Does anyone else cheat?

[walletta]

I do. I re-start games armed with knowledge of the whereabouts of resources, barbarian villages, neighbours etc. Sometimes I save a game and start a war, then if it goes badly re play it.

Is this considered a heinous crime? Will I get thrown out of the forum for fessing up?

Another thing, while I am about it, is that I play way beyond the time when the game is over. I now have a game in which my civ (Iroquois) has 40% of the land and pop, my nearest rival is just over half that, I have a tech lead, and am at war with everybody at once and will still win. I enjoy this part. Like pulling wings off a fly (not saying I enjoy that!).

Am I the only one?

 

[Everkane]

Yes, you are the only one. You are so special. I can't even believe you are real.

I always wonder why they made cheat softwares and cheat codes, but now I got it; they made it for you.

 

[CommandoBob]

I do. I re-start games armed with knowledge of the whereabouts of resources, barbarian villages, neighbours etc. Sometimes I save a game and start a war, then if it goes badly re play it.

Is this considered a heinous crime? Will I get thrown out of the forum for fessing up?

Another thing, while I am about it, is that I play way beyond the time when the game is over. I now have a game in which my civ (Iroquois) has 40% of the land and pop, my nearest rival is just over half that, I have a tech lead, and am at war with everybody at once and will still win. I enjoy this part. Like pulling wings off a fly (not saying I enjoy that!).

Am I the only one?

Heinous crime? No. Get thrown out of the forum? Not hardly. If that is how you want to play the game and it is enjoyable to you, go ahead.

On the other hand, I do think it indicates that you have not used the forum to its fullest, to where you could win a game in the 1800s on a huge map. Not just squeak by, not manage to hang on, but be able to beat the everloving snot out of the AI trouble and do it with style, panache and flair.

For instance, what can you learn from Recovering from Last Place after Expansion Phase, Step by Step?

 

[timerover51]

I do. I re-start games armed with knowledge of the whereabouts of resources, barbarian villages, neighbours etc. Sometimes I save a game and start a war, then if it goes badly re play it.

Is this considered a heinous crime? Will I get thrown out of the forum for fessing up?

Another thing, while I am about it, is that I play way beyond the time when the game is over. I now have a game in which my civ (Iroquois) has 40% of the land and pop, my nearest rival is just over half that, I have a tech lead, and am at war with everybody at once and will still win. I enjoy this part. Like pulling wings off a fly (not saying I enjoy that!).

Am I the only one?

Probably not by a very long shot. Before I started modding the game, if I was loosing, I simply dumped the game and started a new one. I see no reason to continue a loosing effort. Now I play on my own maps for the most part, where I have some idea as to where things are, pre-place the AI most of the time, and only play on continent or archipelago maps with a Seafaring civilization. Only exception to the continents or archipelago is Gojira's Pangaea map.

Basically, you go with what you enjoy playing, and have fun.

 

[walletta]

Thanks for those replies. I am certainly a novice when it comes to tweaking the game. I have no idea how you do that. I am just about ready to move on from emperor level having learned the incredible granary gambit from reading here. I am playing Iroquois and cheating by restarting after locating horses. Great UU for the early stages.

 

[Moosezilla]

It's called 'reloading', and I do it all the time. I sometimes save the game with suffixes to the letter I. Regularly no suffix to begin a turn and a "b" subsequent til the end of it. Mostly I do to determine how I might best attack enemy units. Yes,I do cheat, but the AI knows everything and "I don't know nuttin'!"

 

[Yoda Power]

I try not to and usually stay away from any cheating, but I'm not the one to throw the first stone.

Sometimes, if I cheat, I actually feel like I ruined the game and abandons it.

 

[timerover51]

As I said earlier, I play the game for fun. Having your head handed to you by the AI is not fun.

 

[Theov]

Sometimes when I saved the game to turn it off, I continue playing it. If I like it, I'll save again. If I didn't like it, then I don't save the last part.

For the rest, not really. Maybe when I plan an invasion with an ally, sent a fleet towards the enemy. I land, attack and all of a sudden I get attacked by another civ, and my ally makes peace with my enemy.

