyone have a suggestion if I should contact Atari or Amazon.com...