Well hopefully some folks can give some advice, ive played the typical games like warcraft and AOE but never turn based strategy just never liked em, but im addicted to civ 3 and i need some help here, i can win now on chieftain and the next level up after bout two or three days messing round and reading some tips, but heres the questions ive gotten that i think most of you guys assume us newbs already know:
1) how do you guys pump settlers out so fast as to keep up with the rivals on regent in expanding your initial cities, i usually try to build my capitol right off cuz ive lost way to many times due to settler dying at the hands of barbs, i usually play with them on highest setting...
2) ok do you auto control workers or manual and if manual how do you not go crazy having to give 5 or 10 or more commands per turn in the late game? i usually use ctrl n and shft I now since youre still telling them what to do in a way...
3) how do you know a good spot for cities and how far do you space them, i was looking and i know that no matter cultural expansion the city can still only work the 21 sqares so ive been trying to maximize use of my tiles by building cities with 4 spaces between them, the sometimes has good effects and sometimes just makes a weak city...
4) the worker thing really has me stumped, please give advice for regent games only as thats what im working on now, the chieftain was fun but no matter what i know i can obtain victory one way or another on it..
5) war is pretty tough on me but i think from reading the forums i can solve that,,
6) in the last regent game i played Babylon, and i used the standard map for earth one of the load mission files i think?? anyway i had africa right off, immedaitely closed the choke point at europe, built the oracle, but as soon as i finshed it i started another wonder, but everytime i got withing 4 turns another civ finished the other wonder, this happened like 6 times, another thing my science was taking forever to advance at one point the english approached wanting the wheel yet they had like 4 other techs i didnt have???
7) now on chieftain even without playing the Science broker strat i was still 3-5 advances ahead of everyone and had tons of cash to rush build when needed or support a large number of troops and i had science cranked up to 80, at one point i looked down i had 3k in gold and science was on 80% thats when i decided chief is way to easy but now im struglling..
Help me out with any advice you have, much appreciated
Novice
1) how do you guys pump settlers out so fast as to keep up with the rivals on regent in expanding your initial cities, i usually try to build my capitol right off cuz ive lost way to many times due to settler dying at the hands of barbs, i usually play with them on highest setting...
2) ok do you auto control workers or manual and if manual how do you not go crazy having to give 5 or 10 or more commands per turn in the late game? i usually use ctrl n and shft I now since youre still telling them what to do in a way...
3) how do you know a good spot for cities and how far do you space them, i was looking and i know that no matter cultural expansion the city can still only work the 21 sqares so ive been trying to maximize use of my tiles by building cities with 4 spaces between them, the sometimes has good effects and sometimes just makes a weak city...
4) the worker thing really has me stumped, please give advice for regent games only as thats what im working on now, the chieftain was fun but no matter what i know i can obtain victory one way or another on it..
5) war is pretty tough on me but i think from reading the forums i can solve that,,
6) in the last regent game i played Babylon, and i used the standard map for earth one of the load mission files i think?? anyway i had africa right off, immedaitely closed the choke point at europe, built the oracle, but as soon as i finshed it i started another wonder, but everytime i got withing 4 turns another civ finished the other wonder, this happened like 6 times, another thing my science was taking forever to advance at one point the english approached wanting the wheel yet they had like 4 other techs i didnt have???
7) now on chieftain even without playing the Science broker strat i was still 3-5 advances ahead of everyone and had tons of cash to rush build when needed or support a large number of troops and i had science cranked up to 80, at one point i looked down i had 3k in gold and science was on 80% thats when i decided chief is way to easy but now im struglling..
Help me out with any advice you have, much appreciated
Novice