Interesting Screenshots

[Kirejara]

Ok, I know that "speed is life, if you go slow you die!", but...

... this looks like wasting a good unit! From what I have seen, they got less than a handful of the mounted warriors and otherwise only warriors, spearmen and archers (no iron).

 

[choxorn]

Logically, the only proper response is to engage in a humanitarian mission to bring the backwards people of the Iroquois nation up to par with a civilization as great and Iron-possessing as you.

By which I mean: Invade them with a bunch of Cavalry.

 

[Meteor Man]

Logically, the only proper response is to engage in a humanitarian mission to bring the backwards people of the Iroquois nation up to par with a civilization as great and Iron-possessing as you.

By which I mean: Invade them with a bunch of Cavalry.

What, that little ****hole on a frozen iceberg? Let 'em rot.

 

[choxorn]

They clearly have more territory. Invade that.

Also, the iceberg probably has Oil.

 

[Meteor Man]

They clearly have more territory. Invade that.

Also, the iceberg probably has Oil.

"Probably" is a big "maybe."

 

[Kirejara]

Hi,

oil is still irrelevant and the Iroquois are weak and have nothing I required.

Much more important is coal. On my three islands is none, but my strongest rival (Portugal south of my islands) had three coal mines, and they had been second in science and military after me.

As I said "had" (as in the past).

Unfortunatly my trade reputation took some damage. I did not had a trade with Portugal, but with its neighbor the Ottomans. And the Ottomans did not have harbours on their own, when I declared war to Henrique...

 

[choxorn]

The AI's stubborn refusal to build harbors in its coastal cities can be infuriating at times. For that matter, the AI's stubborn refusal to build any infrastructure at all can also be annoying.

 

[Lanzelot]

The AI's stubborn refusal to build harbors in its coastal cities can be infuriating at times. For that matter, the AI's stubborn refusal to build any infrastructure at all can also be annoying.

There's an easy fix for this: play Sid...

 

[darski]

The AI's stubborn refusal to build harbors in its coastal cities can be infuriating at times. For that matter, the AI's stubborn refusal to build any infrastructure at all can also be annoying.

I do play on regent so it affects how things go but I swear that in almost half of my games I have to build some harbour city on the other continent and gift it to some backward nation to set up trade. I've noticed that even seafaring civs are slow to build harbours.

 

[Lanzelot]

I do play on regent so it affects how things go but I swear that in almost half of my games I have to build some harbour city on the other continent and gift it to some backward nation to set up trade.

BTW: you don't need to gift it to the AI. It's enough if you have a harbour town on their continent, connected to their road network. The AI can then trade through your harbour.

 

[darski]

BTW: you don't need to gift it to the AI. It's enough if you have a harbour town on their continent, connected to their road network. The AI can then trade through your harbour.

I usually gift it so that I can avoid war. The AI tends to get testy at that stage of the game and the other continent is largely full. Better to give with grace than to die in dishonour.

 

[Lanzelot]

That's a valid point...

 

[Kirejara]

I am allways surprised how high the KI valued "Monarchy" in their tradings.

At least this time he did not ask for all my money and one or two later techs...

And no, once again I declined Abu Bakr´s generous offer.

In an older game a rival asks for "Fission" and most of my money for "Monarchy...

EDIT: I know it!

 

[Meteor Man]

Oh, the stupid AI absolutely adores all government techs. I just skip Monarchy, go straight for Republic. Never even research it.

 

[agonistes]

And what's the point in Archipelagos in Civ III anyway, the Corruption makes them 100 turn dead duck waste-pools

I view them as a cheat mode for Sid level games. They give a player a chance to catch up in growth without being molested. Otherwise, you are spending shields on posturing.

 

[Kirejara]

At last Otto has still some goal, he wishes to achieve.

Germany is in the red circle on the minimap.

I like to keep pet states.

And yes, I took the liberty to make some changes in the german city list. Some of the original cities did not even belong to Germany at any time. And I still asking myself how english speaker call Brunswick, since they gave that name to Braunschweig...

 

[Theov]

At last Otto has still some goal, he wishes to achieve.

Germany is in the red circle on the minimap.

I like to keep pet states.

And yes, I took the liberty to make some changes in the german city list. Some of the original cities did not even belong to Germany at any time. And I still asking myself how english speaker call Brunswick, since they gave that name to Braunschweig...

why do you keep pet states?

 

[choxorn]

Some of the original cities did not even belong to Germany at any time.

Which ones? Unless I'm misremembering the city list, Salzburg and Konisberg are the only two not in Germany right now.

 

[Bowsling]

Salzburg was never in the Wilhelmian German Empire, which seems to be what is used for the city list. Brandenburg isn't even a city. The German city list, along with the French, Indian and Iroquois, are genuinely awful.

 

[Kirejara]

Hi Theov,

I keep them just for fun with no special intention.

Hi Choxom,
Hi Bowsling,

I thought that Innsbruck was there too, but I was wrong.

Königsberg (in Prussia) was a historical german city and the birthplace of my father, but is now a russian city.
Salzburg never belonged to Germany, it is an austrian city.

I removed both Salzburg and Brandenburg and corrected the spelling of the english spellled or simply mistyped cities. I did the same to several european cities (Lisboa, Moskwa, Den Haag usw.). I also replaced the WWII-Leaders from both Germany and Japan with less dubious characters (at least Tojo is a sentenced war criminal).

The german city list was also very short. I doubled the number of cities in it.