The lull...what do you do?

[Flavor Dave]

One thing that has struck me about Civ 3 compared to 2 is that there are a couple of lulls in the game, when you've built everything in all of your cities given the available techs, and there isn't any open space. The first precedes the industrial era. When you get to that, you start getting some techs, so you can build some new improvements, but then you max them out and wait for the space race.

On the one hand, I suppose you could go to war. But I thought one of the "changes" in Civ 3 was that it was supposed to be easier to be peaceful. I mean, look at the new ways to victory...culture and diplomatic winning.

OTOH, if you don't go to war, you can't use capitalization, at least, not very effectively. What should you do, then? What do you guys do? I'm playing Regent level right now.

And with corruption like it is, going far afield to build new cities is pointless.

Given how bad the effect is for me, how extreme, and how boring the game is, I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing.

 

[Arrian]

I don't find the lull in city builds to be a problem, especially under 1.17f. Tech goes so fast... there never really is a lull. Whenever I have a gap between city impovements, I build some troops. Late in the game, if I don't intend to fight at all and just build the SS, I do use wealth quite a bit.

-Arrian

 

[lawren8]

I've run into a pre-industrial lull sometime. It typically has meant
that I've fallen behind in techs and its time to go to war. But, if your not a warmonger, you can build workers in your capped pop cities to distribute to smaller cities

 

[MummyMan]

I'm in a lull right now in my current game. I, the French, are the greatest civ in the world. My terrain is improved to the max and not much is happening. What do I do? I don't want to directly declare war so i sign a few MPPs with civs. The next turn the long standing continent-feud is activated for the fourth time between the Iroquois and the Aztecs. I have a MPP with both of them but I unintentionally go to war with the Iroquois. I build tons of tanks and take one city because Democracy starts acting up .Next up are the weak Germans !

 

[Captain Pugwash]

During the lull...get some sleep [punch]

 

[Ouchgeddon]

You could get upgradable forces...Better than wealth because more men will boost your rank and make it that much easier and more profitable for you in future trades.