Looking for a keyboard shortcut...

[morchuflex]

Hello everyone.

Can you believe this? I hadn't been playing Civ for almost six months! But just when I thought I was cured, this morning I felt the urge to reinstall it. Of course I get my b*** kicked pretty bad.
More irritating, I have forgotten almost everything about game operations, including shortcuts.
Upon abandoning a recent and apparently hopeless game, I decided to reveal all the map in order to see how the heck my neighbors could have discovered every ancient tech before I even reached writing (sounds familiar?), but I couldn't remember how you perform that...
Can anyone help me, or at least point me to an appropriate topic?

 

[Flintlock]

Ctrl+Shift+M

All of the shortcuts should be in the manual...

 

[Bluemofia]

You can't remove the Fog of War. Flintlock's shortcut is only used to reveal the terrain that you have already discovered.

 

[morchuflex]

Thanks, but that's not what I want: I want to reveal the whole map, including un-charted areas. And I'm pretty sure it's not documented in the manual since it's considered a cheat.

Edit: I have the C3C manual next to me, and the table (p.65) only includes shortcuts for basic fonctions. The Vanilla manual (on the CD-ROM) doesn't either have the information I need.
So, any help?

 

[TheBB]

From what I gather the only way to do that is to play in debug mode, which you need to use the editor to do. You'll see the whole map, but I really don't see the point. If you are outresearched in the AA there are ways to fix that other than revealing the map (not that revealing the map would actually DO something - but that's for another post).

Edit: You have to play in this mode from the start. I don't think you can enter it mid-game.

 

[morchuflex]

TheBB, yes you can. I have done it dozens of times.
I don't want to use it to win the game, just to see what the whole world was like before quitting.

 

[morchuflex]

I've tried everything conceivable on my KB, to no avail. Well, after all, maybe I'm confused, and maybe this feature only existed in Civ2 or in SMAC...

 

[TheBB]

There are no Firaxis-made cheats in Civ3 like there were in Civ2, no. And I'm sure that debug mode is not possible to enter midgame. If anyone can correct me on that, very well, but I'd be mighty surprised.

 

[Nate1976]

Maybe your talking about the really old save cheat-put something in the save name and reload? I can't remember what it was you had to add.

 

[el toro loco]

not a quick fix but u could retire and watch the little map grow. i do that every now and then to see how the computer pulled something off. doesn't really help me just fulfills question in my mind. then i go back to last same point and play the game like normal. doesn't look to good on your hall of fame page but who cares.

 

[Turner]

There are no Firaxis-made cheats in Civ3 like there were in Civ2, no. And I'm sure that debug mode is not possible to enter midgame. If anyone can correct me on that, very well, but I'd be mighty surprised.

Not exactly. There was at least one. Save the game, and either name it multi or rename it to multi (I think you just needed to have that in the file name, not just that name. But it's been so long I don't remember) and when you reload the map will be revealed. However, this was take out back in something like Vanilla 1.07. Definately not a current cheat.

An no, you can't enter debug mode midgame. Maybe something like Gramphos' MultiTool could do it. But I'm not familiar with that program. I think Powerbar might do it too.

Oh, and in my sig is links to Lonewolf's PDFs on Civ3, PTW, and C3C. There are keyboard shortcuts on the first page. Not exactly what you were looking for, morchuflex, but it does list all of them there.

 

[ac196nataku]

if you move FogOfWar.pcx or whatever it's called out of the art folder (intentionally or by accident) you can see everything. The problem is that the game thinks you still can't see it, so like cities are not shown, just their borders, and the mini-map is not revealed.

I foundd this out by accident because Rhye's hell/underworld terrain set didn't have a FogOfWar file...

 

[Turner]

This shouldn't work for PTW/C3C, as they started hardcoding it when PTW was released.

 

[morchuflex]

Well, thanks everyone.
It does seem that I was wrong, and confused Civ3 with Civ2 or SMAC (ctrl-k IIRC); the only way to do what I want is to retire...

 

[RandomInsanity]

in the original unpatched version if you save a game as 'multi' it will reveal everything