Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[hellawaits]

Don't let governors control your production. Control it yourself.

You can queue ten units for production so you don't have to change the production of every settlement every few turns.

Point is, production switches every turn, not just after completion.
So by filling the queue I can outwit the governor?

€: alright, just checked it out by speedclicking through some chieftain games: by using the queue current production does not change.

 

[Wardog]

Some years without playing the game and I learning some things again.

After discovering Music Theory, I can build Bach's Cathedral in all cities but my capital. Why?

 

[Takhisis]

I'll hazard a guess. Have you recently hurried the construction of a building or training of a unit?

 

[darski]

I'll hazard a guess. Have you recently hurried the construction of a building or training of a unit?

That would be my guess too. Chopping is one of those mindless things we don't always remember.

 

[Takhisis]

I was actually thinking of departing former citizens' lacerated backs but, yeah… that, too…

 

[darski]

I was actually thinking of departing former citizens' lacerated backs but, yeah… that, too…

It's been my experience that pop rushing finishes a build

... unless of course you are doing a partial rush ... ok mind back in gear now.

 

[Wardog]

No, I haven't rushed the construction of anything. I even waited the next turn to build it in the capital, but the option would not appear in the menu. Then another Civ did it. But I found it strange that I couldn't build the wonder only in my capital.

I should have taken a screenshot.

 

[Wardog]

What's going on between two nations when, in the foreign advisor screen, there's no peace (blue line) or war (red line) linking them?

 

[Bartleby]

You don't have an embassy/spy or the civs aren't selected. You don't know if they are at peace or war, it's sort of like Schrodinger's cat.

 

[Wardog]

Thank you.

 

[Takhisis]

Or they don't know each other.

 

[Puppeteer]

No, I haven't rushed the construction of anything. I even waited the next turn to build it in the capital, but the option would not appear in the menu. Then another Civ did it. But I found it strange that I couldn't build the wonder only in my capital.

I should have taken a screenshot.

If you had another city building Bach's or had Bach's in the build queue you would not be able to select it as a build for another city.

Also, if any of the existing shields produced was from any of the following sources, you cannot build a great wonder:

• Disbanding a unit for shields
• Any form of rush besides except scientific leader rush
• Forrest chopped giving 10 shields to this city

I think that list applies to small wonders, too, with the exception that military great leaders can rush small wonders.

For the diplo screen, you will only see peace/war if you have an embassy with one of the two civs and you aren't at war with that civ. (If at war you don't get info through the embassy.) And if you have the right options clicked on the diplo screen. If you have an embassy, aren't at war, the boxes are right, and there is still no peace/war line, those two civs haven't met each other yet. (Tech broker possibilities!)

 

[walletta]

I am a Mac user but I play civ iii on a PC. I am not familiar with the Windows OS and I have a couple of questions:
1 where do the .sav files I tend to accumulate as I save games get saved to? I would like to access the folder and manage it by deleting most of them.
2 there is a really cool Shot Of The Day feature here. How do you save screenshots and send them in? Once more, which folder do they end up in on the system?

 

[Takhisis]

If you have Conquests:

…\game folder\Conquests\Saves​

If you're on PTW:

…\game folder\civ3PTW\Saves​

If you're on vanilla:

…\game folder\Saves​

Not sure about the PTW folder, I'm typing from memory.

 

[walletta]

Thanks Takhisis.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

2 there is a really cool Shot Of The Day feature here.

The last ones date from 2004. You are better off posting your screenshots in the Interesting Screenshots thread.

 

[walletta]

The last ones date from 2004. You are better off posting your screenshots in the Interesting Screenshots thread.

I don't have any to send in. I just wanted to know how to do it.

 

[walletta]

The first of many dumb questions (I have been playing this game for quite a long time):

once you hit Republic, is it any longer necessary to garrison your cities? I mean does the populace mind if there are no longer any MPs around? I hope the answer is 'yes' as otherwise I have been wasting large portions of my ground units on unecessary garrison duty.

What about Monarchy? The same?

 

[scratchthepitch]

The first of many dumb questions (I have been playing this game for quite a long time):

once you hit Republic, is it any longer necessary to garrison your cities? I mean does the populace mind if there are no longer any MPs around? I hope the answer is 'yes' as otherwise I have been wasting large portions of my ground units on unecessary garrison duty.

What about Monarchy? The same?

In both republic and democracy MPs have no effect on citizen happiness. In all the other government types they do.

 

[walletta]

In both republic and democracy MPs have no effect on citizen happiness. In all the other government types they do.

Thanks. So all I need is some kind of mobile reserve covering a bunch of cities far from the frontiers from surprise attack (e.g. by sea). Wish I knew that before.