Recent content by Squeek

Thanks, Wobbegong. I noticed this a long time ago but thought I might figured it out eventually -- nope!

Here is a screenshot. I'm referring to the small green number one on the lower-left side of the city. I notice these numbers every now and then. Usually they are green, but sometimes they are red. I doubt it has anything to do with graphics, because I've noticed them on three different...

Sometimes small numbers appear in the city screen at the edge of cities. They are almost always green and are usually a 1 or a 2. What do they mean?

Smash, don't a few of the wonders work differently too? The descriptions are sometimes different, anyway. For instance, The Great Wall. The discription in Plain Civ2 describes getting city walls in all your cities, but the gold version doesn't. And Hanging Gardens apparently provides three...

If you get them early enough, it's veteran fighters. With their movement of 10, they can clean up a crowd of inferior units in a big hurry. Stealth fighters are even better, but they really do come too late in the game. IMHO, Armor is the best ground unit. And I like knights...

After playing Civ3 for about three weeks, I took it off my hard drive yesterday. Civ2 is a better game. It's more fun to play.

Civ2 is better, because it's just a more enjoyable game (for me, anyway). While Civ2 lacks all the good ideas and improved gameplay added to Civ3, it also completely lacks the poor choices that were made (and there are a few important ones). For me, the deciding factor is the strategy...

I'm apparently confused about Civ 3 combat odds, and I'm getting a little frustrated. It's my first game, and my first war. Here's what just happened: My fortified Veteran Numidian Mercenary 2.3.1 (PTW civ special unit) was just attacked and beaten by a Regular Archer 2.1.1. I didn't think...

Playing for the first time, I noticed that the population of my biggest city's seems capped at 6. Is that right? The food storage bin is full, and the caption above it says, "Growth in 9999." It doesn't empty, and I don't get any more citizens. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything...

OK, I just tried installing it under Windows 98 SE, and it works fine (I have a duel-boot setup). It was some sort of problem with Civ 3 running on Windows XP, at least on my system.