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Dark Sheer
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When you first move up to Regent level you must be prepared to change your mindset. While it is almost certain that you will get all wonders at lower level, you will be sure that the AI will build a few at Regent.
Go for production rather than growth. Every shield count in the early game. Remember to check with the AI at least every other turn and buy all the tech that you can afford to stay ahead. Don't be afraid to trade tech to the AI. If you don't sell it other AI will.
Even if it seems that the tech are expensive, buy it! If you check with the AI often you might make lots of money by just trading tech. Especially if you play continents and you are the one who has contact with the other continent.
Learn to micro manage your cities and take control of every single one of your workers. In fact, control the workers yourself will actually speed up the game at the later stage when there is few things left to do. Just fortify the workers in a stack. By automating them the program actually cycle thru every worker. This will slow the game down considerablly if you have hundreds of workers.
Now go get them and enjoy your first victory on Regent!
Go for production rather than growth. Every shield count in the early game. Remember to check with the AI at least every other turn and buy all the tech that you can afford to stay ahead. Don't be afraid to trade tech to the AI. If you don't sell it other AI will.
Even if it seems that the tech are expensive, buy it! If you check with the AI often you might make lots of money by just trading tech. Especially if you play continents and you are the one who has contact with the other continent.
Learn to micro manage your cities and take control of every single one of your workers. In fact, control the workers yourself will actually speed up the game at the later stage when there is few things left to do. Just fortify the workers in a stack. By automating them the program actually cycle thru every worker. This will slow the game down considerablly if you have hundreds of workers.
Now go get them and enjoy your first victory on Regent!
Corwin of Amber
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Emphasize trading as in the above post. Do It Yourself is for home repairs, not for tech research in Civ III.
Remember this is a competition. Nice guys finish last. That means it is your duty as your Civ's leader to crush the opposition with the heal of your boot. Hem them in, prevent them from expanding across/into your preferred lands and then wipe them off the map. Clear your continent if you can, otherwise they will probably come for you sooner or later. In war, be patient. If you force your hand, you will have heavy losses. Don't leave any cities undefended that are within range of the enemy. Pick your battles and use the terrain to your advantage. Pick off their stragglers. You can't afford to be merciful.
Don't build unnecessary structures. Make sure all your cities have population only working improved tiles.
This is coming from a new player who has quickly moved from Chief-Warlord-Regent and this weekend I won a WWII Conquest game on Monarch quite quickly and easily. The above were the mistakes I was most prone to.
Remember this is a competition. Nice guys finish last. That means it is your duty as your Civ's leader to crush the opposition with the heal of your boot. Hem them in, prevent them from expanding across/into your preferred lands and then wipe them off the map. Clear your continent if you can, otherwise they will probably come for you sooner or later. In war, be patient. If you force your hand, you will have heavy losses. Don't leave any cities undefended that are within range of the enemy. Pick your battles and use the terrain to your advantage. Pick off their stragglers. You can't afford to be merciful.
Don't build unnecessary structures. Make sure all your cities have population only working improved tiles.
This is coming from a new player who has quickly moved from Chief-Warlord-Regent and this weekend I won a WWII Conquest game on Monarch quite quickly and easily. The above were the mistakes I was most prone to.
Dark Sheer
Deity
Of course on the other hand you can also leave a city deep inside your land undefended and see the enemy units beeline to it and be enveloped by your units from all side.
MAS
Deity
Focus on filling the land with towns early. Don't bother with temples and cathedrals (and for sid's sake, don't build colloseums)
In the early expansion part of the game you should focus on building settlers, workers, and regular warriors. Make sure you end up with about 2 workers per city, and don't automate them.
Keep your eye on the lux slider and the (un)happyness in your city's. You can prevent every riot from happening.
And read crackers opening move guide.
In the early expansion part of the game you should focus on building settlers, workers, and regular warriors. Make sure you end up with about 2 workers per city, and don't automate them.
Keep your eye on the lux slider and the (un)happyness in your city's. You can prevent every riot from happening.
And read crackers opening move guide.
siphai said:
If you are serious, you need to give some details. What setting are being used. What happens to you, lose a UN vote? Wiped out? Abandon?
Some screen schots or better yet a save, so people could see what is going on.
Ok, you are going pretty deep into the game. YOu have to either beed strongest or have friends, once all the land is grabbed,
You did not mention many details of the settings. Size, number of civs, water, pangea/contients/archi? Barb settings and what civ you are playing. When you say civ3, I presume you mena no addons, PTW or C3C.
