Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[splunge the 2nd]

I've never been able to get healing on ships to work. Do you need to reinforce or something? Keep the ship from moving?
On a related note, do ships heal motionless at sea?

 

[Bartleby]

Ships don't heal except in port.

I'm not sure on the mechanics of healing units onboard ships but I'm fairly sure I've loaded wounded units onto a ship and found that they were healed when they arrived at their destination a couple of turns later.

 

[vmxa]

Units on the ship are not moving, so they heal. The boats can only heal in ports.

 

[Flying Finn]

I've watched many stories and in the pictures I can see the "rename unit" button (or what ever it is)
but somehow I can't find it when I'm playing same scenario?

 

[Turner]

Which version of Civ3 are you playing?

 

[Flying Finn]

civ 3 complete

 

[Bartleby]

There's a preference setting "show extra unit actions" or something like that, probably it's one of them.
It's always there for me, anyway.

 

[Turner]

Click on the C3C icon in my sig, and you'll get a handy-dandy notebook .pdf that gives all the commands.

 

[Flying Finn]

thanks

 

[madviking]

The hotkey is SHIFT + N or CRTL + SHIFT + N, if you're wondering.

 

[drahnier]

I have noticed what seems to be a huge bug in the industrious trait.

When i use an industrious civ, i notice that all of the AI cis get the same production bonus that i get, een though they are not industrious.
For example, all size 7-12 AI cities built on plains or desert have 2 shields in the center city square, just like mine.

Any explanations, or is my game bugged?

 

[Lord Emsworth]

I have noticed what seems to be a huge bug in the industrious trait.

When i use an industrious civ, i notice that all of the AI cis get the same production bonus that i get, een though they are not industrious.
For example, all size 7-12 AI cities built on plains or desert have 2 shields in the center city square, just like mine.

Any explanations, or is my game bugged?

I too have noticed this before, but I think this is just a graphics bug. IOW, they don't get the center-tile bonus, it only looks as if they did when you investigate an AI city .

 

[darski]

I could swear that military civs seem to get a defensive bonus just for being military.

In a fight with the Japanese in two different cities that were on plain ground, they were able to defend beyond reason against my V-mounted warriors. In one case i was on a mountain and the other I was on forest. I know those grounds work for the AI against me

I know the RNG gods hate me and I do have that thingy with reg spears but this was just too much. I have noticed this against other military civs as well

Has anyone else noticed this in a game?

 

[TheOverseer714]

It seems that way to me too. Maybe that has to do with the better odds of promotion.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Mil civs get cheap barracks and cheap walls (amongst other goodies). So, chances are higher that the AI fields vets and not just regulars, and gets a substantial defense bonus from walls in towns.

 

[darski]

Mil civs get cheap barracks and cheap walls (amongst other goodies). So, chances are higher that the AI fields vets and not just regulars, and gets a substantial defense bonus from walls in towns.

No... they were reg spears and there were no walls on the cities. (too early in the game for The great wall too)

 

[Bartleby]

I could swear that military civs seem to get a defensive bonus just for being military.

In a fight with the Japanese in two different cities that were on plain ground, they were able to defend beyond reason against my V-mounted warriors. In one case i was on a mountain and the other I was on forest...

Emphasis mine. The terrain you attack from makes no difference; defensive bonus is defensive.

But I get the same sneaking suspicion from time to time. You should have seen the mess that three impi made of my gallic sword SOD not so long ago.

 

[EMan]

Does a Recycling Center eliminate pollution caused by a Commercial Dock? (Viz. One yellow triangle of pollution.)

 

[Turner]

I don't think so. The switch in the editor is to limit it to one triangle. So once you get to a certain point you will always have a small chance of pollution.

 

[EMan]

Thanks Turner......I thought it might work the same way as Mass Transit Center (with "Population-caused Pollution").