Technology...

[Julius Bonapart]

OK in my last Chieftian game, which happened a few months ago im on Warlord now (yay). Well on that game which i won couse i asked for a little help from my friends here at civfanatics, i had a slight problem with the tech. See it was the year 2048 and i was just starting to enter the modern age, i had like one turn be4 the game ended (i won by culture one turn before the game time limit ended.) Anyway this was really disturbing since i really wanted to see the modern ages on civ3. Well i am in the Industrial ages now, in my Warlord game and i dont want what happend in the other game to happen again. In other words i want to see the modern ages be4 the game ends. Can any1 tell me any tricks to speed up my science, aside from giving it more funding couse i am allready giving it all i can without loosing too much money.

 

[Venger]

You have to start well before now - building solid, quality cities that produce trade, with libraries. Research should be your highest expense. Get to Republic for the trade bonus. Maximize luxuries from trade so you can reduce the luxury rate to move toward science. If science isn't at least at 40% you're doing something very wrong...

Venger

 

[GeneralTacticus]

OK in my last Chieftian game, which happened a few months ago im on Warlord now (yay). Well on that game which i won couse i asked for a little help from my friends here at civfanatics, i had a slight problem with the tech. See it was the year 2048 and i was just starting to enter the modern age, i had like one turn be4 the game ended (i won by culture one turn before the game time limit ended.) Anyway this was really disturbing since i really wanted to see the modern ages on civ3. Well i am in the Industrial ages now, in my Warlord game and i dont want what happend in the other game to happen again. In other words i want to see the modern ages be4 the game ends. Can any1 tell me any tricks to speed up my science, aside from giving it more funding couse i am allready giving it all i can without loosing too much money.

Well probably the easiest thing to do is to play at Regent level or so. The AI will research at the same rate as you and you will be able to trade techs with them. Other than that, take Venger's advice.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

build libraries and universities... trade all you can... if this diesn't help, go Regent

 

[Maple]

Libraries, Universities, Research Labs, SETI, Copernicus, etc. to increase science.

Or play a diety game and you'll be post-modern age in 850 AD.

 

[Qitai]

Install Patch 1.29. It would give you advantage for research instead of giving AI penalty. This will make the tech move much faster.

 

[Julius Bonapart]

Once again the obviusly more experienced players than me have helped me. Yet again (since i have allready posted 2 threads, asking for help in strategy etc etc.) well im going to go with vengers advice although since i play low levels its easy to keep the people happy with a very low luxury rate (normally i keep it at 10 or 0 percent) . So i allways have my science in like 60 or 50. JUst as long as it doesnt eat up my treasury (i like to have money saved up for a rainy day). But i hadnt thought of libraries. And as for the person that told me to play Diety i can asure u i wouldnt last 5 turns on that. I go one skill level at a time, and when i beat Warlord and start having trouble with the level after that i can allways ask you fine people for help! thanks, and i will try to make more libraries!

 

[Michael York]

you could also play a scenario and reduce the science costs. It also has a 4 turn minumum to techs unless you edit that too

 

[hzm]

Get the civ3 copy tool and change what the mission year is.

 

[Tassadar]

The biggest mistake poeple do is keeping a too big army, if you spend more than 20 % of your budget to maintain units it is way too much, as a democracy i dont spent more than 10 % on units, so for about 20 city size 12 i could have about 1200 income so i will have not more than 100 units ( soldier and worker).

Strong reserch mean republic or democraty, about 15-20 city size 12 with library, university, bank, marketplace, temple and cathedral if you dont have enough luxuries.