Recent content by snazzyjoe

You have your workers build them on terrain squares, and then you fortify units in them. It gives you a nifty defense bonus, especially when built on a mountain or hill, and a zone of control for some units. If you build a line of them along your borders, it makes it that much harder for enemies...

I have both Minimum Size and Preferred Size set to 210,000k, which is much, much more than the suggested size of 128 megs. I boot with minimal extensions and I have about 215 free megs, so I figured 210 would be a suitable number for Civ3. But it still crashes. On a side note, my Mac only has...

Not I. But this crashing thing never happened before I loaded the 1.29 beta, even when I was playing max number of civs on a large map. So, as you might guess, I'm suspicious of the upgrade being the cause of these unexpected quits. If you know anything about this under OS 9, or if you know when...

So no ideas on crashing in Mac OS 9? I've tried a few more games and they also randomly crash at particular points, and nothing I do seems to change it.

I'd like to think someday that'd be possible. I, however, am still in the Stone Age with Mac OS 9.2. Any way to get a crash log with my current OS?

I've been having annoying crashes in my current games. I'm using game-created maps, no mods, and just a handful of civs so my machine doesn't slow to a crawl. In both games, it decides to randomly crash at the beginnings of certain turns. In the one I was playing last night, I was the Chinese...

I'm pretty new to Civ3, having only played it for a couple months. I've stayed on Chieftain so far, aside from a few moderately successful warlord games, trying to perfect my techniques before I plunge into anything too challenging. My question, then, is how does everyone else seem to do so much...