A return to CivIII?

[LouisXII]

Civ3 is now available cheaply, esp. online. So more and more people end up buying it as a second option, and finding these fora. Such as me.

 

[Lanzelot]

Threads rarely stay on topic and some of the best info is buried in threads with Titles not related to the good stuff.

Exactly. One solution to this problem has been the War Academy. In earlier years. people with a good overview over a certain topic collected all the "valuable gems" that are hidden (or rather burried) in lengthy and long-forgotten GOTM threads, SG threads, etc and summarized them clearly and completely in a well-written article. (A big "Thanks" to all who contributed there! )
Unfortunately, some of the articles were written in the days of Civ3 Vanilla and haven't been updated for a while. Patch level x.y (not to mention a new version like PtW and C3C) may have changed an important aspect, and the thing no longer works... (Sometimes you can find corrections/updates in the corresponding discussion thread, but then you are back to the original problem: you need to carefully read a lengthy thread in order to find the correct information...)

So I guess updating the Military Academy articles would already be a good step forward towards what we are trying to achieve here.


Puppeteer, your idea with providing a couple of videos is nice, especially for the younger players, but I have to say: it's not for me... (It's probably a generation thing: I like the old-fashioned written word...) For me the reasons are:

• When providing information material, it's much faster for me to write a few sentences, make a couple of screenshots (in situations where a picture says more than a thousand words) and post it. I'm too unfamiliar with all that video stuff and would probably sink too much time in getting it to work...
• When consuming information material, I found that I learn better by reading than by listening. For me it's more convenient to read a text (at my own "reading & understanding pace") than to having to listen to a voice at the speaker's pace, which can be quite straining (especially if it's a fast-speaking native...)

So anyway, I hope I can contribute a bit to this updating/indexing/collecting know-how project, but I'll limit myself to the written word...

 

[CommandoBob]

• When consuming information material, I found that I learn better by reading than by listening. For me it's more convenient to read a text (at my own "reading & understanding pace") than to having to listen to a voice at the speaker's pace, which can be quite straining (especially if it's a fast-speaking native...)

Especially when you're at work and try sneak in a few minutes CivIII between tasks. Video and the audio can give you away.....

 

[darski]

Especially when you're at work and try sneak in a few minutes CivIII between tasks. Video and the audio can give you away.....

You are without a doubt the CFC master of the droll!

 

[brendamus]

I have never left Civ3 - I played Civ4 for a while but actually I prefer the look and feel of Civ3!

I have now discovered Rose and Rule mod of Civ3 and I am now like a pig in *4£*! Sometimes you can just get real enjoyment from something that was just not broke!