Am I cheating?

[ty_toh]

Hi all. I am new to this fantastic site. I have been a fan of CIV for a long time but did not get to play it because I used to own a Mac iBook. I recently bought myself a PC and guess what was the one and only game that I have purchased straight after that?

I have steadily played my way up to the Emperor level now. I didn't find it too difficult mainly because I was able to eliminate the other Civ by destroying one of their fringe city that has the least defence. I learned this stratergy when the exact thing happened to me at the earlier level. Since then I have always played by the rule - if I want to expand my empire, I made sure I had enough defence for my fringe city. The computer opponent didn't seem to care about it and that made it easier for me to beat them. So am I cheating by adopting such stratergy. I am sure there is an option for me to change the rule, isn't there?

Thanks for your expert help.

Cheers.

Toh

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

You're not exactly cheating - you have the elimination mode enabled .

The AI cannot cope with this. Note the game designers don't even claim it could; all the special victory conditions (Regicide, Elimination, Capture the Princess) are for multiplayer or scenaries.

Turn it off. Really. You miss the entire point (and fun) of the game - facing a pretty competitive AI.

Oh, and:

Welcome to CFC!

 

[Scytale]

There are many ways to play CIV3. What you are curently playing is called "city ellimination",and personally I don't like it because it's unrealistic and too easy. You should play the game with the rule "allow domination victoy" or "allow conquest victory" enabled and without the rules "elimination", "regicide" or "mass regicide".
If you go to the civilopedia ingame, and check into the game concepts section at victory conditions, it will all be clear.

 

[Chris1111]

Ask yourself this- Would it make sense if a random Inuit town in northern Canada was overrun and destroyed by umm... maurading polar bears that every major city in Canada would turn to rubble and all its people killed?

If the answer is no(as it should be) then why should a continent spanning civilization in civ3 suddenly exist because one random tundra or jungle city was destroyed/captured.

As the other person basically said you can turn the options such as elimination,victory points,capture the princess, wonder victory, etc off when starting a new game. You will be a better player for it as you then learn to play with the normal game settings.

 

[Alexnm]

Turn off Elimination victory and see what happens to you at Emperor level...

 

[Chieftess]

You're not exactly cheating - you have the elimination mode enabled .

I won a Sid-level game that way. OCC, too.

I just got lucky when the AI decided to build a city next to my capital while in the process of planning to sneak attack me.



Anyway, turn off elimination mode. It makes the game more exciting. (atleast start at Regent)

Turn off Elimination victory and see what happens to you at Emperor level...

Now that's just cruel.

 

[sealman]

I recently bought myself a PC and guess what was the one and only game that I have purchased straight after that?

/QUOTE]


I know! I know! you bought SimCity!

As everyone has already stated, you have elimination turned on.

 

[k-a-bob]

I have been a fan of CIV for a long time but did not get to play it because I used to own a Mac iBook.

Why did that stop you? I play on my iBook all the time...