Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[justanick]

A good source of Civ 3 knowledge before Flintlock is in the Civ 3 wikipedia in the German civforum.de. justanick is the "electronic brain" in that forum.

To be fair: Most of that knowledge stems from CFC and sometimes other english sites. There are really few details that you can find on the german wiki but not CFC.

 

[Spoonwood]

Depends on your game style and context!

For a 20k game, the Great Library is an early 6 culture per turn wonder - it's a must!
If you have an SGL, Pyramids are already built, and want an early game break from research can build up your treasury under a Republic while the AI research for you, it's great!
As a crutch to help you with research when you are falling behind - you aren't good enough at trading techs and knowing which techs you can research to get a monopoly on yet.

It's not OP to capture - if you can crack another civ that was strong enough to build the GL's core to capture it, you probably don't need it.

Now if we are talking about building it, gifting it away to a weak civ, and then recapturing it when you see Cavalry Sir Pleb style..... we may be talking OP.

It is not overpowered in any form of competitive play, unless it's against the rules. And I've never seen any Great Library tactic forbidden.

If it's just a personal game, well I say it's not overpowered at all. Because I would be the one playing the game, and I don't believe in anything "overpowered", unless it causes me to lose interest. The Great Library doesn't do that.

Also, one can't get gold or gold per turn from the tech leader via The Great Library. That's *less* powerful than becoming the technology leader and selling techs for gold and gold per turn (and also than strategic deals combined with pillaging).

Last few times I've built it that I recall I didn't shut off research. Most of my Deity space/diplomatic game, I think I built it just to keep up in technology, but didn't shut off research... or at least would try to learn Education by research rather than learning it via The Great Library. Again, there exists more profit in researching and selling technology... once the AIs have Currency and The Repulic, if the map is big enough, and the level is high enough.

 

[tenny]

tenny, where can I find "The game rewritten" ?

Hi Civinator,

I have made a .pdf file where I explain a little bit what I was referring to in my post. And thanks for the links!

 

[Samson]

Hi Civinator,

I have made a .pdf file where I explain a little bit what I was referring to in my post. And thanks for the links!

LaTeX FTW

 

[Samson]

The general question is how do you get the seed from a save game after you have started a different game? CivAssist2 is failing for me on Windows 10. The specific question is what is the seed for this map?

 

[Bartleby]

From CAII I get:
seed number 1395910371
standard pangaea 60% water, normal/temperate 5 byo, no barbs, normal aggression.

Mapstat tells me the opponents are Egypt, Scandinavia, India, Zulu, Japan, China, America

Edit:
If you go to the CAII thread and look for the older download, I found that that worked for me in Win 10.