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[Breezy]

i was just wondering if any one can help me out i have recently download a civ 3 map and for some reason when i start the game and look in the load scenarios and the map is not there i unzipped it and everything i even made a few changes on the map on the civ editor and i just saved it iam a supposed to do somethings else to get it to show in the load scenarios place

 

[darski]

I am 10 tiles over the Domination limit.

I am 24,000 points over the cultural limit (Tiny map on Vanilla)

I have a city that is 16 turns past the destruction of its home Civ and at least 25 turns past its own capture that is still sulking...


I think my game is busted! does anyone have a suggestion.

I am building an ICBM to stop China's launch as it is all I can think to do but they may launch before my nuke is ready.

I hate to re-install

 

[timerover51]

I am 10 tiles over the Domination limit.

I am 24,000 points over the cultural limit (Tiny map on Vanilla)

I have a city that is 16 turns past the destruction of its home Civ and at least 25 turns past its own capture that is still sulking...


I think my game is busted! does anyone have a suggestion.

I am building an ICBM to stop China's launch as it is all I can think to do but they may launch before my nuke is ready.

I hate to re-install

Darski, did you save any games prior to meeting the victory conditions? If you did, you might try and go back to those with a different random seed and see if that changes the outcome. Re the nuke, do you have the cash to speed production? As for the sulking city, starvation is always an option. Also, I do not know how much the AI goes by the name of the city in determining the civilization that it belongs to, so you could try a change of name to break the cycle.

And when all else fails, there is always the hammer option.

 

[darski]

What happened here is that I was working along for my cultural victory but I had to go out yesterday so in the 5 minutes I had before leaving I saved the game so that I could go back to it but in the mean time I wanted to introduce Bismark to Mr because he was messing in my waters.

So I saved and then took down that annoying battleship. When I got home, the war seemed to be going so well that I stayed with it until we are now at the point where there is no more Germany. Well it was over 2 wars and I had MPP with China and they joined the fray both times.

I can go back to that save and just work and play well with others to see if I get my cultural win. Here's hoping <<<sigh>>>

 

[Snarkhunter]

I am 10 tiles over the Domination limit.

I am 24,000 points over the cultural limit (Tiny map on Vanilla)

I have a city that is 16 turns past the destruction of its home Civ and at least 25 turns past its own capture that is still sulking...


I think my game is busted! does anyone have a suggestion.

I've had sulky cities last past their parent civ's demise before, & resistors hang on for 10's of turns or longer--forgot they were resisting, & didn't think to check since the civ was no more. so I don't think that means your install is bad.

For cultural, don't you also have to have at least twice as much as the next leading civ? Could that be the problem?

For domination, how do you know you are 10 tiles over? I don't think I could calculate it from the V screen, & CivAssistII often seems only approximate when you get close. In any case, I usually have to go to the next turn before domination kicks in on the interturn. Also--are you sure you have domination enabled?

In short: I don't think your install is busted yet, but of course, YMMV.

kk

 

[darski]

For cultural, don't you also have to have at least twice as much as the next leading civ? Could that be the problem?

For domination, how do you know you are 10 tiles over? I don't think I could calculate it from the V screen, & CivAssistII often seems only approximate when you get close. In any case, I usually have to go to the next turn before domination kicks in on the interturn. Also--are you sure you have domination enabled?

In short: I don't think your install is busted yet, but of course, YMMV.

kk

This is vanilla and you only have to have the 100,000 to win culture. Further on a tiny map, I would only need 80,000 to get the victory under C3C rules.

I was using CivassistII and that is why I said I was 10 tiles past the limit.

I took a pic of the conditions and the only one not on was diplo. I wanted the Cultural Victory on this one and had it years ago. I had my 100K in 1910 and it is now 1961.

 

[MAS]

This is vanilla and you only have to have the 100,000 to win culture.

But what is the culture of your closest cultural rival? If he has more 50,000 then you need more than 100.000.

