Is This A Bug?

[Gottesfreunde]

Three times tonight while playing Civ III (1.21g--the last patch?) i observed workers from other Civs in my three different cities. Twice when attempting to move a worker through the city it was killed, once i removed all the units out and attacked my own city. i did not get a message that i had won the city, but my units did go back in. When i clicked on the alien units in the cities owned by me, it would show me the city screen for the city to which it belonged (the other civ's city). This seems to be happening at random. What is this and how do i stop it from happening? It is the first time i have encountered it. i am playing on the level of "Regent" on OS X 10.2.4 on a PowerMac MDD Dual 1Ghz machine.

 

[dojoboy]

Yea, its a well documented bug; however, I've never experienced it. Currently, thre is no fix (except reloading and hoping it doesn't happen again I suppose), nor is one plained.

 

[ejday]

Here's another question for forum folk: I've got a city just a short distance from my capital. It's surrounded by grasslands (normally two food) with roads and irrigation -- which should bring it to three food, right? But they're ignoring the irrigation and only producing two food, which is keeping the city growth stunted. What gives? Anybody heard of this as a bug or do I have some strange game corruption?

 

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by ejday
Here's another question for forum folk: I've got a city just a short distance from my capital. It's surrounded by grasslands (normally two food) with roads and irrigation -- which should bring it to three food, right? But they're ignoring the irrigation and only producing two food, which is keeping the city growth stunted. What gives? Anybody heard of this as a bug or do I have some strange game corruption?

What form of government are you in? I don't believe irrigation helps under despotism.

 

[ejday]

Originally posted by dojoboy


What form of government are you in? I don't believe irrigation helps under despotism.

I'm in despotism. Wow. Okay, cool. Thanks, dojoboy!

This makes sense, then. Time to research monarchy. How is it I've played all this time and never noticed that before? ... Pardon me while I go reboot my brain.

 

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by ejday

I'm in despotism. Wow. Okay, cool. Thanks, dojoboy!

This makes sense, then. Time to research monarchy. How is it I've played all this time and never noticed that before? ... Pardon me while I go reboot my brain.

Believe me, I understand. I was taken to task by tao over this in our SG (djb-2) for wasting worker turns.

Hey, I didn't know.

 

[cracker]

You gentlemen need to read the article on Improving your opening play sequences because Irrigation does more in Despotism you just need to know what to irrigate and what not to irrigate.

You can find the article in the War Academy and also in the Strategy Articles forum. I would almost consider the article and the forestry article to be required reading before proceeding to any other questions.

 

[Txurce]

These are the articles I periodically refer to when discussing how to start a game. The first dozen or two moves are the most important of the game, no matter what the level. These articles teach you how to optimize them in a very comprehensive manner. They will dramatically improve the play of any player who hasn't read them.

 

[asabahi]

in the beginning, under despotisim, irragate tiles with cattle, wheat, flood plains, desert, and plains, and mine all others. When you change to any other form of goverment, irragte grassland to increase pop as you go along. Keep shield production in mind though, and the fact that you can't grow beyond 12 before having hospitals so there is no reason to irragate all of your grassland before you have hospitals in your cities.