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2021 EXPANSION
Expansion pack for Civilization 3 Conquests
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6 years in the making, countless tweaks to improve game balance and expand on game options,
yet keeping the essence of the original gameplay intact



  • The goal of this expansion is to improve the quality of the standard game as much as possible, by updating statistics, graphics and user interface

  • More detailed and realistic terrain graphics
  • Mega maps (230x230) with all 31 civilizations available
  • Random maps
  • Grand strategy through the full history of human civilization, from 4000 BC to 2100 AD (600 turns)
  • AI players follow 3 different research strategies (Warrior, Balanced, Builder), creating greater variation, more trade opportunities, and civilizations are more true to character
  • All units of the original game, plus 16 new ones to fill in gaps
  • Navies are much stronger
  • Unique team colors (that never change) for each of the 31 civilizations
  • High visibility red cursor makes it quicker to find the active unit
  • Redrawn national borders & thicker team color discs, easier to tell the color
  • Enhanced graphics for all cities on the map
  • City Screen: Citizen emojis & national color bars for better population management
  • 4 new strategic resources, 2 new bonus resources
  • Strategic resources never disappear
  • Pollution levels reduced by up to 90%
  • Golden Age lasts 40 turns
  • 4 new wonders, existing wonders reworked
  • City names added, so every nation has 50 each (the base game had between 16 and 44)
  • The Unique Units of all nations are much more balanced, and require no strategic resources, so it is always possible to build them
  • Any unit in the game has a chance to retreat if losing a battle
  • Scientific Leaders are disabled, so there is a fair race to build Wonders
  • Military Leaders & Armies replaced with the new General unit
  • The AI finishes its turn twice as fast as the unmodded game
  • Barbarians are no longer passive, and actively seek out targets
  • Limited railroad movement makes the game more strategic and realistic
  • AI attacks with lots of artillery
  • Bug fixes
  • And much more...

  • Significant changes to Unit stats, Civilizations and Governments
  • Minor changes to the Technology Tree
  • Rewritten Civilopedia, up to date with all changes
  • Manual with complete charts & stats included


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CHANGELOGS:


New in version 9.3:
  • 4 new strategic resources: Stone, Copper, Hardwood, Carbon
  • 2 new bonus resources: Natural Harbor, Pearls
  • Strategic resources are more scarce, so there is harder competition
  • Cleaned up resource requirements for units, buildings, wonders and spaceship parts, to make them more logical and varied
  • Partisans and Guerrillas are stealthy. They can only be seen by land units right next to them, otherwise they are invisible
  • Scouts and Explorers are stealthy too. They won't be asked to leave foreign territory unless they are spotted
  • AI civilizations choose more balanced and less predictable paths through the tech tree
  • AI civilizations build more of units they rarely built previously
  • The espionage mission "Investigate City" is significantly cheaper
  • Aqueducts and Hospitals can now be sold, if the population is below the size that the building allows
  • The Oracle gives all 8 luxury resources of the world to the host city, in addition to doubling the effect of Temples globally
  • Chopping forest or jungle tiles yields 20 shields
  • C3X mod Release 21 integrated

For a complete list of changes, click the Spoiler button below...
Spoiler CLICK TO SEE FULL LIST OF RECENT CHANGES :

New in version 9.2:
  • All infantry and cavalry, and many ships, are cheaper to build
  • All mechanized units and aircraft, and some modern warships, still cost the same
  • As a consequence, early unit building (before Factory) is not so slow, and cheaper infantry is more viable compared to tanks, etc.
  • Armed revolution (population loss) when switching to Communism is removed
  • It takes longer for foreign nationals to be assimilated in conquered cities
  • Commerce icons in the city screen changed to single gold coins, easier to read
  • Deleted 1 tech (Combustion Engine) and moved Automobile and Mechanized Warfare one place back to replace it
  • This was done because there were too many techs between The Corporation and Automobile, it took forever to get to tanks
  • Moved Mechanized Infantry from Computers to Cold War
  • New article in the Civilopedia about the yield of City Center Squares
  • The Longevity wonder changed name to Pasteur's Vaccine
  • Public Transport and Recycling Center upgraded from previous version, reducing the risk of pollution further
  • So pollution requires 7-8 times less micromanagement, but still needs to be taken seriously, as it takes a lot more effort to clean up
  • Oasis food bonus increased to +3
  • Bug fix: In the original game, floodplains were supposed to cause disease like jungle and marsh, but didn't. Fixed
  • C3X mod Release 20 integrated

