I'd played a little bit ages ago, but this week I picked it up again just to try and got sucked in. A bit disappointed I only got a score victory, but I'd like to hear thoughts from others. I've included the various saves I made over the course of the game.
Hello. So, I first played Civ 3 over 20 years ago (no expansion) and I distinctly remember that the AI civs eventually stopped building cities, even if most of the map was empty. But now, with this "new" expansion, besides other questionable updates, I've seen that the AI just doesn't stop building cities. Even in huge maps, they can take entire continents if left unchecked, as well as build TONS of units (both things extremely annoying).
So, how can that be avoided or stopped through the editor? It seems to me it has something to do with lower corruption in the newest version, but not sure. Thanks.
I'm 1 v 1 against the Romans on my continent (Emperor). They have Iron working and iron already (so do I although my iron will be connected in 3 turns) and they are starting to build their Legions. After that they are probably going to attack. My army is currently only warriors as i went lean on military, also short on workers as settlers were the priority.
How is better to handle Legions? Attack them with swords, use horsemen instead or be mainly defensive and pick-off injured Legions until Feudalism?
I also plan on building barracks soon.
I also know that as soon as they attack they will get into a golden age making the fight more difficult. Is it suggested to build a Dromon to fish for a golden age, maybe try building the Mausoleum?
I am talking about a scenario where you are actually winning and aren't at risk of being wiped out by another civilization. Obviously to keep on playing you must have won somehow, either due to some victory condition or being the biggest civ at the mandatory retirement year. The game let's you play on for a few turns after that stage. What happens if you keep playing? In a recent game I was able to wipe out the two remaining civs after I had already won the game. Since there were no other civs every turn was just new pollution appearing, cleaning pollution, cleaning up the remains of an ICBM blast, building pointless city improvements on cities that didn't actually need them, building roads and railroads on former ai civ's tiles, etc
One thing I noticed was that every turn a couple of tiles would start getting degraded, like tundra to grassland and grassland to desert. Is that the future of the planet if you keep playing? Will global warming turn the entire world into desert at some point? Or does something else happen if you wait long enough? Has anybody ever tried this out?
I was able to complete the tech tree and it turns out when every thing has been researched the next thing to come on the list is called "Future tech 1", then future tech 2 and it seems to keep going on and on
What is Future tech? Does it do anything or is it only there to justify the science advisor's budget?
Hello guys,
so i came back to one of my favourite games after years. AI is ruining my fun and calling me noob, since I use GL to close Ancient times research gap. But generally AI is very below average IQ talking trash, so I went to couple of forums and found out this:
Many Sid players recommend skipping GL in favour of army, calling GL a "noob trap". However, +- 100% of these players use some different mechanic to avoid runaway AI.
These are mostly 1) small map 2) archipelago with high water. All mechanics I see are trying to either to minimise AI town count (small space) or giving option to destroy it in few hours.
Thing is, in my experience, in Huge map with mid/high water, AI which is born on continent I cant reach untill Astronomy, will always run away. Huge map allows AI to get to 4 turn/research quite easy. And due to Ocean between us, it will always run away, unless I close the starting gap asap, using GL.
I understand advice to rush AI with army is better than GL, but I cant do it when Ocean is between us.
I have rolled perfect map now. Seems one of best maps I ever rolled. Map is so good it allows me to get to 4turn/research really really fast, so I have unique opportunity to attempt run without GL. However, I actually feel this is the noob move. I cant make myself skip closing Sid starting gap. The only thing pushing me to do it, is stupid AI trying to convince me it can be done, no matter I have never seen anyone do it.
So, anyone managed to beat Huge map Sid with separated continents with no GL?
The only version of Civ I’ve played is Civilization Revolution on Xbox 360, but I’d like to try one of the PC games.
I was originally going to get Sid Meier's Civilization VI, but after seeing the price I decided to start with a cheaper option instead.
Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete is only about $5 on Steam, but since it’s a game from 2001, is it still worth getting today?
Also, I’m on Windows 11 if that matters.
EDIT:
After looking around a bit, I’ve decided to get Civ IV, V, and VI from Wingamestore:
I’ll probably get Civ III on Steam as well.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
***EDIT #2***
I ended up getting 4, 5 and 6 and have been enjoying them a lot!
Never seen something like this. Also further up north is a peninsula and there’s 3 whales all in line, lots of bonus resources however not a whole lot of strategic recourses.
I never figured this out
At some point the advisor tells me that the people want to build an iron works and may be we should. Fair enough. But a lot of times the option to build it is just not available. The civilopedia just says it needs coal and iron in the city's radius. I think I remember building it in a previous game so I know it is possible. Every other small wonder like heroic epic, battle field medicine, apollo program, etc appear when their conditions are met
What makes this option appear? Does "coal and iron in the city's radius" literally mean both resources should be in the BFC of a city? Or is having access to these resources through road networks enough? I play the base game (not conquests or any other expansions)
Edit: Answers here say that both iron and coal should be in a city's BFC for this to work. But what are the odds of this happening? I would assume for most games this wouldn't be true. But is the advisor saying we should build iron works itself an indication that I have such a city in my empire? How do I find out which one it is, if I have a bunch of cities?
Edit edit: Found the city. Went to the trade advisor screen and turns out there were only 3 cities with iron in them, it was pretty easy finding the city that also had coal, in fact got it on my first guess. Thanks to every one who chimed in