Massively confused Newbie...help me!

[vmxa]

It is a bit hard to follow the events and the situations. You built a city with a settler and that worked for you correct? The settler is used to create the town and is absorbed in the process. In other words, the settler is converted to a city and no longer exist as a playing piece on the map.

I take it you are using the term worker and settler as interchangeable, but they are not. A worker is a unit that is allowed to be used to do some jobs and can be added (joined) to a city. It cannot make a town. A settler cannot do worker task, but can build a town or be added to one.

So I am not sure what you mean by still getting armies. The term army is specific to mean a unit that can hold units. It is not meant in this context to mean a collection of units or a stack. It is a special unit that comes from leaders or from military acad. So do you mean troops collectively as an army or do you mean an army unit?

Workers or settlers have to be built in a town. Well I am ignoring a few other means to get workers, such as capturing them or generating them from combat with specail units such as jav throwers.

What do you mean by rushing it? Rushing what?

 

[vmxa]

If you were to start up with the original civIII, you have an option to play a tutorial game that should cover the game mechanics. You also have some concepts as part of the pedia.

I would also expect you to have a manual, which deals with most of the rudimentarty functions. You are free to come here for help, but those tools may prove to be faster.

The forum is best for strategies and things not in the doc and that is a lot.

 

[fe3333au]

ok, i just had another crack at it. i built my city (on rock & roll) upgraded straight after, and my worker/ settler dissappeard..? still getting armies but no worker / settlers? am i rushing it?

What do you mean by Upgraded straight after

If you open the city screen ... on the right side is the production window ... this is where the shields you are producing from the lands around the city and used to build things ... it is in this window where you can see how expensive things are ...

one thing though ... you need at least 2 population to build a worker and 3 to build a settler ... and when you do the population of the city decreases by 1 for a worker and 2 for a settler

hope this finally clears things up

I wonder do they still have tutorials in the game EDIT I think that this has been answered by previous post ... such a friendly forum

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

well i'm still generating archers, and the first guy on the map vanished as soon as i built again after he finished the first city. i just want to generate workers before i worry about my armed forces. i juust thought i might be rushing it and missing something obvious.

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

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I wonder do they still have tutorials in the game EDIT I think that this has been answered by previous post ... such a friendly forum [/QUOTE]

i look again... i do hope so. yes it is a speldid forum.

 

[fe3333au]

Change the archers by clicking on workers ... but remember that for a worker to be produced the population must be over 1 ... or you will be stuck building the worker until the population rises

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

I would also expect you to have a manual, which deals with most of the rudimentarty functions. You are free to come here for help, but those tools may prove to be faster.


i got naff all apart from the cd-roms. i'll have another look through the disk.

 

[vmxa]

BTW the tutorial does not exist in C3C. You need to plan your builds, especially workers. As was mentioned, you will lose pop in the city as the worker is finished. This is fine, if that is what is needed and it often is the case.

You pay maint on workers, so you want to make what you need and when you need it. For experienced players that is not an issue, but some player do not expand fast enough to use a steady stream of workers or to support them.

As to archers, I would suggest you not build them, unless you plan to archer rush somebody. Have a pressing need to defend barb hordes or wars. I doubt that either is the case at the start.

Build warriors until you get horses. Warriors are cheaper and numbers have there uses. No spears, no archers without a good reason. Warriors can become swords later.

 

[vmxa]

I just remember that the free Cd that came with the first round of C3C had a guide that is quite useful for new players and I think it is hosted now on CFC.

Good luck.

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

ok, i've been on the tutorial, i'm still none the wiser. the pop-up came up and advised that i had expanded to the point where i could build another city, did as it advised. right click on mouse... nothing. i'm getting seriously frustrated by this game. can anyone tell me where i can find the guide that VMXA told me abuot?

 

[Tomoyo]

You need to wait for your city to grow to size three (the number right by the city name) and then you right-click the city, and select "change production". You will then get a choice between all your possible builds. Click on "settler", and wait for it to finish.

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

god i'm so impatient. cheers mate.

 

[Dreadnought]

I just double click on the city, but that's just me. Make sure you aren't touching the join city button for workers, so you don't "loose them"

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

I just double click on the city, but that's just me. Make sure you aren't touching the join city button for workers, so you don't "loose them"

see rome is a piece of p**s to play, but a swine to master... you play online?

 

[Tomoyo]

Hmm... double-clicking the city takes:

1) The initial double click
2) Move the mouse over to the production area
3) Click
3.5) Scroll to your desired unit or building
4) Click
5) Move the mouse
6) Click to close the thing
7) Enter to close the city view

My way is:

1) Right click
2) Move the mouse to the right spot
3) Click
4) Move the mouse again
5) Click

 

[vmxa]

I did not locate but you can start here:

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3infocenter.shtml

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

cheers mate, i'll do that

 

[Rik Meleet]

Uzu: On the bottom of each page of this forum you see a "Chat room" button. Through that you can go to a chatroom called "Civfanatics". There are usually a lot of experienced civplayers, more than willing to answer your questions in real time. And they can post pictures etc. to make it clear what they are talking about.

That might be helpful.

 

[Uzumaki Ringu]

well, thanks for all the help. it was genuinely appreciated. but, i traded it in. it was a long hard slog and i just could not be arsed. i know, my loss. think i'll stick with Age of Empires.

 

[gmaharriet]

My way is:

1) Right click
2) Move the mouse to the right spot
3) Click
4) Move the mouse again
5) Click

I'd never tried that. I'm always missing the spot with the double-click and rousing the guy living there, then having to put him back to sleep. Thanks for the great idea!