Can I kill?

[Dr. Strangelove]

IS there any utility or other trick that I can use to kill a civilization? In my current game I have eliminated the Japanese, but the computer refuses to recognize their demise. Consequently I remain technically at war with them and have no means to end it so my Japanese citizens are getting increasingly restive. Yes, I know that sometimes a wandering unit will continue to exist, keeping the civ alive, but that is not the case here. I used the Civ3 MultiTool to verify that no Japanese units still exist.

So is there anyway that I can eliminate their civ? Civ 2 had a "cheat" function that allowed one to just wipe a civ off the map. I'd settle for that right now.

 

[Mr Spice]

Not that I know of, but perhaps other people do. I read your other thread about it and to me it sounds like a bug. What patch are you using?

 

[Shaitan]

Use Grampho's Civ3 Multi-Tool. First check to make sure they don't have a settler lying low somewhere. If they do, move that settler next to one of your cities and kill it in the game. If they don't have one, go ahead and create a settler for them right next to one of your cities and then kill it in the game. That should end it.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by Shaitan
Use Grampho's Civ3 Multi-Tool. First check to make sure they don't have a settler lying low somewhere. If they do, move that settler next to one of your cities and kill it in the game. If they don't have one, go ahead and create a settler for them right next to one of your cities and then kill it in the game. That should end it.

if you do that. you run a crash risk - maybe create the settler in another civs territory and get them to declare war to them.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

I already tried creating a settler and killing it and it didn't work.

 

[FredLC]

Try this:

If the civ still "exists" in the game, it's likely that you can still have diplomatic relationships with them.

If you have beaten them so badly that it's likely that they don't exist anymore, well, they are no longer a threat to you. So, why don't you just go to the foreign advisor screen, and sign a peace treaty?

They should be willing to sign it, and perhaps you can even get some gold that they have left.

That's my solution when i kick some ass out of my continent, to find out that they have a last size 1 city lying in a distant island. It's cheaper and faster than sending a task force to deal with such a hopeless place.

Due to what you said, i know it's not exactly tye same situation... but it might very well work.

Regards .

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Originally posted by fredlc
Try this:

If the civ still "exists" in the game, it's likely that you can still have diplomatic relationships with them.

If you have beaten them so badly that it's likely that they don't exist anymore, well, they are no longer a threat to you. So, why don't you just go to the foreign advisor screen, and sign a peace treaty?

They should be willing to sign it, and perhaps you can even get some gold that they have left.

That's my solution when i kick some ass out of my continent, to find out that they have a last size 1 city lying in a distant island. It's cheaper and faster than sending a task force to deal with such a hopeless place.

Due to what you said, i know it's not exactly tye same situation... but it might very well work.

Regards .

They won't talk to me!! Come to think of it, before the game came out weren't we promised that there would never be a problem with having a civ that you couldn't work things out with because it wouldn's talk to you?

 

[korusus]

Well, if they are no longer a threat than just ignore it until they cool down and talk to you. Though this prolly will have a negative effect if you have a government that has high war weariness. So, my suggestion is to ignore it and change governments (if absolutely necessary) until you get to a point where they will talk to you.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

The phantom civ won't talk to me at all, and they've refused to do so for over 10 turns.

 

[NY Hoya]

sounds like a pretty bad bug. and after ten turns, i doubt you'll be able to ever talk to them. that sucks. maybe 1.18 will come out soon and you'll have an excuse to start a new game