Quick Answers

[Ginger_Ale]

I doubt it ... automated workers aren't smart, let alone THAT smart.

And mines don't help your economy - roads do.

 

[Renata]

If your buildings and units were being sold off, that would certainly improve your money situation over time, wouldn't it? I thought that wasn't supposed to happen on chieftain, though.

Renata

 

[Darzee]

Where should I look to find elite player's break downs/turn-by-turn analysis of their (or others') games? I've seen sucession games and I suppose they could be the best out there of what I'm looking for but I remember awhile ago reading SirPleb's "Going for Sid" and I got a lot out of that. Is there a special forum for this or an archive somewhere? Thanks!

 

[Ginger_Ale]

SirPleb's Going for Sid thread can be found in the Hall of Fame forum, or by this direct link: Going for Sid. Happy reading!

Another Sid-level game in detail is Moonsinger's 80,000 [points] Game Journal.

 

[Mt.Everest]

First game on Regent level. Very quickly, (starting with turn 10 maybe, and continuing from there) Im constantly having problems with civil disorder, and the reason is "100% Its Just Way Too Crowded". But these are my early cities with 2 or 3 being that max pop. Why is this happening on Regent? never happened before on Warlord. Am I growing too fast? Im not doing anything other than leaving them be, having workers build roads/improvments, and exploring tiles with Warriors. But every turn it seems as if I get another civil disorder popup. I usually never had to make entertainers or other specialists until cities grow to about 6 or 7. I try to keep as many tiles full of food and production and gold as possible..

What am I missing..
thanks
MT

 

[Grille]

Am I growing too fast?

Certainly not!
You cannot grow too fast, trust me.

The "overcrowded"-thingie is the default type of unhappiness.
Depending on difficulty, a certain amount of pop will be content and every newly born citizen will be automatically mad (>"overcrowded"), assuming you did not modify anything with regards to happiness/contentness (such as lux slider, lux, MP usage, temple etc):
3 are content up to warlord lvl
2 are content up to monarch
1 on other levels

Now if there's more unhappy citizens than happy citizens, you will have disorder in the next turn. So, for example, if you play regent, and your first city just grew to 3 (while you don't have a MP-garrison etc), you could check the F1 screen. You'll notice there's 2 content and 1 unhappy, thus there'll be disorder in the next turn. Common practice is to establish a lux tax to counter-balance unhappiness, you see the effect immediately on F1.
MP-garrison can help here, too (max of 2 units under despotism can keep 2 unhappy citizens content). During the opening stage, just check out F1 every turn. (or maybe use MapStat, which will alert you in case there's disorder potential - look for Dianthus' post/signature on the first page of this thread)


You could also hire entertainers or start out on temples, but I'd prefer other obstacles to handicap my civ's early development... (read: entertainers and temples are bad). That is, you want growth - and entertainers prevent growth. Early temples are too expensive and time-consuming (6 warriors can make 6 unhappy citzens in 3 towns content at a cost of 1 non-religious temple which can only make 1 unhappy citizen content; besides, warriors can defend better against barbs etc than temples do).
Also, leave the hands off of the city governor. That one is in fact the opposing counsel, which is called AI.

 

[oldStatesman]

You can't do it all at once, but there is a way quicker than hitting each city. Well, you're still doing each city... in any event, when you discover the tech for Tanks, click on 'What's the bigger picture?', and it will take you to the Science Advisor screen. When you're in this screen, you can navigate to the City Advisor screen by clicking on her icon on the left. You can then click on each city's production and change it there. This will switch the production IBT (In Between Turns) and if you have a prebuild going or city with high enough production, produce tanks on the turn you discover them. Don't click on the city name to the left (although you could go that route too, it's just slower) but on the production on the right side of the screen.

GAAAK!!! GOLDDIGGING!!!! lol

Learned this thanks to a post on this site - from the GOTM forum I believe. You can do this any turn by hitting zoom to city when the first City advisor screen pops up asking you what to build...then using the arrow keys at the top to cycle through cities...it is used as a cheat...if you set the production to wealth when a city completes a project then change it to a an improvement during the interturn then you get credit for the gold and get the shields too.

See what I have learned on browsing this site for hours at a time in the few months I've been here? Ah, once an innocent Civ wannabe...now learning all the "tricks" of the trade...lol.

