Sick of Corruption

[Percy]

communism gets medium corruption everywhere, afaik.

 

[Axl Furneaux]

Hi Fenryswulf (great name by the way!),

That sounds excellent in the editing front. I will try that as well.

 

[Axl Furneaux]

Chinghis, good to know that I am not the only one in this "cultural" boat!

I will check out your Strategy thread.
I am afraid that my eldest has only worked out how to play the Postman Pat game on the PC so far - Civ3 might be a couple more years yet!

 

[FenrysWulf]

One of the single best features about Civ, in my opinion, is that the editor allows you to customize the game to be fun to you. Always keep in mind that it's a game - it's there for you to enjoy. If there's an aspect of the game you don't like and you can change it, I say go for it. Unfortunately, you can't turn off pollution. That's about the only flaw I haven't been able to adjust.

 

[Creosote]

There is a solution if you are willing to edit the rules of the game. I too thought that the incredible corruption was ruining the game, so I went into the editor, and under improvements there are a whole bunch of boxes you can click for each one. One of the options is "reduce corruption" or something like that. I clicked this box for things like the temple, cathedral, library, university, bank, etc. What this does is, the more of these units you build in a city, the less corrupt it is. So over time, as you build more improvements, your outlying cities become useful. And it helps the AI as much as you, so it's not really cheating. One thing it does do is some civilizations end up with a ridiculous amount of money, and technology probably moves faster too.

How do you save the edited rules so that they default when you start a new game?
I can see how to edit them, but can only save as a specific scenario.

 

[FenrysWulf]

The first thing you have to do to edit is find the conquests file (assuming you're playing conquests) (whatever the main rules file is for your version) and turn off the read only file attribute. In the Windows file menu, you can do that by right clicking on it and unclicking the box. Every time you play the game, that read only gets re-clicked. After that, you open that file in the editor, change whatever rules you want, and save it. Then when you play a new game it will use those rules.

 

[Creosote]

The first thing you have to do to edit is find the conquests file (assuming you're playing conquests) (whatever the main rules file is for your version) and turn off the read only file attribute. In the Windows file menu, you can do that by right clicking on it and unclicking the box. Every time you play the game, that read only gets re-clicked. After that, you open that file in the editor, change whatever rules you want, and save it. Then when you play a new game it will use those rules.

Any idea what the main rules filename is for Conquests? I cant seem to find it.
Thanks.

 

[FenrysWulf]

Any idea what the main rules filename is for Conquests? I cant seem to find it.
Thanks.

On my computer it's called "conquests" and it's 30 kb in size and my computer describes it as a "civ3QE document". If you open up the editing program and look to import a file, it will show up as an option, but you won't be able to save it without turning off the read only first. If you open it that way though, you could save it as a different name, then erase the old file and rename yours to "conquests". There are a few different ways to do it.

 

[Pentium]

Good idea, Fenryswulf.