New in version 9.1:
  • New right-click menu gives a lot more information about units
  • The AI turns take half as much time as the unmodded game
  • The AI builds more Workers, making it develop faster
  • The AI builds a better balanced army
  • The AI makes more balanced choices in the technology tree
  • AI to AI trade rate was reduced in previous mod versions, now it is reduced even further
  • Pollution levels reduced by up to 85%, but cleaning up takes longer
  • Right of Passage agreements removed, because they are highly exploitable and unrealistic
  • Map trading removed, because it takes away the purpose and mystery of exploring (it is still possible to steal maps)
  • New unit added: Airship
  • Cities are allowed to be built on marsh terrain
  • The Despotism tile penalty also applies to Agricultural civilizations, so their food bonus is more in line with Commercial and Industrious civs' bonuses
  • The Military Academy auto-builds Generals every 30 turns (was 40), but no longer increases the chance of them appearing in combat
  • The Heroic Epic small wonder has been reintroduced, and takes over that role
  • Paratroopers can airdrop from any city, with or without an airport
  • Attack Helicopter ground attack increased, and cost reduced
  • Cost of all artillery and anti-aircraft reduced by 5-20 shields
  • All artillery have a defensive ability, and cannot be captured
  • Louder Coastal Fortress gunshot; much easier to hear when it hits a passing ship
  • Culture points needed for a cultural victory increased to 250.000
  • Total number of cities in the world shown on the Demographics screen (F11)
  • Bug in version 9.0 where ships could not retreat when defending has been fixed
  • C3X mod Release 19 integrated

New in version 9.0:
  • Minimum distance between cities increased to 3 squares (fewer but more prosperous cities, faster game, more realistic warfare)
  • Defensive combat bonuses of Towns, Cities and Metros increased to 40%, 80% and 120% respectively. Palace bonus increased to 60%
  • Coastal Fortress increases city defense by 20%, in addition to its other effects
  • Mega map size increased to 230x230 (was 220x220)
  • Significant changes to Communism and Feudalism. Communism will be chosen by the AI more often
  • Anarchy duration reduced to 2-8 turns (was 2-9 turns)
  • New great wonders: Scotland Yard, Ford Car Factory, Climate Treaty
  • New graphics for the Secret Police HQ and Broadcast Tower
  • Broadcast Tower increases happiness instead of reducing corruption
  • The Military Academy auto-builds a General every 40 turns (was 50)
  • All units on the map may retreat from a losing battle. In addition to fast units like cavalry, it also applies to infantry, and ships
  • New unit: Attack Helicopter
  • Range of all missiles and aircraft (except helicopters) increased by 2-3 squares
  • Airdrop range of Paratroopers and Modern Paratroopers increased
  • All fighter type aircraft increased their combat strength by 2-4, and improved their ground attack capability significantly (rate of fire increased to 2)
  • All bomber type aircraft increased their defense by 1-3
  • Strategic Bomber and Stealth Bomber were given 1 extra bomb each (rate of fire increased to 5)
  • Cost of all aircraft increased accordingly, by up to 50%
  • FlaK and Mobile SAM increased their anti-air by 33%. FlaK was given defensive bombard ability
  • Rocket Artillery was given 1 extra shot (rate of fire 3)
  • Missile Cruiser increased its bombard range (4), rate of fire (3), and anti-air (12)
  • Submarine (16.6.4) and Nuclear Submarine (30.10.6) are stronger
  • Enkidu Warrior (2.1.1) replaces Warrior, Impi (2.2.1) replaces Spearman, Jaguar Warrior (3.2.1) replaces Swordsman
  • Javelin Throwers may enslave defeated enemies
  • Cost of Catapult lowered to 20, Trebuchet to 35
  • New menu buttons (Main Menu, Civilopedia and Advisors)
  • Civilopedia navigation made more intuitive. Active arrows and buttons are blue, inactive ones blend with the background
  • Rewritten Civilopedia pages for Buildings and Wonders in the same concise style as previously done for Units, Civilizations and Governments
  • Added more info on Civilization and Government pages
  • National borders have new and improved graphics
  • Enhanced city graphics; the original Civ 3 graphics made clearer and more colorful
  • Global warming thermometer added to the info box, to make the current temperature level clearer
  • Several changes to the tech tree in the industrial and modern era
  • Cost of techs in the industrial and modern era rebalanced, so there is more of a progression, and the transition between eras is smoother
  • The AI's movement phase has been optimized to run 12-13% faster
  • The AI will use only 1 escort for each artillery unit, freeing up troops for other tasks
  • The AI will use maximum 2 escorts for naval transports, freeing up warships for naval supremacy
  • Barbarians won't be passive anymore, they will move around and actively seek targets
  • C3X mod Release 16 integrated

