A small question...

[samparish]

Firstly, hello to all ye fellow Macsters. In a terrible former life I don't like to speak of, I used to own a PC. The only redeeming feature was the presence of Civ III PTW, which of course isn't available on my lovely iBook. Nevertheless, Civ III is, but I don't know if I could go back to just normal civ when i've played the slightly better PTW. So my question is, really, what do the GOTM installers add to the standard single player game (aside from the fact you need them to play GOTM) Your answers will play a large part in deciding whether I go out and buy Civ III on my Mac!

Cheers

Sam

 

[AlanH]

They add a lot of civs and units that feature in the later GOTM games increasingly from game 16 onwards. The mods in games 16 to 22 included terrain features like volcanoes and fog, extra resources like wool, olives, oysters to add regional flavour, and new civs that emulate the additional civs in PtW. Later mods went beyond this, introducing some additional civs, new unique units - the Mongols had some wondrous examples, and are now starting to move towards Conquests rules in some respects with tech tree mods and changes to some unit statistics.

The mods only enable you to play the modified GOTMs - 15 games and counting. You currently can't play random games using these extras unless you use the editor yourself to create the games. There's even a gotcha there, as the Mac editor can't edit 1.29 files, so you'd have to use a PC to do that.

 

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by samparish
Firstly, hello to all ye fellow Macsters. In a terrible former life I don't like to speak of, I used to own a PC. The only redeeming feature was the presence of Civ III PTW, which of course isn't available on my lovely iBook. Nevertheless, Civ III is, but I don't know if I could go back to just normal civ when i've played the slightly better PTW. So my question is, really, what do the GOTM installers add to the standard single player game (aside from the fact you need them to play GOTM) Your answers will play a large part in deciding whether I go out and buy Civ III on my Mac!

Hello samparish!

Here is my story: I purchased Civ3 for my mac once it hit the market, January, 2001. I went through it, playing each civ, at a pace that exasperated my wife. I began a Civ3 Club where I teach school (middle school); therefore, I gained clearance to load Civ3 on my school issue Toshiba laptop. Subsequently, I now have Conquests and PTW on my Toshiba.

Now, I play roughly 2 games of Civ a month which lately have been the GOTM and a personal game. I play these games on my macintosh. I do not play them on the Toshiba for a couple reasons: (1) convenience and (2) I've come to find there is no added real difference between Conquests and vanilla (original) Civ3. Yes, there have been some changes. But, its still Civ3 when its all said and done. (Btw, I do play epic games w/ Conquests, just not as frequently).

The bottom line is, I'd much rather go through the steps (which are quite easy when using AlanH's installers) to play the GOTM on my mac than play Conquests.

 

[samparish]

Cheers guys, think I'll do like dojoboy nad play the GOTMs plus vanilla civ3 as I suppose there isn't a great deal of difference, as you say