timerover51
Deity
I was playing on one of my modified maps the other night, specifically a modified version of Swargey's Archipelago (a very good map by the way, I would recommend downloading it if you like archipelago maps), and I achieved a FIRST for me in roughly 7 years of playing Civilization 3 in its various Macintosh permutations.
I was playing the Netherlands (my background is Dutch), and was in the processed of developing one of the smaller islands when Greece dropped a city at one end. I sent a couple of Swiss Pikeman up to check this out, when a settler and warrior pop out of the new city and start heading south over my territory to the other end of the island. Not wishing to be caught in the middle, my Swiss made short work of the warrior, and I had two new citizens for my own colony. That of course started a long-distance war with Greece. I finally managed to start getting troops onto his main island, took two cities, and took a third that leveled upon capture. I had attacked a fourth city, one that I really wanted because of its location, but hit some tough hoplites (made tougher by one of my modifications to town defenses), and was unsuccessful.
Then up pops the Alexander leaderhead, asking if maybe we could end the war. As it was a long-distance war and moving troops 2 and 3 at a time was really getting to be a headache (somehow I messed up the galley upgrade to caravel in the course of modifying the map, need to check on that), I decided to agree. But I still wanted to have Corinth. So, on the off chance that the AI might agree to this, I added acquiring Corinth to the terms of the peace treaty. Note, when I have tried this before, it has never worked, but "hope springs eternal". To my amazement, the AI agreed to give me Corinth as part of the peace treaty.
This is the first time I have ever had that happen. I am assuming that the modifications to the map would have no affect on the AI programming, but it does make me wonder. Problem is, there are some other odd glitches showing up in the game that I need to fix, so I need to work on it some more, but I would hate to mess up a good thing too. Oh well, such is life. I do think that I will play the game out to the end, going for my normal Space Race win, just to see if it happens again.
Presently, I have eliminated the Aztecs, at war with Egypt, and bumping into China and Rome. Cleo decided to put a city in at the south end of the same island where Greece put the city in at the north end. Once I settled things with Greece, I took Cleo's city. However, since she is my neighbor, this war might last a while. At least I can get at her easily. Two moves for galley/caravel. I cannot wait to get Galleons, as this two unit max army is a real drag.
I was playing the Netherlands (my background is Dutch), and was in the processed of developing one of the smaller islands when Greece dropped a city at one end. I sent a couple of Swiss Pikeman up to check this out, when a settler and warrior pop out of the new city and start heading south over my territory to the other end of the island. Not wishing to be caught in the middle, my Swiss made short work of the warrior, and I had two new citizens for my own colony. That of course started a long-distance war with Greece. I finally managed to start getting troops onto his main island, took two cities, and took a third that leveled upon capture. I had attacked a fourth city, one that I really wanted because of its location, but hit some tough hoplites (made tougher by one of my modifications to town defenses), and was unsuccessful.
Then up pops the Alexander leaderhead, asking if maybe we could end the war. As it was a long-distance war and moving troops 2 and 3 at a time was really getting to be a headache (somehow I messed up the galley upgrade to caravel in the course of modifying the map, need to check on that), I decided to agree. But I still wanted to have Corinth. So, on the off chance that the AI might agree to this, I added acquiring Corinth to the terms of the peace treaty. Note, when I have tried this before, it has never worked, but "hope springs eternal". To my amazement, the AI agreed to give me Corinth as part of the peace treaty.
This is the first time I have ever had that happen. I am assuming that the modifications to the map would have no affect on the AI programming, but it does make me wonder. Problem is, there are some other odd glitches showing up in the game that I need to fix, so I need to work on it some more, but I would hate to mess up a good thing too. Oh well, such is life. I do think that I will play the game out to the end, going for my normal Space Race win, just to see if it happens again.
Presently, I have eliminated the Aztecs, at war with Egypt, and bumping into China and Rome. Cleo decided to put a city in at the south end of the same island where Greece put the city in at the north end. Once I settled things with Greece, I took Cleo's city. However, since she is my neighbor, this war might last a while. At least I can get at her easily. Two moves for galley/caravel. I cannot wait to get Galleons, as this two unit max army is a real drag.
