How to make your game more historicly acurate

[FascistRepublic]

Must...Bump...First...Thread...GRARH!

 

[Turner]

Moderator Action: Please don't bump threads. They'll stay on the first page for as long as they need to.

 

[BuckyRea]

There is no 'sure thing', even in real life modern warfare. Look at how the Afgans were able to keep the Soviet Union from taking them over.

Must've been those terrain bonuses in the mountains. The caves counted as fortresses. And perhap "mujahadin" is the Afghan civ's UU (would they be 3/8/1 but treating all terrains as roads plus a defense bonus against modern armor?) or even give Afghans the UU "taliban", a unit that's able to destroy WoWs in any foreign city it occupies for three turns.

 

[FascistRepublic]

Must've been those terrain bonuses in the mountains. The caves counted as fortresses. And perhap "mujahadin" is the Afghan civ's UU (would they be 3/8/1 but treating all terrains as roads plus a defense bonus against modern armor?) or even give Afghans the UU "taliban", a unit that's able to destroy WoWs in any foreign city it occupies for three turns.

I said, drop the subject

 

[choxorn]

I have two things that I would change about the game to make it more historically accurate:

1. The Chinese should be Militaristic and Scientific.
2. The Americans should be Industrious and Militaristic.

 

[FascistRepublic]

I have two things that I would change about the game to make it more historically accurate:

1. The Chinese should be Militaristic and Scientific.
2. The Americans should be Industrious and Militaristic.

The first one makes plenty of sence to me, but i think expansionit fits America better. Though with America, u really could have anything but religios.

 

[choxorn]

Maybe, but America does have the largest military on earth Also, there's one I forgot to mention: Japan shouldn't be the Only civ to start with the wheel.

 

[Matto the Hun]

Maybe, but America does have the largest military on earth Also, there's one I forgot to mention: Japan shouldn't be the Only civ to start with the wheel.

America has the largest military on Earth now. It is only a recent development though. And even then it can be argued that the military is simply a tool of commercial and expansionist (perhaps?) goals.

But then we get into a crazy philishophical debate over a game detail where it probably doesn't matter all that much.

I'd say either way you cut it, the game is probably better of as the designers made it, in this case, if only for the sake of game balance.

 

[choxorn]

Whatever, but what about Japan and the Wheel?

 

[TimBentley]

Especially since the wheel is believed to have originated in Mesopotamia.

 

[choxorn]

I know... Firaxis should have given some of the other militarisitic civs the wheel, especially since there's several civs with identical traits, militaristic being one of them.

 

[Bungus]

There's so many unrealistic elements in Civ3 that could be created (while making the gameplay better. That gameplay first crap I hear is a cop-out), you could spend a year and a half altering the game. I did just that, so if anyone wants to play a more historic 31 civ Earth map mod with blah blah hundreds of new top quality graphics, check the link ing my sig.

 

[FascistRepublic]

Ok my proposistion on the wheel:

Some Militeristic and scientific civs get the wheel:

Japan
Summeria
Persia

Exculding tht because its debateable, front list is updated.

 

[Bungus]

You're trying to put a bandaid on a severed aorta

 

[choxorn]

Ok my proposistion on the wheel:

Some Militeristic and scientific civs get the wheel:

Japan
Summeria
Persia
Germany(It's replacing Bronze working)

Exculding tht because its debateable, front list is updated.

If you do Germany, their Sid level 12 spears become 12 Warriors! However, changing China to Militaristic/Scientific would make them the 12 spear/6 archer
Sid level AI.

 

[FascistRepublic]

I didnt think about tht. I'll take em off.

 

[choxorn]

Actually, Mil/Science China would make up for it. So you can keep it or not, it doesn't matter.
Also, although this wouldn't make it more historically accurate, you could try to find a way to keep the AI from saying "go back to cheiftain" when you lose, on cheiftain. I find that extremely annoying.

 

[FascistRepublic]

You can lose on Cheftian?

 

[Turner]

Sure. My first game of Civ (the original) I had no idea what was going on. None. I got throughly pwned.

 

[choxorn]

I've lost on Cheiftain 5 or 6 times...