Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[vmxa]

The river and eng are not connected for defense AFAIK. The eng just removes the movement penality. The 25% is a penality for fighting across the river and borders should not matter.

Iron, yeah I often forget about that. It just seems iron is a given so late in the game, but it can be cut.

 

[Own]

The reason is the coal and iron need to be connected to the capital I think for the workers to be able to do it, and it's likely that large recently conquered island has no harbors yet.

 

[TruePurple]

Anyone know where to put the file in this mode?
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47610

 

[Turner]

I don't remember where the goody huts are...check your Civilization III/art/terrain.

Or something like that.

Search for goodyhuts.pcx, and start in your Civlization III folder.

 

[Mirc]

BTW, what the heck are bridges????? I saw recently in the Editor, and I was about to ask: at Construction it was written "enables bridges". I heard here that it comes with engineering. Anyway, I presume that it's changed in Conquests, as Map trading, contact trading, and others.

But I still don't know what's this.

And: anyone (who played Vanilla) noticed you have in the editor the option that certain civs "Build often:" or "Build never:" Regicide and Mass Regicide while those where not enabled in Vanilla.

Last one: Nobody knows the earliest conquest victory?

 

[eldar]

Earliest conquest victories - 3750BC, multiple times, using the Incas (contrived circumstances, on Regent or below). Check the Hall of Fame for a full breakdown of earliest conquest wins for various levels / map types.

 

[Mirc]

3750 BC is fantastic. I presumed it was something early, but not so early.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Bridges are enabled with engineering in all versions of civ3.

 

[Mirc]

Sorry, I really don't know where that came to me from.

But what are them?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

It just means rivers don't end your turn when you cross over them with roads, it's as if they weren't there.

 

[Own]

3750 BC is fantastic. I presumed it was something early, but not so early.

It really depends on difficulty and map.

 

[TruePurple]

I can not find railroads.pcx anywhere in civ. I tried placing my modified railroads.pcx in different places with no effect.

BTW, does sometimes putting files in civ reg file effect things in the conquest file?

 

[Turner]

Well, the filename is railroad.pcx, I believe. Might be railroads, but the extention is .pcx.

And yes, art files that are change in the Civ3 folders can and do affect PTW & C3C.

 

[TruePurple]

The name of the modified file is railroads.pcx. I did a search on railroad regardless and found no file with either name.(with or without the s) So where do I put the bugger so it works?

 

[Turner]

Don't have civ in front of me, so I'm not sure. And I'm pretty sure the extensions should be .pcx.

Look in your CivilizationIII/Art/Terrain folder. Or search the Civ3 folders for rail* and see what pops up. Be careful, some mods might change it.

 

[Turner]

I just checked, and my railroads file is C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\Terrain\railroads.pcx.

 

[TruePurple]

Sorry about the extension, yes its pcx.

 

[TruePurple]

Oh I thought I had put that file there earlier when trying to experiment with placing the railroads file in different spots. Well I replaced it anyways and saw no effect.

 

[scloopy]

What program would I need to open pcx files?

 

[Turner]

Most any decent graphics program, but InfranView is a favorite.