Spike59
Chieftain
I think this one has not been mentioned; you can land aircraft in a city before you build an airport there.
Things in Civ3 that would make no sense in real life
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Illustrious
Becoming Colonel Blimp
Not really that odd - early aircraft just landed in any old field on the edge of town. It was only afterwards that special airports were built. It's all down to supply and demand - who would build an airport until he had evidence that people wanted to fly to the city?
The real oddity about airports is that they allow you to build better combat aircraft. Last time I went to heathrow airport, I didn't see them building bombers...
xBRIANx
Chieftain
Washington, founded 4000 B.C.
Gunnar Thor
Chieftain
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still populated, a fact not widely known by Civ-players.
Praetorian
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you need ' The Wheel ' to develop ' Horseback Riding ' - but that's obvious - the tech - tree is all whack anyway. Bring back ' Bridge Building ' and let workers ' become ' bridges like they do colonies, etc. ( There's another one for you Firaxholes )
dguichar
Warlord
...getting old features back?
As rivers run between tiles you can no longer build bridges.
As for tech tree nosenses:
Chemistry needed to research Physics. It's the other way, cause physics came much sooner: just ask the greek who yelled "Eureka".
Mathematics allowing you to build Catapults. When you really need Physics to do that.
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David
Hygro
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Actually in PtW stealth bombers go 12 tiles, which on tiny and small maps is over halfway around the world. On normal maps it feels like 1/3.
Nukes also destroy buildings, but I too am bothered that nukes wont destroy a 10,000 person town.
Here's something else funny:
Armor wasn't invented until metal (i.e. bronze). Babylonian bowmen where around what, 600 BC and they wore amrmor right? So then how come Babylon equips its bowmen corps with armor at 3500 BC?
Nukes also destroy buildings, but I too am bothered that nukes wont destroy a 10,000 person town.
Here's something else funny:
Armor wasn't invented until metal (i.e. bronze). Babylonian bowmen where around what, 600 BC and they wore amrmor right? So then how come Babylon equips its bowmen corps with armor at 3500 BC?
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
Maybe so you need physics, but they had to have an artillery unit in the ancient ages. Perhaps catapults need to be moved to construction, but that's really far off (in time) - I mean really.
SDM (strategic missile defense) having a 75% of shooting down missiles. I would think that it's a lot lower than that.
SDM (strategic missile defense) having a 75% of shooting down missiles. I would think that it's a lot lower than that.
NewDestroyer
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definitly if that was so nuclear war would be no threat
Bronze armor and Babylon were around a lot earlier than 600 BC.
Babylon became a major city when the Amorites invaded what is now Central Iraq about 1900 BC and made it their capital. By the end of the 18th Century BC, Babylon was the dominant city-state in Mesopotamia. It was at a caravan cross-roads for trade over the Mesopotamian Plain between the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, Persia and Armenia. Hammurabi came to the Babylonian throne about 1728 BC. After the fall of the Amorite kings around 1500 BC, Babylon was ruled for nearly 1,000 years by foreign invaders, mainly the Kassites and Assyrians. The Assyrian king Sennacherib destroyed the city in 698 BC as a reprisal for rebellion. It was rebult by his son, Esarhaddon.
Babylon reached its greatest height during the brief New Babylonian Empire, which lasted from 612 BC to 539 BC. The Chaldeans had become the ruling people in Babylon, and the first king of this period was Nabopolassar. His son, Nebachadnezzar, developed Babylon into one of the largest cities of its day, with perhaps 100,000 people living there. In 539 BC Babylon was conquered by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, who allowed it to fall into ruin.
Bronze was first developed in the Middle East about 3500 BC. It was made into armor around 3000 BC.
BTW, I am, by training, a historian.
Ceaser Chris
Chieftain
yea but eventually they would decompose and no more corpses or they could be burried by their relitives.
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nmcul
I have missles
Maybe Physics should be an ancient tech, and the current Renaissance physics should be replaced with a tech like "Newtonian Mechanics."
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