Three Questions

[Srenbrenkov]

I have been playing CivIII for the last couple weeks and I have a couple of questions. I cannot find answers to them in the manual or civilopedia, so I came here.

1. I have built discovered espionage, built the intelligence agency, and built embassies with every other civ. When I click on the star by their capital, it still only gives me the options of investigate city, or steal technology, the same as before I got espionage. What am I doing wrong?

2. I have discovered nuclear power, and have access to uranium. I have build nuclear power plants in many of my cities. A couple of my best cities, however, do not have nuclear power plants listed with the production choices. They have uranium in their resources box, and have water within their city radii. What is the problem?

3. I have conquered every city of a foreign civilization, and they are still present in the foreign ministers screen. I finally had to end my war with them because of war weariness, but they have no cities left. Do I have to go track down every single one of their units in order to eliminate them. I thought unsupported units were disbanded.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Mr. Socks]

To the best of my knowledge, the answers are:
1. For the intelligence agency actions, you have to click on the pentagon icon in the city with the agency. I think that the espionage actions are available by clicking on your capital city's star icon.
2. It seems that nuke plants need fresh water (river or inland lake) -- oceans won't do.
3. It's possible that it's a bug, but often the civ is just hiding really well. They may have a city in the tundra or on a tiny island somewhere, or they can even have just a settler wandering around. Usually, you'll find them eventually but it can be very annoying.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

1) You'll have to insert a spy into that civ first for more options. Beware - this is a risky move. If discovered (failed in my 5 or so times so far), may even enrage the AI sufficiently to attk you.

2) No idea. Didn't reach that far before I won (or gave up). Maybe you need mountains? Are the cities linked to your trade route? Is the uranium linked to your trade route (thru roads)?

3)They have one or two cities left. Go for them. Usually after you conquer all the known cities of an enemy, they'll have one settler popped out of nowhere and will establish a city somewhere nearby, beyond the fog. It's like the escape pod in SMAC. Hunt for it.

 

[Yeti]

On your attempts to eradicate an enemy:

If it's early in the game (I'm not sure what the cut off year is. Feels like about 1000 AD though) an AI civ you knock off will re-seed elsewhere, so they can't be eliminated. After that it's quite possible to knock them off, but they have a tendency to have 1 city off in the middle of nowhere somewhere, OR they have a settler somewhere. You do NOT need to kill all their units, but you do need to kill any settlers they have roaming about.

 

[Ferd]

I always thought that you had to have fresh water to your actual city square, not just in the radius. I can't verify it, but you could check and see if it's consistent in your game.

Yeah, Civs sometimes re-spawn if there are unexplored areas left on the map. Try buying their territory map and it should show their new capital.