 

[GorfTheWanderer]

While there isn't a single command, this might be of help. What I find useful is to go to the F1 screen. You can click on the column headings to change the sort order, so you can click on the producing column to find the towns not producing tanks. You can also change the production here by right clicking. Hopefully you didn't know that already and I've been of some help .

Wow.... I love learning usefull things when I wasn't even wanting/needing to! Thanks from me for that little bit of info! Even if it wasn't in answer to one of my Qs.... :good job:

 

[Renata]

Is there any restriction on when civil engineers may be used? In a current game, I assigned several of them in a dozen or so cities after Replaceable Parts. All worked well. I saw the two little shields below the picture, just like with taxmen or scientists, and the build time for the current item reduced appropriately.

Later, though, I tried to make a CE in one of my core towns that was just a shield short of a good per-turn total, and nothing happened. I could click to make the CE appear, but I saw no shields, and my build time did not decrease appropriately. (Turned out in that case that using a policeman worked better anyway to accomplish the same thing.) Around the same time, I tried to turn about six citizens in a size-12 corrupt town into CEs in order to build the occasional unit, and the same thing happened -- CEs appeared, but no shields. I wound up making taxmen instead.

So -- am I missing something, or is this a bug? And if it's a bug, has it been documented anywhere so I can figure out what's going on?

Renata

 

[Turner]

CE's don't work on units, only improvements, wonders and wealth. Well, I think wealth. If you want to get extra shields for a unit, try Policemen, as they cut corruption.

 

[Dianthus]

Civil Engineers only work on buildings/wonders, not on units. You can't cheat this either by swapping from a building to a unit, if you do that then the number of shields collected doesn't include those contributed by the Civil Engineers.

 

[Renata]

See, now that's the sort of thing that really should be documented in the Civilopedia. Makes perfect sense, though. Thanks very much.

Renata

 

[Grille]

FWIW, CEs also don't contribute shields if you assign them while the city starves. They seem to die before their shields get added. So no quicker/cheaper culture expansion for conquered cities.

 

[vorlon_mi]

I'm relatively new to the game, and keep comparing the
tech tree picture to the one from Civ2. It was clear
what the pre-requisites were for each and every tech,
regardless of age.

Let me see if I understand the Civ3 model correctly,
using the Middle Ages as an example. Assume vanilla or PTW.
Monotheism, Feudalism, and Engineering appear to have
no prerequisites. Except, that your civ has to be in the Middle Ages.
Is that correct?

OK, so to get into the Middle Ages, I have to discover (or trade for)
all the Ancient Age techs, except those that are flagged with a
"slash circle" symbol, on the tech tree pictures that are stored
off the CivFanatics home page. These are the "optional" techs,
Republic, Literature, Monarchy. Is that correct?

So, if both of those are correct, then the *effective* pre-reqs
for Mono, Feud, and Engr above are the last few non-optional techs
in the Ancient Age, e.g., Construction, Currency, HB Riding, Polytheism.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Turner]

Yes, that would be right.

 

[Renata]

FWIW, CEs also don't contribute shields if you assign them while the city starves. They seem to die before their shields get added. So no quicker/cheaper culture expansion for conquered cities.

Yeah, because shields get added last in the production cycle, after starvation has already taken place and the citizens been reassigned by the governor. But hey, at least we can still beat the taxes out of their hides as they wither away and die!

Renata

 

[Rambuchan]

Hi. Got a quick problem. Started playing a game on Civ3 vanilla on a friend's slow PC. Now we want to bring it to a faster PC which has C3C on it. Having saved the .Sav file in with the rest of my save games there is an 'error reading file' report. It's the first time I'm doing this so what am I missing? Can you open up vanilla games in conquests?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Yes, you can, but not vice versa. It might be corrupted.

 

[Rambuchan]

I saved the file from an old PC, direct to a USB stick and plugged it into the faster PC (which has C3C on). Is there a reason why it might have corrupted? It was working fine on the old PC a few minutes ago. Are there any saved system files for individual games which I needed to bring over also? Thanks for the speedy response btw.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Just play it with vanilla on the faster pc. If you have C3C on it, you also have vanilla. I think one of the C3C patches made it non backward compatible.