If he has 65,000 culture, you'll need 130.000.

I'm not use about the domination thing, but could it be you don't have enough population yet? This is only a wild guess, though, as I don't recall that you need a certain amount of pop for the domination victory.

 

[Chamnix]

MAS and snarkhunter are right about the culture - in all versions, you need to reach the target culture number and have more than twice the culture of your nearest rival.

Also about domination - you do need 2/3 of territory and 2/3 of population to win via domination.

Regarding resisters - resisters are only quelled by military units in the city. If you leave the city empty, then the resisters will be there the rest of the game.

 

[Aerinon]

i was just wondering if any one can help me out i have recently download a civ 3 map and for some reason when i start the game and look in the load scenarios and the map is not there i unzipped it and everything i even made a few changes on the map on the civ editor and i just saved it iam a supposed to do somethings else to get it to show in the load scenarios place

We'll probably need more information to figure it out. What version are you playing? (Vanilla, PTW, C3C?) What is the extension of the map? (bic, biq?) My initial guess is that you are playing a version of the game that is lower than the map.

 

[darski]

Well I think I did miss on both counts. My population was only at 61% so that was never going to get better and my culture when measured on my screen was 3 inches but the other two civs came up to 4 inches evenly divided. so I had 3" and they had 2" IYKWIM

I got rid of the game because it was just too tedious to be bothered starting yet another war... On to the next game. There are times I think I am insane to be playing this game.

 

[Snarkhunter]

Well I think I did miss on both counts. My population was only at 61% so that was never going to get better and my culture when measured on my screen was 3 inches but the other two civs came up to 4 inches evenly divided. so I had 3" and they had 2" IYKWIM

I got rid of the game because it was just too tedious to be bothered starting yet another war... On to the next game. There are times I think I am insane to be playing this game.

I don't play vanilla; is there no graphic in the lower right corner of the game screen with "D", "E", & "V" buttons? In C3C, the "V" button will tell you how much culture your leading rival has in absolute points, so it is easy to calculate for yourself if you can win by culture or not. This isn't the same screen in vanilla?

If not, one more reason to switch to Complete

(No comment re: your sanity )

kk

 

[Bartleby]

The Victory Screen was added in Conquests.

 

[darski]

Yep... What he said

 

[TheOverseer714]

A major improvemennt, I refer to the Histograph alot, but nothing like nice numbers for specific information, ie: If I don't get moving on this war, so and so is going to get a cultural victory. Or you want to get close to domination, but not go over to maximize your score when you launch your spaceship. The Victory page is very nice.

 

[Olav]

Is it possible to turn off "Wonder Victory" ingame? I was just defeated due to that silly victory condition.

It might have been asked thousands of times before, but I couldn't be arsed about to search for it.

 

[vmxa]

Not that I am aware of.

 

[MAS]

Is it possible to turn off "Wonder Victory" ingame? I was just defeated due to that silly victory condition.

It might have been asked thousands of times before, but I couldn't be arsed about to search for it.

Its not on in standard games (unless you turned it on on game creation) so I guess you are playing a a scenario? In that case, its supposed to be a part of the challenge not to get defeated that way!

 

[Breezy]

We'll probably need more information to figure it out. What version are you playing? (Vanilla, PTW, C3C?) What is the extension of the map? (bic, biq?) My initial guess is that you are playing a version of the game that is lower than the map.

iam playing vanilla and the game isn't not lower then the map the file is bic i read some were that i had to unzip it in the scenarios file before i can play it thats the part i dont get

 

[denyd]

Would someone please provide me a link to a how-to guide for creating PBEM games with a custom map. Thanks

Yes, I am thinking of venturing into the world of map making, wish me luck.

 

[darski]

iam playing vanilla and the game isn't not lower then the map the file is bic i read some were that i had to unzip it in the scenarios file before i can play it thats the part i dont get

Are you unfamiliar with Winzip? is that the part you don't understand?