1000 clues your civ3 management skills need help

[choxorn]

If a volcano takes out your one and only city, you win the game by conquest. Yarly.

It does?
23. You never upgrade your units or disband them so you still have Warriors in 2049 AD

 

[Heretic_Cata]

23. You never upgrade your units or disband them so you still have Warriors in 2049 AD

Not necesarely, i purposley kept one till the end of the game as a "trophy". (and it was till 2010 - it was a mod with extra turns)

 

[azzaman333]

24: You lose on Cheiftian.

 

[Pentium]

25. You can't spell Chieftain.

 

[choxorn]

24: You lose on Cheiftian.

It's more of a clue you need to play civ3 more- and it's on that list.

26: You wonder why everyone thinks Cheiftain is impossible to lose since you're a newb like me who loses on it all the time...

 

[Desertsnow]

10. Your first build is the Pyramids.

In my inaugural game, I built the Pyramids not as my very first build, but still before I got a settler built. Live and learn.


26. You declare war in a no-military game.
27. You call a UN vote when the only surviving AI player one with whom you've broken every kind of treaty in the game.

 

[sanabas]

In my inaugural game, I built the Pyramids not as my very first build, but still before I got a settler built. Live and learn.

Pyramids before settler is something I've done intentionally before.

28. You're playing a 20k game, and don't realise you've bypassed Economics entirely until you reach the modern age.
29. You cash-rush a build, only to discover the 3 forest chops finishing that same turn would have gone to the same city, wasting 30 shields/120 gold.
30. You use all your management skills to slow your prebuild just enough, so that you can discover fission, instantly switch to and complete the UN, and win the game. The turn before, you start your war with your vote opponent, and ally the rest of the world in. Everything is in readiness, you click end turn, forget to change your prebuild, and your palace completes in the new city. Oops.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

31. You don't vote for yorself in the UN elections.
Guilty
(good thing the other civs voted for me and there was no majority)

 

[choxorn]

Oops, I messed up the numbers! I, of all people, actually messed up the numbers! Good thing I fixed it.
33. You are so concerned with criticizing people for messing up the numbers that you didn't realise you did it yourself.
34. You didn't launch your spaceship on the turn it was built because you wanted to take one turn to finish off your sworn enemy- and he launched his spaceship on that turn.

 

[azzaman333]

35. You get philosophy first and use it to buy Ceremonial Burial.

 

[Desertsnow]

31. You don't vote for yorself in the UN elections.
Guilty
(good thing the other civs voted for me and there was no majority)

I voted for Alexander once (while playing as Cleopatra) just to get it over with.


36. You have zero gold and deficit economy even with every city producing 'wealth.' (Guilty.)

 

[Heretic_Cata]

34. You didn't launch your spaceship on the turn it was built because you wanted to take one turn to finish off your sworn enemy- and he launched his spaceship on that turn.

37. You actualy know that the situation above is impossible because you tried it and when you complete the spaceship you cannot exit that screen till you click on launch. (in vanila- i'm not sure of conq)
Guilty.

 

[choxorn]

Then how about this one (for the spaceship)?
38. You MM'ed your city that's building your final SS part to delay it by one turn so you could finish off your enemy, who launched his space ship that turn.
P.S. azzaman, how is 35 a clue?

 

[Atropos]

39. You get a nice start with a cow by a river and some bonus grassland. You settle on the cow. (The AI does this all the time).

40. Your worker builds nothing but roads for the first 100 turns.

41. It's 3000 BC. You set the second citizen of your only city as a scientist.

42. War weariness in your Republic is high. You revolt to Democracy.

43. No, monarchy is not the best form of government for a civilization with one-tenth the military of all neighbors.

44. You put a warrior, a spearman, and a horseman into your army. In the Medieval Age.

45. When at war, you leave a large stack of artillery unguarded near the border.

46. You never build military units unless you are at war.

 

[azzaman333]

P.S. azzaman, how is 35 a clue?

In C3C, if you're the first to research Philosophy, you get a free technology. Ceremonial Burial is the equal cheapest technology in the game (along with pottery).

47. You didnt understand clue 35.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

48. You want to change your government and start a revolt. When the anarchy period is over you accidentaly click on the PREVIOUS government instead of what you wanted to change to.
Guilty.

49. You cause a revolt to change the gov and realise that you can only chose the despotism gov.
Guilty. But it was in a mod.

 

[Pentium]

40. Your worker builds nothing but roads for the first 100 turns.

That isn't as bad as it sounds. You get a lot of gold that way and you can trade luxuries faster.

46. You never build military units unless you are at war.

Same here. I've done this in my Deity games that I won. Just make sure your diplomacy is good and remember that you can defend against a Deity civ with a couple of Spearmen and one or two cities lost (and quickly rebuilt).

 

[choxorn]

47. You didnt understand clue 35.

50. You only understand clue 35 because you did it yourself and then checked alexman's formula for tech cost to determine this- and that Philosphy is pretty cheap too...
51. You also determined the most expensive tech in the ancient age: Bronze Working (guilty).

40. Your worker builds nothing but roads for the first 100 turns.

I've probably done that before

 

[meisen]

52. Your closest neighbour is stuck on a 1 city sized island and you still cant catch up with them.

 

[choxorn]

@meisen: WTH? Is that even possible? If that happened, you probably need to play civ3 more! But Seriously: WTH!!?? :suicide: