C3C Frequently Asked Questions

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watorrey said:
Why not just fire up *your* copy of C3C and look for yourself?

i don't have it. that's why i am trying to convert it to PTW.
 
I got a scientific leader :by a rough estimate ,should I use it right away increasing scientific output, or wait for a great wonder ? I myself would wait for a gw...

(I'm in the middle-age (chemistry), monarch ,1300ca,with one civ all alone in a continent building the Copernicus observatory(no navigation yet),while I am hindered in another continent at war with the remaining civs ...)

Thx!

(On second thought maybe this is not really a faq... :blush: :rolleyes: ...

sorry... :) )
 
Torrence said:
I got a scientific leader :by a rough estimate ,should I use it right away increasing scientific output, or wait for a great wonder ? I myself would wait for a gw...

(I'm in the middle-age (chemistry), monarch ,1300ca,with one civ all alone in a continent building the Copernicus observatory(no navigation yet),while I am hindered in another continent at war with the remaining civs ...)

Thx!

(On second thought maybe this is not really a faq... :blush: :rolleyes: ...

sorry... :) )

Last i knew, the 'increase science' is broken. They're only good for rushing wonders.
 
I can at the moment only think of 16 of 'em.

Iroquois
Aztecs
Japanese
Egyptians
Zulu
Persians
Cinese
Babylonians
Romans
Germans
Indians French
English
Americans
Russians

Also Maybe:
Ottomans
Mongols
Myans
But these might be in PTW or CIV3C
 
Can someone please tell me how I can play the conquest map of rise/fall of rome, without any of the romans or anything on it. With just starting positions and starting from 4000 BC like in a normal random map game?

I really want to play this map you see :P

Anyway thanks for the help.
 
I'd imagine that you could go into the editor and make it a mod, although it won't record your high score. For scenarios etc, you should check out the Creation and Customization forum. I'd wager you could find almost any unit/map/mod you can think of there. Just download and go!
 
This might be a very stupid question :blush: but anyway I would like to have the answer.
When you install C3C is the editor automatically updated? Or does conquest comes with its own editor, if so where can in find it?
 
Conquests comes with it's own editor. You can find this in the same folder as the c3c executable, or if you go to the start menu and the conquests subfolder, there's a link to it as well.
 
Please help the technically challenged

I am trying to get into a succession game. I own civ3 Gold and civ3 conquests.
The succession game I want to play is being played on Vinilla civ3 1.29. I thought that this was loaded on C3C. I was told "you should go into Program Files>InfrogamesInteractive>CivIII(maybe gold) then there will be a CivIII & a PTW folder, go to CivIII then saves & that's where you'll save it to." The only folder in there is the PTW folder. I don't understand did I need to buy Vin civ3 as well as gold and C3C to be able to play?
 
If you don't know where you saved the file, just use the windows search function (outside civ). Make a folder esp. for your succession game (for instance c:\successiongame). Run civ, go to that folder. If the game is played as vanilla civ game, you don't need c3c or ptw. Just make sure you run civ3, not ptw or c3c, since otherwise the game won't be saved as a vanilla game but as a c3c or ptw game.

Civ3 gold is the same as vanilla civ, it's just a "reprint".
 
Mistfit said:
Please help the technically challenged

I am trying to get into a succession game. I own civ3 Gold and civ3 conquests.
The succession game I want to play is being played on Vinilla civ3 1.29. I thought that this was loaded on C3C. I was told "you should go into Program Files>InfrogamesInteractive>CivIII(maybe gold) then there will be a CivIII & a PTW folder, go to CivIII then saves & that's where you'll save it to." The only folder in there is the PTW folder. I don't understand did I need to buy Vin civ3 as well as gold and C3C to be able to play?

In the civ3 main folder itself should be a saves subdirectory. That is where the savegames of vanilla civ3 are stored (if you didn't change to a different folder while saving your game). There's no civ3 subfolder within civ3 (would be a bit pointless if it existed). For each of the expansionsets of civ3 (CIV3PTW and Conquests) a subfolder does exists in civ3.
 
Shabbaman said:
If the game is played as vanilla civ game, you don't need c3c or ptw. Just make sure you run civ3, not ptw or c3c, since otherwise the game won't be saved as a vanilla game but as a c3c or ptw game.

Civ3 gold is the same as vanilla civ, it's just a "reprint".

Call me a n00b if you want but I've not figured a way to play Nanilla civ off of my gold CD or my C3C CD. Where do I start the game from? Or are you saying that If I pull up a Vinilla Civ game it will automatically play in the right game? Am I making this harder than it actually is?
 
In your main civilization III folder there should be a file called Civilization3.exe, double click it.
If you want to play the expansion pack Play the World, then you need to enter the subdirectory civ3PTW and use the file Civilization3X.exe
If you want to play the expansion pack Conquests, then you need to go to the subdirectory Conquests and use the file Civ3Conquests.exe
 
As I understand it, if you click Civilization3.exe it will ask you to insert the vanilla Civ3 disk and not accept Civ3 Gold as a substitute. Starting Civ3 Gold and loading the .sav from there is your best bet, I think. :)
 
So if I'm understanding you correctly it doesn't really matter where I save the game. I should be able to browse to "look for the save" and the game will know to play that save as CivIII cin 1.29?

I know I'm a pain but I'm really excited to play in a succession game(my 1st)
 
Think of Civ3, PTW and Conquests as 3 different games. They each have thier own entry in your start menu\all programs listing. In your case, you *must* start Civilization III and not PTW or Conquests.

It does not matter where you save a .sav file. You have to remember where and be able to browse to it with the load game interface by clicking 'Load Game' from the main menu. Try to keep different versions of the .sav files separate and obvious as to which game they are to be played with.

Clicking on a .sav file from windows explorer will not (should not) do anything.
 
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