Trev
Prince
I played a lot of games with vanilla civ3 and its very high corruption levels before purchasing PTW and playing single player games with it
I have found being competitive at emperor level much harder with PTW than with the original civ3
With PTW the ai's consistantly ask very high prices for techs and at emperor level it is impossible to keep up in technology, particularly from late in the first era to mid industrial era, either with very high tax rates and buying science or high science rates and learning science
Also with PTW the ai's use the raze option when they conquer cities much less, preferring to keep the cities instead
With original civ 3 I would keep relatively peaceful, but rush in to war zones with settlers, constantly building cities and expanding that way until I became dominant. As they now keep the cities they conquer, this is no longer possible, all expansion must now be earnt through warfare.
Also, the decrease in Culture Flips has damaged my strategies, no longer can I accumulate a significant number of cities through culture flips, most it is possible to get in a reasonably normal game is now generally about 3 or 4 instead of ten or more that I could get in the past
The changes made to civ3 in reducing significantly corruption, odds of culture flips, ai's razing cities less has made it more difficult to win at emperor level with PTW, and taken some of the unique challenges of civ3 away from the game
I prefer the original version of civ3 with all its corruption and culture flips to the revised PTW version for single player games
I have found being competitive at emperor level much harder with PTW than with the original civ3
With PTW the ai's consistantly ask very high prices for techs and at emperor level it is impossible to keep up in technology, particularly from late in the first era to mid industrial era, either with very high tax rates and buying science or high science rates and learning science
Also with PTW the ai's use the raze option when they conquer cities much less, preferring to keep the cities instead
With original civ 3 I would keep relatively peaceful, but rush in to war zones with settlers, constantly building cities and expanding that way until I became dominant. As they now keep the cities they conquer, this is no longer possible, all expansion must now be earnt through warfare.
Also, the decrease in Culture Flips has damaged my strategies, no longer can I accumulate a significant number of cities through culture flips, most it is possible to get in a reasonably normal game is now generally about 3 or 4 instead of ten or more that I could get in the past
The changes made to civ3 in reducing significantly corruption, odds of culture flips, ai's razing cities less has made it more difficult to win at emperor level with PTW, and taken some of the unique challenges of civ3 away from the game
I prefer the original version of civ3 with all its corruption and culture flips to the revised PTW version for single player games