Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Gelion]

How do you turn on the extra unit commands like "rename the unit"?

 

[vmxa]

There is a setting in Preference for things like allowing all commands to show on the screen. It is intended to let you choose to see them or not.

If you do not use them, you may not want to have them add to the cluter.

I think renaming units was not in vanilla, but I can't remember now.

 

[Gelion]

thanks
I just understood that it is under PTW.
My original Civ3 runs, however PTW refuses to. What could I do?

 

[101rstImperial]

I think it was an addition that came with PTW..

Btw I saw vanilla at walmart for 10 bux today O.O..

 

[gmaharriet]

I cant get screenshots even though I press PrintScreen.Am I missing something?

Do you then go to MS Paint, click edit and paste? It should paste what's on your clipboard into Paint and then you can save it as a .jpg file.

 

[shawntown]

how do i know which cities i can upgrade my units in? sometimes, i'll stick a unit in a city, and the upgrade icon appears, in other cities it doesn't, and i can't seem to find what the deciding difference between the two cities is.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

You need barracks in the town to perform an upgrade.

 

[Afr!Ca]

Oh well...
AGAIN then!?
I added a few units and did everything I had to do with them(i think)
Then i tested them in debug mode and they worked fine...
But when I tried to play the scenario for real, I couldn't build any of them... they just didn't appear in the menu...

any ideas, what might have I done wrong?

 

[Gelion]

thanks
I just understood that it is under PTW.
My original Civ3 runs, however PTW refuses to. What could I do?

Any help?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Oh well...
AGAIN then!?
I added a few units and did everything I had to do with them(i think)
Then i tested them in debug mode and they worked fine...
But when I tried to play the scenario for real, I couldn't build any of them... they just didn't appear in the menu...

any ideas, what might have I done wrong?

I'm thinking you weren't using the right biq file? Try playing for a while in debug mode to see if they show up in the build menus. Are they tied to resources?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Any help?

Try reinstalling PTW. Try being more specific what the problem is.

 

[Gelion]

Try reinstalling PTW. Try being more specific what the problem is.

Tried to re-install - still doesn't work.
The problem is:
Civ3 runs fine... when I try to lead the PTW I get a flash(?) small screen in the middle with something that could be name of the company. Then the screen goes blank for 3 seconds and I get thrown back to Windows. No warning messages of any kind.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Have you tried different video drivers? That is where the game changes screen resolution a couple times.

 

[shawntown]

do archers n' longbowmen attack at range greater than adjacency? why did this german archer kick my knights butt?! i thought knights were way better than archers?

 

[Mirc]

How much the Universal Suffrage reduces the war wearines?
I can swicth to Republic or Demo if I build it and I'm a warmonger?

@shantown: every battle is a bit random. I hate that in my current game a rifleman doesn't take any damage of a cavalry army (elite, elite, veteran)!

 

[TimBentley]

According to Oystein's article on war weariness, it reduces the number of people unhappy due to WW by one in each city.

 

[Own]

why did this german archer kick my knights butt?! i thought knights were way better than archers?

Longbows have 4 attack and 1 defense, meaning when they're attacking they have a strenghth of 4, and on defense 1. Knights have 4 attack and 3 defense. So if the longbow was attacking then that's what was expected. If the knight was attacking and lost, sometimes things like that happen.

 

[Turner]

do archers n' longbowmen attack at range greater than adjacency? why did this german archer kick my knights butt?! i thought knights were way better than archers?

As for the range, no, they're not ranged units. In fact, the only units that can attack farther than the square next to them must have a bombard ability, and a range of 2 or greater. And then it's not an attack, but a bombardment. Like a catapult or artillery would do.

 

[Gelion]

Have you tried different video drivers? That is where the game changes screen resolution a couple times.

Could you explain it as if I was a complete newbie?

Also what good Civ3 only scenarios are there avaliable for download?

 

[kamikazee]

I'm a complete newb so could somebody please help me. Could somebody explain exactly how the atk and def units work. also can i play a game that is in the scenarios with a friend under multiplayer?