Historical Starting Locations Help??

[Mr. Grinch]

I just bough Civilization 3 today and I prefer to play on a map of Europe either as Rome, greece, or Egypt. The problem is the maps of europe I have downlooaded don't put the Romans anywhere near rome, in fact they aren't even in Italy. Is there a way of having the Civs you play start in thier historical locations?

Matt

 

[steve dave]

You have to download a special map and something to get what you want to work. Don't ask me how to do it because I have never gotten them to work right.


I would like to know the idiot who didn't want or think that this was important enough to be put into the game.

 

[Mr. Grinch]

You said it! I would hope a patch will address this probelm soon, I don't know how much it matters to other people, but it virtually makes the game unplayable for me. It's been out of the package for only a few hours and I'm quite tempted to return it.
To me there's no point in playing Rome or Greece, or any nation for that matter if they arn't in their historical locations.

Matt

 

[Arne]

Well, I noticed this missing thing and so I have add a kind of tutorial "Civ3-Startpositionen erstellen und nutzen" (=How to create and using starting locations) in our german forums (it's in german of cource). The tutorial shows making and using CPF-Files by using Gramphos Civ3MultiTool. Like ColdFeaver sad, Firaxis is working hard to make starting locations possible with Civ3Edit soon.

In this forum is here a tutorial, how to do this with Marlas World Map especaly.

 

[rapid]

Who the hell has a german version?

 

[Arne]

Hey, rapid, I didn't talk about the german Civ3-version, I told Mr. Grinch the "tutorial" is in german. Btw. - more then 200 hits in this thread (at our small forum) within fewer than 3 days: It seems, ther ARE owners of the german version.

 

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

I play with the starting locations using the Save Game Editer 1.0 and it works beautifully. Unfortunately the fog of war isn't completely covered since I can still see my ORIGINAL start location as well as any civ contacting that area contacts me. To top it all off, the same goes for all civs and results in the Chinese contacting the Iriquois in 3500 B.C. and by 3000 B.C. everybody knows everybody and that sucks! But its still better than the Romans starting in Australia... Does anyone know how to reset the fog of war?

 

[Arne]

Well, Lt.Col. Kilgore, I used Gramphos Civ3MultiTool (available at here at Civfanatic Center, of cource at Apolyton but at our (german) site CivUniversum too [the file is the same like here]) and it works fine. No old (original) starting locations will be visible after changing the SAV.

 

[Phoenix]

Is there a way of translating Arne's site into English so that I can read it?