Can you remove the time limit on Civ 3?

[BOOMBA]

Hey there.
I am looking for a way to let the game run on forever until one civilization totally destroys all the others.
Is there any way to stop the game from ending at a certain time?

Thanks.

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

I think it's in the editor.
You can always continue playing after 2050, only no HoF count.
Or you can just wipe them before the 540 turns limit (or any other victory condition)

 

[BOOMBA]

can you turn off the 540 turn limit too?
Never used the editor...is it hard?
thanks.

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

I think not, I rarely go there anyway...

 

[Afterburner]

Hey there.
I am looking for a way to let the game run on forever until one civilization totally destroys all the others.
Is there any way to stop the game from ending at a certain time?

Under Conquests (which you'll have if you have Civ3 Complete), you can very easily adjust the number of turns in a game by clicking the "Game Limits" button on the Game Setup screen (where you pick your civ, your rival civs, and so on). The standard game is 540 turns. Set it to 5000 or 6000 turns, and you should be good to go. It's not "infinite," but it's pretty darned long. If you can't dominate your entire map in 6000 turns, Civ3 probably isn't the game for you.

 

[BOOMBA]

hmmm.. I just have regular Civ III.
Is that an expansion pack or do I need to buy a new game?
thanks

 

[BOOMBA]

actually, I am also on a Mac.
Does that mean I am screwed as far as expansion packs?

 

[Afterburner]

hmmm.. I just have regular Civ III.
Is that an expansion pack or do I need to buy a new game?
thanks

Civ3 has two expansion packs. The first was Play the World. The second was Conquests.

Conquests adds a lot of new content, and also contains everything from Play the World. So if you buy Conquests, you don't need to buy Play the World.

You will, however, want to patch Conquests up to the latest version (1.22). I found it on the Atari website.

I heartily recommend Conquests. It makes a great game even better.

 

[Turner]

If you just have Vanilla Civ3, don't get Complete! Just get Conquests, as it as PTW as well. If you buy Complete, you'll be shelling out $40 for Civ3, PTW, and C3C. Since you have Vanilla, buying Conquests for $20 you'll get most of PTW (a few units don't ship with it, buy you can download them from www.civ3.com) and C3C.

As for the time limit, in the editor I believe you can set it to 1000 turns. That just might be PTW/C3C, tho. I haven't opened the Vanilla editor in a loooooong time. But there is a .ini setting to change the turns. Sorry, I don't remember what it is. It might be Turns=1000, but I'm not sure.

As for removing the time limit, you can't do it. You can only extend it. Of course, you can always play until whenever once a victory condition has been met - you just won't record any more score after that victory condition.

 

[Afterburner]

If you just have Vanilla Civ3, don't get Complete! Just get Conquests, as it as PTW as well. If you buy Complete, you'll be shelling out $40 for Civ3, PTW, and C3C. Since you have Vanilla, buying Conquests for $20 you'll get most of PTW (a few units don't ship with it, buy you can download them from www.civ3.com) and C3C.

Which units would those be?

 

[Turner]

Don't remember exactly, but the WW2 unit pack is part of it. Go to the site, and look under Civ3Conquests downloads, and it will say there which units are downloadable.

 

[wit>trope]

Game Limits will only let you set it as high as 1000 turns. If you type in a number higher than 1000 it will just set it back down to 1000, unfortunately. They should fix this in a patch

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

You mean you have the patience to play 1000 turns?
I often try to milk at the end game (big empire, communism, sometimes with space/cult victory off), and it uses me for a long time (lets say this means no CIV for a few hours ... )

 

[Rohili]

1000 turns should be more than enough IMO. Even the newest player will find difficulty in not completing the game one way or another in that amount of time. Though on lower levels research takes longer.

There is always the option of continuing the game after one civ has won though, if you are just playing for fun.

 

[BOOMBA]

I am just using the reguar CIV 3, on a Mac, not the C3C for PC.

It seems the game just ends when the turns are up.

I downloaded the CIV 3 editor, but it doesn't seem to have an option forextending the amount of turns.

 

[vmxa]

Yes I think the ability to change to 1000 came in one of the addons.

 

[Turner]

I knew you could change it in vanilla, I just didn't remember if it was via the editor or .ini file.

Since this is on the mac, I'm going to move this to the Mac forum. They should know better there.

 

[AlanH]

The maximum number of turns is hard coded into Vanilla Civ3, and this applies equally to Windows and Mac as far as I know. On a Mac you don't jave any option to move to Conquests.

Never having played to 2050 AD, and having no desire to, I don't know whether it's possible to select the "Lemme play just a few more turns" option after this victory condition. If it isn't then that's it ... finito. If it is then I guess you can select it and continue. I imagine the date and score would stop incrementing though.

I suppose the other option, if you are technically inclined, might be to find and hex edit the date in the save file so that you can pretend it's 4000 BC all over again.

 

[vmxa]

Yes in all version you can select the gimme just one more turn after the game ends. It does not matter if it end with 2050AD or what type or even if you win or lose.

You can then play on forever. The score is shown, at least in C3C the whole time, but is not recorde in the HoF.