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Hello. I still lack a deity victory, but I am trying for that one now. After deity, my next focus will be a histographic victory. I've never played for that condition before, only winning that way when I was too poor to achieve any other victory.

I found a guide from. Sir Pleb in the war academy about maximizing score, and I've seen some threads from spoonwoid about his various histographic wins, but interested in other resources or guidance.

Just putting what I briefly understand as the most important parts--choose an huge archipelago map with a high domination limit, grow your population as early as possible (agr trait helpful here), keep your population as happy as possible, conquer all the other civs as early as possible, leaving just one trapped in a desert or tundra prison). Milk for score by growing as many large cities as possible, including along the coast, hopefully just one tile short of the domination limit. Avoid a culture or other win accidentally.

The hard part is doing all of the above at the highest level difficulty possible. I haven't decided what difficulty level to play this at.

Thanks to all for advic

I haven’t been able to play for a couple weeks now - the game will start and go to main screen, but will not load a saved game or start a new one. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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In a fully developed city, even with the Mass Transit and Recycling Center, there is still a small risk of pollution from my city.

Is there a rule change I can put in to reduce this to zero, like adding reduce building pollution or remove pop polution to additional buildings, or reducing the pollution from factories/mfg plants?Or is there a mod to reduce this to zero?

I don't mind still having to build the Mass Transit and Recycling, but I do mind having a big sprawling empire that I have to constantly be managing polluted squares in.

I am playing Civ III on mac through steam and porting kit but when I launch the game I get the 2K logo and the opening movie but afterward the screen is black. I know it is otherwise loading in as I am hearing the music and the sounds of clicking icons. Any help.