Difference between Civ3: Gold and Game of the Year?
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Get complete.Neither of the two you listed have conquests. LIke Kumquat said, get complete.
But to answer your question, the difference is Gold is Vanilla and PTW. GotY is simply Vanilla, or regular Civ3 w/ no expansions.
But to answer your question, the difference is Gold is Vanilla and PTW. GotY is simply Vanilla, or regular Civ3 w/ no expansions.
Game of the Year has a worthless "bonus" disk with it with garbage on it. Just get complete.
I know this is an old thread, but I was checking back a couple of months and saw this. It says Gold (which I have) is Vanilla and PTW. I had no idea (I've been playing 2 years but still pretty much a noob). If so, how do I activate PTW?
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CommandoBob
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I had Gold first and later got C3C.
The default game is PTW. Medieval Infantry were added in PTW, as was the ability to move similar units out of a stack. That is, in a stack of 30 units, with 10 workers, 10 spears, 5 swords and 5 archers, you could select and move all of the spears at one time, leaving the other 20 units in place.
Also, in PTW, Ring City Placement is important and so is the placement of the Forbidden Palace.
So, if you have Maces in your game, you have PTW.
If Korea, Spain, Scandinavia, Celts, Ottomans, Carthage, Arabs or Mongols are in your game, you have PTW.
C3C can be found on eBay or Amazon for around $20 or so. Get it. Don't bother with the Conquests expansion. C3C installs all 3 versions, but defaults to Conquest. Also, in C3C, each version has the latest patch in place, so you don't need to do that updating manually.
The default game is PTW. Medieval Infantry were added in PTW, as was the ability to move similar units out of a stack. That is, in a stack of 30 units, with 10 workers, 10 spears, 5 swords and 5 archers, you could select and move all of the spears at one time, leaving the other 20 units in place.
Also, in PTW, Ring City Placement is important and so is the placement of the Forbidden Palace.
So, if you have Maces in your game, you have PTW.
If Korea, Spain, Scandinavia, Celts, Ottomans, Carthage, Arabs or Mongols are in your game, you have PTW.
C3C can be found on eBay or Amazon for around $20 or so. Get it. Don't bother with the Conquests expansion. C3C installs all 3 versions, but defaults to Conquest. Also, in C3C, each version has the latest patch in place, so you don't need to do that updating manually.
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And don´t forget Sid Meier´s Civilization Chronicles. 
It contains for nearly the same price Civ Complete (= all three versions of Civ 3), Civ 2 and Civ 1. Additionally it contains a card game and a book with a good anlaysis of Civ 3 (and for people with -in my eyes- bad taste, it also includes Civ 4 vanilla). 
It contains for nearly the same price Civ Complete (= all three versions of Civ 3), Civ 2 and Civ 1. Additionally it contains a card game and a book with a good anlaysis of Civ 3 (and for people with -in my eyes- bad taste, it also includes Civ 4 vanilla). Thanks, I definitely have PTW then, because I have medieval infantry and all those civs in my game. Defintiely interested in conquests...
CommandoBob
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I played PTW because it was all I had. I got C3C when the Succession Game of the Month went to C3C only, back in SGOTM 10.
Very few Succession Games are played in vanilla and even less in PTW. Most of the games discussed here in C3C or Conquests (patched).
If you're not interested in the multi-player formats (SGs and PBEMs) PTW is still a good game. But if those kind of games interest you, then you need to get C3C as quick as possible.
C3C will open and play your PTW games, but it will save them into a C3C format (which PTW cannot read). However, since C3C installs PTW, you can create a shortcut to the PTW folder/exe and still play your PTW games in PTW.
Very few Succession Games are played in vanilla and even less in PTW. Most of the games discussed here in C3C or Conquests (patched).
If you're not interested in the multi-player formats (SGs and PBEMs) PTW is still a good game. But if those kind of games interest you, then you need to get C3C as quick as possible.
C3C will open and play your PTW games, but it will save them into a C3C format (which PTW cannot read). However, since C3C installs PTW, you can create a shortcut to the PTW folder/exe and still play your PTW games in PTW.
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