Never Mobilize Your Economy!!!

[penvzila]

After you get nationalism, i'm sure you all know, you can mobilize your economy for war. The only problem is you can never switch back! ARRGH! Every time i play this game, i discover a new bug, or stupid design flaw.

 

[Gnarlyhotep]

I've successfully de-mobilized my economy several times. The key is you need to be at peace with everyone. Being at war with one other civ, even if you're not actively fighting, will keep you from de-mobilizing.

 

[Odin442]

That's not a bug, it's a feature!

 

[eMarkM]

The war has to end and you have to have peace with everyone and you automatically go back to Normalcy. The only time I'll use it is if my country is being invaded by a superior force and I must do everything I can to ensure survivial. Otherwise, I wage wars without mobilizing as I like the freedom to build stuff other than military.

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[penvzila]

But I'm NOT AT WAR with anyone. I mobilized for my ill-fated invasion of Greece. Then, when peace was made, I couldn't switch back to normalcy. It has been this way since 1902 (it is now 1965 AD). I am at peace with everyone, although the Greeks are furious with me.

I wonder, if you are a militaristic civ (which i am: Japanese), if that affects it in some way.

Oh well, I couldnt very well finish the game without any peacetime improvements, so i just wont every mobilize my econ again.

 

[penvzila]

Saved Game Attached.

 

[penvzila]

Saved Game Attached.



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Or maybe not. Didnt know Civ3 Saved games were upwards of 3 megabytes

 

[Wuf]

If you had read the Civ3 "ask the civ team" this week, you would know that mobilizing for war means you have to actually go to war. You must attack a civilization and go to war, then go back to peace before the mobilization will deactivate.

Otherwise, you would have a major exploitable feature! Similary, if you mobilize for peace, you cannot unmobilize until you start a war or get attacked

 

[Atreidis_42o]

I think it's a design flaw, because there are certainly times you might want to de-moobilize. look at past wars, there have been respites where the economy returned to normalcy, especially vietnam/korea. but it kills my civ to have to tryand get peace out of the AI so that I can switch to normalcy, when relaly i want ot switch over & continue the war. it also drags on yoru economy instead of helpoign it after a while and always leads to increased war-weariness.

here's a thought! Perhaps you have to stay in a war-time economy for at leaste 20 turns after you change to it. that seems reasonable. Semi-permanent.

 

[penvzila]

One of the MANY design flaws in civ3. I REALLY want to like this game, but it just isn't working out. At first glance it seems original, but once you play enough that the novelty wears off, it's just a crappy version of civ2.

 

[Suvorov]

/me placidly outstretches hand towards massive sign that says

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