Regent is the first level that you play with no handicaps in your favor. After Regent the handicaps go to the AI. This means it will play better than it did on Warlord or Chief.
So you need to play a bit smarter. First consideration is the city placement. If oyu were using wide spacing, stop now. Switch to CxxC. Pick your sites better. Get more workers and use them better.
Be alert to trades and skip some optional techs. If you ar enot going to Monarchy, don't other reseatching it. You do not need the HG.
Get out yourself ready to switch out of despotism quickly. Trade smarter, try to get a tech no one else has and trade it to everyone on the same turm.
It is hard to know what else to cover with out some saves to look at. Early ones as well as later ones. 1750BC or 2100BC, before you get too far into the game. As well as when you run into problems. So hold onto a few saves.
You did not mention many details of the settings. Size, number of civs, water, pangea/contients/archi? Barb settings and what civ you are playing. When you say civ3, I presume you mena no addons, PTW or C3C.
Regent is the first level that you play with no handicaps in your favor. After Regent the handicaps go to the AI. This means it will play better than it did on Warlord or Chief.
So you need to play a bit smarter. First consideration is the city placement. If oyu were using wide spacing, stop now. Switch to CxxC. Pick your sites better. Get more workers and use them better.
Be alert to trades and skip some optional techs. If you ar enot going to Monarchy, don't other reseatching it. You do not need the HG.
Get out yourself ready to switch out of despotism quickly. Trade smarter, try to get a tech no one else has and trade it to everyone on the same turm.
It is hard to know what else to cover with out some saves to look at. Early ones as well as later ones. 1750BC or 2100BC, before you get too far into the game. As well as when you run into problems. So hold onto a few saves.
Desertsnow
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Warlord to Regent was not too big a jump for me. I had to curb my culture-obsession a little, build fewer Cathedrals and Colosseums (though often using them as prebuild placeholders for Wonders), and concentrate more on my military, as the AI will be more agressive. I didn't have much of a problem with expansion as I've always prioritized it anyway. And yes, do trade, and furthermore, don't hesitate to haggle if the AI offers you a trade that you need but is a bit expensive for you.
Micromanage and expand.
Sucks, but that's how you win at the higher levels.
Regent level is 'Even Steven', the AI gets no bonus or penalties. So if you're behind it's not as easy to catch up.
The AI will always try to fill in empty spaces with cities, so beat them too it. Get your infrastructure built up, and switch to Republic as soon as you have it decent. Or can afford the deficit spending.
Sucks, but that's how you win at the higher levels.
Regent level is 'Even Steven', the AI gets no bonus or penalties. So if you're behind it's not as easy to catch up.
The AI will always try to fill in empty spaces with cities, so beat them too it. Get your infrastructure built up, and switch to Republic as soon as you have it decent. Or can afford the deficit spending.
Speaking of spending, what's a good way to do reasearch at the Regent level? Early in my game, I was able to trade technologies for luxuries; at least until the industrial period. After that, not even my closest allies would trade with me unless I dropped research to 10% and bought them for 1000's of gold. Is this the way to go?
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
Three ways to go that I know of off the top of my head.DigiTan said:
1. Go to war, hurt them enough to get techs for peace (pointy stick research).
2. Go zero research, saving all your gold for buying tech. Buy almost-monopoly techs and trade them to AI who don't yet have them for gold or other techs.
3. If you have C3C, make specialist farms in your corrupt areas by watering everything flat (after you're out of despotism), and turning the citizens to scientists. This doesn't work nearly so well in vanilla, as each scientist only generates 1 beaker, but in C3C each one generates 3 beakers. This works well up to Monarch or even Emperor levels.
TimBentley
Deity
Generally you want to research the technologies the AI won't. Eventually you'll learn some by intuition, but here is an article on what they'll research; the spreadsheets in post 68 (for pre-C3C) and 78 (for C3C) are what I use. This article gives a general sense of what the AI will research; post 13's list is better, but still some things don't seem right.
Edit: I forgot the second part: trading the technologies you researched should be enough to buy technologies from the AI, especially if you're trading monopoly techs for nonmonopoly techs.
Edit: I forgot the second part: trading the technologies you researched should be enough to buy technologies from the AI, especially if you're trading monopoly techs for nonmonopoly techs.
DigiTan said:
Shoveling money to the AI is not a good strategy IMO. It just fuels their research and you are trapped into funding their research. The only way that works is if you can sell it to a few others and get all your money back.
Even then the leader stays out in front. That is not suppose to happen on Regent.
I also do not like to trade techs for luxs, unless the recipient is backwards. The luxs help me, but the cash is a gift for them as they give up nothing.
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