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[Cannon]

How do you take a screenie? I've just investigated the English capitol (Birmingham in my game) to see that both their palace and forbidden palace are there....WTH?

Thanx FW

 

[Frisian Warrior]

From www.civfanatics.com/civ3faq.shtml:

Hit the 'Prt Scrn' button on your keyboard. Then open a graphics program such as Paint (you can use the windows key, then go to Programs....Accessories...Paint, this way you don't need to exit the game), then you 'paste' and there's the screenshot! Remember to reduce the image size a bit, or crop it, and save the file as .JPG.

to which may be added that the Alt+Tab combination key allows flipping quickly between programs if you want multiple shots or so.

Clearly the English built their Forbidden Palace in Birmingham when London was still the capital, then something unfortunate happened to London and the capital was moved to where the Forbidden Palace was located.

 

[jbmagic]

do u get a bad rep with the civ that u did a trade embargo agaisnt?


and do u get a bad rep if u are trading luxuries and resoucres and then decide to go to war with that civ?



and can u guys list all the bad rep u can get in this game?



thanks

 

[ivory]

jb, you already started a discussion about this in this thread. If the answers we gave you are not good enough, please let us know over there why you are not happy with them.

 

[jbmagic]

thanks

 

[Benderino]

2 quick things.

The first is I'm playing a scenario for PTW called TeTurkan something, and for some reason I can't rename my units as I can in other PTW games. Its very irksome, and I was wondering if there was something I could do in the editor, or if its hopeless to spread a little creative thrill here and there.

Secondly, I've noticed that many people have words written above his/her avatar (but below their name) instead of saying chieftain or warlord (Ivory's, for instance, says "what's the big picture?"). I was wondering how I can change my warlord to say something else.

Thanks in advance, and thank you for doing all this...answering...stuff, I'm sure its a tough job. Keep up the good work.

 

[MadScot]

Originally posted by ivory
I can read this as: ivory said that content-making improvements increase happiness, but they don't.
or as: ivory said that content-making improvements never increase happiness.
I hope you mean the latter, because that is how I meant it.

Yes, I meant the latter. Apologies for poor wording, the "but" was supposed to split the comments in agreement from those at variance.
I'll try not to use such a convoluted sentence construction next time

And talking of convoluted...I wonder where this post will end up? No where near yours, I expect!

 

[ivory]

Originally posted by Benderino
2 quick things.

The first is I'm playing a scenario for PTW called TeTurkan something, and for some reason I can't rename my units as I can in other PTW games. Its very irksome, and I was wondering if there was something I could do in the editor, or if its hopeless to spread a little creative thrill here and there.

Quick answer: See TeTurkan's thread in the C&C forum, probably where you downloaded the mod. If the answer is not there, it 's about time somebody asked them...

Secondly, I've noticed that many people have words written above his/her avatar (but below their name) instead of saying chieftain or warlord (Ivory's, for instance, says "what's the big picture?"). I was wondering how I can change my warlord to say something else.

"Warlord" is the default title (that 's how you call the phrase between the name and avatar) for the number of posts you have. Since you have well over 30 posts, you are eligible to change your title in your profile. Once you get to 300 posts, you also change your avatar to something that you upload.

@MadScot: OK.

 

[vincenzo]

If I meet a new civ by sending my scout onto their territory, will it create a bad attitude? When I just walk around near the border, I do not seem to actually meet the civ.
Thanks

 

[Gengis Khan]

Generally when first meeting a civ they won't be pissed if you walk into their territory to meet them. Plus I'm assuming you'll trade with them right when meeting them so that will normally help their attitude.

 

[jbmagic]

if i had built some granaries in some cities already, and then i build the pyramid wonder, can i sell the granaries i already had made? or do i have to do it before the pyramid is made?



thanks

 

[ivory]

No, you can sell them anytime you like. The maintenance for them will be payed by the Wonder, so there is no need to hurry. If you 're not sure if you 've hand-built a granary in some place, or sold it already, just right-click it and see if the option to sell is still available.
Same goes for barracks if you have Sun Tzu and I suspect also for hydro plants once you have the Hoover Dam (though I never tried the latter).

 

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by vincenzo
If I meet a new civ by sending my scout onto their territory, will it create a bad attitude? When I just walk around near the border, I do not seem to actually meet the civ.
Thanks

Having units inside another civ's borders (unless you have a ROP) will sure enough worsen their attitude, but the attitude change is small and temporary. Bamspeedy wrote this in his excellent research about AI attitude :

+1 If they ask you to leave their territory, +4 if you are given the orders to leave or declare war. These are only temporary, and as long as you leave when forced to, you get the points back the next turn. You can continually send 1 troop in, spend 1 turn there and claim you will leave, leave when you are forced to, but go back into their territory the next turn, and the AI attitude will not drop in the long run, just keep cycling between +/- 5 pts.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Another question.

Why does some terrain affect the mood of my citizens?

Ex. I have 5 people in a city(2/1/2), but when I take one of the people off a wheat tile & move him to a mine to increase production it turns to 2/0/3. What gives??

 

[Shabbaman]

Different gold income.

 

[Gengis Khan]

Ahhh, I never thought of it effecting my entertainment rate.

Thnx Shabba

 

[mabellino]

Originally posted by AlanH
There's a comprehensive reference for the civ3 vanilla game here. It's a 17 page PDF produced by Julian Egelstaff summarizing most of the game features, and it includes a tech tree annotated with the abilities that each tech enables. I've printed it off and keep it around when I'm playing.

thank you thankyou thankyou! just what I was looking for!

Also thanks to pdescobar for the linking tips...

 

[Alki]

Hi

I just downloaded a patch for civ iii, 1.29 or someyhing like that.

I had some problems and I was asked to ignore or retry.
I retried several times without success eventually I just hit ignore.

Now I can't get the game to play.

I got to the 1st options screen and when I clicked new game, nothing. What have I done wrong.

BTW I am a total moron with a computer so baby talk is reccomended not technichal jargon.

thanks in advance.
ALKI

 

[RegentMan]

Does a buildings' culture double 1000 years after it's built or 1000 years after a certain time? (Like it'll double 3000BC, 2000BC....1000AD, 2000AD, regardless of its construction date)

 

[Gainy]

It doubles 1000 years after the improvement/wonder has been built. And it only doubles once.