Then it feels like I planned the whole thing just to get raped by the randomness of the AI making peace.

 

[T-mun]

The only cheat I commonly use (except some reloading) is to add 2 settlers to the 1st player (myself) in the Editor, so that I have as many settlers as the AI. The AI Civs already trade technologies between themselves a lot, so why should I let them start with more cities, which means more scientific research, more militaries, etc. ?
On the other hand, when a game is too easy and I take the lead at the end of Middle Ages, I usually dont finish it.

 

[Kirejara]

I use Civ3 Multitool mainly for testing changes. It is very anoying realising in industrial age, that you have to restart a game because you messed the upgrade path of a new unit.

On the other side I sometimes increase the difficult level, when I am too much ahead (still my highest level is Regent). I that counting as cheating too?

 

[timerover51]

Thanks for those replies. I am certainly a novice when it comes to tweaking the game. I have no idea how you do that. I am just about ready to move on from emperor level having learned the incredible granary gambit from reading here. I am playing Iroquois and cheating by restarting after locating horses. Great UU for the early stages.

If you want to learn about modifying the game, or making custom maps, take a look in the Creation and Customization forum. You will get a lot of ideas there. If you have Civ3 Complete, you might also want to check out TETurkhan's Test of Time scenario as well.

 

[walletta]

If you want to learn about modifying the game, or making custom maps, take a look in the Creation and Customization forum. You will get a lot of ideas there. If you have Civ3 Complete, you might also want to check out TETurkhan's Test of Time scenario as well.

Thanks

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

When I won my first games on chieftain over 6 years ago, I liked to play after I won but eventually nukes and Modern Armor against rifleman and infantry loses its appeal.

 

[MrRandomGuy]

Sometimes I reload to fix a few mistakes. Like accidentally building the FP when I was actually using it as a prebuild for something else. Or when I'm not paying enough attention and a worker gets killed by a barb.

However, games in which you constantly reload are no fun. I tend to find myself starting a completely new game if I have to reload too many times.

 

[arc anjil]

The only "cheat" I do is restart a new game if there is too much in the way of jungles. Meier seems to love jungles, there's so much of them. I hate jungles. I'd rather see more forests.

Wait! There is another: If there is no metal ore anywhere I've explored (which is extensive - I like to explore), I start a new game. I'm not that much of a masochist as to try to play the game with no metal (which seems to be as rare as tritium in this game!).

 

[splunge the 2nd]

I may make a risky attack and if it succeeds paly on,a nd if not reload just for the thrill/gamble. I've accidentally had the AI blitz an empty city and have reloaded after that.

 

[timerover51]

The only "cheat" I do is restart a new game if there is too much in the way of jungles. Meier seems to love jungles, there's so much of them. I hate jungles. I'd rather see more forests.

If you do not like jungles, then set the starting map generator to "cool" rather than "temperate", and if you really do not like jungles, then add "arid" to the mix.

Wait! There is another: If there is no metal ore anywhere I've explored (which is extensive - I like to explore), I start a new game. I'm not that much of a masochist as to try to play the game with no metal (which seems to be as rare as tritium in this game!).

After doing a lot of testing, the number of strategic resources that will be on a map is equal to the number of civilizations, with a range of plus or minus 1. If you have 8 civilizations in the game, you will have between 7 and 9 of each strategic resource.

 

[Theov]

If you do not like jungles, then set the starting map generator to "cool" rather than "temperate", and if you really do not like jungles, then add "arid" to the mix.



After doing a lot of testing, the number of strategic resources that will be on a map is equal to the number of civilizations, with a range of plus or minus 1. If you have 8 civilizations in the game, you will have between 7 and 9 of each strategic resource.

and don't play as a mayans and some other tribes that start near jungles (don't know which) I played a game and more than half the continent looked like a Predator movie.

 

[Kirejara]

and don't play as a mayans and some other tribes that start near jungles (don't know which) I played a game and more than half the continent looked like a Predator movie.

You may add the Zulus to that list.

And I do not think that Shaka loves jungle much (additional you can not build cities in my games in jungle).