Corruption! Corruption!

[Annan]

My capital has 6 corruption and 20 waste but one of my city about 30 sq. from my capital has no corruption and waste at all.Can someone tell me what happen??

 

[Aggie]

Did you switch your palace to that city with no corruption?

 

[Ville]

Or did you switch the palace city to somewhere else and you have Forbidden Palace in the city with no corruption

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

the capital (i.e. town-with-palace) will never go beyond 1 shield 1 tax lost to corruption, so it definately isn't your capital. You MUST have moved the Palace.

Press 'h' to jump the map to your capital (i.e. where your palace is at). Also, sort for 'shields lost' in the F1 screen, the town with the least loss that doesn't have the Palace has the Forbidden Palace.


Check out the editor, War Academy and FAQ threads on this site for general info on Civ3

 

[Annan]

I've check it and I still have palace in that corrupt city that mean it is my capital.

 

[Zingo]

Are you using Communism?

 

[Boulboulgadol]

Are you playing Civ 3 ??

 

[TheNiceOne]

There is another explanation, if Annan is correct that it is his capital. He didn't say how many non-currpted shields and gold that was left in his capital, so it is possible that the capital only produce 6 shields and 20 gold, which means that the capital has 100% corruption and waste.

This will be the case if the captal is in civil disorder. Is this the case Annan?

 

[Balrog]

Originally posted by Boulboulgadol
Are you playing Civ 3 ??

lol.......

 

[NewDestroyer]

im so mad at how much curroption ruins the civ game that i made my own scenario w/ no curroption at all. The game is a crap load more fun now.

 

[Globetrotter]

Agreed with TNO: could be that the city is in civil disorder. But sometimes, wierd things happen:
I once had conquered a city near my palace, and it had 10 citizens all foreignors, and all happy, no more resistors, no civil disorder, their civilisation was completely crushed.
And yet, it was totally corrupt and produced 1 shield out of the 20 it should had. Same for the gold.
Then, out of a sudden, after 10 turns or so, production came back to normal.

 

[TheNiceOne]

NewDestroyer: In my opinion, what you've managed by removing corruption completely is two things:
1) You've handicapped the AI, since you will normally be the one with the largest empire, but more important:
2) You've removed one very interesting aspect of the game, you'll no longer need to hurry roadbuilding to lower the coirruption when cities are connected. You don't need to plan FP placement and palace relocation. You don't need to rush corthouses or work to keep the cities in WLTKD to restrict corruption. In effect a game with one dimension less.

Globetrotter: Strange, but I guess that for some reason, the corruption attribute for that city wasn't recalculated when the city was taken. Then it wasn't recalculated until something happened that changed it (wltkd, a new city closer to the capital, a corthouse etc.) - because this is normally not necessary.

 

[TopCat]

Originally posted by TheNiceOne
NewDestroyer: In my opinion, what you've managed by removing corruption completely is two things:
1) You've handicapped the AI, since you will normally be the one with the largest empire, but more important:
2) You've removed one very interesting aspect of the game, you'll no longer need to hurry roadbuilding to lower the coirruption when cities are connected.

I usually reduce corruption in the editor to about 45%, then it's still in my interests to connect my cities and to build the FP - but my cities are not completely crippled with out it.
The level of corruption in Civ is far too high - IRL that level of corruption would totally have negated the functioning on the British Empire in India, Africa, Australia, North America etc

 

[TheNiceOne]

Originally posted by TopCat
level of corruption in Civ is far too high - IRL that level of corruption would totally have negated the functioning on the British Empire in India, Africa, Australia, North America etc

That depends on how you look at it. In civ3 and under democracy, typical corruption/waste is less than 30% for your entire empire. Now, do you really think that the government in any country controls more than 70% of all products and money generated in thir country?

Granted, the civ3 corruption model puts too much corruption in the outskirts of the empire and too little near the capitol, so giving all governments communal corruption would probably be most realistic, but probably not something most players would welcome

 

[Annan]

I've no civil disorder in all of my city,in fact about 90% of my population are happy.Now after a few more turns the corruption level increase and My gold is shrinking fast.I did build courthouse and police station in all my city but corruption will increase after a few turns.Luckily I make peace will all civ and dont have to worry about war.Soon my treasury will be empty and I tried to disband lots of my unit to save money.

 

[TheNiceOne]

Strange. What about uploading a savegame, or at least a screenshot of the city view of your capital?

 

[Globetrotter]

Strange too!
May be there is some sort of bug?
Same what happened to me?