Things in Civ3 that would make no sense in real life

[Clown2TheLeft]

PS: What I never got was why the foreign advisor finds it necessary to say that "Hiawatha has betrayed our friends the Aztecs," for example, when it was my civ that wiped them out...

Later!

--The Clown to the Left

 

[Obssesed Nuker]

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[Obssesed Nuker]

If a nuke hit your house with you in it you would'nt have a 50% chance to survive... and everybody within 20 miles (for a 1 megaton) would'nt have a 50% chance of survival either!

A 20 megaton nuke can wipe out all of New York.

NO village has a population of at least 10,000.

The U.N is in New York... not Baghdad!

 

[Dark Yoda]

heres one, every city, no matter what size it is (size 1 to size 27) require a garrison. since when did a town with a population of 50,000 have mech infantry parked in the streets? only happens in conflict and if your'e at peace with everyone, whats the point?

-since when did every nation have nuclear capability?
-why isnt the soviet union in the game? they were one of the worlds major superpowers. russia wasnt all that great under the tsars.
-civil war never happens, i thought it was gr8 in civ2, so long as it didnt happen to me .
-the weather is always the same, why doesnt it rain?
-why can carriers only carry 4 aircraft? modern carriers can carry more than 4 planes. 6 would be better.
-military bases, are all my units going to be trained in Seoul?
-where has terraforming gone? its possible but apparently not in the world of civ3

 

[lord42]

Just thought of this one...
How is it that india benefits from cattle reasources?

 

[hbdragon88]

Dark Yoda:

- true but thing is, I don't think it's possible to terraform mountains into hills in a matter of turns
- I would think that the USSR would make the game have a very negative tone

Clown2theleft:

Yeah that really pisses me off too. I allied with France to destroy the Egyptians (they did most of the work with a much larger military) and after they were decimated, the foreign advisor kept saying "We know that the French have betrayed our friends the Egyptians".

Mine:

- Terraforming happens instantly, when it usually happens over time (Applicans didn't turn worn into almost hills overnight)
- Where is natural terraforming?
- The Colsus or the Great Lighthouse never falling (AFAIK the Colusus was destroyed and the Great Lighthouse toppled)

 

[Illustrious]

Originally posted by lord42
Just thought of this one...
How is it that india benefits from cattle reasources?

LOL! Perhaps cattle should count as a luxury resource for India!

 

[Bismarck]

Originally posted by Dark Yoda

-why isnt the soviet union in the game? they were one of the worlds major superpowers. russia wasnt all that great under the tsars.

Wasn't all that great under the czars? Have you ever looked at the size of the darned country?? I'd call that a pretty successful conquest!

True, its final years under the czars weren't that impressive, but for some reason those years receive an inordinate amount of attention, whereas the centuries before that are ignored.

Russia was a *major* player in European politics from ~1750 onwards. It would sometimes fall behind for a while, but always had a way of coming around and biting its enemies on the a** (this happened to Sweden, France, Germany, etc.)

The Soviet Union was basically Russia + sundry Russian conquests (appropriated from the Ottomans under the czars).

 

[nullspace]

- A scout or or galley spends millenia traveling half way around the globe and bumps into a random warrior in the wilderness. All of a sudden, the leaders of the two nations can instantly talk to each other whenever they wish. I suppose they trade cell-phone numbers.

 

[Sim_One]

- An F-15 Jet Fighter, a Panzer tank and a Sipahi horse rider all cost the same price.

 

[zeeter]

How about having the ability to discover bronze working prior to pottery? Or even Ironworking before Pottery, for that matter. Historically it is nearly impossible to have discovered any metal working before pottery, since the firing of pottery gave the inspiration for smelting metals. Furthermore, since pottery is fired at 600- 700 degrees and copper (the main ingredient in bronze) is fired at almost 1100 degrees, it further makes more sense that pottery came first. Modifications to the fire had to be made in order to reach that high a temperature, while normal fires burn at 600 - 700 degrees.

 

[hbdragon88]

Literature not being required to advance ages

Printing Press being unnecessary to advance when it was really very revolutionary in spreading literature (makes it seemed overlooked)

Space Flight before Satellites (Sputnik was 1958? and Apollo was 1969)

Citizens not dying out because of age. If there would be odds on a citizen suddenly dying, and Longevity would shorten those odds, then it'd be more useful than a two citizen growth when the food box fills

Joan of Arc

 

[OmegaMega]

How is Sun Tzu's Art of War built across the world? I can understand if they just called it the art of war, but did some mother have the inspiration to giver her child a forgin name of a country she had never heard about? Also, If I'm playing China, and I get sun Tzu as a leader, get him back but he is killed on the way, how do Can I still make his art of war?

 

[Pembroke]

Mutual Protection Packs are activated automatically when one party is attacked instead of the other members whining, stalling, arguing, and talking endlessly how this particular case is not covered with the MPP...

 

[Dark Yoda]

thank you bismarck for showing me the error of my ways. lol, anyway here's some more for u:
-Galleys going across ocean even with magnetism, if u r still using galleys u need to read the civilopedia.
-the ai declaring war for no reason...in real life there is ALWAYS a reason, whether it's stupid or not. there's usually some diplomatic tension, not polite one minute, bloodthirsty the next.
-there are no trains on the railways, tanks dont run on train tracks and neither do infantry.
-the city screen looking very sparsely populated even at size 27.
-no motorways (freeways). we dont all use trains
-and finally, barbarians late on in the game. do you see warriors trying to attack your home town?

 

[Dark Yoda]

ps: why would the USSR have a negative effect hbdragon88? the ussr had the 1st man in space and one of the worlds most famous cultural institutions, the bolshoi.

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Originally posted by OmegaMega
How is Sun Tzu's Art of War built across the world? I can understand if they just called it the art of war, but did some mother have the inspiration to giver her child a forgin name of a country she had never heard about?

Or:

The Japanese naming their large dam project after their beloved former Emperor Yoshimitsu "Hoover" Heisei; or the famous Aztec playwright Qzxakltlaqzl Shakespeare and his theatre; or that reknowned Chinese inventor Leonardo Li's Workshop; or the cathedral made famous by that Iroquois musical genius Jumping Stallion Bach...

 

[IwoJima44]

I dont beleive that when a nuclear disaster happens(or attack)that you can just send workers in and clean up the pollution.. Ask the russians..

 

[zeeter]

Originally posted by hbdragon88

Printing Press being pointless when it was really very revolutionary in spreading literature

Time Magazine, in 1999, listed the Printing Press as the most significant invention of the last millenium. Apparently they did not check with Firaxis prior to making this distinction.

 

[Bismarck]

You can take your ancient army of 50,000 and instantly "upgrade" it into mechanized infantry.