New in version 8.1:
  • More destructive and realistic land and sea bombardment: Same as air bombing, 1/3 chance of targeting either units, population or buildings in a city
  • Bombard defense of City Walls, Coastal Fortress, population and city improvements increased by 50%
  • Price of Coastal Fortress increased to 60 shields, since it is harder to destroy and more important now (Coastal Fortress absorbs all ship bombardment until destroyed, City Walls do the same against artillery fire)
  • SAM City Defense and fighter planes' chance to intercept aircraft reduced by half. SAM City Defense air attack inreased to compensate
  • Team Color Discs redrawn. Medium thickness, smoother
  • Chopping a forest or jungle yields 15 shields (was 10)
  • Russian Cossacks made slightly stronger (9.5.2)
  • Welcome screen and several Civilopedia articles cleaned up
  • C3X mod Release 15 integrated

New in version 8.0:
  • Ancient Cavalry is now a normal unit, available for everyone to build
  • The Statue of Zeus wonder auto-builds the new Spartan unit instead
  • Guerrillas have been moved to the modern era, with similar but stronger stats (13.9.1)
  • The old World-War-era Guerrilla unit has been renamed "Partisan" and given new graphics. The stats are still the same (9.6.1). Partisans upgrade to Guerrillas. Both are cheap, strong attackers, and require no resources
  • Transport and Hovercraft capacity increased to 8 units
  • Rocket Artillery has increased bombard range (3) and bombard strength (20), but lower fire rate (2)
  • Paratrooper (now 10.9.1) and Modern Paratrooper (now 14.13.1) had their attack increased by 1. Fixed issue with vanilla Paratroopers having no combat sounds assigned
  • Civilopedia: All great wonder pages have a link to the full list of wonders and their traits, making it easier to plan for a Golden Age
  • Viking city names replaced with more historically accurate ones
  • The vanilla AI rarely builds City Walls or SAM City Defenses. The probability has been increased, and now they will be built a lot more often
  • AI to AI trading activity reduced. More noticeable on higher difficulty levels
  • Assimilation rate reduced, and resistance is quelled slower. So it takes a little longer to subjugate newly captured cities
  • Sorted civilizations alphabetically in the Player Setup screen (when starting a new game)
  • Sorted units more logically and well organized. Affects the order of units listed in the Military Advisor screen (F3), and the Build menu in cities
  • Sorted the order of city improvements and wonders better. Affects the Build menu and list of completed improvements in cities
  • Fixed a bug where the Iroquois could not build Horsemen
  • Fixed a bug where Princesses could be captured by their own civilization
  • C3X mod Release 14 integrated

New in version 7.8:
  • Visual upgrade for the tech tree: Tech boxes given colored frames. New navigation arrows (see screenshot)
  • Marines, Paratroopers and their Modern upgrades no longer require Rubber. So even if you lack Rubber, you're not cut off from all offensive units in the modern era
  • The Automobile tech has been moved, replacing Mass Production
  • Chinese (now dark orange) and Ottomans (blue green) swapped colors, as it is more historically appropriate for both (uniform colors etc.)
  • Latest version of the C3X mod (Release 11) integrated

New in version 7.7:
  • City Screen & Domestic Advisor (F1): Colored bars show nationalities of citizens, emojis show happiness, white icons show specialist professions (see screenshot)
  • National borders redrawn: Thicker, sharper, clearer
  • Espionage: Planting a spy is more expensive, but many spy missions are significantly cheaper. Propaganda has a slightly higher chance of success
  • Democracies are no longer immune to propaganda, they just have the highest resistance against it
  • Rewritten tables for Resistance, Propaganda Modifier, and Culture Ratio
  • Technologies have a 20% increased value in trade and negotiations
  • Regicide / Mass Regicide games: None of the Kings had combat animations or sounds originally, they just stood still when fighting. Fixed. Kings were given +3 Hit Points
  • Defensive bonus of Fortress increased to 60%, Barricades to 120%
  • Vikings (now Seafaring & Expansionist) swapped traits with the Spanish (Militaristic & Seafaring)

New in version 7.6:
  • New unit: Satellite, available with the Satellites tech. ICBM moved to Superconductor
  • Universal Suffrage has stronger effect and is cheaper to build
  • Iron Working requires Masonry in addition to Bronze Working, so it is a little harder to achieve early
  • Every Civilization page in the Civilopedia has added a link to the history of that civilization
  • Saltpeter is white, not grey. Gems colored pink instead of white
  • Railroads are darker and look more like railroads
  • Marsh terrain and irrigations darkened to fit the new graphics scheme better
  • Red shortcut icon for the expansion included

