tigerden27
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Is there any way to save all my turns, not just the last 5? Thanks.
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I run a script in the background (MacOS X) that copies anything new in the Autosave directory to another directory. It runs every 10 seconds as a system task and compares the autosave directory to the target one. I could probably get away with every sixty minutes or more at my current rate of play. I'm sure it should be possible to create an equivalent script on Windoze.
I edit and restart the script when I start a new game. I actually only have time to play the GOTM each month, so I just create a new folder for each GOTM and then point the script at that folder and away it goes for the rest of the month. You can put the script into the strartup items so that it runs after each reboot if you wish, but I don't bother because [brag mode] my Mac doesn't need rebooting very often [/brag mode]
KotatsuNeko
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I'm using PTW 1.21, and I've got a couple of questions...
First, how does one actually use propaganda? I've only managed to infiltrate a spy once, when the Germans had the only two foreign cities on my continents and they were culturally advanced. I clicked on 'Germany', 'Spy', and the 'Propaganda' entry, but the list of cities didn't light up at all, and I couldn't continue. (Oddly, though I won that game diplomatically in the 1800s, the Germans didn't build a single harbor during the entire game. Weird...)
Secondly, whenever I play a Scientific culture, I never get notice of the free advance. I thought it wasn't working at all, but in a recent game it must have given me Engineering, though I only realized it when my workers had no problem crossing rivers. Is this a known bug?
First, how does one actually use propaganda? I've only managed to infiltrate a spy once, when the Germans had the only two foreign cities on my continents and they were culturally advanced. I clicked on 'Germany', 'Spy', and the 'Propaganda' entry, but the list of cities didn't light up at all, and I couldn't continue. (Oddly, though I won that game diplomatically in the 1800s, the Germans didn't build a single harbor during the entire game. Weird...)
Secondly, whenever I play a Scientific culture, I never get notice of the free advance. I thought it wasn't working at all, but in a recent game it must have given me Engineering, though I only realized it when my workers had no problem crossing rivers. Is this a known bug?
Have you built the Intelligence Agency? You need to learn Communism 1st, then build it in one of your cities. Take a look at Communism in the Civilopedia for details.
It sounds like you're getting mixed up with The Great Library. The Great Library gives you techs for free when 2 or more of the Civs you're in contact with have learned them. Being Scientific doesn't do that, it gives you cheap science buildings (Library/University/Research Lab) and faster research.
@KotatsuNeku: Can't answer your first question, having never spent the huge amount of money required for propaganda. As for your second question, it's not really a bug, but just a feature that wasn't really properly implemented. To see what technology you have gotten free, push F6 after you research/buy the last tech in an era and see which new tech you have gotten on the tech tree.
Welcome to CFC by the way.
EDIT- Dianthus is wrong. Scientific does give you a free tech at the start of each age, as well as half-price scientific buildings. It does not give you any discounts on research, however.
Welcome to CFC by the way.
EDIT- Dianthus is wrong. Scientific does give you a free tech at the start of each age, as well as half-price scientific buildings. It does not give you any discounts on research, however.
sealman
Hater of Babylonians
speaker: are you sure? I could have sworn that scientific gets a discount in research.
KotatsuNeko
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Thanks for the responses!
Dianthus: I did indeed build the IA - otherwise I couldn't have inserted a spy to begin with, right? And as Speaker mentioned, I'm referring to the free advance given to Scientific civs when they enter a new age.
Speaker: It's strange, though... in the original Civ3, I'd get a notice that my scientists had developed a new tech, in addition to the tech that had pushed me into the new age. As far as I can remember, the notification hasn't shown up since I started playing PTW.
Hmm... maybe a city won't show up on the propaganda list if I don't have enough money to bribe it. I can't see how they were *that* valuable, being tiny things surrounded by tundra, but it's possible.
Dianthus: I did indeed build the IA - otherwise I couldn't have inserted a spy to begin with, right? And as Speaker mentioned, I'm referring to the free advance given to Scientific civs when they enter a new age.
Speaker: It's strange, though... in the original Civ3, I'd get a notice that my scientists had developed a new tech, in addition to the tech that had pushed me into the new age. As far as I can remember, the notification hasn't shown up since I started playing PTW.
Hmm... maybe a city won't show up on the propaganda list if I don't have enough money to bribe it. I can't see how they were *that* valuable, being tiny things surrounded by tundra, but it's possible.
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
sealman, Speaker is right, there is no bonus for research when scientific.
KotatsuNeko, if you don't have enough money for propaganda in a certain city it will not be enabled. With little cash none of them will be enabled.
KotatsuNeko, if you don't have enough money for propaganda in a certain city it will not be enabled. With little cash none of them will be enabled.
I'm not sure I was wrong exactly, but I sure didn't understand what he was asking! I'm not too definite about the increased research rate, but I was certainly right about what the Great Library does and the Scientific trait giving reduced Library/University/Reserach lab cost (though I ought to clarify I meant build cost in shields)
.Sphynx
Chieftain
I have a dispute with my Russian civ-friend about culture victory. The point is - imagine the situation - all victories but culture are switched off. We kill all the AI's. Will we get 100k cultural victory if one of the killed AIs had 60k just before its death or we have to wait untill our culture is 120k (i.e. should it be two times bigger than the biggest dead AI's culture)?
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
Sphynx,
Only the culture of a living civ will count. If the AI that had 60k culture has a single settler left then you have to get 120k, if you kill them completely you will only need 100k.
Only the culture of a living civ will count. If the AI that had 60k culture has a single settler left then you have to get 120k, if you kill them completely you will only need 100k.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Does the defensive bonus start at size 7 and 13, or does it start at size 6 and 12?
I play on Emperor and I'm still not positive about this.
I play on Emperor and I'm still not positive about this.
AFAIK, it's 7 and 13. Your city has to actually be a city or a metropolis to get the bonus, and that happens at 7 & 13.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Ah, thanks. I know that 7 is when "upgrades" but I associate the number with 6 and 12 for some reason, probably because those are the ones you get "stuck" at.
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
Ville, a very quick way (but involves duplication of some files that are not needed and therefore is not very friendly to small harddrives) is to copy the whole contents of the CIV3PTW folder under the Civ3 install directory and call it something else (CIV3PTW-121, for example).
You should then have 2 directories under Civ3 called CIV3PTW and CIV3PTW-121. Install the patch as normal and your CIV3PTW dir will be the new patch, the CIV3PTW121 will be your old version.
You will need make sure not to copy a thousand save games from your CIV3PTW\Saves directory as this will eat even more disk space, and also you will need to create shortcuts to Civ3 executables in your CIV3PTW-121 directory.
There are many files you can delete to avoid duplication, but you then also need to modify config files to point to the right locations. There is a thread somewhere about the place, but alas I can't find it without a search.
Note that this can be done ad nauseum tfor as many patches as you like. Also, these instructions assume you are talking about PTW, not vanilla Civ3.
You should then have 2 directories under Civ3 called CIV3PTW and CIV3PTW-121. Install the patch as normal and your CIV3PTW dir will be the new patch, the CIV3PTW121 will be your old version.
You will need make sure not to copy a thousand save games from your CIV3PTW\Saves directory as this will eat even more disk space, and also you will need to create shortcuts to Civ3 executables in your CIV3PTW-121 directory.
There are many files you can delete to avoid duplication, but you then also need to modify config files to point to the right locations. There is a thread somewhere about the place, but alas I can't find it without a search.
Note that this can be done ad nauseum tfor as many patches as you like. Also, these instructions assume you are talking about PTW, not vanilla Civ3.
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