Dumbest Thing You Ever Did in Civ3

[BasketCase]

Title sez it all.

For me, the runner-up might be that case in the "Who's Your Nemesis" thread, when the Persians sneak-attacked one of my cities, destroying an empty army and toasting my Military Academy....

....but my real Dumb Thing (in the same game) was reaching Modern Age and going straight for modern armor. I finish researching Synthetic Fibers. I go to the map to see where the aluminum is, to connect it up to my empire so I can build tanks..............



Surprise! NO aluminum ANYWHERE. I spend half an hour staring at the map, unable to believe that my vast empire doesn't have any aluminum in it, wondering how to approach the endgame now that my strategy has been disabled.

Then I realize--I can't SEE where the aluminum is, because I HAVEN'T RESEARCHED ROCKETRY YET!

Duhhhh!

 

[bob rulz]

As for mine...I'm not sure yet.

 

[Turner]

Hmm....buying it.

It's been quite the addiction, it has!

 

[emperor conan]

i declared war on the zulus and i didnt realize he was friends with every civ except me. and they all declared war on me. they wiped me out.

 

[Tatran]

I can remember 2 stupied moves.
1) I started a revolution while I was in my Golden Age.
2) I razed/disbanned a city with Sun Tzu's Art of War within it
and it was a very large continent,all civs at the same continent.

 

[Babbler]

This ones got to take the cake: I am playing as the Japanese on a Regent/Standard/Random Settings map. I just let two Egyptian Midevil Infantry wazlt into my territory. The delcare war when they get to one of cities and defeat my garrison. Yet, the bulk of my forces, inclueing a Army of Samarui, where in the next city down ... Bejing, in fact (I capture it in an early war with China with Archers).

To add insult to injury, it had my Heroic Epic in it. .

 

[KoRnEa]

LOL i did that Synthetic Fibers w/o Rocketry thing as well

 

[T-Money]

Eh- this is kind of embarassing, but what the hey.

I was playing as China, had established a large empire, and had 3 cities on a border with Greece. They sent a SOD of longbows (13) towards the border town of Canton, even though he was Polite w/ me. Not wanting to be destroyed, I quickly sent a task force of 7 pikeman to reinforce Canton. But due to an overeager use of the Go To button, my pikes ended up IN THE WRONG CITY! Canton was taken while my pikeman milled around Teintsin and fumed. I then sent dozens of swords to capture it back, but stupidly I forgot that the Greeks have Hoplites, which they can mass produce MUCH faster than my swords. Needless to say, they were infuriated and destroyed me.

 

[Deo Invicto]

Heard it happening before but, accidently gave 4 or 5 cities to an enemy.. not sure what i was thinking.. if i was tired or something.. and unfortunately i saved right afterwards and went to bed... woooo boy did i get a suprise the next morning.

 

[-Gladiator-]

Hmm...the most stupidest thing i have ever done in civ3 must be starting a revolution in my golden age(some1 else said he had done it aswell) i got monarchy(i think my favourite government) and instantly started a revoltion(the revolution had been going on for 3 turns, when i suddenly noticed that I was in my golden age...dude was I angry and as if it weren't enough due to the revolution AI finished the great library before me, i got really angry and declared war on the AI(babylonians) and guess what, I got defeated...probably the worst game I have ever played...

 

[Megabyte]

Hi !

The most dumb thing i ever did(and not only once) was in the beginning of my civ3-time. Played huge maps and because of total ignorance for the new system of corruption i always placed the FP in a city close to my capital...

Have Fun!

 

[Corkmaster]

Then I realize--I can't SEE where the aluminum is, because I HAVEN'T RESEARCHED ROCKETRY YET!

Duhhhh!

Dont feel bad; You only did it once; I've managed it twice. (its an old people thing).

 

[King Alexander]

Making an Army(my very first Army) and attacking with it with no units loaded... Ouch!
The Civilopedia didn't say that I should load units in the Army and I found that later(I wasn't yet a member here or knew anything about this site).

 

[Grille]

Most dumb stuff happened when starting on civ3. Just after civ3 went into the shops, I visited a friend over the week-end. I also brought my comp along. Yeah, we should've read some more info stuff about civ3 features... I only read some really early articles when civ3 was under construction.
Anyways, we got 2 copies and on the 10 minutes car ride back from the shop, I quickly inspected the friggin manual. I only read sole statements here and there and made completly wrong assumptions, most was to blame on wanting to see similarities to civ1/2, SMAC or CTP.
Traits. 'Industrious workers complete tasks faster' or something. Cool, industrious citizens can produce improvements and stuff faster, gonna be industrious...
Ah yes, this cultural radius thing I've read about in that article. Ok, so cities can have more than 21 working tiles, just like in CTP2. Asks for a not so dense build...
Arrived, installed civ on both comps, start. WTH?! Where's multiplayer screen? So we checked it out in front of 1 comp. Why do the Zulus plop cities like mad inbetween our ultra-corrupt French cities. Pedia says despotism equals corruption hell, so we'll live with it until new gov tech arrives. Aha, Paris expanded for the second time, let's micromanage to work that 3-tile-away whale... Ok, that at least explains why Zululand grabs the lands inbetween our cities.
'Look, that'll be a nice city site, we'd only have to clear the unfertile jungle in order to not end up with one food on city center square'. Later, in a similar situation, we plopped w/o clearing. Interesting, we get 2fpt as well. 'Btw, noticed that city on wheat also gives 2fpt?' Must be despotism penalty...
'Let's finish off the Impi with our cat.'

It was try, error and learn.

 

[earthguido]

Well, I did quite a lot of dumb things, but the last one was good, I was totally destroying the Egyptians with my Greek army, and when they had 3 cities left they asked for peace and I demanded all of their cities but one. They accepted and I got 2 cities ... unguarded and surrounded by German soldiers. In the next turn I had nothing again. You could say this is bad luck, but you do not know I had already seen the Germans there and that I knew that when you trade a city it comes unguarded.

 

[The Omega]

Acciddentl setting the game on regent when I was still a chieftan player.
Smilies!

 

[LLXerxes]

My first game ever, and I was at war with the Iroquois.
They send over a conscript warrior, afainst a regular spearman fortifed on my only city.
hey move right up to me, and I move my spearman out of the way, and they take my city.

 

[Stapel]

Hi !

The most dumb thing i ever did(and not only once) was in the beginning of my civ3-time. Played huge maps and because of total ignorance for the new system of corruption i always placed the FP in a city close to my capital...

Have Fun!

That used to be a great tactic! The FP increases the OCN, so it will benefit you to build it asap, and then jump your palace later in the game.

When the RCP was discovered, it used to be a tactic to build the FP in city 2, and build aring around that city , instead around the capitol.

With the latest C3C version, i usually build it not too far from the capitol.


Anyway:
I remember I used my first Great Leader to rush a colosseum !

 

[King PJ]

I accidently nuked my own city because I thought you could move ICBM's. I also accidently abandonned my capital city.

 

[sabo]

hahahaha, these are funny, mine was when I first got civ 3 a long time ago and I was in negotionations with the AI, and you know on both sides of the negotiation screen back then it says "We Give" on one side and "We Want" on the other, well I didn't know which WE was ME so I made a GPT deal of about 250 GPT and discovered it was ME that was giving the gold not the AI. I was the wrong WE.