New in version 7.5:
  • Major graphics update: Land terrain is more detailed and realistic. Sea is unchanged
  • Thicker national borders, so the color is easier to see
  • Team color discs redrawn, to look better and more 3D
  • Scientific research cost on Mega maps reduced
  • Optimal City Numbers (OCN) fine tuned
  • Bug fix for a conflict with the C3X mod (pressing the 'L' key to load units inside a town)
  • Newest version of C3X mod (release 10B) integrated

New in version 7.4:
  • Red "End Turn" button that is easier to see
  • The "Combustion" technology is renamed "Automobile". It makes Rubber available on the map
  • Newest version of the C3X mod (release 10) integrated
  • Several minor improvements

New in version 7.3:
  • New unit cursor: Fire Ring cursor
  • Spanish Conquistador model swapped for a more military style than the vanilla scout unit
  • The "Landing Operations" technology (Marines & Paratroopers) is now a little easier to achieve
  • Bug fix: Ottoman Sipahi were unable to upgrade to Cavalry, this has been fixed
New in version 7.2:
  • Bombard range of all WW2/modern artillery & warships increased to 2 (Missile Cruiser 3)
  • Carrier capacity increased to 4, and Supercarrier to 6. Their cost has been lowered
  • F-15 land bombardment made lethal. Sipahi replaces Cuirassier, not Cavalry. Minor adjustments to 5 other Unique Units
  • Fascism suffers no loss of population upon switching
  • The vanilla AI almost never builds Granaries, giving it a disadvantage. Fixed, but needs included C3X mod to work (optional)
  • On the standard C3X setting, the AI produces 1/6 of its land forces as artillery. This has been reduced to 1/8
  • Cruiser strength (and cost) reduced a little bit. Fighter bombard strength increased to 12
  • Improved Civilopedia and welcome screen
New in version 7.0:
  • AI players now follow 1 of 3 different research strategies (Warrior, Balanced, Builder), rather than the same one
  • Game time lengthened to 600 turns (4000 BC to 2100 AD)
  • Mega map size reduced to 220 x 220 tiles to shorten playing time (still 31 civs)
  • New unit: Atomic Bomb, auto-built by the Manhattan Project
  • New small wonder: Broadcast Tower
  • New graphics: Carrier & Self-Propelled Artillery models improved
  • Some governments (Democracy, Fascism, Republic, Feudalism) adjusted, so the AI makes better late game choices
  • Simplification: All 10 Spaceship components now cost the same (800 shields each)
  • Some minor changes to the tech tree in the World Wars era
  • Newest version (release 8) of the C3X mod integrated with the installation (optional to install)

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NEW UNITS:


New units [original].png

* All 16 new units shown
* High visibility red cursor (Fire Ring) seen on the Satellite in Shanghai
* Medium-thick team color discs at the base of every unit




TERRAIN GRAPHICS:


Terrain [original].png

* Terrain graphics are more detailed and realistic
* Red "End Turn" button is easier to see
* Screenshot shows 2560 x 1440 resolution (recommended for large screens)




CITY SCREEN:


City Screen - emojis & nationality 2.png

* Colored bars show nationalities of citizens
* Emojis show happiness
* White icons show specialist professions
* Works on the Domestic Advisor screen (F1) too




RIGHT-CLICK MENU:


MENU 100 - R18 edited (grey sword, lighter).png

* Right-click any stack to get complete info about the units




SETUP (with new options):


World Setup.png

* New option: Mega map
* More informative descriptions

Player Setup.png

* Civilizations listed in alphabetical order
* New difficulty levels




REWRITTEN CIVILOPEDIA (examples):


Civilopedia - Units.png

* New Unit pages in a consistent style, with complete info on a single page

Civilopedia - Civilizations.png

* Civilization pages more transparent about all settings for each civ
* Link to the history of the civilization added at the bottom




MANUAL:


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* 6 page Manual with tables and charts



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Latest reviews

Excellent work, feels like vanilla expansion. Well done!
Excellent mod, does what it sets out to achieve which is to refresh the main game enough to make it interesting but nothing too dramatic to throw the game totally off balance. One suggestion of another thing you could change (which always annoyed me about vanilla Civ3, not this mod specifically!) would be to change Universal Suffrage to a small wonder for all democracies - makes no sense that it should be available to despotism, feudalism, fascism etc, nor that it's limited to one civ!
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