Recent content by Paradoxflux

quick comment: Australia is too green, it should be more desert, L.A. greater metro area has more people than the whole country of Australia.

this thread is out of control! so to add to the madness, here's my interpretation of what fascism should be in the game. (no consideration given to balance I'm afraid) and I will stick with what can actually be altered in the rules. prereq: nationalism -this is basis of fascism...

A lot of info is hidden from you in the game, so I went to the rules to see what I could find out about the actual nuts and bolts of the game. I'll just list things that I found interesting about the rules, from each rules tab. (some settings I didn't really understand at all) General...

try trading technologies with other civs. If you have 4 civs each working on 1 tech it will go 4x more slowly overall than 4 civs working on 4 techs.

That could be true, I played civ 2 to death, and all the games i've played to death have I've soured on. Even CS in all its glory has turned repetative and boring. damn. but i'm not saying civ3 isn't a good game, I'm just saying it doesn't have the greatness of civ1 and 2.

You can do cntrl shift n to have workers try to work on your road/rail network if you want. What I dont' like is that railroads are no longer used today, now we use superhighways, which are no longer represented in the game. of course we still have trains, but they are too expensive and...

yes there is a patch in the works, I've seen firaxis people post about it, it will include fixes to things like: no pop up for city in disorder

I was going to reply to the thread below that said civ3 sucked, but that is really a rant about the technical side of the game: how its poorly optimized and has scrolling problems on many machines. I mean Civ 3 the game sucks. Yes, it's got that same addictive great quality the first game...