Waste Communism Bug (Annoying!!!!!!!!!)

[Orkney]

Ok, so I'v been playing Civ 3 before it even came out in the UK, and I only just noticed this really annoying bug. You take over some other country, and you have another continent under your control. Great. You now have 25 little citys all complaining because their previous leader conscripted them, I am oppressing them and they really dont like me. If that isnt bad enough, the little gits keep killing my units and going back to their old country. Once I lost 10 tanks, 3-4 infantry, 15-20 bombers and countless artillery, !!!!!!!!!!. But its OK, you make peace, and somehow you manage to keep the citys. Now you are left with loads of useless citys, not producing anything, needing defending, and costing you a FORTUNE. But wait, theres a saviour, turn to communism, OK, so you wont research as fast and you are rapidly turning into Stalin but at least you are making money and you have a huge amount of productivity. No you dont, contrary to the Civilopedia, you DONT get any waste reduction, or less corruption and you now cant rush improvements. Annoying or what, is there anyway to fix this? I downloaded the patch, but it aint helped.

Hmm, hope someone can help Otherwise its a great game, and continued on the succession of great Civ games....

Thanks for reading right up to the end

Johno - (Orkney)

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Which version and which patch? How many cities on what size map?

Bombardment units don't count towards suppressing resistance or countering flipping.

Pre conquests communism has limitations. 3 to 4 times the OCN and it's useless.

C3C communism is perhaps bugged in the players favor (for a change).

 

[warpstorm]

This is intentional. I asked Soren and Mike about it a long time ago and they wanted peopel to stay angry at someone, anyone for a while after being abused.

As far as corruption goes, prior to C3C you could not have a large empire and have it be any more productive than a medium size one. Beyond your Optimal City Number, not much would help, at twice your OCN things are looking bad, beyond that you are digging yourself in deeper. In Conquests they implemented a bunch of ways to beat corruption and make bigger empires useful.

 

[Orkney]

No its fine, the patch seems to have suddenly kicked in. Started the game today and it works! Howver communism sucks now :-D All my citys are unproductive