Hello, my name is Robert and I cheat at Civ III.
For years, I've been cheating - grossly.
The thing is, I'm anally retentive about city placement. I play all my games on Huge maps, so my cities are far apart and I use a pattern to place them. The problem is that this is not possible without first exploring the continent and deciding where all the cities are going to be. So I start every game by just founding my capital and having it produce Warriors or explorers that I send to explore. I pay no attention to anything else, although I obviously make note of where the enemies are. Agressive barbarians that kill my explorers piss me off.
After I've explored the entire continent, or in some cases enough of it to satisfy my needs, I restart the game at 4,000BC and play for real, remembering where to put all the cities. I should add that I don't care what kind of terrain the cities end up in - grassland, plain, hill or tundra, as long as they fit into the pattern, and also following the basic rules of city placement, like not to found a city one square in from the ocean, etc.
Occasionally, it starts me out on a landmass with no satisfying city placements that could follow my pattern, in which case I start a new game. Island locations are usually the culprit, which is why I prefer medium-sized landmasses, with maybe one or two other Civs on it to beat up on. Sometimes the mountains don't want to cooperate either and no matter how I tweak the pattern, it just won't work. Time to abandon and start a new game.
I don't think I could even play a game normally, without cheating like this. It would grate me to no end if I placed my capital wrongly.
What are your methods of cheating?
(I would guess there have been topics dealing with cheating, so moderators can feel free to move this post there. In fact, I'd appreeciate it.)
For years, I've been cheating - grossly.
The thing is, I'm anally retentive about city placement. I play all my games on Huge maps, so my cities are far apart and I use a pattern to place them. The problem is that this is not possible without first exploring the continent and deciding where all the cities are going to be. So I start every game by just founding my capital and having it produce Warriors or explorers that I send to explore. I pay no attention to anything else, although I obviously make note of where the enemies are. Agressive barbarians that kill my explorers piss me off.
After I've explored the entire continent, or in some cases enough of it to satisfy my needs, I restart the game at 4,000BC and play for real, remembering where to put all the cities. I should add that I don't care what kind of terrain the cities end up in - grassland, plain, hill or tundra, as long as they fit into the pattern, and also following the basic rules of city placement, like not to found a city one square in from the ocean, etc.
Occasionally, it starts me out on a landmass with no satisfying city placements that could follow my pattern, in which case I start a new game. Island locations are usually the culprit, which is why I prefer medium-sized landmasses, with maybe one or two other Civs on it to beat up on. Sometimes the mountains don't want to cooperate either and no matter how I tweak the pattern, it just won't work. Time to abandon and start a new game.
I don't think I could even play a game normally, without cheating like this. It would grate me to no end if I placed my capital wrongly.
What are your methods of cheating?
(I would guess there have been topics dealing with cheating, so moderators can feel free to move this post there. In fact, I'd appreeciate it.)
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