Backward, uneducated and dumb

[Timol]

Hello,

I've been playing Civilization since Civ I but have admittedly never gotten really good at it. I never managed diety for example.

Now I've started playing CivIII and damn - I'm getting behind on the technology-tree every time! It's really strange - no matter how many libraries I build and how much trade I have, I always seem to have to catch up with the rest! What am I doing wron? I have set science as high as possible, read all the FAQs and strategy-tips I could find etc.

So - all you gods and dieties - what's the secret to climb the tech-tree?

Thanks,

Timo

 

[No.Dice]

Are you trying to research everything yourself? You have to trade/buy technology with the AI or you'll fall far behind.

If you're playing with patch 1.17, set your science to 0 and just buy all of the technology from the AI civs. Since they all trade each other the tech on the same turn, its devalued quite a bit and you can buy it relatively cheaply. Unfortunatly this is much cheaper than researching for yourself, and limits gameplay quite a bit.

 

[God]

What level are you playing?

I don't set my science rate too low usually. I sometiems beat some techs out of other civs and when i get a tech i trade it to most richest civ and then to others.

Another thing i noticed in one of my games. If you're going for the last tech in the era, and there are some scientific civs in your game, trade your tech to the scientific civ, and they will immediately get their free tech, then buy that tech of them(you won't lose any money since the other civ just payed you some) and then you can trade both techs off to everybody else.

I just play at regent so techs aren't much of a problem. I'll discover some, i'll trade for others.
And build the Great Libary and those other scientific wonders. They help. If you're a scienfic civ you will be able to build cheap libaries and they give a boost to your tech also.

 

[cat98]

While this probably wont help much, here goes!

I usually ask some questions... What will my strategy be? Who are my enemies? What do I need to defeat them? Which wonders are important for me? And so on.

Then I set tech goals, if I want my infrastructure started early, I head for construction, if I feel the need for speed, I go for horsemen, if my neibours ae german or zulu and I just hit middle ages, hello pikemen!

The trick is to go for what you need and then trade for not so important stuff. If you were to bypass almost all of the optional stuff like I do, you would find that the AI wont, this would allow you to gain a tech lead.

I hope that that made sence!

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

see here for my strategy:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=247709&t=3811#post247709

hope this helps!

 

[Nevermind97]

I hope in the next patch, the AI won't trade all of their knowledge away on the same turn. Wouldn't the various AI civs want to get ahead of their rivals also rather than to keep everyone even. Even when there are isolated civs, it only takes a little bit of time before they are caught up. I don't quite understand this. On regent level, i never see any civs that are totally backwards except of course for mine. Is there away to limit or stop AI from trading knowledge?

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by Nevermind97
Is there away to limit or stop AI from trading knowledge?

This may sound quite laconic, but it`s the only way: use 1.16!